New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
CROOKS APPARENTLY
JUST|FY|NG mitchell
Bold Operations Under Eyes of
Police Bear Out Acting
Mayors Charges.
SUBWAY OUTRAGE UNSOLVED
Other Criminal Developments of
a Day Recall Worst Period
During Van Wyck's Ad-
ministration.

dom with which murderers. thieves and
hold-up men operate under the present
police regime The openness of vice and
gambling having been clearly shown by
Acting Mayor Mitchell. the crooks them
selves apparently have set to work TO
show how freely they work under the
very eyes of the police.
Edward Gallagher. the ticket agent at
the Worth street station of the subway,
lies in the Hudson Street Hospital with
his life despaired of. while the police
have still no trace of the four men VINO
robbed the station safe after beating
Gallagher into unconsciousness, nearly
killing him and making their get
away" without a member of the police
force having heard of the attack for an
hour.
This happened in a downtown section
of the city, near the busy centre of the
Brooklyn Bridge. near the Criminal
Courts Building. and in the middle OF a
district filled with valuable warehouses
and supposedly closely patrolled oy
policemen on the keen watch for GRIM
inals Yet, thirty-siX hours after the
crime was committed the police have no
trace OF the men who perpetrated the
deed.
They say that the four masked men
who entered the subway station armed
with revolvers and got away with their
loot were members of one of the notorious
East Side gangs. They say that they nave
description OF the men from Gallagher
But there their information ends. Inc
four highwaymen walk away into the
streets of the city and seem TO be as
safely hidden from the police as though
they f7oated in a submarine off the Dia-
mond Shoals.
No Clew in Another Case.
Tn in The Bronx a woman was found
overcome by gas and dying The police
are without clew. They do not know
whether to say suicide or murder. The
only definite information in this case
comes from the Lebanon Hospital. where
1t is said that the woman cannot live.
The woman in this case is Mrs. Anna
Burns. thirty-eight years old, the Wife
of Joseph Burns, contractor. VINO hVes
at No 1880 Stebbins avenue, The Bronx.
Fer maid found her yesterday morning
overcome by gas. and her daughters sent
for Dr. julius Bundy, who worked over
her for an hour and then had her sent 10
the hospital. The maid said yesterday
that she had not seen Burns for a week.
BURNS went to the hospital last night
To see his wife. but had nothing TO say.
Added to these two cases In the GRIM
inal developments of one day Is that OF
SC Wolf The
woman is said by the police TO be WolI
wife and at their door is laid series OF
robberies in the northern part OF the city
extending over many months. Hunoreds
of apartments in Harlem and The Bronx
have been boldly entered and roobed py
DAYLIGHT in the last twelve months
Hardly a day has passed without at least
one case being reported to the police. yet
II was not until a plucky woman. MIS-.
Julia Sherman, of No. 1876 Brown Place.
caught and held Wolf and Katherine
Powers long enough to get good look
AT them that there was any hope or the
burglars being caught 1t remained lor
| a woman to do what the ponce hau
failed in for many months.
When the pair were run down, after
the poIice had got the help of Mrs Sher-
nan loot from hundred different rob
her,as we're found In their rooms, and
letters were found in the woman's room
from every prison in this part of the
country.
Has Brother in Jail.
| There were letters from Snake Hill,
". J.: BlackwelTs Island, Sing Sing,
Dannennora and the Tombs- One was
| from the woman's brother. Eddie
cunningham. who is doing fve-year TO
seven-year bit in Dannemora.
The couple were taken down to the
| Centre street Headquarters yesterday
morning for the detectives TO have a look
at them. and afterward were held in
Sc. 600 bail each in the Morrisania court
for an examination tomorrow morning
| These IRE only three of the latest
cases 70 go on record. There are still
one hun dred and fourteen unsolved muir
der cases to the credit of the recent work
| of the police, while collection OF KID
nappings AM Black Hand crimes have
| led the Italian American League to me-
morialize Acting Mayor Mitchell on the
| denoora liza ton of the police force and
especially of the italian branch of the
detective bureau, which was allowed to
fall into state Of innocuous desuetude
after the murder of Lieutenant Petrosino
in Italy. Lieutenants Vachris and Crow
lev. Petrosino's chief aids, were sent to
| the goats for many months, and II is
only within a few weeks that Vachris
has been called back 10 eadquarters
and assigned the task of again building g
up an Italian branch of the detective
| bureau.
| In the Tenderloin minor hold-ups are
affairs of nightly occurrence. and the
women who perpetrate most of the at
! tacks work under the eyes of the police.
| Forty-second street, between Sixth and
Madison avenues has been particularly
frequent scene of these doings. while
Fifth avenue after midnight also has
| become a faVorite hunting ground.
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AN EARTHQUAKE RECORDED.
| Washington, Sept. 4.-An earthquake was
recorded bv the seismograph of the Seismo-
IogicaI Observatory of Georgetown Univer-
sitv last night The preliminary tremors
hexau AT 10 SO o'clock and continued until
,o.4s o'clock There followed a series of
shocks lasting until II :01 o'clock At II :2s
O'clock there was a shock OF one minute s