New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-14
SWEAR TO INST|GA7|ON
OF POLICE IN HOLD-UP
ConvictS AIIege Two PatroImen
Framed" Germania Bank Epi-
Sode to Get Promotion.
GRAVER CHARGES, AS WELL
Other Crimes Said to Have Been
Fomented for Share of Loot
-Affidavits Read at
Curran Inquiry.

From behind the prison walls of Sing
Sing and Dannemora has come corrobora-
ton Of a story that has been whispered
about the various police stations of this
city for many months, that two policemen
had planted" the sensational hold-up
outside the Germania Bank, at Bowery
and Spring street last March, TO earn
promotion.
The policemen-Angelo Cava and La
perio Gambedela-who. were, in fact, pro-
NOTED, were also charged by their alleged
former associates with instigating other
crimes, from which they are accused OF
having shared in the loot.
The reading of these charges, winch
were In the form OF affidavits from three
men now serving time as sequel 10 Ihe
hold-up. occupied the entire afternoon az
Yesterdays session OF the Curran inyestl-
eating committee.
To-day, when the committee nhee''
again. eight or ten policemen from Sec,
ond Deputy Commissioner Dousherty anu
INSPECTOR Hughes down TO an oroiiai
natrolman. will be examined in an ehol'
N learn what they know OF the seiSa-
tional charges. -,
The accusers Of the two patroIinsn'
Cava and Gambedela, are also l'AllaI
Frank Paresi, Rafaelo Debiasl anu iAe
Emory r. Buckner, counsel OF the com
roittae who had hard time OF II con-
15ncinp the Democratic members that the
charges against the policeman shoulo DC
.tre6 In omen session. declared that his
brst information concerning CaVas anu
Gambedela's alleged connexions WIZ
thieves did not come from cohNlc'S Vi
prisoners, but from members OF the ~
lice Department.
Cava and Gambedela, who in the last
few DAYS have been reduced to the rahA
Of patrolmen, but are still members Oh
,ba police Department in excellent stand
inc are accused Of sending pickpockets
IN rob passer gers travelling in the SUD
nav and others 10 raid disorderly houses
and rob the inmates.
n, ono occasion Cava according to one
~ his alleged partners in crime, loaned
his notice revolver to him when he went
70 rob Spanish Mary the keeper Oh
house OF disrepute in 9th street. near inc
Bowery.
Spanish Mary" had little money on
her person. and the snare ol al Oo'
cerned. including the two policemen &C.
. cording to the prisoners sworn state
{ nents. was 90 80 each.
In their afHdavits Paresi, Romaglio and
! Debiasi charge that not only did the TWO
policemen engineer the robbery, but that
/ caya and Gambedela had promised 10 De
there when the robbery took place to pre-
} vent the woman, who they said was IN
rhe habit Of drawing from $500 to S4'-
( 600 every Saturday. from following them
Cava, they said. showed up. The EVIL
dence of the eight detectives was also 70
the effect that five men were present. the
! fourth. they said. was Pisculo, but their
memories were poor when it came to his
| trial, and he was discharged. The charge
made by Paresi, Romaglio and Debiasl
! that the fifth was Cava has never been
established. Romaglio was discharged for
lack of evidence, but the District At
torney dug up an old suspended sentence
| against him and on this he was sent TO
Dannemora.
Prisoners Affidavit.
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