Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-06
GUNMAN IS KILLED,
POLICEMAN DYING
IN PISTOL BATTLE
CONTINUED From First pssel

fConflnned From First P8Se.)
against the car and drew his revolver
BY this time the two men were half
way across the street. and running at
top speed. but Mcdonald stesdied his
weapon and fired. The FIRST two shots
struck the man who was farther sway
and he went down at my feet. A
pistol was IN his hand.
The other man was nearly IS wards
eway by this time. and, although Nc
Donald fired twice. both bullets sppar-
emily missed. The man ran to Cor
coran street. where he turned and dis
Mcdonald he'd shImped down on the
running board OF his Ger. hailed a
machine which was passing and took
him 10 the hospital. The other police
men brought the colored man in a few
minutes later
Mcdonald was weak from loss of
blood when he reached the hospital and
= TRANSMISSION was ordered Immediately.
Policeman M, L.. LIE Cafes Of the first
precinct gave q pint of blood for this
operation. The wounded man rallied
somewhat after the TRANSMISSION. phy-
sician6 said, but began to weaken rep
idly few minutes later.
Bullet Is FaHnd.
tered lust under the right collar bone
followed . downward course entirely
through the right lung and emerged on
the right side. The .32-caliber bullet
was found later on the running board
Of his car.
The two policemen who accompanied
Mcdonald were Pvts. r.. c. Pesrce and
G. e. Kelly.
We decided we would he more likely
- k-I Sc
Pearce said. so Mcdonald went in one
direction. while Kelly and went in
another.
we drove around the vicinity for
about 10 minutes before returning Al
though We were never more than two
blocks away. neither Of us heard the
sound Of any shots.
When we returned to Seventeenth
and G streets we found the colored man
lying on the sidewalk. When he told us
Mcdonald had been wounded and taken
away, we called the patrol wagon and
went to Emergency Hospital. taking the
colored man with us. When we found
him he still was clutching a .32-caliber
revolver in his hand, but it had not been
discharged. Some time later ne identi-
ned the man who was with him ss his
brother
Several policemen were inclined to
believe that the man hunted had been
wounded by McDonald's bullets. They
base their belief on call which was
received at the second precinct station
house eerly, this morning. The caller,
man said he had just seen q white
man and colored man lifting another
colored man into a wagon near his
home. He did not give his name or the
location Of the incident ne witnessed
and hung mp the receiver before l4e
could be questioned further. Police Also
touno felt hat At the scene Of the
shooting. which they think belongs TO
him.
Entered Store.
After the attempt to hold no the
r1ilkrnan had failed the cclored men
vent to the drug store and gained en-
trance by breaking a side window.
When Albert Feldman, the proprietor,
opened his store, he found the cabinet
IN which LIQUOR formerly was kept had
been broken. He said he never kept
liquor in the cabinet, but that 0 guam
tity of narcotics, which 1t did contain,
had not been disturbed
The store had been ransacked It's
appearance indicating that 1t had been
thoroughly searched. Less than $40 in
change was missing from the cash reg
listers. Feldman said that $500 in cur
not been taken.
Mcdonald, who has been on ths po-
lice force about seven years. lived at
zoo Fourteenth street northeast. He
was 80 years old.
He IA married and has three small
children, Margaret, q years old: Harry,
5. and Patrick, z years old. His mother,
MRS. Margaret Mcdonald, has been Ill
for several months with heart disease,
and has not been told Of the tragedy.
Mcdonald. who is described by Capt.
william q. Stott as one of the most
alert policemen in his precinct. recently
police sergeants.
Capt. Stott said he was unable to
understand why Mcdonald failed to
search his prisoners before putting them
In the automobile. Had he done this.
he said. their pistols would have been
taken and the shooting aSerted.