New-York tribune., 1910-03-30
HELD FOR P.O. THEFT
CHARGED WITH RICH
WOND ROBBERY.
T5co Men Captured Here
after Fight-Stamp ps Forth
So .OOO R6cOJered.

After a series Of hand tO-hand fights
in the crowded section at 12d street and
Madison avenue last night. just as the
theatregoers were Ihronging the streets.
United States postal officials. aided by
detectives from the local Police Head
quarters, arrested two alleged cracks
men who are sail 70 be the men con-
cerned IN the robbery of the postoffice at
Richmond, Va. some time between Sat
urday night and Monday morning
The cracksmen. who entered the Vir-
ginia postofFice ar night. got away with
$50. 600 i'm stamps and $4,000 in cash.
after drilling the safe. and then backed
wagon to the door and placed the
plunder i'm three trunks.
Postal officials have been on the trail
of the robbers ever since. and after
several states. finally found them on
their way To New York.
one of the trunks was found AT the
23d street station OF the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad. while another was traced 10
the Hotel Avon. i'm Third avenue Postal
Inspectors O'Brien and Kincaid, with
Detectives Daily. Dwyer and McLaugh-
lin. from Police Headquarters. went TO
the 23d street terminal and kept a sharp
lookout for claimants for the trunk
there when they should appear.
They had not been in the baggage
room moro than five minutes before an
elderly man. faultlessly dressed. saun-
rI,,
sented his check for the trunk.
After some little delay he succeeded
I'm getting the trunk out of the baggage
room. He then checked it by an ex o
press wagon to the Grand Central Sta
ton. the detectives and postal inspectors
never losing sight of the innocent look
ing trunk ON it's way uptown.
When the same sleek appearing indi-
dividual who had Clsi,ced the trunk at
22:;,d street put i'm al appearance at the
Grand Central Station he was still un-
der keen watch by the detectives.
Perhaps scentiEg trouble, he first sent
a small boy In with the check. but the
baggage maste-, acting under instruc-
tions from the detectives, would not de-
liver the trunk except 90 the owner Of
the check.
The owner OF the trunk then started
forward tc claim his property. and this
was the signal for decisive action on the
part of Detective DAILY. who was waiting
close by. As the stranger stepped up.
check in hand. DAILY sprans forward and
grappIed with him
There was "A sharp struggle for the
mastery. hut Daily sooE had his man
under control and slipped tae handouts
on his wrists.
As Daily fought with his pfisocer he
noticed another man. who had been
Iounging about on Depew Place. directly
outside the baggage roOm. suddenly take
TO his heels and start westward toward
Madison avenue and 4ith street.
Get that mani DAILY yelled To the
other detectives and the postal inspect
ors and they started off after the flee-
ing man
Three men in rapid succession fell be-
forc the ready fists Of the pursued man.
and each time he resumed his swift pace
westward.
\ policeman in iuIl uniform next es-
saved 10 trip him. hut he met with 4
s,ingins smash ON the jaw and droppe i
20 the street.
For q momeat IL looked as though the
fellow would be successful i'm his break
for liberty. but Inspector Kiacaid had
outstrPped all the rest cf the pursuers
and was fast overhaulinS his quarry.
Just as the fugitive reached 42d street
and Madison avenue Kincaid reached out
his right arW ana grasped his collar.
The man was almost exhausted one
strong wrench was sufficient 90 pull him
10 earth and before he could regain his
fect he was pinned down ~ Kincaid and
the other detectives who had arrived on
the scene.
The mans last effort was a movement
toward his hip pocket as though 10 draw
gun. but the steel bracelets We're soon
on mis- wrists and he was helpless
The second prisoner was hustled
through the enormous crowd. that by this
time blocked all traffic on 42d street. and
was taken back TO the Grand Central
Both men then We're hustled down 10
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