The Cairo bulletin., 1910-06-20
SAYS POLICEMAN
|. IS A BURGLAR
NEW YORK HOTEL KEEPER DE.
cLAREs OFFICER RANsAckED
HIS PLACE.
PUT BEHIND THE BARS
Hotel Man Says He Fired Three Shots
(. at Burglar as He Leaped
Through Open Window
and Escaped.

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New York. June 19.-tGharged will
burglary while on his post and in uni
: form Patrolman Wallace w Evans O
the K!ngsbgllsc police station /.
3eked in 4 cell in HIS own station
house. lie viii have hearing thi.
morning IN Morr.sanla police court.
The complainant is Ernest Weis
wang, proprietor of the Marble Hill
hotel, Broadway and 225h street Sev
. eral times liquor, tobacco and food
have becl taken from his place, tne
last time abont five weeKs ago. Each
tinc the windows were found fast
; entd as Weiswang Lad left them, the
doors were locked and bore no evi
dence OF having ben tampered with
, After each robbery Weiswang changed
the locks in order to make useless
skeleton keys the robber might have
After the last robbery Weiswang
decided to sleep in the barroom. I'm
I'll yesterday morning nothing hap
pened
At 3 q. m. yesterday Weiswang
awoke and saw maa behind the bar
II was SO dark where Weiswang's cot
was that the intruder could not be
seen, AS the burglar stepped from
behind the bar he had to pass the
CLARA fsf d ct lap,p
! Then, Weiswang says. he saw the
burglar was policeman in uniform,
When the man went to a drawer in
which small tools were kept, he says
he recognized Patrolman Evans,
5Neiswang alleges that Evans then
went to the icetox, took ort ham
and made three sandwiches He laid
the sandwiches on shelf near win
dow, took up file and pair of ply yers
and walked toward the cigar case.
Weiswang alleges that Evans
seemed about to jimmy the cigar case,
but changed his mind and went over
to the Shelf and began eating the
!, sandwiches Then the proprietor as-
serts he thought it was time to act.
Hold up your hands or III shoot"
|, Weswang called, pointing a revolver
at the burglar
Fired Three Shots at Burglar.
4 Evans according to'Weiswang, made
no reply. but unfastened the window,
raised 1t and jumped Weiswang fired
three times, two OF he DULLES lodging
in he window sill and he third pass
ing out The window, but not hitting
the man. Weiswang says he ran from
: behind the bar and jumped out the
window, but when he reached the
street he could see no one.
At 1880 o'clock Evans went to the
station house and reported to Lieut.,
jeremiah O'Connell, acting captain in
the absence OF Capt Moron, that he
had found the window of Weiswang's
hotel open. had gone into the place
and found the proprietor asleep
II AT AIS Weiswang called at the sta
tlon and reported the attemp to loot
his saloon, His story was so much
at variance with that Of Evans that
, Lieut.. O'Connell questioned him
Iclosey particularly as to his recogni
tion of Evans. After Weiswang had
assured him he burglar was Evans
he lieutenant called up Inspector
Flood, who made an appointment for
Weiswang to call on him at B p. m
yesterday. ''e
After Weiswang had told the in
spector his story the two went to the
Kingsbridge police station. Evans
was called and told of the charges
against him.
i Then eleven other members OF the
squad to which Evans belonged were
summoned and Evans was told he
could take any place he wanted In the
line. He took his usual place, and
Weiswang was called out and asked
to identify the man he said he had
seen in his saloon.
| That's the man. he said walking
up to Evans and laying his hand on
his shoulder. Then Inspector Flood
|ordered Evans arrest. Evans per
sisted in his story.
Last night when a reporter called
at Evans home, No. 2290 Seventh
avenue, member OF the family said
Weiswang had sent word to the po.
liceman that he was sorry to have
caused him trouble. Inspector Flood
declined to make any statement.