The sun., 1918-10-20
Gunman Arrested as He Dances
in Cabaret in North Ber-
gen, N. j.
ESCAPED FROM THE TOMBs
Under 20 Year Sentence for
Manslaughter = Sought
Night and Day Since.

Wnom tney nau TO zeal since tho JAN
breaking days Of the notorious Reynolds
Forsbrey, was caught last night when
a squad OF New York detectives. guns
In hand and ready to shoot to kill, in
vaded a cabaret and dance hall in North
Bergen, N. ].
With Carney at the time Of his arrest.
was pretty Kitty Coyle. the young
woman of Gaffney's affections. Al
though she did not know It. the girl had
led the detectives straight to Gaffney,
the young gunman having made just the
slip for his girl for which the police
had been waiting for months Gaffney
was locked up early this morning in the
jail at North Bergen.
The arrest of Gaffney has brought q
breathing spell for the police In the most
discouraging piece of work with which
they have had to deal In a great many
months. for the exploits of CARNEY and
his ability always to elude them. no mat
ter how great their numbers, had been
n thing OF evaporation to them. His
most recent career started with his
escape from the Tombs. a feat that was
considered incapable Of Accomplishment
In the manner that Gaffney did accom-
plish 1t on June IL. when he Jumped
seventy feet and got away.
Escapes in Gun Fixht.
That same night, with police bullets
popping all about him, but hitting only
innocent bystanders, he eluded the
police during a running battle along the
West Side In Tenth avenue. Weeks
later and while the detectives still
were smarting under the defeat, Gaff-
ney had heaped upon them on the night
or his original escape. he again got
away from the home Of a relative, with
the police bullets humming after him.
Get Gaffney!" went forth the order,
but the police seemed unable to obtain
even q hint of where he had gone.
Never however, did the vigilant eyes
Of the detectives lift from the move
ments OF Kitty Coyle, 'Gaffney's girl"
as the police knew her. Every day and
every night police eyes were on her.
Last night the word went to Inspector
John Cray. In charge Of the Detective
Bureau, that Kitty Coyle was dressing
with especial care.
Quickly detectives. led by Acting
Captain Gildea, were sent to follow her.
They trailed her to North Bergen, where
squad Of local police was picked up
and the start made for the dance hall.
whence telephone messages came that
Ganney and Kitty Coyle both were
present.
Every entrance to the place was
covered. At a given signal the police
entered and Gaffney was caught, with
out even the chance to draw a re-
volver IL he had one. a fact which the
early reports of his arrest fail to dis
close.
Gaffney will be arraigned In court in
Iargav NJ t%
will be determined whether he viii make
a night for extradition or come willingly
to New York.
How Gafrney Escaped.
Gaffney. whose bullets and accurate
Workmanship the detectives hunting him
feared as much as he feared theirs, got
out OF the Tombs in n manner more
spectacular than even that historic old
refuge ever before had witnessed. He
was lodged in a seventh tier cell, brought
down from Sing Sing on a techinicality.
under sentence Of twenty years for
granddaughter and harboring a reputa-
ton among the police OF the city as a
gunman who knew no fear, was quick
with the trigger and would kill and
one who threatened interference with his
plans They held him in almost as much
fear as they did the notorious Reynolds
Forsbrey. but Forsbrey was older and q
little more experienced. they thought. in
the technic Of beating the cops to It"
A cook in the seventh floor kitchen of
the Tornbs saw a mans hat blow of at
tho same moment a dark figure clam
bered through a window Of the kitchen.
The cook gave an alarm, but before his
voice reached the keepers and others out
side the seventh tier cells Gaffney had
made the first OF q series OF leaps that
were to carry him down seventy feet to
the level Of Leonard street beside the
Tombs Close behind. possessed OF less
nerve for the dangerous jumping. went
a prisoner named Callahan. Callahan's
shaky nerves caused him to miss n foot
ing OH the way down. Keepers picked
him up on the ground a little later. He
had broken a leg
As the exasperated toombs keepers
picked up the crippled Callahan-who
was credited with planning the escape
because he was a trusty and had the run
Of the kitchen-they Just barely caught
sight OF Gsffneys coat tails as he rounded
the corner Into Centre street That was
the last sight that was caught OF him
officially until late that night.
Fled I'm His Understanding.
. Detectives who poured all over the
city searching for the youth figured he
could not keep away from the haunts
Of the Gophers and Hudson Busters,
West Side gangs OF rowdles. They
started up town and a taxlcab loaded
with detectives was caught in a traffic
jam in Tenth avenue. Another machine
also was caught in the Jam and the de-
tectives almost lost their speech when
they saw Gaffney on the seat There was
mis- oh
Two innocent children stopped police bull
let's. Neither died. Gaffney scaled tene-
ment roofs, fire escapes. terrorized a
whole neighborhood and escaped.
Reports kept drifting In through I'M
foreground channels to the police that
Gaffney had been seen here and there in
his old haunts on the West Side. hanging
out with his old friends of the Gopher
gang, In which he was a leader.
But the real tip came September 30
when some stooipgeon told how Gaff-
ney was in a fiat at 307 West 11Sth
street in the midst OF booze party"
Detectives surrounded the house and
swarmed UP the stairs. Four Of them
knocked at the door, and. pausing a
minute, broke in. Tho minute was
enough. Gaffney. clad only In his under
clothing. had dived out OF window to
the fire escape. went down to the street
or up TO n roof-anyway ne was gone.
A uniformed cop saw the man running
past, gone so quickly that the cop
couldn't collect his wits.
He hid out all night and got a pair Of
trousers, then went to the home of his
sister. Mrs. Agnes lyman. in West 120th
street. She hid him in tho basement
and gave him her husbands clothes. A
tax!cab picked him up next day. That
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