New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
LOOT Of VOCELS FOUND
I in SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX
Police Recover Jewels and
Bonds Stolen by Pair Who
Were Shot to Death.
MUCH OF 1T IDENTIFIED
Battle Which Ended Couple S
Career and Detective Life
One of Most Thrilling
in Police Annals.

b Thousands Of dollars in stolen bonds
and iewerv were recovered yesterday
when a deposit box in the Germania Safe
2 Deposit Companys vault at No l9)
Bowery. was opened by court order The
loot was that of Joseph Nogel and his
wife. I.ottie. who were shot To death on
November IS when they were trapped III
the Elsmere Hotel. l6lst street and Court
'landt avenue.
Mrs. Sidney G.. Beinheimer, Of No. -
West SSth street who obtained the order,
was one Of the victims of the Vogels on
June last Nogel's wife. whom she had
employed a. a servant, attacked Mrs.
BernheiIner and. with a woman conied-
crate bound and gagged her and ran
sacked the house When the box was
opened. in the presence Of Mrs. Bern
heimer. Detectives CassasSa and MclNenha
ana MI Connolly. of the Controller :
office. Mrs Bernheimer identified fifteen
pieces OF jewelry worth 5000. as her
property Thousands Of dollars worth of
bonds were claimed later by Alfred i.
stern, of No. 1854 Seventh avenue. lie
said they had been stolen a year ago.
Other pieces Of jewelry Were not iden-
tined
The cornering Of the Nosels in the BIS
mere Hotel and the fight that followed
made a story Of thrilling interest. John
Allen and Gerard Luigi, private detec-
lives. had trailed the couple for weeks
on the night Of November is they were
reinforced by Martin Fay. detective OF
the West l0Oth street station.
The Nosels had been located in the Els
mere and when Fay walked in on them
with the private detectives at his PACK
and the proprietor of the hotel ana TWO
of his employees close behind. the woman
snatched up a magazine pistol ana thrust
1t into Vogels hand. Then began the
battle that ended in the deaths OF the
Vogels and OF Allen and the wounding OF
Fav. Luigi. the proprietor and one en-
plOye.
At the time of the shooting two keys
We're found. one for a box in the York
VILE Safe Deposit CompanN's vault ana
the other for the toX In the Germahia >
vault. The box in the Yorkville vault
Welded only single diamond brooch. Dut
officials Of The Germania refused TO allow
their box 10 be examined until the courts
had passed OIL question OF law lnVolVeu'
Mrs. Bernheimer petitioned for writ ana
as soon as It was issued il was served
. on Cashier Love of the Germania com
psny. This is list Of the property fonno
IN the box and identified by Alfred ).
stern.
(, Five $500 bonds. North Carolina Com
one a. per cent bond. Western Union.
i One 1900 bond United States steel Cor
Fivc shares Consolidated Gas Company.
. Fifty shares. City and Suburban Homes
Company.
. Five life insurance policies.
Stern said that the bonds and policies
had been stolen from his house about q
year ago. His family had hired NogeIs
. wife as a servant. and one night she
robbed the house and disappeared.
District Attorney Whitman said he
would take legal steps to have the un-
identified jewelry and other articles found
hi the box turned over 10 the property
clerk at Police Headquarters. so that
:sictirns of the Vogels might have a
Chance to identify them.