New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Man Wanted for Newark
Crime Fights Police in
East Side Tenement
Patrolman Wounded
Gunman Captured When the
Final Ruse to Escape
Is Fooled

tive, was killed and Patrolman Thomas
Flaherty, of the East Thirty-fifth Street
police station, severely wounded yes
terday in an early morning battle IN
tenement at 336 East Thirty eighth
Street. where Salvatore Annabile, whom
thew sought as murderer, stood at
bay. Detective Adubatto mustered the
last remnants of his vitality to carry
Patrolman Flaherty down five flights Oh
stairs from the lead-spitting door OF the
room where Annabilc had intrenched
himself. Annabile was captured.
Adubatto came to New York late FIJI
day night by automobile on the trail OF
Annabile. There had been party at
Annabile's home. at 80 Bedford Street,
Newark, and at it's close Joseph Volpe,
Annabile's cousin, lay dead on the front
steps, with four bullets through his
back, while the host Of the evening had
vanished.
With Detective Sergeant Rothenberg
and Detective Philip Langfeld, of the
Newark department, and Detective
Hauser, of the East Thirty-ffth Street
station, Adubatto entered the darkened
tenement in East Thirty-eighth Street
on the fifth floor of which lived q man
connected by marriage with Annablle.
Adubatto raped on the door panels
and demanded entrance. He spoke
Italian. and man answered in the
same tongue that he would not open
the door. Hauser blew his police
whistle, and Patrolmen Flaherty and
Eichler responded.
Adubatto and Flaherty elected to
make the direct assault upon the door.
A concerted rush by the detective and
the patrolman carried the door from
it's hinges. and as they staggered from
the impact the darkness within was
lighted by flashes.
Flaherty fell as though hit with an
axe and Adubatto staggered back
couple of PAGES, one hand clapped over
his abdomen, while the other mechan-
ically emptied his revolver into the
darkness.
Adubatto stopped and, in the face of
continued fire from the doorway,
heaved Flaherty to his shoulder and
started steadily but slow y down the
stairs. None of his companions realized
that he was wounded.
Reaching the street the detective
carefully placed his unconscious bur
den in the automobile and told Detec
tive Langfeld to drive to Bellevue Hos
pital. Then he crumpled up on the
sidewalk
A few hours later Adubatto died in
Bellevue Hospital. One bullet, prob
ably the first which struck him, had
penetrated his abdomen. He also had
three bullet wounds in the back. Fla
herty was struck in the abdomen, and
his wound is serious.
The reserves were summoned from
the East Thirty-ffth Street police sta
ton, and surrounded the tenement. De-
tective Sergeant Rothenberg entered
the fifth floor room alone, revolver in
hand. 1t was empty. Beside the bed
lay shoe-a mans left shoe.
The tenant of building across the
street said that he had seen a man
Chamber down the fire escape to the
second floor, where he had entered a
window. Detectives Andrews and Roth
cnberg entered the second floor room.
A man was lying in bed, snoring, with
CHc DOCAOCIleS pulleu up ADOuC MS Cnln
Rothenberg, his revolver still in his
han. snatched the bedclothes from the
sleeper with the other hand and re-
vealed him fully clothed, save for the
left foot, which was shoeless. AS the
bedclothes were swept from him the
man leaped ut Andrews SO swiftly that
Rothenberg had no chance to use his
revolver. Before Rothenberg could
move Andrews had been bent backward
across a sewing machine until it seemed
that his spine must snap. The next
instant, howefer Rothenberg's revolver
muzzle was at the ear of Andrews's as
sailant, and he submitted to the "nip-
pers"
He was Salvatore Annabile. Annabile
was locked up in the East Thirty-ffth
Street station, charped with killing Ad-
ubatto and Volpe and shooting Fla
herty.
Adubatto lived with his wife and two
children at 314 North Sixth Street,
Newark, and had been member of the
Newark Police Department for nine
teen years.