Sniper’s Shot Hits Market Street Window

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Paul W. Draper, owner of a barber shop and beauty parlor at 210 Market street, reported to the detective bureau at 1.30 p. m. today that someone had fired a missile at the front window of the establishment. Several patrolmen and City Detective Joseph Caputi investigated. They found splinters of glass as far as 20 feet from the window inside the shop, but the hole through the window, no larger than the point of a lead pencil, was so small it precluded the possibility of a bullet or a stone going through the pane. On the inside of the window the hole was as large as a silver dollar and cracks extended out from it for six inches in all directions. Draper said he had heard no gun report, but when he rushed outside the shop smelled smoke. Two boys who were passing the place at the time said they had heard something whizz by their heads, Draper told police. Neither Draper nor the detective were able to find a missile either inside or outside the shop. Philadelphia police last night arrested an 18-year-old youth, who they thought might be the "phantom sniper." He was to be questioned by Camden detectives today. The youth was found hiding near Eighth and Sansom streets. For the past week a sniper has been shooting out windows of buildings between Seventh and Eighth streets on Sansom. The bullets narrowly missed scores of persons. The youth gave his name as Hyman Tucker, of Twenty-third street, near Cumberland. When arrested he had a small calibre rifle and a number of cartridges. He was taken to City Hall for questioning. Tucker is a night student at Central High School. The arrest was made after detectives had been posted at a vantage point along Sansom street. Today another driver added himself to the list of some forty odd persons who have been attacked by the phantom. He is C. C. Schatde of Ocean City. He told Haddonfield police that the sniper shot through his windshield as he was driving along Grove street near the Marlton Pike. Some mysterious missile penetrated the middle of his windshield close to the bottom. It made a hole about the size of a matchstick. Schatde said there was no one in sight and he found no projectile in his car.

Paul W. Draper, owner of a barber shop and beauty parlor at 210 Market street, reported to the detective bureau at 1.30 p. m. today that someone had fired a missile at the front window of the establishment.

Several patrolmen and City Detective Joseph Caputi investigated. They found splinters of glass as far as 20 feet from the window inside the shop, but the hole through the window, no larger than the point of a lead pencil, was so small it precluded the possibility of a bullet or a stone going through the pane.

On the inside of the window the hole was as large as a silver dollar and cracks extended out from it for six inches in all directions.

Draper said he had heard no gun report, but when he rushed outside the shop smelled smoke. Two boys who were passing the place at the time said they had heard something whizz by their heads, Draper told police.

Neither Draper nor the detective were able to find a missile either inside or outside the shop.

Philadelphia police last night arrested an 18-year-old youth, who they thought might be the “phantom sniper.” He was to be questioned by Camden detectives today.

The youth was found hiding near Eighth and Sansom streets. For the past week a sniper has been shooting out windows of buildings between Seventh and Eighth streets on Sansom. The bullets narrowly missed scores of persons.

The youth gave his name as Hyman Tucker, of Twenty-third street, near Cumberland. When arrested he had a small calibre rifle and a number of cartridges. He was taken to City Hall for questioning. Tucker is a night student at Central High School. The arrest was made after detectives had been posted at a vantage point along Sansom street.

Today another driver added himself to the list of some forty odd persons who have been attacked by the phantom.

He is C. C. Schatde of Ocean City. He told Haddonfield police that the sniper shot through his windshield as he was driving along Grove street near the Marlton Pike. Some mysterious missile penetrated the middle of his windshield close to the bottom. It made a hole about the size of a matchstick. Schatde said there was no one in sight and he found no projectile in his car.