New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-21
DETECTIVE, SHOT,,
KEEPS UP PURSUIT
Four Bullets Required to
Halt His Chase After
Fleeing Pair

Detective Daniel Van Dam, Of In
spector Morris's staff, kept right on
last night after one bullet from flee
ing gunpan's revolver had carried away
his hat and another had sliced the tip
off his left ear. Even after third bull
let had smashed his right shoulder and
fourth had lodged in his chest, Van
Dam managed to continue the pursuit
another half block and to empty his
cwn revolver before he collapsed.
The shooting, which occurred in East
106th Street, had been preceded by the
arrest of Benjamin Brachhsusen, a
striking conductor, Of 1883 Lexington
Avenue. With his partner, Detective
Charles McNulty, Van Dam had caught
the striker at Ninety-seventh Street
and Lexington Avenue after q street
car had been stoned.
Accompanies Detectives
As the two detectives entered the
East 1O4th Street police station with
their prisoner they were accompanied
by William Heineman, of 1852 East
Ninety-seventh Street, q sergeant in
Commissioner Woods's new Home De-
fence League.
A cry of "Stop, thief" halted Van
Dam and Heineman. A pickpocket-ss
it then appesred-had been at work in
the crowd which had followed Brach-
hausen to the station house.
Van Dam, turning in time to see an
undersized man breaking out of the
throng and racing eastward, took up
ths pursuit. So did Heineman. Young
er and feeter of foot than Van Dam,
who is forty, the amateur policeman
outstripped the detective.
The chase led north on Third Avenue
for a block and then east again. The
fugitive had increased his lead and
was able to dodge into bicycle shop
Mt 243 East 105th Street and out again
before Heineman came up. Several
other men ran out of the store ana
blocked the way. One, said by the po-
lice to have been Angelo Milone, part
owner of the shop, had revolver.
Defence Sergeant Falls
II was at Heineman the first shot
was aimed. He ducked, slipped and
fell. Van Dam continued the chase
alone, his own revolver drawn. The
gunman had followed in the footsteps
Of the fugitive friend, racing east
toward First Avenue and firing over ms
shoulder. Van Dam, with wounds that
might have meant instant death TO a
weaker man, got to the middle Of the
avenue before his strength gave out
He collapsed on the car track.
The gunmsn and the supposed PICK
pocket completed their escape petore
the reserves began TO comp the us
trict for them. According to the ,po-
lice, the second man was recognized as
Louis Marino, of 236 East looth
Street. He was charged with having
been an accessory TO the shooting. .
The man who had raised the cry OF
"Stop, thief" was not to be fouhd
afterward, and the police now neneVe
the trouble in front of the station
house may have been ruse 10 give
Brachhausen a chance to get away.
Van Dam was taken to Metropolitan
Hosn;taI' He has a fighting chance
Marine was picked up at First Ave
npe and lO5th Street late asst night
Questioned by Captain Brady and In
spector Cray at the East 1O4th Street
station, he admitted he had been pur-
sued frst by Van Dam and Heineman.
Salvatore Milone. a brother OF An
gelo, was arrested when search OF the
bjcyclo shop revealed revolver ana
a shotgun hidden away. Earlier Sal
~atore had gone to the police station
voIuntarily and satisfied Captain
Brady he had not been concerned IN
the shooting.