New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
DETECTIVES SCOUR D|VES'
1,v TO Connect Prisoners in Taxi
Case with Stern Murder.
sIyTY MEN ON THE SCENT
,,mor Says One of the Brig
.rds" Gave Valuable In
formation to Police.

detectives, working under the per-
slA a,rection of Second Deputy Commits
s0ha Dougherty and Inspector Hughes.
SOM the saloons and dives of the Ital-
seoui se,~,er south Of Washington Square
sn ~. hight in an effort to connect one or
Hs' Two. Of the men now under arrest
-. s2s.O0 taxicab robbery with the muir
las last July Of Adolph Stern.
E az sr.ough the police were non-communica-
the subject. 1t was common rumor
,sN. Nstteo Abarno. leader of the three
".ds who buffed Kinsmsn and the
q ~ the real brigands into allowing him
owav with $4,000 of the loot while
.s heing divided in the tap room Of
-, Push's saloon, at No POS Thompson
~, Ut had given the police information
-. may lead to the solution of the Stern
murder.
,horno Who confessed to his part 81 the
,--i.,t.,. place taxicab robbery. was not
,o.ksd no IN default Of heavy bail, like the
o,bers but was paroled in the custody Of
~. counsel Edward Cartel.
This move on the part Of the prosecution
- rise 10 the story that Abarno had
H., the names OF the men who killed
az, in the jewelry store Of his uncle.
J.,ob 1acoby. 18th street aud Sixth avenue,
whatever may have been told. the fact
:. ,nat the police Yesterday looked up last
yssr's license numbers of Gino Montani's
,-o taxicabs. They learned that they were
Ev7 and 4597s Witnesses of the murder
AZ the jewellers clerk said that the mur-
as,srs escaped in taNicab bearing a IL
.
were 5. Z and 9. But the numbers of Mon
,anis cabs ran 5. and Z.
There were three men involved in the
r,urder Of Stern-the chauffeur of the taxi
csh the man who stole the tray Of dia-
monds and the man who shot Stern when
h. started after the thief.
In the circular sent out by the police at
,hs time tho fugitIves were designated as
No /. No. . and No. ?.
Man No / was described as twenty-five
70 tventy-six years old, feet inches in
height. Of dark compleXion. with Jewish or
Italian features
This description would fit a man of the
,xns nj Jess Albrozzo. who collected S3,-
aee for himself and $4,000 for Montani
after the hold-up Of THURSDAY two weeks
The description Of man No. fits none
NJ the taxicab prisoners. but the chauffeur
was merely described as from twenty-elght
10 thirty years old. This is about Mon
tanis age.
Albrozzo and Albarno were questioned al
length bv Assistant District Attorney En-
hres Yesterday. and so was Myrtle Hoyt
one of the three women friends of the pris-
oners, who we're OF first held as accessories
after the fact. but later discharged by the
court. John Molloy was also examined by
Mr. Embree.
Mollov. who Is now in the Tombs. charged
WITH carrying a revolver. holds some my
terions influence over some Of the taXicao
bandits. When Alharno took the 10000
he told Kinsman and the rest that $1,000
would he used in the defence Of Molloy
Mollov was then awaiting trial in Brook
lvn on the charge Of attempting 70 hold up
q messenger of Swift & Co. as he was 60
irE to the bank with $1,000 in cash.
Albarno. after his talk with MIR. Embree
visited his former haunts in company with
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and De-
tective Lieutenant Domerick Reilly In a
Police Department automobile.
little Jess" Albrozzo Eugene Splaine,
"Scottv' Lamb and Edward F. Kinsmsn.
who have made full confessions. were in
tsrrogated further by the detectives yester-
DAY Montani still maintains he is inno-
cent although implicated by the rest