New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15

fugitives lived in fiat above or near a
laundry, and that the apartment over
looked an open air moving picture the
atre, and that there were --
AS Told by Dousherty
Bot this is trespassing on the story
OF the capture of the men as told by
Dougherty himself. The Second Dep
uty Commissioner. sitting at his big,
fiattep desk, told the story of the
capture in his usual picturesque way.
throwing In here and there a.Latin
phrase, and interspersing the whole
with thieves argOt and. police slang.
Some time after o'clock tonight"
began the Deputy, after he had taken
ample time to light an unruly cigar
We arrested Louis Rosenberg alias
Lefty Louie twenty-five years old. a
salesman. residence No. 100 Wood
ward avenue. Brooklyn.
He had SIS in cash in his pockets.
two. silk handkerchief one open face
watch and locket. with a picture of
his wife in it.
we also arrested Harry Horowitz.
alias 'Gyp' the Blood. twenty -four
years old, clerk, of the same ad-
dress"
Then taking fresh glance at the
notes in front of him and a fresh pull
Of his cigar, the Deputy continued:
He had one open face watch. $40 in
money, some cigarettes and some minor
articles.
They were arrested at a fiat at No
756 Woodward avenue by the following
detectives and myself Lieutenant
Dominick Reilly. of my office Frank
McKenna, Michael Myers Frank Cas-
sassa, Grover Vaughan, Thomas Nc
Manus and Leonard Woodell.
II is very evident that the prisoners
wers lying at this address since Aug
ust Is, when they paid s15 one months
rent t9 Raphael Socks. the landlord.
From Ten Days After Murder.
We learned that on July &c they
bought a bill Of goods, with which they
started TO furnish the fiat. from a store
in Park Row. here. They bought it
under the name of Morris Goldstein,
in which name they also rented the
fat The bill was for SIP, and they
bought for this two beds. two bed
springs, two mattresses one sideboard.
one table, one dresser and four chairs.
ON August IL they bought another bed
and one more spring and mattress.
The first time they paid s. down
and the second time, August II, they
paid 81 so.
Then the next day, August IS, they
bought S217 worth of furniture from
another concern in Park Row and paid
SIS down.
".At the time of their arrest there
wasi with them in their apartment
their waves and man whom we iden-
titled as Michael Polechuk, who has
done time in, Elmirs for picking
pockets, and who is a resident of New
Haven.
Now. the modus operandi has been
a continuous twenty-four hour sur
veilance Of every member Of their
families and their wives families from
the time of their disappearance. about
July %, when they beat it. from the
Catskils
Since that time we've had relays Of
men, day and night, watching them"
Fooled by Automobiles.
his cigar went out, and after re-
lighting It, Dougherty continued:
You can understand it was quite
difficult 10 watch the relatives, espe-
cially the wives. The way their wives
visited them up to last Tuesday, when
they Joined them, was in this manner:
They would leave their homes on foot.
and then they would go to an L sta
ton and ride a while, and then get off
and get I'm an automobile, and in the
machine proceed 10 the hiding place OF
their husbands.
Now, we had no automobiles, and
no motorcycles at first. but after We
go. wise 10 this. and saw they would
continue the game we tried 10 cir
cumyent them.
Then got to work and had some
automobiles scattered along the L.
usually the Third avenue. and some
times the Myrtle avenue line, in Brook
lyn--and / also put some motorcycle
cops TO work.
Did we have the number OF the auto
they used? Sure we did. But you
didn't think we were going TO shy them
off by going to the corner and asking
him where he drove the car? No. sir.
The number and the owner? Wait a
minute, and I'll come to il.
Now, what led to the finding of these
people was obtained by overhearing
conversations at different times. which
were reported TO me and which were
gradually put together.
1.-The first clew We received was that
these young men were not lonesome,
for we got from these overheard con-
versations that they lived in a fat.
from whose windows they could see
moving pictures in one OF the open
air shows.
Now, the second clew we got along
this line was in the last forty-eigh'
hours This was that there was a
laundry In the house or near the house,