The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-11-27
DESPERATE ROBBER
SHOOTS down FIVE PURSUREKS
In A new YORK HOTEL.
KILLS WOMAN And SELF
Leader Of Conspiracy to Loot Houses
Proves Desperate When Cornered
By Officers Of the Law and Shoots
Five Men Who Were in the Act OF
Arresting Eir

aCESSOuS ILL.,
A man and a woman stood In a
small room Of a Raines law Hotel in
the Bronx, New York on Monday
night and deliberately shot down
three detectives and two other men
who were trying to place the pair un-
der arrest. After emptying the II
chambers Of large automatic re-
velYer, reinforced by shots from an
ordinary revolver in the hands OF css
woman companion and probably Ia
tally wounding four of the men sno'
down, the man shot and k'i!eo sne
woman and then put bullet through
his own head, dying instantly.
This is the outline Of one OF the
most serious shooting afrays which
the detectives Of that city have run
into for years so far as the conflict
ing stories Of the shooting had been
sifted.
The dead man was known by sew
oral names. having registered at thf
hotel as Joseph Vogel. The police
declare that he was Pole named
Fheres Dorag;eskis. The woman with
him had registered as Lottie Vogel
: 5yogei was about IS years old and
the woman about 25.
The detectives were on the trail o1
the pair, suspecting them Of having
neen accompiices IL diamond rob
berry for which Sophie Bechendol
domestic had been held for the
grand jury today. The women whe
had lost the jewels traced the cir
to vogels house and told the detective
OF her discovery. After the taxica!
that the svogels had sought lodging
at the Eismere hotel, at Cortland
avenue and One Hundred Sixty-hrs
street in the Bronx. Martin F. Fay
central office detective, and Johl
Alien and Louis Gerade, private de
{ tecttyes, went to the hotel IN search
Louis Moendschein, the proprietor
told Of the couple having arrived il
taxicah early IN the evening, am
I; ordered William Butler, a waiter. t
show the detectives to the Vogels
room.
yogel opened the door in respons
to & summons and as Allen force
his way In, declaring that the coupl
were under arrest, Vogel struck tn
detective over the heau with black
jack and then grasped magazin
pistol which lay upon the bed. Hi
arst bullet struck Allen in the hea
and he fell probably fatally hurt
Fay and Gerade rushed into tn
room, followed by Moendschein an
Butler. It is declared that they di
not fire shot. but expected to seiz
Aliens assassin. They were no
quick enough. Vcgsl let go one sho
after another, nearly every one tax
ing eject. Fay and Moendschei
both received probably fatal wound
IN the abdomen. Gerade was shot /
the lag and back and Butler receive
bad wound In the hip. The woman
:: also armed, had fred several shot!
some Of which it is believed hit tn
detectives.
yogel turned on his woman an
shot. Che was shot through the al
domen and soon expired. Vogel mad
quick work of himself by putting tn
last bullet from his gun into hi
head. At the hospital to which a
Of the wounded we're taken it IS sal
probably all except Butler would die
At late hour the two trunks an
two suit cases. which the couple ha
taken to the hotel we're removed
police station but the stolen jew
eiry was not found.
The police say that in trailing tn
yogel pair the detectives were prof.
ably running down completely OF
ganized scheme for robbing res
dences throughout the upper Yves
Side.
The Indictment on which til
Ereckendorf, girl was held. charge
her with numerous robber:es of Jew
cls. amounting to several ihousan
dollars.
According to the police the gi,
broke down Monday night and cor
fessed that the Vogels were with he1
and it was to them she had given tn
stolen articles. The plan Of opera
ton was for the girl to advertise 70
position as a domestic and as 500
as she had obtained it to rob her en-
ployer's home.