The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12
ROUNDUP AFTER GUN PLAY.
MODEST MARTY LEWIS SHOT IN A
THIEVES QUARREL.
That was on Tuesday, and Posing as Pitts
burg Capitalist He Wanted 1t Kept
Out OF the Papers-seVen Crooks Ar
rested mt Ills Rooms the Next Friday.

burg Capitalist He Wanted II Kept
Out or the Papers-Seten Crooks Ar
rested at Ills Rooms the Next Friday.
A gun fight--three thieves quaTelling
over a woman in the Tenderloin last
Tuesday light resulted on Friday night in
the arrest Of four men and three woman,
gang Of the sliokest pickpockets and shop
filters, Central Office men say. that have
been corralled in many day. Photo
graphs of five OF the gang are in the rogues'
gallery, and several cities want them.
Late on Tuesday night Policeman Dillon
Of the West Twentieth street station heard
the barking OF revolvers when he was near
Seventh avenue and Twenty second street
and ran out of his precinct TO Sixth avenue
and Twenty-fourth street. There he saw
men and women running in all directions
and a man lying under the elevated struc-
ture groaning A revolver was by his
side Heads were sticking out Of saloon
doors and from second story windows,
but nobody came forward to explain.
The man was badly hurt. There was
bullet hole in his right side and another in
his hip. He was unconscious and looked
as IL he were dying, and an ambulance took
him TO tho New York Hospital.
Dillon found out later that three men
had been coming down Sixth avenue about
midnight with a blonde whom the Ten
derloin knows Familiarity as Cleo or a
sudden a quarrel arose. The woman ran
and the three fought it out Besides the
man Dillon found shot another was hurt.
he was told, crook and CRATER known by
several names but commonly as Ed Eng
oh, ~. Ill. 4 =
before the policeman got there. Dillon
was told by the night birds that a certain
pickpocket and second story man did the
shooting, This man has not been caught
At the hospital the man Dillon found
revived and told the doctors he was Will
liam Martin Of Pittsburg, and had large
business interests in that town. He had
been seeing this town on Tuesday night,
he explained. and had gone, among other
places. to the Haymarket. There he had
shown a roll Of bills. and when he left he
was followed. At Twenty fourth street
and Sixth avenue. when he was on his way
TO his rooms at 22o West Twenty-ifth street.
he was attacked suddenly by two men,
who demanded his money. Martin said
he hit one of them in the mouth and struck
the other with his cane. Then he was shot.
He would not like the newspapers to get
hold Of the matter, he said.
Martin was fashionaby dressed. His
story was considered straight enough by
the hospital people But in the meantime
the report Of the shooting had reached
Police Headquarters, and Detectives Pea
body and Clark were sent around TO the
hospital to look MIR. Martin over and hear
his story.
They recognized Martin as Marty Lewis,
expert pickpocket. They say that he
denied his identity turned his face to the
wall and told them to 80 TO the devil; but
maybe they got something out of him.
on Friday Peabody and Clark wat hed
the house at 22e West Twenty-ffth street,
an apartment house called the Edwina.
They saw several persons going in that
Il did them good 10 see. They waited
until evening, when a number Of persons
they wanted were in the house and then
they went in,
In Fat which Martin--or wis-had on
the first floor they found four men and three
women, whom they took to Police Head
quarters and locked up for the night
The prisoners, the police say, are Far
Humphreys. alias Fanny Wilson, piIa-
POCKET ana shopIuteTi Joth " hecIei beoIBe
Harmon, known as Midget Foley; Edith
Steen, called in crookdom Edith Allen
Emma Ellis, alias Boston Tess and Tesse
Hamilton William Flimmon, called the
Big Kid and Robert Boyd, known as Slip
perry Bob.
Fanny Humphreys, the police say, is
wanted in Monroe, Mich. for shoplifting
and pocket picking. The authorities there
have been notified O'Keefe is wanted
in Boston and Providence. All were re-
handed TO the Tombs.
In Martins rooms were found two seal
skin sacques a half dozen silk dresses,
a lot OF jewelry and other small articles.
Martin was released from the hospital
yesterday afternoon and promptly disap-
peafed.