FOUND WOUNDED IN STREET.

The New York Times
November 23, 1922

Victim Tells of Auto Ride Against Will From Wilkesbarre, Pa.

Maurice Wendell, 23, of Trucksville, Pa., is in Harlem Hospital with a gunshot wound in his left breast. He was found by a policeman early yesterday lying on the sidewalk in front of 101 West 136th Street. He told of having been shot by one of three men who had offered him an automobile ride in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and who had brought him to New York against his will.

Wendell when questioned at the hospital by Detective Nelson said he was standing in Market Street, Wilkes-Barre, when three men drove up in a car. They got to talking with him and invited him to come along with them and they would take him home. Instead, he said, they brought him to New York. He was hazy about the trip and said he did know one of the men who had shot him.

A telegram to The New York Times from Wilkes-Barre stated that Wendell was manager of one of the Keystone Grocery Stores in that city. He was married last February, and since then has been living at the home of his father. Last Friday he started to go to the home of his wife's parents. Neither his father not his wife knew anything of his whereabouts until they received the message that he was in Harlem Hospital.