The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-18
SHOTS ALL ABOUT COMMUTERS
NEGRO GOES CUNNING NEtp
PENNSI LIANIA STATION,
Chased Another negro In and out Among
crowd and Emptied Revolver as I,c
1san Three Bullets Found Their
Mark Bystandcr was Also " ounbcd

Hundreds Of commuters who get hcn,o
to Long Island or Jersey by using tho nov
Fenns vlvania station were late T., dinner
last night. hut they took homo something
to talk eboui. They carried tho t,lo nr a
negro who ran M seventh avenue a. n
O'Clock last evening while traffic vac
heaviest and who took shot every nou
and then at another negro who tried :,
escape by weaving in and out among no.
destrians. The astonishing thing, as IN.
police figured out later. was that half a
dozen people weren't killed or badly hurt
These things happened as direct 70.
suit of Dave AlcCall's suspicion that DuA,s
Robinson has transferred her affections
TO Fred Summa. yellow youth with nom
padour wool and a collection Of clothes
that got Hell's Kitchen excited every Tina
Summa paraded Mccall ran the elevator
at lj5 West Fifty-frst street. where Duke
had q job as maid and cook with family
that is now in Europe. Duke hasn't been
long away from Greenville. n. G.
Mccall was unrivalled until Summa
made Dukes acquaintance and began IN
serenade her with the tools Of his traia
He played every evening in road house
near Mount Vernon. hut Of late he has
been getting back to the city in tim. n
twang n banjo under Dukes window a.
go West Thirtieth street. where she has
been living since her employers shut ur
their apartment. The other night Mccall
strolled around TO Dukes houseYafte-
getting through work and waso tonishe~i
to see Duke leaning out OF her window
and chatting with gay youth who leased
his banjos strings with one hand while
he pressed Dukes fingers with the other.
Mccall bought gun
Lest Sundey afternoon he went to see
the young woman but she refused TO ap-
peer. end Mrs. Anna Brown, the woman
with whom she was living, told Met ell
to go awey quick il he didn't want to get
himself arrested. He went. but he returned
lest evening. Mrs. Brown end John Rob-
inson. a relative of Dukes. eased him
to the street once more. Then Mccall
went end stood at the southeast corner
Of Seventh avenue end Tbirtieth street
testing the workings of his new pistol.
Summa, the troubedour, had heen
calling on Duke. He left the house about
o'clock end crossed the street, toward
Mccall All at once several thoussnd
people in the immediate vicinity heard
the bang of a pistol. frightened yell and
a great commotion. TIE next instant
hundreds were running for shelter for
Nft tl WIS CHASING ouUnfIP up inc Ivenue
and letting go with the pistol every few
steps. Once or twice he stopped to re-
| losd. but the delay didn't help Summa
much because people got in his wsy End
blocked his flight. One bullet had gra3ed
his forehead at the beginning of the
trouble end he bled considerably as he
| rem.
McCRll downed him finally in the run
wsv Et the southeast corner Of the Penn
sylvfn'a station just IS traffic Policemen
Walsh end Murphy got into the grme.
They ran down seventh PvenIe towa-d
Mccall. who threw up his gun g.. NIurp,v
end pulled the trigger. There was NJ cx.
plosion. because all tha cartridges h"I
been used Both policemen pointed their
revolvers at Mccall snd ordered him tn
surrender. He tossed his pistol -wav
end held up both hands
DR.. Everingham of the New York Hos.
pitnl found Summa lying in the runwav
end put him in rn ambulance. II wtS
founs that he had been shot three times.
There was a slight wound in the fore.
head. e serious wound in the middle Of
the beck and O. trivial injury in ono leg
later on the police discovered that Jos :ph
SportS. e. bootblcck at Seveneth avenue
end Thrtieth street he'd stopped on, n'
Mot'alls bullets. He was hit in the right
thigh
Mccall WIS locked up charged with
felonlous assault.