The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-13
TWO MEN ARRESTED
In MURDER PLOT
Woman Said TO Have Offered
$1,000 for Death Of
Contractor.
DISPUTE ABOUT A DOG
Mitchell and Mckay Aroused by
Case Resembling the Rosen-
thai Murder.
DISPUTE ABOUT A DOG

by detectives from tho West Tooth sire at
station. are said by the police to have
belonged to a gang OF fve hired by n
well known woman living at n downtown
hotel to kill Maurice Heating, a sub
way contractor. living at l05 West lo4th
street He was accused Of killing a 81 900
prise bulldog sent for safe keeping 70
the home of the woman's sister, who lives
near him.
The attack on the contractor was made
on February Is at Central Park West
and 1o4th street. II failed because the
gangsters. three In number. lost their
nerve after one OF them had slashed his
throat with n knife. When he fell thew
ran away and escaped after desperate
chase In taxicabs and over roofs OF apart
ment houses in Central Park West.
The prisoners. who say they are Harry
Brissler. 90 years old. driver ont Of
work. of 2726 Dean street. BROOKLYN. and
Stanley Norman. 81, clerk. OF IL De-
lancey street are in the West Tooth street
station charged with felonious Assault,
They say they know nothing about tho
case. but the police expect to confront
them with witnesses who will identity
them.
Mitchell Took Hand In Case.
The arrests were made as result OF
the activity Of two special squads OF
police who were put on the case by Com
missioner Mckay with the knowledge of
Mayor Mitchell. The Mayor and Mr.. Nc
Kay were appealed to directly and pushed
th, nytia. In h.. Az.
gang. likening the affair to the killing OF
Herman Rosenthal. the gambler.
Special men from Headquarters went
into the gang resorts on the East Side and
learned that members OF the Dopey
Benny gang there were boasting that a
woman had. through another man, offered
5000 to have man named Heating killed.
This sum was TO have been paid by the
intermediary In the event OF the con-
tractors death. but because the gangsters
fell down on the Job they got only 5000.
The police expect to arrest the remaining
members OF the gang and also the woman.
who Is understood to be- still In the city.
1t was late in the afternoon OF February
rs that Heating was attacked man
came up to him. with two others pulled a
revolver and thrust IT into his ribs and
then demanded:
What is your name"
Heating is big man and was not
What business Is that OF
yours" he queried
At that another OF the gang drew a
knife and siashed the contractor. cutting
him deeply from the left ear to the mouth
and on the right temple.
Seize . Taxicab.
As he fell the three ran. The one who
had tackled him first jumped into taxi
cab at 1o5th street. put his gun against
the drivers back and said:
Drive like hell and don't help the
police :"
At the 10th street subway station the
driver was ordered to stop. The gang
ster. holding his pistol In hand, backed
down the steps and got away.
In the meantime the others had run TO
lo5th street. then to Manhattan avenue,
back to l0+th street and into the apart
ment house at No. 81. They got TO the
roof and ran along to the house at No.
3. There they came down a scuttle, got
to the street, jumped the stone wall to
Central Park and were lost to their pur.
suers In the park shrubbery.
Heating. the blood streaming from his
cuts. was close at the heels Of the two.
on the way they threw off their over
coats. After they disappeared Heating
picked up the coats In one was a loaded
revolver. The police and residents in the
Joined in the chase and a
hundred men searched Central Park for
hours.
Couldn't Explain Attack.
keating's wounds were dressed by an
surgeon and he went TO his
home. When the police came to question
him he could assign no reason for the
attack on him and the detectives con-
GUIDED that It must have been a case OF
mistaken Identity and that the gangsters
mad got the wrong man.
Later the contractor remembered an
affair Of a few days before when he had
been threatened with arrest by woman
because of the death OF the bulldog. He
told the police that the bulldog. sent by
The woman from downtown to her sisters
house uptown, had been put on the roof
one night and was found In the street
next morning, dead.
Heating was the man who found the
animal and he took It to the house where
/ had been kept. The woman there ac-
FUSED him of killing It and went to the
West 10th street station house to get
A warrant for his arrest. The contractor
protested that he had not killed the ami
nal. but had merely found It's body. The
police refused to act and the complainant
went away vowing vengeance.
When this story reached the ears OF the
he told II 20 Mayor Mitchell,
and the activity of the police was
result. The squads of detectives. aided by
The regular men from the West Tooth
street station, have been working day and
night
The clues In the East Side were followed
closely and the police learned that the men
they suspected would be at the New York
entrance to the bridge last night Only
two OF them showed up and they were
taken into custody by Detectives Quinn,
and Maddocks after struggle.
DSS ONE WAY-PACIFIC COAST AND
DTIlER WTaTERN POGNTa