The sun., 1919-03-29
HUMAN U-BOAT IS :
TRAPPED AT LAST.
Sergt. Tom Croak Insists
Pagan Swan From Porto
Rico to New York.
NABs HIM IN THE WATER
Prisoner, Caught in Steamer
Cabin, Dives Overheard, but
Is Captured From Launch.


in tho positive assertion OF Police
Sergeant Tom Croak that certain
subaoueous youth named Santurano
Pagan emigrated from his native island
Of Porto Rico to this city by walking
every step Of tho way.
Mr.. Croais, after brushing of some OF
the scars Of q battle he had Just had
yesterday morning with Mr.. Pagan,
insisted that Mr.. Pagan had
submerged or Porto Rico and then
had followed the Gulf Stream until IL
was time to turn to the left and stroll
In through the Narrows and so to dry
land.
Pray tell US. Sarge" asked some
one, why do you believe 30 preposterous
a proposition as that young Mr.. Pagan
could walk hers from Porto Rico?"
''oh. for divers reasons" replied Mr..
croak with hearty Laughter Tom
Croak bellies his surname. Mr.. Croak.
in fact, Is a noted wit.
why Deutschland Went south.
This guy Pagan" Mr.. Croak con-
unued. "'is the human U-boat- He rarely
comes UP for air even long enough to
be pinched. Do you know why the foxy
Heinies sent their submarine freighter.
the Deutschland. and her $4,000. 900
cargo into Baltimore instead OF Into
the Port OF New York;
why. Mr.. ,CroakT
Pagan. that's why. Pagan was liv-
ing IN these waters in those days. Even
II they'd barred every window on the
submarine this guy Pagan would have
by the way Of the coal chute or something
and come up with the cargo OF the
Azores. Even the sharks that rsided
our coast the summer the Deutschland
was here avoided him.. A shark, you
| know, has to turn on it's back TO bite q
man. WE'LL, II became noised around
among the sharks that whenever a
| shark came at Pagan upside down he
would slam two shoulders and a hip OF
the shark to the pavement Of the ocean
and choke the shark to death. He"
You have a very detailed knowledge
Of Mr.. Pagan's undersea methods.
Sarge"
Sure. know this guy like a book.
I've seen him chased of the water
end OF the Bush Terminal at 2 o'clock
In the afternoon and then have a water
front cop over a Newark Bay telephone
in less than ten minutes that they had
him over there"
why have you made so close a study
| OF his career. Mr.. CroakT'
because he's what Lombrose and
Babe Mcdonald OF the Traffic squad and
| the rest OF us students OF criminology
classify as a cabin diver He's charged
this time with sticking around the pier
| on "Wednesday long enough to watch his
| chance to sneak aboard the steamer City
Of Savannah. When they found him pok-
ing around the cabins Of tho ship he
did his regular stunt, diyed overheard.
with the idea of swimming under water
70 the shorellne OF some other borough.
maybe to some other State.
Pursuers in Launch.
But fooled him th.s time ' com
| Wandered a launch and every time he
tried TO come up I shot after him with
the launch until finally even he had to
yell 'kamerad = in Porto Rican. He was
40 all in when 7 yanked him out OF tho
water that the doctor had to attend to
him before we got him into a cell at the
Hamilton avenue station house In Brook
lyn
The worst thing about this guy is
that he's as fast on land as he Is in his
native element. He's what John Bur-
roushs and I call amphibious. Listen.
When the wagon backs up In front Of the
Hamilton avenue station house to take
this fsh and some dry ones to court this
morning we grab Pagan by his gills and
start him from his cell 10 the street.
What does he dof Ask me-"
What does Mr.. Pagan do. Mr.. Croak?''
He dives. OF course, even inside the
house, He dives between the legs OF
Officers Asbury. Barlow. Bishop. Camp
bell. Connolly. Cronyn. Doherty. Hin. IT.
vine. Kimball, McIlwaine. O'Malley, Pat
ersoD, Reamer. Stolberg, Vreeland, Wat
klns, Wood and so on to the end OF the
alphabet. and next he comes up on his
hind fiippers out in Hamilton avenue.
Then he begins to hotfoot It. pulling
himself along with his mitts by means
OF the Australian overland stroke. while
the shoe feathers of his lower fins are es
tablishing a new Brooklyn record. l am
| right behind him. And at the corner OF
Woodruff and Columbia streets he sud
denly throws out an anchor and squats
OF course fall over him
Bullet Nicks . KnucLcIe.
MY gun went off and the bulle, nicked
ono OF my knuckles But once had set.
tied on his dorsal nm 7 held him doWr
until Officers Asbury. Barlow. Campbell
Connolly and the rest OF the Keyston,
comedy cops in the chase got Close
enough 90, spgu All over rs hack..ct desI
old Harvard's goal line. I wanted &c
hook him and play him for a while be
fore netting him. but the Loot comes ou
from the house and says We must bundl,
him into the tank and send him Off tc
the Fifth avenue court"
Mr. Pagan. according TO Mr.. Croal
and his colleagues. recently was ar
raigned on a similar charge of "cabir
diving but got on with a suspended
sentence. At a later hour yesterda,
while rubbing his shins Mr.. Croak ex
pressed the tervent wish that the fac
that yesterday was Friday would no
cause an impressionable Magistrate 4
refrain from dealing with Mr.. Pagan ir
the way Mr.. Croak wished. Mr.. Croal
expressing the hope that the court woulC
sentence Mr. Pagan TO stay indoors or
dry land at least throughout the rest Of
Lent