The New York herald., 1922-01-07
NEGRO SLAYER GETS
|. OUT OF POLICE NET,
ESCAPES TO JERSEY
Brother Leads Police in Man
Hunt in MOntclair and
Belleville.
WATCHING In HARLEM
Whole Force Working to
Bring in Boldly Dead
or Alive.
BY GRAND JURY
Record of Immunity Revealed;
Search Brings Arrest in
Another Murder.


Detectives William A. Miller and
Francis j. Buckley in Harlem Thurs
day night. was being sought in New
Jersey early this Saturday morning.
Detectives had trailed him to Mont
clair and then to Belleville, suburb
of Newark, and it was reported at
1880 A. M. that they were hurrying
back to Montclair hoping TO capture
him. Leading the detectives was
Boddy's own brother, John Boldly, ex-
soldier.
Early yesterday morning, while the
Harlem detectives were still search
ing negro tenements near the scene of
the double murder, three detectives
who knew TIE habits of the alleged
slayer hurried over to Montclair.
They knew his mother and brother
lived in the negro quarter there. They
went TO Montclair police headquarters,
got twenty other policemen and then
started for. the Boldly house.
The searchers were just half an
hour late. While they were at Mont
clair police headquarters Boldly
visited his mothers home, stayed for
few minutes and then rushed out
frantic with fear.
1t was learned by the detectives that
Boldly had another brother living at
206 Heckel street, Belleville, and from
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dress. Detectives Shields, McGrath
and Krause of New York Headquar-
ters and F'allon and Reiboldt of New
ark headquarters surrounded the place
and then searched it. Boldly had not
been there.
But the trip to Belleville brought
probably more valuable results than
any other move the police have yet
made. 1t informed the brother that
Luther Boldly was being sought as a
murderer, and he went to Police Head
quarters yesterday Afternoon TO offer
his services in the hunt. He said
Luther Boldly did not serve in the
army or the navy during the war and
neglected their mother while he, John,
was In France. John Boldly went
back TO New Jersey early last night
and he was with the detectives when
they continued their vigil in Belle
vile and later at Montclair.
"Get Boldly" Cry of Police.
Get Boddy!" said Buckley with his
last breath as comrades bent over his
bedside in Harlem Hospital early yes
terday morning. few hours after his
partner, Miller. had died on the side
walk only few feet from the West
135th street police station to which
they had been taking the young negro
Get Boldly" was the injunction
which went through the whole Police
Department.
SO the fugitive killer knows his life
Is forfeit not only to the law in its
ordered processes but to power
often more deadly i'm It's infrequent
operation, the unwritten law OF the
force: the unwritten law which sends
policemen into the hunt with set Jaws
TO stamp upon the rattlesnakes OF the
criminal world. IL is the simple fact
that yesterday opinion ran through
the channels Of authority that Luther
Boldly was much more likely to be
brought in dead than alive. and that
there we're at least two chances In
three that the county Of New York
would be saved the cost of trying him
upon the double indictment for mur-
der in the first degree, which the spe-
cjal Grand Jury returned yesterday.
Net I'm All Directions.
II was this wholly human. IL extra
legal side of the man hunt which made
II SO dramatic as the day wore through
and gave way to night. and as the
police hunters. tense and determined.
circlcd like hunting dogs nosing for the
trail. Everybody at all familiar with
crime in New York and the contact OF
the police and prosecuting authority
with crime felt instinctively that the
comrades of the murdered men would
xiii Boldly rather than give him the
least excuse to resist arrest.
The atrociously treacherous circum-
stances OF the killing. the fine charac-
ter and excellent records OF the killers
victims. the pathetic fact that two wom-
en- were made WIDOWS and eleven chill
dren made orphans (Miller left wife
and eight children. and Buckley wife
and three children). the strange I'm
n,unIty OF the young negro desperate.
with several arrests but no punishment
for crime In the singular mercies OF
the law. and finally. Buckley's expiring
plea: Get Boldly I" fired every man m
the hunt---fred and yet chilled them
with deadly purpose.
There was no boasting or vaunting
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