New-York tribune., 1912-07-15
LYNCH H|M!!' CRIES
CROWD At PRISONER
Blood Stained Man, Said to Have
Robbed His Father, Mistaken
for Julia Connors'S Slayer.
TRIES HARD TO ESCAPE
Slides Down Dumb Waiter Shaft,
Detective After Him; Climbs
Fences, Threatens Man and
Wife with Knife.


Julia Conrors had been caught when a
detective and a handcutfed man both
covered with blood, passed through the
busy spot at Third avenue and lffa
street at o'clock last night. Crowds
massed around them as they went
through Crotona Park and finally the
detective had to telephone from a drug
store for reserves. The crowd fanc!ed
this a ruse, and fully 1900 persons FOL
lowed the patrol wagon to the Bathgate
avenue station house.
The prisoner was not the murderer OF
the little girl but he was desperate
man, said TO have robbed his own
fathers store, and when detective
went 10 arrest him he slid down six
stories on the rope of a dumb waiter and
then threatened to kill janitor and MS
wife with a carving knife. The detec-
tive captured him only after stunning
| him with a blackjack.
Inspector Hughes has been looking for
this man for some time for loft burg
laries in Manhattan. He is Benjamin
Levy, twenty-six years old. When the
| inspector learned that Levy was living
at No. go Freeman street he sent De-
tective Oliver. Of the Bathgate avenue
station, TO get the man wanted. Oliver
went 10 the sixth floor Of the fathouSe
yesterday and knocked on Levy's door.
Who's that" asked Levy, sharply.
| It's a friend Of yours. l want tc
speak to you a moment" said Oliver.
Follows Him Down Shaft.
But there was 10 answer only a shuf-
fe Of feet, and then silence. Oliver
burst the door with his shoulder and
found the apartment was empty. The
door 10 the dumb waiter was open and
he peered down the dim shaft, to see
Levy sliding down the rope. The de-
tective jumped into the shaft and went
down hand over hand as fast as he could
But Levy tunbled out Of the bottom o!
the shaft, raced to the back yard and got
over two fences.
This put him in the rear Of No. 9l4
Freeman street, and he dashed into the
basement where Alfred Warpulia,
tanitor. and his wife, Erico, were sitting
Levy grabbed up a carving knife.
Help me to make a getaway, or IT
kill you" he whispered hoarsely.
The Warpulias ran for the door, but
Levy braced himself against it in from
Of them. The janitor leaped at the in
truder and Levy slashed him over the
hands. Shrieking wildly Erico rushed
to the aid Of her husband and was
stabbed in the hands and right arm.
There was pandemonium in the room
and Oliver hearing the noise vaulted the
two fences like a cat and came into the
room. whae the fight was going on
Levy turned on him with the upraisel
knife, but the detective struck IT up ir
the air and then clinched with Levy
The men wrestled about the room
breaking chairs and knocking everything
from the table TO the floor Levy
slashed Oliver once, but the detective
had yanked his heavy blackjack from
his hip pocket and slugged Levy ovcl
the head with It. Then he managed L
get the handouts on the frenzied pris
oner
Trouble with Crowd Begins.
He started with Levy to the Bathgatc
station but had not gone block TOWARD
crotona Park before people ran up
Then some one cried:
He's Julia Connorss murderer
They've got him at last!r
This put the crowd on fire. and tn,
mob swelled, and many began TO cry:
Lynch him" XIII him" Don
wait for the trial."
Oliver was hard put to it TO force hi
way along, even though he drew his re
volver, as he went through Croton;
Park On the other side Of the park h.
stopped and called for reserves from tn
Bathgate station. A huge crowd fol
lowed the patrol wagon and then stoot
outside the station house until detective
assured them that the man was not tn,
murderer.
Oliver had passed with Levy only twc
blocks from the sceno Of the murder.
DR. schaffer, Of Fordham Hospital
dressed the wounds Of the Warpul!as ant
attended to Oliver and Levy. The pris
oner's hands were so badly torn from hi,
slide down the rope that II was inbos
sible TO get any finger prints at Police
Headquarters, and so any previous Grim
inal record was unobtainable.
Detectives have had Levy under sur
veillance for some time They wer,
watching him on Saturday, when h
went to a streetcar with his father. VIII
had come up from his home in Benson
hurst TO visit his son and daughter-in
law
AS soon as the elder Levy left him, tht
detectives said, the son circled the blocl
and then went downtown and joined TIVE
men, who afterward proved TO be Sam
uel Lobell, Of No 859 Pennsylvania ave
nue, Brooklyn, and Henry Silvers, G,
No. 5S3 Bloomfield street, Hoboken. sil
vers IS a pickpocket, and is listed in tn,
Rogues' Gallery as No S,155. He ha,
been twice convicted.
The three men went to No. 779 Broad
way, where Goodman, Levy G. Co. have
an establishment on the third floor, with
Detectives Oliver, Watson, Blaha ant
Kennel close on their heels. They cam,
out Of the loft building twice, and de-
tectives watched them all night. Yester,
day morning they surrounded them a.
they tried to take away S700 worth O,
cloth In a wagon driven by Robert Reed