Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-02-04
LUTHER BOLDLY
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suit he had worn the day before wa.
discarded for Il blue serge suit. His JET
black hair, shining with some sort OF
grease. was sliched back smoothly over
hrs head. Only at the end Of the long
day did he turn to grin and kiss hts
hand toward his mother and others 81
his family, who sat on two benches.
The dying statement OF Detective
Buckley was introduced only after Nor
riS Kocnig one OF the lawyers for tho
defense had wager q hard fight to OK
cludc it. District-Attorney Bnnton sue
cocdcd finally In reading it to tho jury
after Justice Wosservogel had directed
that all reference to tho shooting OF
Detective Miller be omitted. Detective
Buckley said:
about S:15 o'clock Luther Body
shot me. I was walking on tho outside
Boldly was in tho middle and Miller
was on the inside. We were walking
west in 135th street when in front Of
222 West 135th street Boldly, who had
his hands in his overcoat pocket, fired
three shots through the pocket. Then
fell. Boldly then ran cast in 135th st.
TWICE IDENTIFIED sLAYER'S
PICTURE
The principal witness OF the day, DO
tective Sergeant Edwin r. England
testified that he was present at the
Harlem Hospital when Buckley twice
identified q photograph Of Boldly "a
the man who had shot him. Detective
England also told OF the statement Bod
dy had made to him on tho train. Eng.
land quoted Boldly as eaying: "''..'
miller and Buckley Con the night
of January s. told me they wanted to
take me to tho police station to quest
man Roach. didn't want to go. l
walking along 135th street with ono
on each side. had my gun UP my
right sleeve. I slipped the gun into my
hand and shot both. When they fell I
ran south in Seventh avenue to 133rd
street where threw away the gun, a
thirty-eight callber revolver. took n
Seventh avenue hus to 116th street
then the subway to Fourteenth street
and walked TO Sixth avenue and four
teenth street where took the tube to
Jersey City and then went to Montclai,
I saw my mother for about two minut.
es and told her I'd done something In
New York. Then went to Newark and
got some women's clothes from d girl
I knew Belle Davis. I wish they had
shot me In Newark so I wouldn't HAYS
to go back 10 New York.
England denied that Boldly told him
he was in fear Of his life and in great
terror that the detectives would beat
him numerically at the police station
or that Boldly had told him he was in
n dnze and knew nothing about the
shooting.
Adubato then told Of how he hao
driven as directed rs far as Morrisville
near Trenton when, declaring he had
no more gasoline. he stopped and es
capped by jumping on the running
board OF another car.
TAXI DRIVER TELLS OF ESCAPE
Adam G. Adubato, the Newark taxi.
cab driver who drove Boldly. then in
womans clothes and armed with pIs
tol toward Philadelphia, told of hcw
he had taken his fare first to Jereey
City. He tcstificd:
II opened the door to tell her
couldn't find Washington avenue and
she pulled a gun on me and said I'm
Luther Boldly, the man who shot the
detectives. Stand up! Sit down! Stand
no! Take your hat off! Take your coat
off!
Ibid everything no told me to and
said, For Gods sake. mister, what
have I done? Have pity on me, I'm n
married man"
An unusually large number Of wit.
nesses were called, examined and cross
examined. DR.. Charles A. Norris, med
zeal examiner testified about the autop.
sy. DR.. Mathew di Giorgi told Of efforts
to save the detectives life by IN opera.
ton.
Charles c. Allison. Jr., parole officer
IN the Harlem "black belt" testified
that on the night Of the shooting Boldly
reported to him in the school at Lenox
aVonue and 18th street. Boldly WAS
then out on parole. Both detectives
were there.
Mr.. Banton next called witnesses Of
the shooting. William II. Harris, head
Of the Seymour Realty Corporation,
told OF seeing two white men with a
colored one between them, approaching
the 136th street police station OF three
shots that rOared out soon after they
had passed him, and how, despite his
own speed, some one ran by HIM and
took the turn south into Seventh avo-
Hue at top speed.
The next witness who was near Tho
scene added a touch OF comedy To the
grim court scene. This man, Charles
j. Jones a dining car waiter on the
pennsylvania Railroad, testified he
was lighting a cigarette about eighty
feet from the detectives and their uris
onor when the shooting. began.
"How do You know there was no ap-
probable interval between the three
shots you heard?" counsel for Boldly
asked him.
Because by the time I nit the