Evening journal., 1912-11-19
THREE ARE
SLAIN In
GUN PLAY
Surprised by Detectives, AL
legged Fence" Opens Fire
on SIeuthS tOMeet Death
Himself
WOMAN WITH HIM IN
HOTEL IS A VICTIM
by The United Press

by The United Press,
NEW YORK. Nov. 19.--Three bod
les one q wOman's. IN the morgue;
two men struggling for life in the
hospital with apparently no chance
10 recover two other men slightly
wounded and a mass of baggage at
tec headquartcrs Of the Bronx detec-
tive bureau were slight evidences to-
DAY Of 0ue OF the most desperate bat
tics between officers and fUgitives that
every took place IN this vicinity. The
causes tor the conflict which took
place in stu0y corridor and bed
room of a Raines law hotel known
as tho Elsmere, at SS4 Cortland ave
nuc. The Bronx. date back to the rob
bing of scores of homes of jewelry and
money by dishonest servants-always
women during the last three months.
One of the dead, the man who is al
legged. in fact TO have fired all OF the
bullets that reached their marks is
said by police to have been the direct
ing head of the robbcries. He is dead,
10y his own hand. the police say and
beside him is the body of woman
supposed to be his wife Whether
the claim of the police that he shot
the woman as well. is true. will he
determined at the autopsy to be held
some time today.
The dead are: Thererdes Razyoski,
formerly a sub-chcf at the Hotels
Netherlands and Astor. better known
as Joseph Nogel. and John 5. Allen,
p private detective employed by the
National Surety Co The woman who
was with him in the room where the
shooting started is known only as Lot
u L j. "a
The fatally wounded. Martin S Fay
aged 3S, city detective, shot twice in
the abdomen. Louis Mondscheim
SS, proprietor of the Hotel Elsmere
The wounded who are expected to re-
cover are Luigi Gerardi 35, private
detective and William Butler, waiter
at the hotel The property at the
Bronx detective bureau includes two
steamer trunks, a valise, a dress suit
case "a handbag and a steamer bag.
Yesterday. Sophie Beckendorf. agct
rs. a servant girl was indicted by tho
grand jury on a charge Of stealins
ieWelry worth 81 900 from )r Angus
tus RosenDlcom. Of 21t West NiDetF
second street Other Indictments tot
8iling $4,000 worth more of jewelr,
from four other families were return
ed. Shortly afterwaI,d the girl made
complete confession in the TOmbs o.
her crimes and alleged that she haC
operated under the direction of Ray
osky, or Vogel as he was best know
10 her The private detectives en-
ployed by the Surety Company anC
Detective Fay got on Vogers track
he was followed from his flat az So.
West One Hundred and Fifty-firs
street to the Penpsylvania station II
taXicab then to house on Eight
avenue. the location of which the DO
lice are guarding. AT this address IN
got the baggage now at the bureau
and went to the Hotel Elsmere wher
he and the woman who had joinel
him. got room The detectives. will
the proprietor OF the hotel, went q
the room and knocked When tn
door was opened Fay told the man h
was unde rarrest and directed tn
pair to dress at once. The man reach
ed as though for his shirt, but in
stead pulled an automatic pistol from
under the pillow and swung it in
seui-circle level with his waist shoot
ing as fast as the automatic woul
work
The police drew their pistols an
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