Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-26
BOLD H0LDUp
IN T0TTENVILlE


Charged with robbery and feIo-
nious assault, August F1asohofsky,
'&wenky-eight years old q carpenter,
residing at 185 Brighton avenue,
Tottanviile. Is locked rp IN the conn
~ Jail at Hfchnaond, Staten Island,
Under $4,000 bail for examination
Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock. Eu-
gene Bueck, OF III Broadway, Tot
tenville, an Insurance agent, who
charges Flaschofsky with holding
him up at the point Of q pistol about
s o'clock Saturday afternoon Is at
home nursing several severe scalp
wounds and injuries to his right arm
and face.
F1aschofsky Is alos badly done up.
Both Of his eyes were nearly closed
and his left wrist was injured. He
was attended by DR.. 3. A. Gaudet.
Bueck was attended by DR.. Walker
Washington.
According to the story told to the
police OF the 9Sth precinct, Totem
Vile, by Bueck, Flasohofsky, with
himself and three others making FIVE
in the party left Zimmerman's hotel
at the foot OF Main street to 81 to
tha beach near Sea Breeze to dig
some soft CLANS. After having Sc
cured d sufficient number the start
was made for home. William Wood
burn and another man in the party
whose name could not be agcertained
started on ahead, leaving Flasch-
ofsky. Bueck and Charles White. OF
Broadway, T~ottenville. still at the
beach. When the latter three start
ed for home Bueck says that Flaseh-
ofsky held him up and demanded his
money or his life. A fight started,
In which both must have struggled
on the beach for some time from all
appearsnces In the struggle 1t Is
alleged that Flasehofsky fired six
shots from a thirty-two calibre re-
volver,. two of the bullets going
closely to Bueck's head. Flaschof-
sky also beat Bueck over the head
with d hoe that White had been u.s.
ing. White became frightened and
ran about q quarter OF a mile to the
home of Melville Decker on Sea
Breeze road to summon him as a
witness to the assault. Decker re-
fused TO be a witness to the assault.
Flaschofsky who Is we'll known
to the police of this city as well as
Tottanyille,6 was arrested at his
home BY Patr0lmen Arthur j. RoIner
and Robert Benedict, about z
o'clock, after Bueek had brought
the revolver and hoe to the station
house, when making the charge. The
officers had considerable trouble in
getting the prisoner and had to use
force III kurrying him from the
house. Pasrolmen Bloodgood and
Wisclerbink took Bueck to the
Mouse where he identified his assail-
amt. Flaschofsky denied his guilt
and said that Two me had held him
np. He was locked up In the 80th
precinct station Saturday night and
Arraigned in the second district
pourt at Stapleton before Magistrate
Marsh Yesterday morning, WHO held
him for a hearing. Flasehofg.Ssa..s2
figured 4 q nansnns1sestNsysA
SaS E~szEsSxv#@sier today forJ ssaAflHl
years. He Naa an inmate OF the
Railway R~eforTnatory at one time,
having been SEM up from this city.
About two months ago it Is al
Iesea that rFlasehofsky broke In a
new house In Barnard avenue, rot
{enyille, ana stole a number Of tools
belonging to Palmer n Linaulst,
aarnamtera and builders OF Fotten-
Vile Detectives Lewis and Mei&il-
trick OF the Richmond Borough
Detectiee Bureau. rounded him up
Tor this Job and got a written con-
fsssion from him that he stole the
tools and sold them in Perth AM
boA. For this Palmer and Linqnist
refused to prosecute because hs was
d member OF the carpenters union
they said and that they got the
tools back again. It Is believed by
the police that F~laschofsky knows
something of the recent robberies
that ave occurred In T~ottenville,