New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-14
Irish Volunteer
Shot Here by
Lone Cunnlan
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the curb and fell at full length. The
man with the revolver came to stop
beside him. lowered his weapon and
fired another shot into his victim s
back.
BY this time chauffeurs were honk-
Ing an alarm and police whistles were
shrlling in very direction. Men and
women were running toward the body
on the sidewalk. Several motorists
drew UP at the curb.
Bluffs Of Pursuers
Half dozen or more of the men
who had seen Connors fall gave chase
to the man who had snot him. He fed
west through Eighty-fourth Street.
Half way to Columbus Avenue man
stepped from behind stoop as the
fugitive passed. His hand was at his
pistol pocket and he eyed the pur-
suers coolly.
Where you bound for?" he de-
manded
They fell back at his threatening
aspect. Some tried 70 circle him, but
he retreated slowly before them. al
ways with one threatening hand be-
hind him. AT Columbus Avenue he
vanished Whether he went north
or south. none could say Their eyes
were fixed on the man they had seen
shoot down another, who was just
rounding the corner into Broadway
Inc pursuers renewed the chase
and reached Broadway in time to keep
their eyes on their quarry They saw
| him dart like an eel through the
throngs on the sidewalk and pass a
traffic policeman without glance
At last, just as they were beginning tc
overhaul him, they saw him vanish
INTO the subway station at Seventy.
ninth Street. A train was roaring out
OF the station northward when they
reached the stairs.
Victim Clutches Gun
Patrolman Jensen and Samuel !
Kaufman, who lives at the Montere,
| Hotel and was p assing in his motor
car when Connors fell, reached the side
, OF the wounded man almost together
Connors was striving to lift himsel
from the sidewalk and as he saw the
blue uniform of Jensen above him h,
extended toward him his right hand
which gripped revolver.
Jensen took it. The weapon wa:
not loaded.
SO you know who shot you? ?" asked
the patrolman.
"No,' said Connors.
Reconstruction Hospital, to which
he was taken, is only few block
away but Corners lapsed into uncon
Sclousness soon after reaching the in
stitution. Three shots had gon
through his body and one had shat
tered his jaw. Detective Maloney wa!
sent to the hospital and put a few
questions 10 him before the patien
became too weak to reply to more
Connors insisted that he did not know
who had shot him or why it had bee,
done.
Gang Plot Suspected
The police were inclined to believe
however, that Connors knew. Their
was evidence that the ambush had bee,
! carefully laid and that his assailan
| knew whom he was shooting. Be
| sides, the words, give got you!" over
heard by the woman just behind Con
nors, there was the involuntary finch
ing on Connors's part which she hat
| noticed.
There was evidence also that severa
men had been in the plot to kill Con
nors and to help the gunman escape
Besides the man in Eighty fourtl
/ Street who had menaced his pursuers
there were three others in motor ca
in Central Park, near Eighty fourtl
Street who. the police believe, ma,
have been members of the gang.
! One of these three, catching sigh
of three youths sauntering along nea
the park wall a few seconds before tn,
shooting, had leaped from the car ant
confronted them. He showed som,