The sun., 1918-08-02
HUNT FOR GAFFNEY
SHIFTS INTO QUEENS
All Available Detectives Sud-
denly Concentrated in Long
Island City.
EFFORTS ARE REDOUBLED
Mrs. lyman, Who Gave Con-
Wet Asylum and Clothing,
Is Taken Into Custody.

A hurry call for every available de-
tective was flashed into Police Head
quarters late last night from the Fourth
street station. in Long Island City, and
Immediately the report ran through the
department that at last the police
search had yielded definite trace OF
Vincent Gaffney. convicted gangster and
gunman. for whom every man in the
department has been searching for two
days with unqualified orders to get him
dead or alive.
Within two minutes after the call
cached Manhattan twenty detectives
were on their way in two big depapt-
rnent automobiles, and nearly as many
more were being shunted into Long ISL
and City from outlying Queens pre-
eincts Capt. Herbert Graham greeted
the emergency forces as they rolled up
10 the Fourth street station, but not
Nne OF the detectives would reveal even
= minute detail of the reason for the
summons.
For half an hour Capt. Graham kept
ne squad OF detectives at the station
III an upper floor room. When they
emerged one squad divided and entered
two automobiles, which drove OF at high
,peed in the direction Of the Ravens
wood section. toward Astoria, known as
he Rashouse district. The second squad
marched off afoot. but split UP and took
many separate courses, In groups OF
-wos and threes. Every man had direc-
lions not to mention the purpose OF his
mission, but the name OF CARNEY, never
1neless, was overheard frequently.
Inspector Maintains silence.
In the meantime Inspector Cray. d.
,~cting the search for Gaffney. remained
at Manhattan Headquarters. He declined
80 say whether the Long Island City
call had TO do with the case OF the gun
,uan under a twenty. year sentence who
aas shown an unusual ability TO Slip
way from the detectives.
Gaffney's sensational escape from the
'.onbs last June, when he jumped sew
'rty feet to freedom in broad daylight
and later the same day outman9uvred
he police in a pistol battle and chase
AS enough in Itself to put the men IN
me detective department whose duty II
Das to get Gaffney on their mettle
1!,it their chagrin over that was nothing
compared to what they felt on wednes-
cay morning. when. after having Gaff-
: e. cornered in a fiat at 307 West l1sth
treet he escaped in his underwear
through rear window. dropped four or
i've stories from a Are escape and again
s!uded a dozen or more detectives posted
on the outside to catch him.
Cray Exonerates Police.
As result of the failure of the de-
t.ctlves and uniformed police to nab
I'm on that occasion those members OF
me force concerned in the case were
ssed before Inspector Cray, command
:lg the Detective Bureau, yesterday af-
: rnoon. After interrogating the detec-
ives Inspector Cray said that he had
j. ,ched the conclusion that the officers
sfter having the tip that their quarry
was in the fat at the 11Sth street ad-
dress. had been negligent in not cover.
inS the fire escape In the rear, by means
al which Gaffney eluded them.
THE officers had the roof and the
:ard covered" Inspector Cray explained
"Gaffney couldn't go up. and II he had
come down to the yard we should have
lad him. Instead he ducked through a
window on the first floor. hid and later
made his escape We are more con.
'erncd now in catching Gaffney and
will investigate how he got away later
on
Inspector Cray said last night that a
least sixty detectives were engaged IL
'ne man hunt ard that the entire uni
SoImed force had been instructed TO b,
on the alert.
some further details became know,
yesterday OF Gaffney's latest thriller
when. clad only in his underwear. IN
ieaped from one story to another on {
fire escape. exchanging shots with tn
police meanwhile, and finally. rail-
soaked. sped like gray apparitioI
through the night and into oblivion.
Police Hold Mrs. lyman.
Mrs. Agnes lyman Of 300 West loot
street. in whose apartment Gaffney fount
uu asylum for some hours after h.
Guided the police. was brought to Head
quarters yesterday and questioned re
fardng the case and later arraigned be
zorro Magistrate McQuade in the Wash
iagton Heights Court and held in 81 5O
bail on charge OF aiding the prisonc
to escape.
Mrs. lyman. according to the police
denied that she was a sister OF the fugi
tive and asserted that when he appeare,
Mt her home early yesterday morning n
MAS an utter stranger to her.
Last night the police were checkin
M the story told by Mrs. lyman Wit
other information that had come to ;hon
Hr-m members of the Italian family int
whose apartment Gaffney so rudely IN
,egted himself from the fire escape whe
/" police were waiting for him a fey
feet below
II appears from information obtaina
that Gaffney when discovered told tn
''alian household that he had quarrele
with his father. that he struck him AM
Knocked him down and that he feare
IS father would kill him. The head u
-te Italian family. knowing nothing {
tie contrary. gave him shelter. and late
'-hen daylight came, at Gaffney's re
Guest, provided him with shoes an
clothing.