The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1918-04-13
SOLDIERS SHOOT
FIVE AFTER DARING
ROLDUP AT HOLLIS
Continued from First PagcD

an automobile approached with a the
atre party returning from Manhattan
TO Huntington. In the car we're
George 3. Girard, thirty-one, Assessor
Of Huntington, l.. l., and owner Of the
automobile; Walter l.. Stillwell, thlr-
ty-nine, a lawyer; Pierre S. Olsen. his
wife Anna, and Mrs. Edna Conklin
Brush, thirty-two, OF Gibson Aenue
all OF Huntington.
The policeman commandeered the
car and with Busch got In with the
party When the automobile reach
ed Hillside avenue they overlook four
oldlers. The policeman jumped from
the car as II came to halt. and i'm
medlately the soldiers began shooting.
The police returned shot for shot.
there being thirty or forty lred be-
/ fore the soldiers disappeared. Busch
! fell with bullets in the shoulder, thigh
end abdomen. Policeman Weber went
down with a bullet in his thigh. but
reloaded his pistol and fired at tho
retrcating soldiers. His condition Is
critical.
OF the auto party Mrs. Brush was
found TO have been shot in the right
breast and may die She Is the wors.
/ injured OF all Girard, owner OF the
car. was shot In tho right arm and
back and stillwell was shot In the
right shoulder.
Olsen, who with his wife escaped
injury. went for help and found an
other automobile party, which took
the injured TO 81. Mary's Hospital.
Jamaica.
Policeman Cotton chased the four
soldiers fifteen minutes and then lost
them. But Police Sergeant Bruins OF
the Macdougal Street station. Man
haitian. who lives near the scene and
was preparing for bed. heard Of the
shooting and called New YCrk Head
quarters for reserves.
Then he followed the fugtlyes ~
their footprints in the snow. In q
short time a number OF other police
men and several residents were In
the chase. Rifles and revolvers were
emptied into tho brush and thickets
at every suspicious sound. Suddenly
near chicken run, they came across
an apparently unconscious soldier
He was revived 40 tho police station
and said he was Harry Cohen. TWEEN
Ity, OF No. 634 Graham Avenue, Brook
llyn, u member OF Company c, i9tt
Infantry. Camp Mills. He was MOI
wounded.
Within a short time aftcr Coher
was found two score or more OF mef
In uniform had been rounded up anC
questioned. Three other soldiers wer,
discovered hiding in various place;
I'm the neighborhood. They described
themselves as Sergt. OTIS o, Walker
nineteen, Company c. 10th Infantry
whose home is in Millburn, Okla.
William Bryan Harrison, twenty. 4
member OF tho same company, o
Centrevllle, Tenn, and Roy Spence
Smlthson, twenty-four, also OF Com
pany C, a native OF Mount Hope
W. Va.
The police say that tho four sol
, diers were positively Identified as th'
hold-up uten by two OF the victims
They were locked up In the Jamaic'
Police station.
: After Assistant District Attorne
r Hazelton Of Queens had questione
) the four no announced that Cohe
, and Smithson had confessed. The
, said they came from syracuse severi
days ago, and after doing pier dut
AZ Hoboken were sent 20 Camp Mill
Yesterday they had n day Off and IA
!, spent their money in Manhattan. The
arrived in Hollis shortly before mid
q niebt. intending 10 take trolley
. camp, They were waiting for II whe
somebody suggested they stick uI
the saloon.