New-York tribune., 1886-02-27
KILLED HIS SECOND ROBBER.
YOUNG HENRY PLANGEs CAREFUL AIM.
AROUSED FROM SLEEP, HE DRESSES. TAKES BIG
PISTOL AND SHOOTS A BURGLAR IN A STORE.

AROUSED FROM SLEEP, HE DRESSES, TAKES A BIG
PISTOL AND SHOOTS A BURGLAR IN A STORE.
Henry Plange, n stOlid yOung German who
has beer employed for three years In Frederick SOhns
grocery at No. 427 West Seventeenthst, was prisoner
n the Sixteenth Precuot Police Station yesterday after
noon, but he treated kindly and admired by the
policemen there He had earned distinction by killing
burglar who had broxcn his employers store and
his arrest had been regarded cruel necessity The
grocery is on the first oO OF tenement house hail.
with front and exits extends through the honse
along the eide OF the grocery At the OF the grocery
Is small room where Pange has slept at night since he
has been In Mr.. sohns employ. Lately he has had the
company OF Emil Winter another clerk who had acci-
denally broken his log inthe store.
phe young men went TO bed in tho room late Thurs
day night Pange slept sOundly but Winter was both
cred by pain in his log and wakeful Soon after
midnight Winter heard suspicious noises In the
hallway and he aroused Panse who got up to maze an
investigation. Looking out through rear window he
saw the fash OF match lie also heard voices of two
three Aiterward ho heard footsteps In the hall
way and he judged by the sounds that the men were
going TO the front OF the store The front door had
been broken by thieves before and piece OF zinc had
b On inserted In place OF glass panel. PlaDge got
ready revolver of AZ cabre which he kept in the room
and then dressed himself Some mufed sounds at the
front OF tho grocery had caught his and when he
wakcn out OF the little he had his revolver ready
in his hand There light in the store but the
OF street lamp enabled him to tho figure OF man
just inside the door, the zinc panel OF which had been
removed.
Plange noticed that the burglar was rolling potato
barrel away from the door lie rasd the revolver to
level with his eye took good aim he could under
the circumstances. and fired Quickly following the
port OF the weapon was an exclamation OF pain uttered
by the rObber. Plange said aiterward that the sound
WAS like a prolonged Ohv Then there was % hastY
shuting OF feet near the front door. Plange fired
another shot and waited few listening to the
sounds Of reestiug footsteps. Wnen he walked to the
door no person was in sight He unlocked the and
went out but the sidswalk deserted. No policeman
within call, but ho found an ohcer at Eghthave
aud Seveateenth-st and brought him back to the
grocery They procured light and searched both the
front oil the store and sidewalk for distance, but could
not mud any marks OF blood. Plange felt that he
had hit OF the robbers, but the policeman thought
he WAS mistaken. There evidence that anything
had been stolen ron store and the officer
tented himself with making report OF the attempted
Robbery.
The police investigation probably would have rested
there had not development in the come to
light soon after noon yesterday. Three young men,
John J. Ford, william J. Cobane and James Carter who
1--we IN West sIeenth-st, to the police station in
Twentieth ST.. and reported that they had found the
de a. body OF man In a club room at No. 40S West SIX
eenth ST. Tho club ls the first floor a small
flame building. Members Of the Barney ]. Corriean
Social ClnD" play cards in the place evenings Corrgan
hooi lie and bis associates SAID by the police 10
respectable The club room Is locked up BY ii clock
every ngt, with tons, and the IuenDers OF
tue club who employed at various trades do not
often visit In the day time. Yesterday Ford,
aud Carter got together at ana walked to the
club room When tHoy reached the place they were sur
prsed to ind the asenngs Ui the door broGeu They
were still surprised, upon entering the room, to
lind tho dead body of a Young man lying on the noOr
The appearance OF tho body indicated that the man
his ilinbs were bent and his
features contOred Previous To Ills death the man
hal been partly unt es4ed. The young men recognized
the body IA that OF John Moran, u thlet who was
familiarity known to the police a- Nut t" Moran. When
Police Captain Mcf heard the young mems story.
s thought hc understood how Moran came TO be found
dead the club room. An examination OF MOrans boiy
disclosed shot wound in the left shoulder bullet OF
large caie had entered ths neck ana had passed
downward. Undoubtedly Moran was one Ot tue burglars
vino al broken into tho grocery and after he had been
shot by Plange he hal managed To uu away, although
fatally wouudoi Motans comrades IN crime hai taken
him into club "a convenient place tUr exam
lining wound. and they had deserted him there When
they asrrratnrd tat he dying. Captain McElN ain
had Pange arrested and tho young German was re-
ma1drd tho custody OF the police pending an nyes-
hy Coroner Mc,AsmCr. The Coroner took PtugC
To the club look at the body the burglar but
Pange said hr could not identity tho body.
Pnngc took hs arrest cOoy. Thrso years ago lie shot
n burglar, rom Rogers, who was trying 10 break INTO
the grocery. Rogers wounded In the head and hc
died frsu the wound some months after he had been sent
To urlson for The attempted robbery The police ycstcr
lnv arrested q young thiei named Rod Mckenna nhO
was In Moraus company IN seventeenth II. on
TnlrslAy night. Mckeunu said thdt ne parted from
Moran and went TO bed at p. NJ but his story not
believed Moran WAS twenty tour years old anl had no
.ed place OF abode. He bad beou sent to prison several
times for petty heits. ON Thanksgiving Day he was lat
sat al liberty after serving term IN the Peutenary
His body was to the MOrgUe last evening.