New-York tribune., 1910-01-14
MAN HUNT GOES ON
POLICE Fail TO FIND
BOY KILLER.
Woua,ded Lad Tells Story to
Coroner = Mother Offers
Blood for Transfuao

1t is a long time since the New York
police have set themselves TO track
down a murderer in the temper with
which they are trailing the man who
shot Arthur Shibley and Robert Lomas
in Highbridge Park on Wednesday.
Twenty five detectives from Headquar-
ters. twelve men from the West 1920
street station and large details from the
Harlem branch bureau set out to sweep
the city for clews, and the general orders
for the day urged every officer in the city
70 arrest on sight the man who answers
the criminals description.
Now I want you men to take this to
heart" Inspector McCafferty told his $50
detectives during his morning talk. II
never knew a worse crime. Every father
in New York City wishes he could get
his hands on that brute. I want all of
you to look out for the man who an
swers the description, and If you see him,
take him in If any of you are fathers,
and I think most of you are. hope you
will go out of your way to help in this
case. If YOU have time off. should
think you would feel it your duty to go
up there and take hand in running this
man down.
HOW MURDERER LOOKED.
The description given out by the police
is of a man forty years old. five feet SIX
inches tall. weighing $50 pounds, with
black beard and mustache, dark com
plexion, short tan overcoat and soft
black hat. He has a demented look and
walks with his hands thrust into his
rockets and his head bent to the right.
Ameen Shibley, the father OF the boy
who is lying wounded in the Washington
Heights Hospital, said that he was sure
the murderer was a maniac, and not a
Syrian
81 was present at a riot of my coun-
trymen four years ago." he said. when
the police interfered in a fight over re-
ligion I was not attacked. Then, four
teen years ago, I was connected with
society which advocated resistance to
Turkish oppression. am not a member
of any secret society There is no Syrian
secret society of which I have ever heard
The Syrians are a peaceable people
DO you not think that I would have
the murderer apprehended if knew him
or guessed who he might be? | should
like to meet him. One hand would be
enough-one hand alone. I would be
glad TO die with him. The boy was my
first born You American people, per-
haps you do not understand we
Svrians have a. peculiar love for our first
born
Nassib A Shibley, a brother of the
boys father. was the lawyer for one fac
tion in the religious trouble which cul-
minated in riot four years ago. On No
vember 3, 1908, he was found shot to
death in his apartment, with his wife
dead from poison beside him. It was
generally accepted that he had poisoned
the woman and shot himself.
BOYS TALE OF ASSAULT
Arthur Shibley lay all day between life
and death. Only a wonderful vitality
had saved him so long, the surgeons
said. The bullet had passed completely
through his body, yet he ran to his home
and was conscious until ether was ap-
piled in the hospital. His mother offered
to give her blood in case TRANSMISSION was
make the sacrifice before to-day is over.
Coroner Feinberg went TO the Wash
ington Heights Hospital at noon, and
got from the boy an ante-mortem state
ment. The boy, according to the Coro-
ner said ne had never before seen the
man who did the shooting. and that he
wore a light or tan overcoat was rather
short. wore either d pair of glasses or
spectacles. and appeared to be a physi-
clan.
The boy said that the man approached
them saying, Hello, little boys" Con-
tinu4ng. the boy said. according to the
Coroner:
We walked toward him. too. The man
had two pistols. one in each hand, and
then started TO fire at us. Robbie ran
toward the woods and I went toward
the rocks. The man followed me for
short distance, and when looked around
he had stopped Then felt the bullet"
The Coroner decided not TO ask the bow
any more questions. as he was very
weak.
BOY SAW TWO MEN
The police just before noon found an
eleven year-old boy. Johnnie Seidel, who
lives al No. 463 West 164th street. John
ME said he was only few feet avav
from Edgecombe avenue. in the park.
when he Bobbie and Arthur, who
We're coasting. and had invited MIN to
join them. He said that the two little
fellows then went down the hill and later,
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