The evening world., 1913-04-12
TRAPPEDGUNMEN
FIGHT POLICE WHO
AVERT A MURDER
Five Captured in Desperate
Revolver Battle in Back
Room Of Saloon.
CAME FROM A HOLD.UP.
Bandits Believed to Have
Robbed Wine Store Planned
to Kill Feud Enemy.
CAME FROM A HOLD-UP.

A detective ana two uniformed 20.
lIosmsn staksd their lives against heavy
odds early to-day In . rear room Of
william 0allasher's saloon. No. ~ Sew.
enth avenue. fought their men with -
voivsrs and finally succeeded in round
No up and taking 60 the station I'VE
Of the toughest members Of . gans
known 70 have murder and robbery on
IL record.
Not only Nd TIE three daring police
men gather IN men believed to have
been engaged . few hours before In the
heldup and robbery OF the United Wins
First avenue and thought also to have
had . hand In the many recent United
CtGar Stores robberiss. but they frus-
tratsd . deliberate plan 10 murder and
ala Il In the nick Of time.
HEl0 UP WINE CLERK WITH
RGvolvGR IN STORE.
Chief Of the prisoners caught by De-
and Sodsn Of the West Forty.seventh
street station. Wa "'scuss Thomas.
alias Charles Chomas. Thompson.
johnson and "Youns Scotch man
whose record includes suspicion Of
murder and proved burglary.
Late last night three men. wearing
identical tan raincoats. entered the
WinegrswerS Association store. or
First avenue. and made . prstsnss oil
AssS L.. AaHAa~ - UyhAva EeAA.
srick Walter. the manager. descended
. ladder with the bottle Of wine HI
looked into the wicked mouth Of 81
automatic revolver.
The holdup men backed walter Int
closet, locked the door. and. while
one Of them went 10 the front OF thu
store to serve possible customers. thu
others took $50 from Waters pocket
10 from the cash register and al
from the safe o.,
Early to-day the ~ came 70 The wss,
Forty.sevsoth street station that Ave
men, three Of whom wore rainooats lik&
those worn BY the wine store robbsrs
we're drinking In . saloon on Ssventh
avenue. between Fyfty-frst and Fifty.
second streets. Detective Sussillo went
TO the saloon. picking up the two police
men on the way.
There were between thirty and forty
men in the saloon. While the two uni
formed men stood by eussillo "frisked
all the drinkers. "Scuse" Thomai
jeered him during the operation. ThS
detective found no weapon.
There had been shooting In front o.
0allaxher's saloon an hour earlier
0sngstsrs. refused admission. had hrst
at the bartender. Knowing that . feut
existed between Thomas and Gallagher
the detective sensed the reason for tn,
asssmblsge Of Thomas and his ganl
In the saloon he had just left. Win
the two policemen he went down h
al,aghsr's and waited Developments II
a back room.
GANG IN REVOLVER DArrle
WITH THREE POLICEMEN.
Before long the voices Of men enteriuI
the front Of the saloon and demandinI
10 know the whereabouts Of Gallaghs
warned the policemen that the antici
mated trouble was at hand. Student,
the door Of the rear room. where tn
three were crouching. burst open and Il
walked Thomas. with an automati
pistol in his hand.
Sussiilo lssped on him and . bite
nght ensued. Thomas tried to twist hi
weapon around to bear upon the dstse
tive, while the latter beat him on tn,
head with the butt Of his own revolver
The other two policemen had their hand
full meanwhile. and, after fighting fou
over the place. managed to subdus fou
of Thomas companions. They wer
william Bradley. who has . crimina
record; Joseph d. Callahan. william
Eppleton and James Il. Smith.
At Headquarters. Walters. scared, 70
fuoed to Identify them.