New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-26
POLICE SAY THEY HAVE
CLEW TO MISSING TAXI
Discover Machine in Garage at
Far RockaWay with License
Number $3.50.
TWO WALTERS DETAINED
Detectives on Shooting Case Ar
rest Them in Front of Saloon
TO Be Lined Up at Head
quarters This Morning.

Information was obtained by the po-
lice yesterday which led them to be
lieve a taxicab with the number 65.579
might have been used by the men con
cerned in the hold-up of last Saturday
night. when the iewelry store Of Jacob
Jacoby. at Sixth avenue and 18th street.
was robbed and his clerk, Adolf Stern,
was shot TO death.
From automobile records the police
said they had learned that a car with
this number was owned by the United
States Motor Cab Company. of No. 247
West 41th street, and that it has been
operated bv a man named Beecher De
tectives visited the garage last night
and were told the company owned no
car with that license number All of
their licenses for this year it was said.
were in the 10000 range and those for
last year We're in the 1900 range. For
the year before. it was said. some of
their cars had numbers ranging around
5000
The police said they had learned that
the car with the number 65.579 was
kept in Filters garage in Holly
wood avenue. Far Rockaway, that
il was dark red in color with black
leather trimmings. and that IT was not
IN the garage on Saturday night. This
description tailed with the one the po-
lice received from witnesses to the crime
According to the manager of the
United States Motor Cab Company in
West 47th street. they have chauffeur
named Frank Becker. who had one Of
their cars out on Saturday night. He
gave satisfactory account of himself
for Saturday night 10 the detectives sent
10 look him up 1t was said that he COW
cred al that time a hotel route on Broad
way from 42d TO 1921 street till > o'clock
I'm the morning. His record showed that
he received 81 in cash and s. on
charge account. and his meter showed
that he had covered thirty-one miles.
This was said to be his normal run
At Far Rockawsy Sunday.
II was said that the company had
branch at Far Rockaway and that II
stored four cars a Filters garage Five
more cars are sent down on Sunday, and
last Sunday Becker went there 10 drive
a car for that day. II was said that he
went down at : o'clock in the morning
on the train The police refused to
make any statement as To what their
full information on this clew was or
what hearing they considered it had on
the solution Of the mystery.
At Filters garage, in Far Rockaway,
now operated as a branch of the United
Motor cab Company. Albert Filter, who
was in charge I'm the absence of the ga
rage superintendent, said the company
owned a car whose license number was
e5.57q The time sheets, ne said showed
that il was I'm the garage Sunday, and
that or that day it was operated by
Becker.
He said that II was out on Saturday.
however. and that there was no record Of
Is whereabouts He said it might have
been i'm repair shop. I'm which case
there would have been no record OF its
whereabouts When the repair shop
where Mr.. Filter said the company's
cars were sent was asked whether the
car was there Sunday it was said that
there was no record Of its having been
there
Mr. Filter said Becker cid not work
there regularly. and that Sunday was
the first time he had been there. as far
as he knew He could give no cxplana-
tion Of the lack Of any record anywhere
Of the movements Of car 65,579 on Sun