New-York tribune., 1912-02-24
POLICE FIRE Il SHOTS IN
CHASE IN CENTRAL PARK
Two Alleged FOotpads Then Sur
render, Deciding FusiIIade Was
Getting Too Warm.
DRIVER HELD UP; ROBBED
Assailants Leave Him Prostrate
in His Wagon and Flee, but
He Soon Starts a Stir
ring Pursuit.
DRIVER HELD UP; ROBBED

| Two policemen and trio Of highway
men staged typical moving picture play
Mt 1O2d street and Central Park West
Yesterday. following the theft of wal
Lot containing Sc from Albert Hoffman,
deliveryman for George Schroeder,
wholesale liquor dealer. whose store Is
on Columbus avenue, between 102d and
lO3d streets.
Hoffman had drawn up in front OF NO
West 102d street where he had an
order to deliver, and was reaching back
in the wagon to get the case OF wine
which he was To leave there, when
man sprang from the street to the seat
Of the wagon and seized him by the
throat. second man Joined the first
assaiant in his attack upon the driver
while a third rushed out to hold the
horse while the struggle was in progress.
Holman put up good fight, but his
two assailants threw him back into the
wagon, and while one held him the other
wallet containing s6. The trio theh
Jumped IT, the sidewalk. and two of them
headed for Centra. Park, while the other
turned toward Manhattan avenue.
Although severely handled. Hoffman
was by no means disabled. and he was
cut of the wagon before the footpads
could have gone far, and he was soon
giving chase to the two men who were
running toward the park. He shouted at
the ton Of his voice, and his cries at-
tracted the attention Of Patrolmen
Stranch and Wall, of the West lOOth
street station. who were standing on the
corner of Central Park West and lOlst
street.
They saw two men cross the avenue
IN the dead run, but before they could
head them off they had leaped the low
wall of the park. There is drop "t
eight feet at this point. and both OF the
runners fell In a heap when they landed
but they we're up and away again when
the policemen followed them over. the
hurdle.
The bluecoats called to them to STOP
hut they paid no heed. and Stranch ana
Wall opened fire. The first round 3t
shots only spurred the men to better ei-
forts. The policemen were careful ~
erst IN fire high, but when they saw
that their quarry might escape they be-
gan to shoot in more serious fashion.
In all twelve shots were fired, ana
though the police were not good enough
marksmen to hit the targets they sue
ceeded in convincing the fugitlves that
thev could do so if they kept on trying
as they seemed disposed 10 do An open
meadow lay in front Of them by this
time and as it would offer fine opportu-
mites for the hunters the fleeing men
decided to give up and submitted TO ar
rest.
Hoffman was not far in the rear Of the
,l,irmish line. and he identified the pris-
oners as two Of the men who attacked
him. At the Tooth street police station
the men gavc their names as owen Sui
livan, eighteen years old, OF No. So3
Columbus avenue, and Dennis Seeley,
nineteen years old. of No. 6G3 Amster-
dam avenue. Holman told the lieuten-
ant that Sullivan was the man who
choked him and that Seeley went
through his pockets. The police searched
over the ground covered in the chase and
found near the wall the wallet which
was taken from Hoffman.
George Schroeder, Hofman's employer.
told the police that two attempts had
been made earlier i'm the week TO rob
Holman, but that the driver had sue
ceeded In beating off his assailants.
Sullivan and Seeley were held on a
charge Of assault and robbery.