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Show MAN SHOT-i SHOT-i THROUGH HEART Character of the Bowery Killed and Slayer-Escapes Slayer-Escapes New York. April 17 On the theory that the arrest of Benny Adelson. in California, yesterday, may have something some-thing to do with the crime, the police today are investigating the shooting of Billy O'Brien, a well-known East Side character, in front of Steve Bro.Ile's saloon on the Bowery, early today. O'Brien was shot through the heart and died instantly. The man who fired the fatal shot escaped. It was at first believed the murder was the result of a quarrel, but when It was learned that O'Brien vas known to be a witness in the shooting of Joe Reil-ley Reil-ley in Pell street in 1905. in connection with which Adelson is reported to have heen arrested yesterday in Pasadena, Pasa-dena, tho authorities turned their at- . tention to this phase of the case. The report became known along the Bowery, Bow-ery, and O'Brien's probable appearance appear-ance as a witness against Adelson was freely talked about in tho resorts. O'Brien had had a dispute with a man and a woman in one of the resorts, aud is said to have struck the woman. wom-an. When he left the place, some time, afterward, ho was shot down, his assailant as-sailant escaping through an alley. Four men were detained hy tho po-1 po-1 lice today In connection with the killing kill-ing of O'Brien. Three of them were New Yorkers, and the fourth gave his name as Patrick Donovan, of Whitman, Whit-man, Mass. Donovan told the police that he was nearby when the shooting occurred, and saw tho murderer rua Donovan was later held with Joseph Jiuhnowreky, one of tho men arrest, ed, in $1,006 bail to await the inquest. in-quest. ' Detectives this afternoon went to th.? Brooklyn navy yard and on board tho battleship Nebraska arrested Edward Ed-ward Purcaro. 25 years of age, and charged him with the murder oC O Urlen. |