New-York tribune., 1910-01-13
FIFTY MEN HUNT FOR
MURDERER.
Parents of Wounded Boy Hint
ot Tendetta- -Madm0n,
Say Police.

one child died where ne heii' o
ran 10 his home. terrlpiy "ouiioeu
o'lIs' .,,,,rderer is still at large, though
,;,es we're thrown around the PARK
poe and fifty men kept up a search
e.o-,oc,, and all night through the
.ho,,t the spot. along the rocky
. tho river and through all the
reiphboring streets.
.ro bovs lived on the same moor
apartnlent house at NO. 4o4 west
,e..b street. across the park from 'he
80 of the murder. Robert Tomas
killed. was six years old, ana
,-.,,,r SHIRLEY, his playmate, is seven.
-, left their home early in the after
oon to go coasting together In the park.
:, uas after > O'Clock when Arthur
--unbIed I'D the stairs. screaming with
,oin and threw himself into his mothers
lap.
THE man shot me. The man shot
me-" he cried,
II was only when his mother raised
him in her arms that she saw there was
blood on his blouse and over his heart
bole burned with the fame Of the pistol.
In his agony the child could say noth-
IN more. The mother called physi-
clan, Dr. John Williams, OF NO 4o1
West 154th street, who called an ampu-
lance from the Washington Heights
Hospital and telephoned TO Police Head
quarters. It was only when the oe-
tectfves had come that the boy told what
had happened.
SHOT WITHOUT WARNING.
A man had come up to him when he
had Just started 10 climb the slide and
had put revolver to his body and shot
him. He ran home as fast as he could.
The man had not spoken. He could not
tell much about what kind of a man it
was He had a soft hat-"a regular
cowboy hat" the little fellow called it
and a brown overcoat. rather short. He
had a black beard.
Then he shot another boy, too" Ar
thur said when they had talked with
him for two or three minutes
Til then it had not been suspected that
Robert Lomas had been killed.
Detective Hutchison, of the West 152d
street station. ran from the house and
set out on a hunt in the park. Near the
Heoden steps which lead down the
rocky bluff between Edgecombe avenue
and the Speedway he came upon group
of boys coasting. One of them, John
Seidel who lives next door to Arthur
and Robert, told him he had heard three
pistol shots in the woods near by and
then cry
He had listened then. and heard some
other sound. Then he ran away. The
detective took the boy and had him
point out the place. Just inside the
woods he found A short slope where the
snow had worn hard and smooth from
the sled runners. AT the bottom of the
slide Robert Lomas lay. with his face
On one arm. holding the rope of his sled
iE his hand.
He was still warm and limp when the
detective lifted him. Where the body
lad lain there was one round. red spot
where the blood had run from the wound
and melted q hole in the snow under
Meath.
The child had been shot through the
heart. The clothing about the wound
vas burned, as the other boys had been.
The ambulance which had just taken
Arthur Shibley TO the hospital came back
70 carry his playmates body 10 the po-
ice station.
BOY HAS FIGHTING CHANCE.
The surgeons put the wounded lad on
the operating table at once and began
o follow the course of the bullet It
lad gone through the stomach, pierced
the diaphragm and the tip Of the lung
and had come out through the back.
Then il was caught in the fabric of his
clothes, and was found later in his
stocking The boy was under ether until
4 o'clock. and when he recovered con-
sciousness the physicians had little hope
of saving his life. Later they said he
hao better than fighting chance.
Meantime police officers from different
parts Of the city had surrounded the
park where the murderer was supposed
10 be still in hiding. Details were sta
toned at the Washington Bridge and
High Bridge. along the Speedway and
Edgecombe avenue and at the uptown
subway stations Then fifty men or
more began beating through the ragged
woods which hang along the cliffs from
near the Polo Grounds to Washington
Bridge.
Ill was a man hunt such as seemed
more likely TO be run over the Tennessee
mountains than in park in Manhattan.
Along Edgecombe avenue at the top of
me cliffs a curious crowd looked on at
me groups Of armed men, who made
ihelr way from thicket to thicket, ready
ior q surprise. Just across the avenue
me children out from school coasted
oo"h the little slopes till dark. and for
an hCur afterward, now and then ask
'hs CURIOUS questions of the men who
came by
me murderer was not found in the
I"rh- Lawrence Casey, OF No. 1902
-Dishtn avenue, foreman Of the laborers
vi the Speedway, had seen a man who
answered the wounded boys description
alkihg in the park at o'clock He was
ehsoby, rather slender than otherwise,
'out feet inches tall, had black
fo and wore a black felt hat and a
mort overcoat of light brown or tan.
Inn Healey, of No. Ali West 165th
e'' boy of sixteen, saw such a man
uie park not long before 3 O'Clock.
ne boy was going down the cliffs to a
1Aallhg pond when he saw the man pass