New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Girl Absolved
BY Victim of
ark Shooting
< Y0unghans, Recovering Com
sciousncss. Says He Was
Fired On by Striking Milk
Drivers or Personal Foes
Men Leap From Ambush
Charge of Felonious Assault
Against Miss Horner Is
Expected To Be Dropped

Raymond NJ. Younghans, striking
milk wagon driver, who was seriously
shot last Thursday night while in Cen
Horuer, hookkeeper for the Glover
Farms Dairy Company, recovered con-
seriousness yesterday at Roosevelt Hos
pitAl and reiterated his former state
naent that he was shot by bandits or
striking drivers. His previous state
ment was made before he lapsed into
unconsciousness.
Younghans's statement yesterday, to-
gether with statements made by off,
cials of the dairy company to the eff
feet that it was their belief that Young
hans had been intercepted in the park
by personal enemies, led the police to
abandon the theory that the striking
driver was wounded by Miss Horner.
Victim Describes Attack :
Detectives of the West Sixty-eighth
Street station talked with Younghans
for . short time at the hospital yes
terdsy. He told them he was walking
with Miss Horner when two men
sprang out from the bushes in front
OF them. He struggled with one Of
them, he said, and was shot. The men
fed. He walked short distance with
Miss Horner before he fell, he said.
Miss Horner, according to his story
TO the detectives, was clutching his
arm when he sank to the ground.
At the West Sixty-eighth Street sta
Clover Farms Dairy Company were
convinced that Younghans had in some
way incurred the enmity of other
striking employees, and the attack on
h3m in the park was planned in con-
sequence.
Younghans's condition is still seri-
Gus, but his recovery is expected. In
dicatiops were last night that the
charge of felonious assault on which
Miss Horner was held without bail
may be dropped.
Miss Horner is niece of Luther L.
Campbell, of 22SS Broadway, president
of the Glover Farms Dairy Company.
Mrs. Campbell said last night:
my brother was Miss Horner's step
father. The girl is entirely innocent
She had no revolver and never carried
one. She did not shoot Younghans."
The version Of the case, which the
police believe true, is that the visit of
Younghans and the girl to Central Park
Thursday night was for the purpose of
discussing business affairs. They have
been friends and exchanged business
condolences for long time. These con-
fidences were of value to the two sides
in the differences between employers
and employees existing in the milk
trade from time to time.
When tbs two met in the park
they we're looking for information on
the milk strike, it is thought. Young
haus, who lives with his wife and four
year-old son at 500 West Fifty-first
St9eet, was shop steward for Milk
Drivers Union No. sos. He had con-
fidsd in his wife at the beginning of
the strike that he expected to get in
formation of value to the strikers from
Miss Horner.
gss. Discussion of Business
The couple walked for long time
together Through the park discussing
different subjects, the police say, but
their conversation for the most part
concerned the strike.
Earlier in the day the police were of
the belief that Younghans was shot
while he and Miss Horner were en-
gafed in q scufie, in which she was
trying to get him to throw away the
revolver he carried. The statement
made by Younghans, however, caused
this theory to be abandoned.
Mrs. Younghans has been with her
husband at Roosevelt Hospital almost
constantly since Thursday. She alb
solves Miss Horner from all blame in
the case.
vs4I am sure Miss Horner did not
shoot my husband" said the wife yes
terday, because Miss Horner knew
how happy we were and how hard we
worked to save money and get ahead"
Mr.. Campbell. who it is understood
has report on the shooting from the
girls attorney. could not be reached
last night.