New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-24
TAXI BANDITS SPLIT
$500 LOOT IN PARK
Detectives Find Broken Cash
Boxes and Abandoned Car
CIeW from Chauffeur.
IN murder CAR" GARAGE
Machine Housed in Washington
Souare-Driver Tells the
Police That He Was
Blackjacked

Detectives working under the Second
Deputy Commissioner Yesterday found
the chauffeur the owner and the
taXicab which was used by the
three men who held up and robbed
Of 500 three employees OF ROhe q Bros"
provision dealers. at No 81 West $6th
street, on Wednesday night. Although
Commissioner DouGherty says that he
has no suspicious yet as to the Identity
of the hold-up men, he has fairly
good description of them, and hopes soon
To have them under arrest peculiar
coincidence. however, is that the machine
has been housed in the Washington
Square garage where, it will be remem-
bered. the automobiles used both in the
Rosenthal murder and the recent taxi
cab jewel robbery were kept
The police activity began with the find
ing Of the cab. with hood bent i'm. one
window broken and both headlights
smashed. standing in front of the Column
bia University Library, at l:30 o'clock
yesterday morning. Two ambitious and
husky policemen pushed ii To their sta
ton house, whore its recovery was re-
ported to headquarters. Later, when a
general alarm had been sent out Patrol
man Martin Fink found "A black tin box
containing receipts Of Rome 81 Bros.
lying i'm the West Drive OF Central Park,
at 69th street
Detective Billie" Forbes was then as
signed to investigate further, and he
found another and similar box, surround
ed by broken bits of glass. a short dis
lance away. Commissioner DOughcrty
compared the pieces with a splinter or 50
of glass rcmsinlng in the rim Of the head
lights of the recovered machine and
found them to be Identical, thus cstab-
fishing the fact that the MACHINE used
for the hold-up and robbery had been
driven through Central Park and had
most probably bumped into some object
When the car was found its gasoene
tank was empty. II is supposed it was
abandoned on that account Upon the
broken bits of glass were quite few
finger prints. whether those of the police
men who gathered them up or Of the BAN
dts will be determined later
Yesterday afternoon Commissioner
the chauffeur and the owner OF the car,
who had been traced through his automo-
bile list. The chauffeur. Thomas Stank-
ard a husky twenty-year-old man. who
lives at No. ne West Tooth street and who
has worked FOR the owner Of the car only
ten days. told the police official Of the
days doings
he said that he had been standing iu
front of restaurant at 18th street ana
Seventh avenue. when he was approached
by man. who asked him 10 drive him To-
No. &c West 18th street. where they would
get trunk. The man rode with Standard
upon the front seat. When they arrived
at the house the man asked Standard to
help him with the trunk. While i'm the
hallway the man. according To the chauf-
fcur. struck him a severe blow across the
neck. and then two more men came from
the hallway. All three entered the ma
chine. and away II went toward Eighth
avenue. Just which way IL turned the
chauffeur didn't seem to remember.
Commissioner Doughcrty declared that
there was no Druise upon either the head
OF neck of the chauffeur.
Standard said that be then reported the
theft of his car 10 the police of the West
18th street station and then 10 mis- boss.
Anthony Risetto. who lives at No rs
West 10Th street RisettO said that he
drove the car during the day. while his
chauffeur drove II during the night.
Charles Fink. the collector. Rudolph
Bornemanu, the foreman. and Henry
Melchor. all of whom We're held up by the
gave Dousherty fairly good
description Of the men. The number of
the cab. a. i2J. was not known until the
mac hine was found abandoned. On the
floor of the cab were found a rubber coat
and "A pair OF rubber gloves.
1t is thought that peshaps the robbers
stopped the car somewhere In the park
and there divided the stolen money. When
the tin boxes were found they had been
broken open.