The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-06
BIKE and AUTO Thief CHASE
FLEEING BTRGLARS SEPARATE;
COP GETS THEN horn.

Jumps FFOm Hts wheel 70 the Hack Of
one. Makes Women Motorists Help
IIlm chase the Otheg-Walks UP 10 .
Gun and u DrOps AZ Hls Command.
policeman requisitioned a passing
automobile 70 take him on an eighteen
block thief chase in The bronx yesterday
afternoon after he had already run down
one burglar on his bicycle. When he
overlook the second the winded thief
pat his back against a tree and drew a
maya zine revolver
There we're two women and a man
besides Policeman Fred kessler Of the
MorTisRnia station IN the pursuing auto
mobile The first thief whom he had cap
tured after more than a dozen blocks OF
hard pedalhng Law handcured on the
lloor OF the machine when the second
man. hard pressed, turned and poined
his revolver az the occupants OF the auto
mobile. daring kessleT 10 arrest him.
That man II a coward. said the po-
licemAn a. he got out of the machine
deapite the warnings % the two women.
HE wouldn't dare shoot a. me. Watch
him put down his gun.
The policeman walked up in the line OF
the wavering revolver without hesitation.
The thief dropped his weapon and crap
pied with the policeman. He was soon
overcome. and toGether with she hrst man
caught he was taken TO cell In the sta
| ton.
There have been more than 100 burg
laries in the West Farms section OF The
Bronx within two months. The entries
made by the two second story men caught
Yesterday occurred in the afternoon and
under the noses Of special men from
HeadquArters who had been patrolling
the district. The first place they entered
was an apartment house at 1889 lntervale
ayen,le. They broke open the door OF
n. e. SIeaae's hat on the fifth floor and
made on with all the lewelry they could
find They then went across the hall
and rifled the apartment OF Miss Helen
HYDE
The two burglars then went down
the avenue % the apartment mouse
situated az ilt2 and there they forced
open the door u Mrs Elizabeth Prev =
Apartment On the fifth hoOr and took
from IL their pick u valuables. As they
were coming down the stairs they met
Mrs Drew young son William. when
he asked them what they we're doing
they pushed him aside and ran down into
the street William Frew followed, rails
ing an cutlery, and several men started IN
pursuit Of the fleeing burglar.
After they had got a considerable starr
and had separated Policeman kessler OF
the hicycle squad took up the scent. He
followed one Of the thieves through Hoe
street aud WestchesteT avenue 70 West
Farms road. about thirteen blocks m all.
then a. he drew alongside Of the man he
jumTed from he wheel onto the thiefs
hack
The man was thoroughly Winded and
put up little resistance II was Just a.
kes-ier was securing him that the auto
mobile Cime past kessler lifted his eaten
into the tonneau. STRETCHED him Out on
the -four where he could keep two restrain
ing feet on the prisoner. and then directed
the chauffeur hack 60 where the other
chase was In full cry The automobile
picked up the trail az Tiffany street and
followed eighteen blocks IN all a. Hunts
Point rad and Lafayette street where
the second thief turned az hay
This man. who gave the name Of Frank
Smith aud 80 Fast l05th street a. his
address vas locked up IN the double
charge Of burglary'and felOniOus assault.
Morris Cohen the first n be caught. who
gave his address a. 237 Monroe street
was charged with burglary About $500
worth ~ lewelry was found on Cohen.
beside= a package ~ valuahles wrapped
n a newspaper which he had dropped
in hes flight smith had no plumber
a bout him except the revolver which was
identified by Mr. Frew.
kessleT forgot o. get the names u the
occupants u the machine he had i'm
pressed.