New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
" oman Is Shot
By Policeman
Cleaning Pistol
Patrolman Moran Suspend
ed After Episode in the
Apartment of Mrs. Stella
Russell in 77th Street
Wound in Leg Is Slight
officer just Back on Duty
After Exoneration From
Shooting in Poolroom

.nehed to the West Forty-seventh
Greet station. was suspended at 4
,sslock yesterday afternoon By Acting
Inspector Thomas Donahue, of the Sd
Inspection District, following the
rounding yesterday morning of Mrs.
stella Russell IN her furnished room at
1T East Seventy-seventh Street.
Mrs. Russell, who is the wife OF Rob-
,rs RUSSELL engaged in the fur bust
ness, was shot in the left leg. She was
removed to Bellevue. Her condition is
sos serious. She and the patrolman
said that the shooting was accidental
and that it occurred while he was re-
moving cartridges from his revolver as
he was talking to her in the room.
Moran, who was restored to duty Au-
gust "a after being exonerated of the
charge Of having shot man in a pool
room. was arrested at his home, 249
East Seventy-seventh Street, by Detee-
lives Sicily and George Moran, the lat
ter no relation to the patrolman.
Was Cleaning Revolver
Moran told Acting Inspector Donahue
that he was passing the house of Mrs.
Russell on his way to his own houss
when she called to him from her win
dow. He went upstairs and began talk
ing with her, he said, and later began
to clean his revolver. It was after he
had placed several cartridges on. the
bureau, he said, that the revolver. was
discharged.
Mrs. Russell, according to Moran,
made no cutlery, and neither of them.
he said, realized ths.t she had been hit.
They thought the bullet had imbedded
itself in the wall. The patrolman said
no one seemed 70 have heard the shot
and that he and Mrs. Russell soon for
got about il. He remained several min
utes aftey the revolver was discharged
and dsgarted for his home.
liter he had gone, it is said. Mrs
Russell became aware that she had
been wounded. Mrs Marie Hotchings.
who has a furnished room down the
hall from the room occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Russell, said that about 10
o'clock Mrs. Russell rushed into her
room and cried: Marie, I'm shot!"
u found she was wounded in the
left leg" said Mrs. Hotchings. AZ fixed
upthe wound the best I could and ran
out to find a policeman"
Patrolman Byrne, of the East Sixty
seventh Street Station, made an inves-
tigation- Patrolman Moran was no.
where around, he said, when he reached
the house. He summoned an ambu-
lance from Flower Hospital and Mrs
Russell was sent there, being removed
Inter to Bellevue,
Moran Appears Surprised
Captain Duane, in charge of detect
ives at the East Sixty-seventh Street
station, sent Detectives Sicily and
Moran to the house at lit East Seven
ty-seveath Street, and from there they
went to the home of Moran. He
seemed surprised to see them, they
said, and readily accompanied them to
the West Forty seventh Street station.
Moran is unmarried, and has been
member of the police force com
paratively short time. The earlier
shooting in which he was implicated
occurred August % in a Third Avenue
poolroom. Edmund Clayton, twenty
one years. old, of $50 East Eighty-third
Street, was shot in the leg during an
alteration. He accused Moran, and
the patrolman's arrest was ordered
Clayton later withdrew the charge
against Moran, saying that he was
convinced that he was mistaken.
Mrs. Russell and ner husband &C.
cupv furnished room in the apart
ment of Herman Pinsonnault. He said
last night that he had rented the room
to them three weeks ago. Mrs. Hotch-
ings, he said, had been roomer in his
apartment for six weeks. s-~..o
According to detectives of the West
Forty-seventh Street station, Moran is
said TO have declared that he knew
Mrs. Russell and her husband well and
often visited them