The sun., 1919-09-14
THREE CONFESS
TO SERIES OF
HOTEL HOLDUPS
Robbed Gerard's Chauffeur,
Also Poolroom and Apart
ment Employees.
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS
Capture Made by One Sleuth
With Gun-Fourth Motor
Bandit Missing.
IDENTIFIED BY VICTIMS

After successive identifcations by
their victims three men confessed last
night in the Forty-seventh street po-
lice station to their guilt in most OF
the sensational holdups that have
shocked the city and stirred the police
during the last week. The three men
are Edward Mcintyre, George Hope
and Thomas Burke. ALI have police
records and admit to no employment.
They confess to robbing the four
hotels, the Sherman Square. St Paul,
Holland and Madison, early Friday
morning, to the robbery of the Hotel
Grenoble on the morning of September
10. to holding up Ambassador Gerard's
chauffeur in the saloon Of 1zzy Potter
in Seventh avenue last Thursday. to
the robbery Of Weiss's poolroom at
979 Eighth avenue on September 8,
to the robbery of the hall man and
elevator boy in the apartment house
at 10 East Ninety-sixth street on Sep
tember z.
| In Burke's room was found a pawn
ticket for the watch of Edward Kearney.
who was robbed in the park last week.
and Joseph Holaback. who was forced
into a taxi at the point Of their guns.
driven to the park. robbed, beaten and
thrown into the roadway. has positively
identified all the men.
There is admittedly a fourth member
OF the gang not yet unprecedented.
| One Robber Missins.
The men have not yet admitted the
robbery OF Harry schmidt's bond store
in Brooklyn Friday night, but the police
are confident that they had a part in
that work.
Last night Schmidt came to the West
Forty seventh street police station. He
looked over the men In silence for q
time. Then suddenly he lunged out and
before the police could stop him had
sent his hst crashing into McIntyre's 8
face.
There's the - that showed
a gun In my face and forced me into
the back room." he said.
Detectives paid another visit to
Burke's room last night and discovered
a SO cent piece coined In 1888. Schmidt
had six Of these in the window. They
also found a Canadian So bill which
Schmidt is sure is his.
Credit for the arrest-and the credit is
big-goes to Detective Clarence Daily OF
the West Forty-seventh street station
He was turned out after the bond rob-
berry last night. At Eighth avenue and
Fiftieth street he noticed the three
youths about to enter tadcab. They
corresponded with the description in the
alarm. Both Mcintyre and Hope are red
headed. Burke Is dark.
When Daily approached the mon they
made as II to put up fight and drive
OF in the cab. Daily, however. though he
was one against three. drew his gun and
climbed into the cab with them. Once
covered the men submitted and were
taken to the West Forty-seventh street
station.
There Capt Thomas Walsh took them
in hand, while Detective DAILY started to
last three days,
Walsh is not a believer in rough house
methods with prisoners of this sort He
has no faith In the third degree. He
gave the men comfortable places to sleep
and saw to It that they got good food
Tho first man to look them over was r.
Roland, the clerk Of the Grenoble Hotel
from whom they had taken $500 on Sep
tember 10. He Immediately made q
positive Identification.
Viewed By Victims.
Harry Renwtck. bartender in the Pot
ter saloon. was the next man to identity
them Then followed John Weiss Of the
poolroom and Thomas Ravanagh and
Blaine Dorsey, the doorman and elevator
operator Of the East Ninety sixth street
apartment
Throughout yesterday other persons
came and looked the three over as they
sat smoking and reading in the de-
tectives' rooms at the West Forty-sev-
enth street station. With the exception
Of Burke they were extremely nervous.
Mcintyre was exceptionally so. He has
been in the service. He told a reporter
for THE Sun yesterday that he had
been overseas, but he refused TO say with
what outht
I'm in disgrace enough" he said
nervously. Il won't drag in the old out
f1t-but was there"
Mcintyre has q wound over the eye
which he says he got when a street
car hit him day before yesterday. Hope
who the pthers say 10 the leader of the
} gang. is heavy set. reddish haired
husky of 81 with big shoulders and a
> bull neck. Burke is a typical BLACK
; Irishman." compact. self-controlled and
with the muscular development OF a
young tiger.
Yesterday Afternoon Detective DAILY Iet,
his charges and went to Burke's room
There he found valise In which were
packed the army raincoats and caps
, which the men have worn. He came
back to the station house and threw
the garments on the floor in front OF
them. In the meanwhile Capt. Walsh
, had seen to 1t that all three had had
fne dinner. He saw them vince and
glance at each other when the raincoats
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