New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-29
BURGLARS ROUT FAMILY
Drive Them from Home. Then
Begin PIundering Place.
ONE SHOT BY THE POLICE
Two Other Men, One Wounded,
Later Arrested-"Car Barn"
Gang, Says Victim.

Patrick Corrizan. Of No ilS East llSth
street with his wife and two-year-old baby
and two friends. was put ont OF his home
yesterday morning by four burglars 90 the
latter could rob the apartment. The party
in night clothing fed through the street
until they found policemen. who went after
the burglars with drawn revolvers. captur-
ing one man on the spot Two men latter
arrested are believed to have been in the
robbery scheme
When the tOrrigans returned 70 their
home they found beds. drawers. bureaus.
closets and even carpets turned inside out
and upside down in a hunt for money and
yaluables They could not tell then OF
what they had been robbed
The men under arrest ara described as
John Hoffman. twenty years old team
ster. Of 80 l9u Second avenue. John scan
lon. twenty-one a plumber. Of 80. 1852 See
ord avenue. and Arthur White. nineteen.
plumber. Of No 1929 Second avenue
White has a bullet in his lex ard is IN
Harlem Hospital
Corrgan heard fumbing outside his door
on Tho fret floor OF tie apartment just be
fore o'clock yesterday morning. He asked
who was there. and he heard a demand OF
him 10 open tie door. He refused. and
man among several tod tho Others 20
Shoot I'm rho door" Corrigan ran back 10
his wife Anna ard his friends Frederick
Wilson md John Snyder, and told them TO
hurry ont 20 The backyard and across The
yard 20 the house In llj.h street. through
which they could escape 10 the street and
tell tho police
They lid this IN trcir night clothes. Mrs.
rorriran carrying her. baby wi.h her Cor
rican went back and tried TO r2rley with
the mn 30 rain time so his wife and child
mieht escape he succeeded for a little
time. and then tho four mon threw them
selves at tho door. smashing It in Cor
riran eed Re managed 90 join his family
and friends. and an ran through No. 1T
East 18th street 10 the street and down the
street 10 the corner where they encoun-
tered Patrolmen Wilson and Dodd u the
East ioirh street station.
The policemen refused 70 believe az first
the story that Corrigan had been put ont
If IFS own house so men could rob IL. bur
they went back with him % HE ENTRANCE ~
10Th street and found four men doing
thriving burglary business. In their hurry
% get things done before the police came
N them the men had rapidly turned the
beds inside out upset the bureau drawers.
thrown the contents Of the closets on the
floor. and even ripped up corners Of the
carpets 10 look FOR possible hidden money.
When the thieves heard the police they
ran.
Pull up there or vel shoot" cried the
policemen
The men yelled back. Shoot and be
damned
Wilson ard Dodd fred again and again.
but the men kept running The policemen
were confident they had shot one Of the
men. bur they succeeded in capturing Hoff-
man onlv. who vas the slovest IN retreat
inz All the others escaped the same way
the Corrigans mad. by il5th street.
An hour later White and Scanlon were
found sitting on a stOop ar l0Sth street and
Lexington avenIe. White said his mother
was sick and he was waiting for a doctor
A policeman told him ne did not believe
him and ordered him 10 move on White
-r,ad N. but the policeman saw blood com
Ing from one leg and arrested him and
scanlon. The men denied being IN the
burglary
Cor~igar cannot understand why the men
came after his belongings He saws he
hasn't much. but thinks the man came from
the car Barn Gang" Of Second avenue.
around 10th street. and that they took
chance on getting something valuable
there He did not see the faces NJ any Of
the men.
HOFFMAN and Scanlon we're held In Woo
bail for examination this afternoon b.
MAGISTRATE CorriEan In the Harlem court.