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Show CRAZED NEGRO KILLS OFFICER Second Fatality Averted When Gun Taken From Patrolman Misfires. NEW YOPJK, Jan. 20. A crazed ne- gro, awaiting examination as to hlM ! sanity. Thursday shot and mortally wounded PaArnlnian Olto W. Motz, in a rear room of the West no Hundred Twenty-third street police station. "M"iz. who had a wife and two children, child-ren, died less than an hour later, she v.lth his own ftun. A second kllllnE; was averted ivlim the gun misfired Patrolman John Hagstrand WU Ihe second intended victim- in the room where Mot. Wa shct, ho leapef al tlte'ntgYo da he stood over the victim's body. The na-niac na-niac wheeled about, pn-ssed the weapon wea-pon against Hag8tranl' abdomen and pulled the trigger. The negro, who later gave th nam of Frank Whaley, was subdued after I a.errlflc fight In "Which a half score polioameo beat lilm down. Whah y had been taken to the police station on complaint of tenants in a Harlem apartment house thaf ho was annoying and threatening them. Ho had been left in the rear room to AWatt the arrival of an ambulance surgeon, sur-geon, who was to examine him Pa.rolman ilotz then came in with a misdeameanor offender and retlredi tu the rear room to rest before ref turning to his beat. He removed a heavy top coat, exposing hU holster and gun As Motz turned hll back, tho negro rushed, snatched the revolver and fired. Tho bullet entered the patrolman's patrol-man's temple. Motz was 28 years old. |