New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-14

tween First and Second Avenues and
within about 200 feet of Charles +.
Murphy's home at 3O5 East Seventeenth
Street.
The count of the ballots was about
complete when the four automobiles
drew up at the curb and n gang of
men, said to have numbered sixteen,
burst in upon the watchers and in
spectors. According to Patrclman
Doolan, Of the East Twenty second
Street police station, on duty in the
booth, the men made concerted rush
for the ballot boxes and had laid their
hands on some of them when he drove
them back with his nightstick, assisted
by the election officials.
Detectives Prescott and Kane, who
were across the street from the booth,
heard the uproar and came up on the
run, their blackjacks in their hands.
Seeing uniformed policeman beset by
assailants, they said they welded their
weapons vigorously and cleared the
booth Of the invaders.
They made off in thei rautomobiles
before the policemen got the numbers Of
the cars, but it was said that they were
all Of the limousine type. The fugitives
raced up Second Avenue, and as they
wanda Club, Murphy's own organiza-
ton, stands, half dozen shots were
fred, it was said, or possibly the auto
mobiles backfired half dozen times.
Those in the club, among whom were
Murphy, Justice Joseph f. Moss, of
Special Sessions, Surrogate james
Foley, Murphy's son-in-law and Asss-
tant District Attorney Sabbatno,
thought they were under fire and came
rushing from the upper floor in their
shirt sleeves. Whether the panel in
the door was smashed in their sudden
rush to the street or by bullet, is not
known. BY the time the men reached
the stoop, the automobiles we're out of
sight.
Shaliek Disputes Police Version
That is the police version of the
ARRAY. Shallek's is different.
He and about twenty of his friends
went to the polling place, he said, to
inquire into reports of fraud. They
entered without difficulty, and he OBJ
was examining about fifteen signatures
which he said, looked queer to him.
There were five men in the ROOM
recognized by his friends as policemen
in plain clothes, Shallck said one of
them seized him by the shoulder as he
was looking at the book. He turned
to the uniformed policeman on duty
in the booth, ignorant Of the fact that
his opponent was himself a policeman
and asked him to make the man take
his hand from his shoulder.
The uniformed man laughed at me-"
said Shallek, "and then the man who
had me by the shoulder said: 4 am an
officer myself. You are one of the
dirty Illness bunch!'"
That remark, Shallek declared, was
predatory to a blow with q nightstick
which laid his scalp open and drove
him to the floor. The companions Of
the detectives, he said, kicked him as
he lay on the floor and one of them
drew revolver and fired at tim. The
bullet grazed his chest on a level with
his heart.
Lock the doors!" somebody shouted,
Shallek said, and as soon as that was
done the attack on Illness men began
in earnest. His supporters were
dubbed and beaten to the floor like
himself, one of them, Joseph O'Neill,
suffering several scalp wounds, Shallek
declared.
One of the Hines men reached the
door and forced it open, Shallek said,
and all rushed to the street, jumped
into their cars and made their escape.
Fully fifty shots were fired after them,
he said One of his party failed to
reach the automobiles and still was miss
ing early to-day.
DR.. l.. l.. Rose, of 23S West 18th
Street, attended Shallek at the hotel and
said that his injuries, except for the
bullet crease. undoubtedly were caused
by blackjacks and revolver butts. His
wounds required forty stitches.