New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-19
BANDIT SURPRISED
BY men IN AUTO
Motor Posse Arrives and
Chases HoId-Up Man at
White Plains.
FOLLOWS BY PRINTS
OF SHOES IN SNOW
fOgden Nj. Reid and g. V. Rogers
Rescue Clerk and Get Evi-
dence for Him.

Arthur Bowcock employed b. law
yers' title insurance company in New
York city. was held up and robbed
yesterday near White Plains in the
silver Lake Park section. by thick
set man. who covered his face with
red bandanna handkerchief The high
wayman showed the muzzle Of his re-
volver against BoWcocks stomach ana
ordered him to turn over his valuables
or he would kill him.
Bowcock. taken completely by sur
prise. raised his hands above his head
and then, hearing the exhaust Of
motor car coming down the road.
| though: he would he able To parieE
with the masked man until the arrival
of the automobile. The fellow evident
" suspected his victims Intention FOR
he iabbed him fercely with the re-
volver muzzle and muttered: IN blow
your head Off il you don't come across
with the stuff
Feeling the cold steel against his
stomach and seeing that the highway
man was desperate, Bowcock took so
from his waistcoast pocket and handed
1t to the holdup man.
lust at that moment the automobile
containing ogden Mills Reid and &. '.
Rogers. dashed by the spot where the
two men stood in the road.
Mr.. Reid, who is deputy sheriii ot
Westchester County. was sitting in the
tonneau with Mr.. Rogers. They
thought Bowcock with his hands aioLt'
was calling to them to stop. rs the
chauffeur brought the car to halt MI
Reid looked back to where the two
mon were standing and saw the high
wavman back away from BoWcock'
fiourishng his revolver.
For q moment those in the auto
mobile believed they were witnessing
= lifelike presentation of moving
nicture drama. When. however. the
ma sket bandit leaped over the fence
ne the roadway and dashed of through
the woods they realized that IT was
drama in real.life they had just seen.
| Mr.. Bowcock hurriedly explained the
robbery.
Although by this time the hold-up
man had q start OF two hundred yarGs.
Mr.. Reid and AIr. Rogers threw OF
their overcoats and started in pursuit
-
Sheriff Doyle. They also told Bow
cock TO remain where he was and tel
The Sheriff what direction they had
taken.
They followed the highwayman Tor
half a mile. until he disappeared from
sight in the woods. Because OF the pc
culiar marking Of the mans shoes, Mr.
Reid and Mr. Rogers were able TO troc~
him through the snow. After while
thew caught sight of him, but again he
disappeared.
Shortly afterward Sheriff Doyle and
his deputies, Moore, Mercer and Miller
and Lieutenant Joyce appeared The
entire party spent several hours in
tracing the footprints TO house in the
vicinity. and there the same pecunar
shoe marks we're found leading TO an
icehouse. and from the icehouse back 10
the spot where Bowcock was held up.
This is the fourth hold-up in the
same neighborhood within the last
three months, and Sheriff Doyle be-
ueves he has at last located the high
wayman.
Sheriff Doyle. after search OF sew
leral hours over a wide stretch of coun
trvside. arrested an Italian about 10
loclock last night and took him TO the
white Plains jail.
The man stolidly denied knowing
lanything about the hold-up, and al
though the Sheriff trapped him in sew
eral contradictions refused TO admit
having been in the vicinity at the time
Bovcock was robbed. Satisfied that
the man knew more than he was will
ing TO disclose, Sheriff Doyle sent for
several persons who live in the yicin-
itv OF the spot where the hold-up &C
CURED.
The prisoner was led out before the
group. but no one was able TO identity
him positively. The Sheriff will again
question the prisoner this morning,
when he hopes to have victims Of the
former hold ups on hand TO look the
man over.