New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
3 Taxicab Bandits
Give Full Details
OF Month of Crime
Burke and Mcintyre Plead
Guilty to Hotel Robberies
Red Hope Tells How
the Loot Was Divided

Details of the operations of "Red
George" Hope and his gang of hotel
bandits in New York City have been
obtained by the District Attorneys
Office through confessions mado by
Hope and Edward Mcintyre and Thomas
Burke, hold-up men arrested with him
September IL, Assistant District At
torneys Talley and Donohue said yes
terday.
On the basis of the confessions and
ldentlilcatIons by victims they have
been connected with at least twelve
hotel robbcries and hold-ups in Man.
haitian and Brooklyn in The last month,
Nh. Talley said
Burke, who was arraigned before
Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions
Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to
burglary in the second degree as a first
offence, crime which carries with in
maximum sentence of fifteen wears.
Mcintyre pleaded guilty in the same
court to robbery in the first degree, as
second offence, for which he can be
sentenced to twenty years imprson-
ment. Hope, also under indictment,
comes up for plea to- morrow.
Mcintyre and Burke were indicted
for robbing the Sherman Square Hotel,
Broadway and Scventy-tirst Street Sep
tembcr II.
Reds confession, according to Mr..
bonohue, narrates how he, Burke and
Mcintyre met in saloon near Fifty
NTH Street and Eighth Avenue about
two months ago and decided to COM
pm nihe and make some easy money"
They pooled their money, according to
other paraphernalia.
Chauffcurs Not Aids
Hope said that his gang made it an
lron-clad rule never to use the same
automobile or taXicab twice, according
to Mr.. Donohue. They usually hired
their taXis in Central Park. kept the
driver in the dark as to the business
they had on hand. and then proceeded
to the place they had decided to
'work'
It was frequently the practice of the
band, according to Hope, to blackjack
taxi drivers after "jobs" had been
pulled" and abandon car and driver in
Central Park. When drivers declined
to carry the highwaymen from the
scene of their activities. Hope is sa id
to have stated, they were driven from
the wheel at the point of a gun and
held IN the tonneau while Burke drove.
IN cases where it was necessary to
flee slngly, the gang gathered next day
to divide the loot in a prearranged d
NEE ing place
One Months Work
Here is Mr.. Donohue's summaries of
the gangs activities in the last month ::
"Mclntyre and Burke confessed to
holding up the Sherman Square Hotel,
the apartment house at 16 East Ninety
sixth street and the St. Paul Hotel.
Hope confessed holding up the Gre
noble Hotel Mcintyre and Red con-
fesscd sticking up pooroom at 979
Eighth Avenue, and we're also identfie ed
as the men who helc up Joseph Brof-
sky and Arthur Stelzer.
Hope and Burke confessed to hold
ing up G. a. Carey, of 13 West Sixty
fourth Street, and were identified as
the men who robbed David Woodruff.
OF 30 West Thirticth Street All three
we're identified as having held up Henry
schmidt, of Brooklyn, who was robbed
of $4,000 in Liberty bonds. Paul Renn-
schebach, of 1103 Second Avenue.
identified Burke and Mcintyre as the
men who held him up recently. Anthony
Clncln. of SIT Sixth Avenue, anG
Frank j. Pantuosco. of 923 Sixth Ave-
nue.. both identified Hope and Mcintyre
as the men who robbed them"