Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-11
TRAIL or BANDITS
LEADS TO NEW york
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| Central Station. The freight train from
! which he was taken by Detectives Rich
and Knox at Bristol yesterday is thought
to have been the train on which the ban
dts are supposed to have escaped. He
is being held while his conflicting stories
are being investigated
The trail of at least one of the two
gunmen leads to New York, detectives be-
leve.
Three tallying descriptions of one of the
bandits who was seen boarding Penn
sylvania Railroad freight train at Erie
avenue with his pal" a few minutes
after The shooting yesterday afternoon,
were given The deSperado was described
today by Mrs. Frieda Myers, 3032 Il
street, who saw tho man run through an
alley; by Tlaupt, the wounded man, and
by Thomas Foley, watchman. The lat
ter saw the men board the train, which
was bound for New York One of them had
something under his overcoat presumably
the satchel of money.
The Importance of the report today that
the Rev DR.. e. \. Mott, of $50 North
43d street, had seen two men answering
the bandits descriptions on a trollSr car
on the Girard avenue bridge about II
o'clock yesterday was discounted by the
police.
1t would have been a physical impos-
siblity for them to have been there at the
time. agreed Detectives Mahoney and
Gonnetti. 1t has been established beyond
doubt. they said, that the men boarded the
train few minuets after Fastening and
TTaupt were shot down in the hallway of
the mill. at Indiana avenue and a street
SEARCH IN 100 CITIES.
one hundred cities and towns are being
secured for the two bandits and a pos
sible third man, who was reported to De.
teCtive Spielman as having acted as look.
out" near the mill
Haupt IS lowering between life and
death at the Episcopal Hospital. with bul.
let wounds in his abdomen, both legs and
one arm. Operations performed resulted
today in a surprising rally on his part.
He was reported as resting easily and
displaying more strength this morning
than the physicians expected. No assur-
ance of his ultimate recovery, however,
was given.
orders to arrest on sight a man named
Oscar Smith. Of Mutter street, We're issued
shortly before midnight by Captain of
Detectives Tate He is described as so
years old feet 10 inches tall, weighing
200 pounds and having sore eyes, by which
the heaYy-set bandit was characterized by
the men who pursued the pair, The man
is said TO have Worn a dark blue overcoat
with velvet collar, dark cap, black shoes
and dark trousers a weeks stubble of
beard was on his face.
The other man for whom the police are
looking Is described as about feet 6
inches tall, 1875 pounds in weight, with a
thin brown mustache and brown cap and
oYerCOat. He was slightly bow-legged.
A $500 contribution to the Police Pen
sion Fund, if the robbers are captured,
has been offered by a mill owner, whose
name was withheld. y larger reward
will be offered today by the Mill Owners
Association of Philadelphia, it is eX-
pected.
HOSPITALS WATCHED.
Hospitals are being watched, follow
ing the finding by Detective Geonotti of
IL bloody handkerchief in the path of the
pursuit. 1t is believed one of the men
was struck by a DETECTED bullet.
The most valuable witnesses. the police
think, are William II. Burt, n druggist of
B and Clearfeld streets, and Royal f.
Morris, a real estate dealer of 30l2 B
street, who gave chase Immediately after
the shooting, and William McKenna, of
2l0 East Clearfeld street. who probably
secured the best view of the escaping two
men,
Kastening's body was taken to his
home at 5426 North Fairhil street, this
morning. 1t was received by his widow
Mrs. Sophia Kaste ing, and her 3-year-
old 1auphtpr 1,OTetta