The evening world., 1911-01-13
SCHOOL CHILDREN
SEE PISTOL DUEL
NHARLEM STREET
Youth Drops at Fifth Avenue
Corner While Reaching
for His Gun.
HIS ASSAILANT ESCAPES.
Victim, With Two Bullets in
Him, Shields Fugitive
Gang Fighter.

Before the eyes OF scores OF wit
nesses, Including a number of school
'hildren' a youth who called himself
Edward Doyle was shot twice to-day al
F'tth avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth street by a gang fighter,
VINO managed to get away. Doyle got
MS own u out. but collapsed before
he could use II.
According to several of the spectators
three young men care down the west
s'Ge OF the avenue about . o'clock. Two
other youths were going north. Seeing
the three coming the two stepped be-
hind a big tree at the edge of the nave
ment and waited. As the three swung
~ the foremost OF the two Iumped on,
o. MS ~hiding-place and ~grappied with
one OF the others. The man he attacked
broke his hold, backed away from him
aho fumbled in his side pocket.
Fired from His Pocket.
A m later there were two shots.
which sounded mumled. Nobody saw
any Hash of steel at the moment OF the
shooting either and from these things
the police argue that the man fired
through the lining OF his overcoat. At
any rate, the man who had begun the
trouble staggered back. holding his
hands to his stomach, and fell on his
side. The man who had shot him ierked
n smoking pistol into sight and passed
1t to one OF his companions. who at
once darted of. Then pulling off his
overcoat and iiinging It to his second
friend he ran away himself. going south.
In half a minute the only one OF the
five In sight was the wounded man,
writing on the sidewalk.
Unaided. the victim got upon his feet.
lie staggered up against a building
and holding himself erect with one
hand. with the other he drew his own
revolver and tried to aim 1t at the
disappearing figure of his enemy. But
he couldn't make 1t. The gun muzzle
wabbled and then he dropped the
weapon alto gether and fell back upon
a stoop.
A little boy bound for Public School
No. ~. half a block away. ran up to
him and pointed out the door OF the
Philanthropean Hospital, a p ivate in
stitution. diagonally across the way at
the other corner. The wounded man
Strengthened up and. Keeling as he went,
made his way over to the hospital. He
collapsed again. jus, as he got his
fingers on the door bell.
Two Bullets In Him.
Two OF the nurses helped him into
an operating ward. There DR.. Cole
from the Harlem Hospital and Police
map Stevens. the man on post, found
DR.! Jacob Lobsenz, the house physi-
clan, working over the injured youth.
He had been hit twice. Both bullets
had entered the abdomen. n one had
inflicted a very serious wound, but
after he had rallied from the shock he
was able TO walk out &c the waiting
ambulance.
Doyle told Detectives Curtayne and
Bremen. who came f ON the East one
Hundred and Twenty-sixth street sta
ton to investigate tina; he lived at No.
COO LenoX avenue and was a profess
sional ball player who had just re-
turned from a ballplaying trip to Ber-
muda. He steadfastly refused to tell
the name of his assailant or of the thi d
member OF the party or say whether
he had been in a fight that had o.
CURED among members of the Canary
Island gang.
viii Do the king Himself.
True to the ethics of his clan. the
youth kept silent even as he was being
carried to the operating table. lie
confessed that his real name was Me-
dsuu, but said he had been call | Doyle
for years. He added that unless be
was absolutely certain that he had TO
die he would never tell the police who
shot him.
IF | get well I'll fix him myself"
he said grimly.
The victims mother. Mrs. VI. Me
deuil, said a man whom she knew only
as Red called at her HAT early this
morning and waited uptil her son was
dressed, and then went away with him.
The mother thought her boy had been
lured to the spot where an enemy was
lying in wait for him.
The Canary Islanders are a sportlve
group OF young men who live on the
upper east side upon the edge OF Little
Italy.