New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
BULLET HALTS
DRUG PRISONER
Man, Charged with Selling
Cocaine, Shot in At
tempt to Escape.
FORMER TEACHER
ACCUSES DRUGGIST
Sad Story of Narcotic Victim
Obtains His Conviction In
Brooklyn Court.

In desperate effort TO escape after
he had been placed under arrest on
charge of selling cocaine. John Paul
known as a prize fighter under the
name Of "Kid Carter" with the aid
of friend. broke from detec-
. tive yesterday afternoon and would
not halt until the sleuth had shot HIM
in the back.
Lieutenant Costigan, Of the Narcotic
Squad, had been told that cocaine
could be bought on the sidewalk at
YoSth street and First Avenue. De-
teetives Duffy, Ross aud Enelman APP
preached Paul. who lives at 500 East
iOsth Street. and Michael Bisgili, six
teen wears old. Of ESQ East l07tA
Street. They say they bought a dol,
lars worth Of cocaine and then placed
the two under arrest.
The detectives had walked about
fifty feet in First Avenue 20 60 10
the 104th Street station when Luigi
Copollo, of 2209 First Avenue, ne
manded to know what the arrest was
for. and in the ensuing argument Paul
broke the hold of Duffy. Copollo
blocked Duffy when he started after
his prisoner, and the detective, after
two shots in the air failed 20 make
Paul stop, sent a bullet into the nee
ing mans right hip.
Paul was taken 70 Bellevue Hospl-
tai and Bisgili and Copollo 10 the sta
tion house, the latter charged with
interfering with an officer and aidlng
In an attempted escape of a prisoner.
Inspector Dryers men arrested ct
the Hanover lunchroom, 215 West
Forty-second Street, yesterday, George
Harris, of 33l West Forty-ffth Street,
who. they say, had heroin powders in
his possession. John Bulkin, the man
ager, and John Burney. who lives In
Bewery lodging house, also were ar
rested. All were held in $1,000 bail
each for examination by Magistrate
Campbell.
Karl Kaznidwski, a Spanish-Ameri-
can war veteran, was arrested AT
Forty-second Street and Third Avenue
yesterday, with morphine in his pos
session. He said ne had been chef IN
many leading hotels. He was sent TO
the Metropolitan Hospital. after bong
held in $500 bail for Special Sessions.
Victor Herbert and Ruth Moore, both
of 2l9 West Twenty-eighth Street,
when arraigned before Mag strate
Deuel. in jefferson Market Court,
pleaded guilty 10 having narcotics in
their possession, and were held for
Special Sessions. Joseph Vernon, OF
356 West Forty-frst Street, pleaded
guilty to the same charge, and was
held.
Philip Lewis. arrested Wednesday on
n cocaine-selling charge, was held by
Magistrate McQuade for examination
Nav 5. George Bell, negro, OF %
West 133d Street, and May freeman
were held for Special Sessions by
Magistrate deuel., Bell charged with
selling opium and the woman with
having il in her possession.
A school teacher before she began
using narcotics, Miss Marion Clarke,
now working in a cheap Brooklyn res
taurant. obtained the conviction IN
Special Sessions, Brooklyn, yesterday,
of Joseph Belsito, a druggist, by the
sordid picture she drew of the mans
control over her through drugs he SOLD
her. Belsito was fined $500.
Fsbius Pugliese, a chemist, with a
drugstore at PIT Columbia Street, llv-
ING at 1876 East 125th Street, Manhat-
tan. received a similar sentence in the
same court, on the same charge.
Federal authorities swooped down
unon q house in the outskirts Of West
New York, n. j., last night and arrest
cd Jimmie Lorenzo, known to the New
York police as one of the largest vend-
ders OF drugs in this part OF the coun-
try.
Rumors of large shipment OF opium
coming into the United States through
Hoboken are believed TO have been
horne out by results of an investigation
which finally brought the Federal
agents TO the home of Lorenzo.
The police of Hoboken arrested a
man believed 10 have been one OF the
gang which stole $500 worth of mar
eotics from a drug store in that city
recently. The gang is under suspicion
Of being in league with sailors for the
purpose Of smuggling drugs.