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street at first gave MIN lots Of leeway
- they saw that he was still waving
his revolver as he ran. Policeman
Schmidt outdistanced Patrolman Knox
both Of the policemen giving chase the
moment they saw the murderer start
to run.
In front Of 331 East Fourteenth
street, between First and Second ave-
nues, Schmidt began to close In on Da-
wilson. The policeman. knowing that
Davidson had fred only one shot and
that therefore he probably still had
four good cartridges in the revolver.
drew his own revolver and yelled to the
murderer that he would fire II David
son maze a move toward him with his
own revolver.
Get away" yelled Davidson. as ne
backed against building waving his
gun, ''or III shoot you in the belly"
Schmidt lunged at Davidson and
bowled him over while the murderer
was making the threat. And as Police
man Knox ran up then Davidson yelled
that he would Offer no further resist
ancc and the policemen hurried the man
back to the corner Of Fourteenth street
and Second avenue with a great crowd
Jamming along In their wake.
GanE Man Dying on Curb.
Schmidt and Kox pulled Davidson into
the drug store and slammed the doors
on the mob that would have pressed its
way in. Schmidt Immediately tels-
phoned for reserves and an ambulance
and in very short time DR.. Hawkins
arrived In Bellevue ambulance and re-
serves came from the East Twenty
second street and Fifth street
stations to handle the crowds that
jammed about the curb where the dying
gang man had been placed.
Davidson was taken In a patrol wagon
to the East Twenty-second street sta
tion house. and when the desk learned
that the shooting had occurred in the
Fifth street precinct Davidson was
taken to the Fifth street station and
still later to Headquarters.
The man had scarcely finished telling
his story Of being robbed during the
afternoon by Zelig and shooting him in
revenge for tho robbery and the beat
ing. when the police heard another ver-
sion Of the probable cause OF the shoot
Ing.
Quarrel In . Restaupant.
According to these new witnesses.
Zelig about Z o'clock last night--the
shooting happened about $50 o'clock
got into a row IN a restaurant at either
"a or rs Second avenue and had beaten
Q man there so that the man was
bruised In a way that resembled the
bruises which the prisoner displayed
lest night as proof that Zelig had
beaten and robbed him.
The man beaten by Zelig. according
to the second story, left the restaurant
threatening vengeance on Zelig. Not
hong after this. so the police heard from
friends Of Zelig. a telephone message
came to the restaurant for Zelig.
Zelig after talking at the restaurant
telephone announced that some one had
Just asked him to go to Fourteenth
street and Second avenue on "a business
matter"
Zelig, his friends told the police, left
the restaurant at once and jumped on q
car that took him UP to the corner
where he was murdered. Also, say the
informants. a man who had seen ZeliK
leave the restaurant followed him and
jumped on a car running north less than
q block behind the car Zelig had taken.
The supposition Of these friends Of Zelig
II that the gang leader was murdered
not because ne had ropped Davioson
during the afternoon but that Davidson
was the man Zelig had thumped In the
face in the Second avenue restaurant at
z o'clock last night and that the shoot
Ing therefore merely was a "come back"
BY Davidson for this beating.
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Keeper searching the dead mans
clothes at the Murgue found in a coat
pocket four letters written in pencil on
cheap white psner and badiy blood
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office. The keeper gave the policeman
the letters.
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