New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28
Naughty Robber Holds
Women Back While Mate
Flees with Diamonds.
GUN DUEL IN STREET
AFTER HARD CHASE
One Hold-Up Man Escapes, but
Partner, Captured, Admits
He Is Ex.COnvict.

A pasty faced man, and a companion
whose bearing commanded instant re-
spect in the Price jewelry store, at
14l4 Broadway. Brooklyn. were daw-
ding over a tray of diamond rings yes
terday afternoon while Mrs. Sadie
Price and her daughter tried to per-
suade them to buy.
Really, you know, I have one similar
to this, although much richer" object
ed the aristocratc one, whose open
overcoat revealed evening clothes.
Better let me look a little closer,
said the pasty faced man.
And then something happened so
quickly that neither Mrs. Price, her
daughter Sadie, nor her husband, Louis
Price, who was Immediately overcome
with heart failure, could tell just what
occurred. The wearer of the evening
clothes deity slid the tray to the
pasty faced man. who scooped It's con-
tents into his overcoat and sprang tow
ard the front door, overturning a
small showcase as he went.
The wearer of the evening clothes
stumbled first against Mrs. Price, then
her daughter and managed to impede
their progress to such an extent that
the pasty faced man had acquired al
most a blocks start of them before
they finally got into the chase.
The two diamond shoppers raced
down Ralph Avenue to Jefferson Ave
nue., the two screaming women but
abort distance behind. The number Of
pursuers rapidly increased. and inter
est was quickened when the Looping run
Of the pasty faced man caused dia,,
monds to drop from his crammed
pocket.
Down jefferson Avenue to Read Ave
nue. the pursuit continued, with romeo
man Ambrose Andreas gaining on the
fugitives. At Read Avenue the heelng
pair leaped aboard passing car. Inc
policeman sprang into an automoDlie
and gave chase, whereupon the two
men abandoned the car and ran down
Stuyvesant Avenue. As they ian both
the diamond thieves and the policeman
whipped revolvers from their pockets.
Andreas leaped from the auto and
fred at the two men as the pasty faced
man sprang behind tree on Stuy-
yesan, Avenue and fired at him. The
wearer of the evening clothes was not
so militant, however. He abandoned
his pale faced friend and disappeared
down an alley.
Andreas sprang behind tree and
watched for his opponent to show
enough Of his body to present a re.
spectacle target. The diamond thief
adopted the same strategy, while men
and women sought protection from
which TO watch the encounter.
After a moment the fugitive leaped
back and found another tree. The po-
liceman followed him.
After several such moves the pasty
faced man thought he saw an oppor-
tunity TO leap a rear fence and escape
He threw down his revolver and made
a dash. Andreas fired twice and. by
a burst of speed. overlook the man ana
struck him to the ground.
At the Ralph Avenue poll station
the man turned his coat pocket out and
returned such of the diamonds as
hadn't been scattered along his line OF
fight. He said he was Edward Moran,
but insisted that he did not know the
name Of his companion.
Moran confessed that he had escaped
from the Trenton prison on January ..