The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-19
FIVE KILLED
IN HOTEL ROOM
Desperate Battle Between Crook and
Officers Results in TWO In
atant Deaths and Three
to Follow.
HEAD OF THE GANG
Chief Turned Weapon on HImself and
Wife Aftor He Had Given ths
Detectives Mortal
Wounds.

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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Two bodies.
a mans and woman's, in the morgue:
three men struggling for life in the
hospital with apparently no chance
to recover: two other men slightly
wounded: and mass OF baggage at
the headquarters OF the Bronx detec-
tive bureau, were the visible evidences
today OF one OF the most desperate
battles between officers and fugitives
that ever took place In this vicinity.
The cause for the conflict. which
took place IN stuffy corridor and
bedroom OF Raines Law hotel known
as the E1smore, at SsA Cortland ave-
nue., the Bronx, dates back to the rob-
bing OF scores OF homes OF jewelry
and money by dishonest servants ar
ways women--dnring the last three
months. One of the dead, the man
who is alleged, In fact to have fired
all OF the bullets that reached their
marks, is said by the police to have
been the directing head OF the rob-
Z. berries, He rs dead, by 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 we'll is true
will be determined at the autopsy to
be held some time today.
= The dead man is Therirdc Razyesky.
! As, formerly substitute chef at the
Hotel Netherlands, and Astor, better
/ known as Joseph vogel The woman.
who was with him in the room where
Q the shooting started. is known only
= as Lottie and is said to be his wife.
9 The fatally wounded are.
Martin S. Fay. city detective, shot
e twice in the abdomen.
h John (Spider) Allen, private de-
!. tective Of the National Surety Co...
9 once a central Office man in this city.
tDied later in hospital)
Louis Mondscherm, 3S, proprietor
of the Hotel Elsmore.
i The wounded who are expected to
= recover are:
.. Luigi Gerard, 35 private detective,
p and William Butler waiter at the
I, hotel
,fI The property at the Bronx detective
bureau includes two steamer trunks,
y n valise, a dress suitcase, handbag
,.land steamer bag.
. Yesterday Sophie Beckendorf. is, a
a servant girl, was indicted by the
: grand jury for stealing Jewelry worth
"a $1,000 from DR.. Augustus Rosenblom.
OF 214 West 92nd street. Other in
" dictments totalling $4,000 worth more
from four other families were re
turned. Shortly afterward the girl
made complete confession in the
y Tombs of her crimes and alleged that
~ she had operated under the direction
AZ of Razyesky. or yogel, as he was best
known to her. The private detectives
RI employed by the surety company and
ne Detective Fay got on Vogel's track
He was followed from his fat at 52s
West 151st street to the Pennsylvania
station in taxicab, then to a house
on Eighth avenue, the location ol
which the police are guarding. Al
this address he got the baggage now
at the bureau and went to the Hotel
Elsmore where he and the woman
who had Joined him, got room.
The detectives with the proprietor
w of the hotel went to the room ant
knocked. When the door was opened
Fay told the man he was under arrest
and directed the pair to dress at once
The man reached as though for hi
shirt but instead pulled an automati
pistol from under the pillow an,
81 swung it in semi-circle level witt
his waist, shooting as fast as tn
at automatic would work
,w The police drew their pistols an
ne returned the FIRE but claimed toda
is- the shots went wild. The woman
a they said, tried to get out of the wiz
N. dow but was dropped by a bulle
from her husbands gun. Then, th
SUI detectives say. the man turned tn
FOR pistol on himself,
m After the dead had been taken {
lrr the morgue and the wounded to tn
ith hospital. the police cleared the room
re- They found another automatic pist,
ks under the mattress and three clips
bullets all ready to be inserted. In a
NY dition they found part OF letter c
lot the floor addressed to Dear Mr. Kir
he ball 1t was couched in incoherel
terms