Robby Lomas and Artie Shibley, 6-year-old pals, must have felt like the luckiest boys in New York.
School was out on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1910, and fresh snow made it a perfect winter day for sledding.
The boys lived in adjacent apartments at 434 W. 164th St., just a few dozen skips and bounds from rocky Highbridge Park.
School let out at noon, and soon they were scampering with Lomas’ sled along Edgecombe Ave. toward descending park terraces that allowed gleeful coasts of several hundred feet.
They had the slope all to themselves.
After a couple of giggling runs and uphill trudges, the boys stood catching their breath and enjoying the view from Coogan’s Bluffs of the Polo Grounds, the old Harlem River Speedway far below and the Bronx beyond the river.
They paid no mind when an odd-looking man ambled toward them. Wearing a fedora, he was badly in need of a shave and a haircut.
He walked up to Lomas as the boy stood over the sled. Without a word, the man pulled a pistol, put it to the boy’s breast and fired.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/justice-story-mad-magician-herbert-dennison-murders-2-boys-ride-sleds-highbridge-park-article-1.984572
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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