The New York herald., 1922-03-27
SLAIN BY STRANGER
AFTER SCORN|NG GIRL
Man in Light Green Oyercoat
Is Shot Down by Murderer,
Who Escapes in Taxi.
SHOT JUST SKIPS A BABY
Madison Street in Panic as
Murder Follows Quarrel on
Crowded Sidewalk.
SHOT JUST SKIPS A BABY

A man in light green overcoat met
girl in a gray hat yesterday after
noon at 4:30 o'clock in front of the
poolroom at 16e Madison street, which
is owned BY Kid Dropper, a famous
gangster in the days Of Monk East
man and Johnny Spanish. They
talked for ten minutes, and they
talked so 'volubly and with such ges-
ticulation that they attracted much
attention in street crowded with
children at play, and on a sidewalk
almost jammed with women pushing
baby carriages and others on their
afternoon promenade.
The girl in the gray hat seemed to
grow angry as tie conversation pro-
ceeded. She appeared to be trying to
induce tho man to walk away with
her. She pulled at his arm and
pleaded with him. but he remained
.obdurate Finally she left. going hur-
riedly toward Pike street. and the
man in tie light green overcoat began
to pace up and down the sidewalk.
He went in one direction as far as the
end OF the poolroom property; In the
other as far as the end Of the prop
erty, 1eS Madison street, occupied by
a Greek restaurant.
Between these two points the man
walked for Ave minutes. lie scowied
and rnuttered TO himself. the police said
and this fact and the further fact that
he was rcsplendent in clothes that were
obviously new and freshly pressed. with
a silk shirt OF many colors, glistenins
tan shoes and rakisl green cap, made
him an object OF interest 10 tho chill
dren. They clustered about him; the
little girls stood at the curbing and
watched him. the little boys Initiated
his walk and made joshins remarks
about his quarrel with the girl.
The man paid no attention 70 them.
He continued TO walk up and down,
cushing his way past the swarm 81
baby carriages and through the crowds
Of children that got under his feet AZ
4:45 o'clock, just Ave minutes after the
girl had gone, a brown and white taxi
cab stopped in front of the Greek res
taurant. Several persons who glanced
idly at II told the police afterward that
IL seemed at the time to be empty ex-
ceptlng for the driver. but later develop
ments showed that man was hiding in
the inclosed part.
When the taxicsb stopped the man In
the green coat was walking directly
toward it. lie did not seem TO see 1t.
lie reached the end of his promenade
and turned to go back. II was then
that a man opened the taxicab door and
stepped to the ground. lie walked
quickly toward the man in the green
coat. pushing aside the crowds OF
curious children. When within Ave feet
he drew a revolver and fred two shots,
both OF the bullets going almost directly
over baby carriage which a woman
had just pushed In front OF him.
The first bullet hit the man IN the
green coat in the head the other missed.
but the police could hnd no trace of Il.
The man who had been shot fell TO the
sidewalk without sound, unconscious
the other man stepped quickly into tho
taxicab, the revolver still In his hand
and the vehicle went swiftly toward
Pike street and turned the corner.
The shooting had occurred so quickly
that for an instant the crowd In the
street stood still with anlagemcnt. Then
the women began to scream, the babte:
began to cry and the children who hat
been playing began running about and
shouting.
Patrolman Newman OF the Oak street
station sent the wounded man to Gou
verneur Hospital. but he died in th'
ambulance.