New-York tribune., 1922-08-28
Ambulance Doctor Ayers
He Saw No Wounds ON
Captives w hen Treat
ed in Police Station
Beaten and Kicked,
8 Prisoners Assert
Inquiry Shows Officer
Fired on Burglary Sus-
pect; I; Only Once, He Says

Three prisoners, arrested early Sun
( eay morning in a Tenth Avenue saloon
f On burglary charge, required the at
/ tention of ambulance surgeons twice
y following their arrest and now are in
7 bellevue Hospital as q result of In
jnries alleged TO have been inflicted by
the police.
The first time was in the West For
ty-seventh Street station, Immediately
after they we're locked up, when the
bruises and cuts with which all three
were covered were given attention.
The second time was eight hours later,
when they were lodged in the West
Side prison after being arraigned be-
fore magistrate. Then two of the
trio complained for the first time that
they had been shot, one i'm the arm
and the other in the leg. No record of
4 any of the prisoners being shot or of
any shots having been fired had been
made at the station house. DIR. Nor
dance, of Flower Hospital, who attend
ed them there at first was certain yes
terday evening that he had observed
no ballet wounds. Later the third pris-
oner was removed from the West Side
prison, suffering from internal injuries
which he said had been inflicted when
the arresting policeman jumped on his
stomach. His condition is serious.
Wounds Discovered
Shortly before three o'clock Sunday
morning Patrolmen John Neuweiler
and r. W. Mccarthy brought to the
West Forty-seventh Street station
Austin Malloy, twenty-four years old,
driver, of 552 West Forty-ninth
s Street; Francis Decker, twenty, q Ia
borer. of Sis West Fiftieth Street, and
George Ryan, nineteen, chauffeur, of
/ sol West Fifty-second Street, who.
4 the policemen charged. had broken
into the saloon OF Bernard Tierney, at
ri Tenth Avenue. All three had
numerous cuts and bruises, which DR..
Mordance was called to treat. An
entry was made on the station hottie
: blotter Of the hurglary xlaarge against
the men, ard OF the fact n! sf!sEE sSEE shey had
been treated for bruises by the ambu-
Rnce doctor. 6
s AT 10 o'clock yesterday morning they
B were taken before Magistrate John z.
McGeehan. in the West Side court, held
& in 1000 bail on suspicion Of burglary
y
to the court Jail.
Then for the first time, after they
I had been locked up in the jail, it was
learned that Decker had been shot in
the left leg, just above the ankle, and
Malloy had bullet wound in the right
arm. They were taken to the prison
ward at Bellevue by DR.. Cady and two
hours later he removed Ryan to the
hospital.
Origin Is Mystery
The investigation ordered by Captain
Michael Kelly, commanding the West
Forty-seventh Street station, brought
statement from Patrolman Mccarthy
that he had fired one shot when the
prisoners attempted to escape through
q rear window of the saloon. Mccarthy
been fired and that he had fired it..
Captain Kelly, with Detective Burt
Maskiel, who was assisting in the i'm
sestigation, ventured the opinion that
shs bullet had struck the wall and re-
bounded, thus wounding the second
man.
The fact that no entry was made in
the blotter of a prisoner being shot,
Captain Kelly agreed, was violation of
department. regulations, but minor
one. The fact that Dr.. Mordance had
not observed any gunshot wounds he
explained by the haste with which such
examinations usually are made by am
bulance surgeons.
Early yesterday evening Captain
Kelly indicated that he was satisfied
with the statement made by Mccarthy
that but one shot had been fired and
that the men had been cut and bruised
IN resisting arrest
Dr.. Mordance, however, was positive
u his statement that he had observed
no bullet wounds when he treated the
men. Il treated them for decorations
only and saw no signs of gunshot
wounds of any sort. There were NO
blood stains on their arms or legs and
no bullet holes.
Hunting for Beer
They were drunk, but were not help
lsss, and were able to walk.
From the stories told by the men to
Dr. Cady when he took them to Belle
sue Hospital, it appears that the trio
broke into the cellar OF the saloon in
search of beer. Ryan is said to Nave
samitted that this was their object.
fhe next thing they recalled was be-
tcoatlnued on pssa soss)
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