The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-11-19
THREE KILLED IN
DUEL WITH POLICE
Alleged Burglar, His Wife and
Detective Are Dead and
Two Others May Die

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Three dead,
two men struggling for life In the
hospital with apparently no chance
to recover; two other men slightly
wounded; and q mass OF baggage at
the headquarters Of the BronZ detec-
tive bureau, were the visible evil
dences today of q desperate battle be-
tween officers and fugitives.
The causes OF the conflict, which
took place in a stuffy corridor and
bedroom OF q Raines Law hotel,
known as the Elsmere, at S44 Cort-
land-ave., the Bronx, dated back to
the robbing Of scores OF homes of
jewels and money by dishonest wo-
men servants during the last three
months. One OF the dead, the man
who is alleged to have fired all Of the
bullets that reached their marks, is
said by the police to have been the
directing head of the robberies. He
is dead, by his own hand the police
say, and beside him Is the body OF 4
woman supposed to be his wife.
Whether he shot the woman as well
will be determined at the autopsy to
be held some time today.
The dead man Ia Therirdo Razye-
hotel Netherlands and Aston, better
known as Joseph Vogel. The woman.
who was with him In the room, where
the shooting started, Is known as
Lottie and IL said to be his wife.
Detective John Allen died In the
hospital shortly after 10 o'clock, as
the result OF his wounds. His body
was taken TO the morgue where an
autopsy will be held.
The fatally wounded are:
Martin S. Fay, city detective. shot
twice In the abdomen.
Louis Mondscheim, SO. proprietor
OF the Hotel Elsmere.
The wounded who are expected to
recover are:
Luigi Gerard, 35, private detective,
and William Butler, waiter at the
hotel
The property at the Bronx detec-
tive bureau includes two steamer
trunks, a valise, dress suit case, q
hand bag and a steamer bag.
Yesterday Sophia Beckendorf, IS,
a servant girl, was indicted by the
grand jury on the charge Of stealing
jewelry worth $1,000 from DR.. Rosen-
baum, Of 32 West Twenty-second-st.
Shortly afterward the girl made q
complete confession in the Tombs
OF her crimes and alleged that she
had operated under the direction OF
Razyesky, or Vogel, as he was known
to her. The private detectives en-
ployed by the Surety company and
Detective Fay got on Vogel's track.
He was followed from his fat at 529
West One Hundred and Fifty-nrst-st.
to the Pennsylvania station In a taxi
cab, then to a house on Eighth-ave.,
the location of which the police are
guarding. At this address he got the
baggage now at the bureau and went
TO the Hotel Elsmere where he and
the woman, who had joined him, got
room.
The detectives with the proprietor
of the hotel went TO the room and
knocked. When the door was opened
Fay told the man he was under ar
rest and directed the pair to dress
at once. The man reached as though
for his shirt, but instead pulled an
automatic pistol from under the pill
low and swung II In a semi-circle
level with his waist shooting as fast
as automatic would work.
The police drew their pistols and
returned the fire, but claimed today
their shots went wild. The woman,
they said tried to get out OF the win
dow, but was hit by a bullet from her
husbands gun. Then, the detectives
say, the man turned the pistol on him
self.