Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

New York. Nov. 1S.-A man and
woman stood in small room of a
Raineslaw hotel in the Bronx, tonight,
and deliberately shot down three de-
tectives and two other men. who were
trying to place the pair under arrest.
The man, after firing IL shots from an
automatic revolver, which were rein
forced by shots from an ordinary re-
volver in the hands of his woman
companion, shot and killed the woman
and then put bullet through his own
nead dying instantly. Four of those
laid low by the missiles of the man
and woman probably are fatally hurt.
The dead man was known by several
names. He registered at the hotel as
Joseph Vogel, but the police declare
ne was a Pole named Pheres Doragye-
ski. The woman with him had regis
tered as Lottie Nogel.
Vogel was about As years old and the
woman about %. The detectives were
on the trail of the pair, suspecting
them of having been accomplices in d
diamond robbery, for which Sophie
Breckenhoff, a domestic, had been held
for the grand jury
The woman who had lost the jewels
traced the girl to VogePs house and
told the detectives of her suspicion,
After taXicab chase, today, the de-
tectiye learned that the Vogels hal
sought lodging at the Elsmer hotel at
Cortlandt avenue and 161st street, in
the Bronx.
Central Office Detective Martin Il.
Fay and Private Detectives Allen and
Louis Gerarde went to the hotel in
search of their quarry, late tonight.
Louis Mondschein, the proprietor, told
OF the couple having arrived in a tax
icab early in the evening with two
trunks Mondschein ordered William
Butler. a waiter to show the detectives
to the Nogels room en- the fourth fioa<.
In answer TO their knock a woman's
voice asked what was wanted. A mo-
ment later Nogel opened the door and
as Allen forced his way in, declaring
that the couple were under arrest, No-
gel struck the detective over the head
with a blackjack and then grabbed
magazine pistol, which lay on the bed,
and fired. His first bullet struck AL
len in the right side of the head and
the officer fell across the bed. Detec-
tives Fay and Gerade hurriedly threw
themselves into the room, followed by
Proprietor Mondschein and Butler.
1t is declared that the men did not fire
shot, but tried to grab Aliens assail-
ant They We're not quick enough, how
ever for Vogel let go one shot after an
other almost every one of them(finding
a human mark.
Fay and Mondschein both received
probable fatal wounds i'm the abdomen
Gerade was shot in the leg and the back
and Butler received q bad wound in the
hip.
The woman, also armed. meantime had
fred several shots. and several of her
bullets probably may have hit the de-
tectives.
Evidently crazed at his gun work. Vo-
gel turned his weapon upon his young
woman companion. She was shot
through the abdomen and soon expired.
Vogel then made quick work of himself
by sending the last bullet in his gun into
his own head, falling dead.
At the hospital TO which the five
wounded men were removed it was said
that all probably would die except But
Ter.
At late hour, the trunks and two
suit cases which the couple had taken
to the hotel were removed to a police
station, but the stolen jewelry was not
found
The police say that in trailing the Vo-
gel pair the detectives probably Were
running down participants in COM
pletely organized scheme for robbing res
licences on the upper West Side. The IN
dictment on which the Beckendorff girl