Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08
Hospital Attendant Refuses
to DivuIge Real Name
in First Quiz.
MAN, BEATEN UP, TALKS
OF BEING "PUT ON SPOT"
Homicide Squad Clears Mystery
Thrown Around Companions
Wild Night Experience.

What Prince Georges County police
at first believed to be another gang
shooting appeared as too-hilarious
party this morning, when Arthur Gard
ner Middleton, 19-year-old Gallinger
Hospital attendant, who lies in Emer-
gency Hospital with a .32-caliber bull
let wound in his thigh, told Lieut.. Ed
ward Kelly, chief of the Washington
homicide squad, the circumstances I'M
der which he was shot.
When admitted to the hospital last
night, Middleton gave his name as John
Da Sellers, his address as the 1400 block
of Potomac avenue southeast. and de-
clared he had accidentally shot himself.
Gave Real Name Today.
Today the man gave his real name
and said he lived in the 700 block
of Monroe street northeast. In COM
pany with Leo B. Mcdonald, another
Gallinger Hospital attendant, and John
Slade, q former attendant at the in
stitution, Middleton told Kelly, he left
Washington last night to visit cousin
In Southern Maryland.
The wounded man is quoted by Lieut.
Kelly as saying that Slade had been
drinking and threatened to shoot Nc
Donald with q revolver he was carry
the weapon away from him, Middleton
said.
Slade is then said to have gotten out
a penknife and threatened to stab Nc
Donald unless he surrendered the gun.
A short time later Slade is said to
have shot Middleton. Middleton said
he hit Slade over the head with q milk
bottle and pushed him out of the car
Then Mcdonald drove Middleton to the
hospital. His condition is not con-
Sidered serious.
Middleton reached the hospital about
8 o'clock and at the same hour DR..
James I. Boyd Of Forestville was called
to treat a man who had stumbled up
to the door of the home of Phillip
Buckler, near Clinton. Md. His face
were required to close the deep gashes
about the mans forehead and ear.
Constable JaiIs Man.
DR.. Boyd called Constable A. C.
Thompson, who Jailed the man after
learning that a man with bullet wounds
was in Emergency Hospital here.
At the jail the mans name was
inscribed on the blotter as Slade. He
was booked for investigation.
According to Thompson Slade talked
vaguely about having been taken for a
ride by three guys" who endeayored
to put him on the spot" and in the
fight that had ensued he had shot at
them. He refused to reveal the identity
of his aSsailants. Slade said he was
left unconscious by the highway. When
he regained consciousness he sought aid
at the Buckler home.
In SHADES coat pocket Thompson
found sealed envelope, on which was
written in ink: ITO be opened in case Of
death, accident or very serious illness
that would render me unconscious" The
envelope contained a single sheet OF
paper on which was written:
"Notify DIR. Charles o. Funk"
"My name is John Slade. In case of
death, accident or illness that would
render me unconscious notify DR..
Charles o. Funk, TIT Fairmont avenue,
Philadelphia, Pa. Please use the quick
est of communications you have at hand.
Phone number is Poplar 1858, Philadel-
phia, Pa. Thank you.
"P. s. Any expense incurred will be
paid Immediately"
Police discovered a Gallinger Hospital
orderly's badge on the man. At the
hospital it was said this morning that
Slade had been employed there some
time ago, but had been dismissed and
failed to turn in his badge.
Another Gallinger Hospital orderly,
Leo B. Mcdonald, told his superiors
about a shooting in Southern Maryland
when he reported for work this morn
ing. He said the man taken to Emer-
gency was named Middleton.