The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-15

take them for the young clerks they
profess to be"
Went to East side schools.
Both of the prisoners. according to Mr..
Dougherty have gone 20 East Side schools
up to the high school grades When
taken to Headquarters last night Lefty
wore good suit of gray showing q small
stripe and Gyp the Blood wore a suit Of
brown Both wore knitted ties of good
quality and each had just been shaved
According to Mr.. Dougherty the pair
after their week in the Catskills boarded
train on the West Shore for New York
They carried their suit cases into the
baggage car and checked them there while
the train was in motion. Before the
train stopped on the Ncw Jersey side
they again entered the baggage car and
got the suit cases and then came over to
New York on "a ferryboat
We had the wives of both. Mr. Dough-
erty went on. constantly under obscrva-
tion up 10 last Tuesday. On that day we
lost Ieftys Lille. as we have been call
ing l.oui"'- wife to distinguish her from
'Gyp's Lille. at Ninety second street
and second avenue We lost her in the
exasperatirC way that different con-
nections' We have been trailing have got
away az various times a II during the chase.
Sometimes when detective would
ia!l - after the person telng trailed
follow III ways that showed he
that hs was trying to fool any one who
mi sht i've watching. sometimes the de.
tective would follow man or woman
up the steps 10 an elevated railway sta
tion. The person would get on the first
train that cam" along. ride 10 tn" next
station or maybe ride long distance
and then get OF And when he would
descend to the street taXicah would
be waiting and the connection would
get away unless the detective was able
to get hold of another taXicah immedi-
ately. That's the way 'Lefty's Lille
got away last Tuesday.
One night some weeks ago one of the
detectives reported TO me that he had Just
overheard one of the connections say
10 friend while speaking about Gyp
and Lefty Anyway they re not lonesome.
They can sit right out on their own back
fire escape and look down on an open air
moving picture show every night
That was tn. first definite thing We
had regarding the place they were hiding
in. Another night one Of the detectives
reported that he had heard some one
whom the detective had been following
tell friends of the fugitives that if the
friends wanted tn see Gyp or Lefty they
would have TO ride two hours from the
Grand Central Station TO find them
Two Hours From Grand Central.
place two hours from tn" Grand Central
tina, we could find ] sent men TO some
Of the places and telephoned or tele-
graphed to the local police in others to try
70 find All open air moving picture show
in their town from which a view OF the
pictures from a rear fire escape could be
obtained And then a detective caught
part Of n conversation in which one man
| told another that 'Gyp and Lefty have
nothing but Swedes and Germans living
around them
Some days we would come across
towns or sections OF this city where there
were nothing but Swedes or Germans or
both living around roofess movies show.
but the fire escape would be lacking: At
other times we find everything except
the information that -Gyp and Lefty
| don't have TO 60 out to have their laun-
dry done, because there's a laundry right
down stairs under them
Fairly on Friday of this week We To-
Gated at New Haven a picture show that
had SOME Of the points about it that we
OF or friday f there t with detectives. ives fS but
learned that the Glue WAS bad. While
I'was in New Haven. however. | looked
mp the man who was arrested tonight
with the pair, knowing that he was from
New Haven and had been arrested once
with Lefty and had done time with him
in the House OF Refuge. All could find
out was that he hadn't been around his
home in Edgar street, New Haven. for
about year.
Then Learn Name Of Laundry.
THE news that came in Thursday that
the name of the laundry in the building
! had the word Bright or Brighton in
| the name helped lot. We looked up
Immediately every laundry with either
OF these words in tho firm name here, and
there are lot of them believe me.
"We found such laundres also in Phila :
delphia and one at Bridgeton, n. j.. but
of course no Lefty or Gyp was hidden in
the buildings. At the time We made the
arrest to day police az far east as Port
as far as Chicago and ST. Louis were
looking up all the Bright or Brighton
aundries in the cities, towns and villages.
owing to circulars ] cent out as soon as
we heard so much of the name of the
laundry.
Detectives Casassa and Richmond
let me know early to-day that they had
located the New Brighton Hand Laundry
at 758 Woodward avenue in "A building
with rear fire escape looking down
upon an open air moving picture show
and situated in n neighborhood where
many Swedes and GerH!ans live. Since
losing Leftys wife last Tuesday and
Gyp's wife about the same time we had
formed the opinion that the two young
women had joined their husbands, The
number of the auto in which Mrs. Lefty
had disappeared we had marked down and
had interviewed the women In Delaney
street in whose name the car u entered.