The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-06
RICH NEW YORK REALT0R |s KILLED
Edward w. Doyle, On Death bed, Tells Story-Pohce
 Claim Is Disproved

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.--Edward ". Dolge, wealthy Mount Vernon reai- tor, who died today of gunshot wounds after reporting he had been attacking by bandits last night, ac- tually was shot down by gunmen who followed him from a rendezvous with Mrs. Minnie Pachie. Bronx Dis trict Attorney McGeehan ana police officials delared tonight after ex- amining two. alleged witnesses to the shooting.
 Dolge, whose wife was at his hos pital bedside when he died, had known Mrs. Pachie for two years, the police learned. Instead of being fired on as he was entering sub way station. according to Dolge's ante-mortem statement, he was lured outside the station and shot down, sav the authorities.
 Mrs. Pachie Is 38 and the wife of Brooklyn department store floor walker. She was quizzed by police tonight with Charles s. Meilson. a former policeman who now is an attendant at United States Veterans hospital No. S1.
 with Dolgs a few hours before the realtor was attacked and to have spent considerable time with Mrs. Pachie up to six weeks ago when Dolge returned from business trip to Brazil.
 Dolge's last words. spoken just be- fore he died, were addressed to his wife. who had hastened from their home in Mount Vernon to his bed- side.
 I'm sorry to have caused this in convenience," he said to her. It too bad for you to get up so early and come away down here.
 DoIge was widely Known real tor as we'll as manager of the Har- lem River Towing line and 8 prom inent figure in lodge circles in New York and Mount Vernon. He was reputed among his friends to carry large sums om money. besides the valuable jewelry he usually wore. Accuses Bandits.
 Dolge's account of the shooting, supplemented by that of friends who had seen him before last midnight, was one, of bandits who shot when foiled. Over a public telephone. he said, he had engaged to meet man and close a real estate deal, swing he would journey to the ppointed place from the Hunts Point station of the New York, Boston and West chester railroad in the Bronx. He took a. taxicab to this station and was climbing the stairway, when, s he said, he was set upon by two armed men. Dolge said he struggled with them until four pistol shots dofned him. His assailants fled in a touring car,, pursed by two police automobiles, escaping when the or ficers' car collapsed.
 When taken to hospital Dilge wore a three carat diamong ring. a valuable stick pin, nd carried $16
 The fact :. that neither Dolge's $f.10D diamong ring a pearl SUCK pin, gold watch nor a brief case was touched by his attackers led police to question him about the truth of his account. but he stuck to his story. even though cognisant of his condition and being conscious until the minute of death.
 officials indicated that Nelson was questioned to determine the, ex- st tent of an alleged quarrel over Mrs. Parhies that he had with the real i tor short. time before the shooting and to check up the former police mans whereabouts when the shots were fired,
 9l ,aThIs is not a holdup," MT. Mo Geehan commented. but he refused to tell what he had learned from those questioned.
 'I will spend all night on the case" he said T have six or seven other women to question" The dis triet attorney refused to give an in formation about Mrs. Pachie's hus- band.