New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-20
'1'r7' DETECTIVE DIES
FROM VOGEL'S BULLET
Autopsy Shows 'Fagin' and Girl
Were Shot by Police, as Thief
Fired Steel Tipped SIugS.
CORONER HOLDS HEARING
Girl Confesses, Weeping Over
Mrs. Vogeps" Death-Note
Indicates Suicide Pact
Loot Being Claimed.

Detectives investigating the operations
of Henry vogeI and his wife, who were
lIcd I'm a Bronx roadhouse resisting ar
!,-t. found yesterday that the man had
crown prosperous running a "Fagin
school He had recruited a squad of i'm
migrant girls yariOusly estimated at from
i.u TO forty, who had been coached by his
wife and sent out TO steal while posing
as servants. A sreat amount Of loot VIII
Dc uncovered before they are through, the
sleuths say.
John Allen. who was employed as a de-
tpctive by the National Surety Company
died yesterday Of the injuries he received
in the fght. His is the third death IN the
case.
Ii has been also shown that the woman
who died with him, still known only as
"Lottie" and apparently his tayorlte' hdo
been i'm the habit of communicating with
him in cipher. The trunks and sutcaSeS
found lu The room were literally packeu
tfSht with an astonishing amount OF cioth-
ing. iewelry and knickbnacks, the type
written list covering ten long pages
BEFORE the bodies of the man and wom-
an were cold Inspector Joseph A FauroI
the Identification expert Of the Police De-
partnert. arrived I'm the room where the
fight took place and made records OF their
finger prints. once back in Headquarters
he was able 10 produce The criminal record
Of the man, but could find no finger prints
that even nearly resembled those OF the
woman. Voge.. as he last chose to be
known. has a record Of having robbed peo-
,Ie by either entering their houses at
night attacking them while upon the
streets or picking their pockets as they
stood IN crowds.
in each case he gave a different name
rut his naturalization papers showed he
was Joseph Won Plaszyusky, had lived
Mt No. III East 18th street was Born IN
Austria. and arrived in this country in
1891. Since then he had served three
years in the penitentiary for thefts'
lust before being sentenced IN the Court
Of Special Sessions for having stolen
silver mesh bag from woman, there
appeared i'm his behalf n fearful woman
to whose skirts chung four young chill
dren. lie said that they were his wife
and children.
Woman Gave Police CIew
one woman who had been in his employ
Is now awaiting indictment for her theits.
She game her name as Sophia Becken-
d1~f of No. 529 West l51st street.
she was charged with having robbed
Saul II. Cans, Of No. 251 West S7th street
Of $50 worth Of jewelry; Augusta Rosen-
tloom, No. 2l West 92d street, Of Slo55
worth OF jewelry; Stella Emmanuel. Of
No. JG2 West 18TH street of 1854 worth
Of Jewels. and Richard Steinhard, No. $40
West S0th street, of jewelry amounting
I'm value to $3.50 IN each house she had
been employed as a servant and it was
due TO the fact that Plaszyusky, or ''Vogel
the Fagin." had been making inquiries for
her in court that both were followed until
the end.
Coroner Jerome Healy, Of The Bronx,
held on autopsy on the two bodies now
IN the Fordham morgue that discredited
the original theory that the thief him
self shot his favorite through her heart.
The Coroner showed that the bullets
I'm the revolver Of Vogel were steel
tipped, while those used by the detec-
tives were soft-nosed lead. Three bull
lets had entered the body Of the thief in
his left side and one ploughed its way
through his brain, all being soft-nosed.
The wounds in the body Of the girl, one