The New York herald., 1922-01-25
Taxi Driver Again Tells of
Slayer's Escape Made in
WOman's Attire.
FEARED POLICE BEATING
Black Man Grins in Court and
Blows Kisses to Mother and
Other Relatives.

In day in which witness after wit
ress added to the burden of evidence
against Luther Boldly, the twenty
two-year-old negro on trial for mur-
der In the Supreme Court, it became
increasingly apparent that the only
refuge of the slayer of the two detec-
tives lay in the insanity plea.
OF all the evidence adduced the
most weighty was the dying state
ment of Detective Sergeant Francis
j. NJ Buckley and the confession Of
Boldly made on the train from Phila-
delphia
Throughout the day, in which the de-
Tense, even by the most vigorous cross
examination. failed to score, Boldly sat
motiorless. like black statue. his head
toward the bench. The new brown suit
ne had worn the day before was dis
carded for q blue serge suit His let
black hair. shining with some sort of
grease, was slicked back smoothly over
his head. Only at the end of the long
day did he turn to grin and kiss his
id III LOhdTQ his T1OtneT ana OIneTS Oh
his family, who sat on two benches.
The dying statement of Detective
Buckley was introduced only after Nor
ris Koenig, one of the lawyers for the
defense. had wager a hard fight to ex-
clude 1t. District Attorney Banton sue
ceeded finally in reading it to the jury
after Justice Wasservogel had directed
that all reference to the shooting of De-
tective Miller be omitted. Detective
Buckley said:
About 8: :15 o'clock Luther Boldly shot
me. I was walking on the outside,
Boldly was In the middle and Miller was
on the inside. We were walking west
In 135th street when In front of 222
West 1S5th street Boldly. who had his
hands in his overcoat pocket, fired three
shots through the pocket. Then fell.
Boldly then ran east in 135th street.
Twice Identified SIayer's Picture.
The principal witness of the day. De-
tective Sergeant Edwin +. England. tes-
titled that he was present at the Har-
lem Hospital when Buckley twice iden-
titled photograph OF Boldly as the man
who had shot him. Detective England
also told of the statement Boldly had
made to him on the train. England
quoted Boldly as saying:
Miller and Buckley Con the night Of
January 50 told me they wanted to
take ne to the police station to
question me about the shooting of
Policeman Roach. ! didn't want to
go. 1 thought they might beat me.
was walking along 135th street with
one on each side. ! had my gun up my
right sleeve. slipped the gun into my
hand and shot both. When they fell
ran south in Seventh avenue to 1880
street. where / threw away the gun. a
thir.y-ci-ht calibcr revolver. / took
Seventh avenue bus TO 116th street, then
the subway to Fourteenth street, and
walked to Sixth avenue and Fourteenth
street, where | took the tube to Jersey
City and then went to Montclair. l saw
my mother for about two minutes and
told her I'd done something in New
York. Then I went to Newark and got
some women's clothes from a girl /
knew. Belle Davis. I wish they had shot
me In Newark so I wouldn't have to go
back TO 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 the negro had told him he was
in a daze and knew nothing about the
shooting.
Adubato then told of how he had
driven as directed as far as Morrisville.
near Trenton. when. declaring he had
no more gasoline. he stopped and
escaped by jumping on the running
board of another car.
Taxi Driver Tells of Escape.
Adam G. Adubato. the Newark taxicab
driver who drove Boldly. then in wom-
ans clothes and armed with a pistol.
toward Philadelphia, told of how he had
taken his fare first to Jersey City. He
testified
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 upl Sit down! Stand
upl Take your hat off Take your
coat off,
81 did everything he told me to and
said. For Gods sake. mister, what have
] done? Have pity on me, I'm a mar
ricd man."
An unusually large number of wit
nesses were called, examined and cross
examined DR. Charles A. Norris, medi-
cal examiner, testified about the autopsy.
DR.. Mathew di Giorgi told OF efforts to
save the detectives life by an operation.
Charles C. Allison. Jr.. parole officer
in the Harlem "black belt" testified
tUdL On inc nlRnt OF tnc shooting Boldly
reported TO him in the school at Lenox
avenue and 135th street. Boldly was
then oct on parole. Both detectives
were there.
Mr.. Banton next called witnesses OF
the shooting. William H. Harris. head
OF the Seymour Realty Corporation, told
or seeing two white men. with negro
between them. approaching the 135th
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 avenue at top speed.
The next witness who was near the
scene added touch of comedy TO the
grim court scene. This man. Charles
J. Jones. dining car waiter on the
pennsylvania Railroad. testified he was
lighting n cigarette about eighty feet
from the detectives and their prisoner
when the shooting began.
STOW do you know there was no ap-
preciablc interval Between the three
shots you heard?" counsel for Boldly
asked him.
Because by the time hit the ground
IL was all over" the witness replied
little negro girl of IL, Sophie Stroud.
with q pigtajl OF curly hair. said God
and the Judge would punish her IL she
told lie. She .old OF watching three
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