The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
THREE CONFESS TO
HOLDUPS IN HOTELS

Continued from FIRST Pooe.
were brought in. The Captain sent out
Tor three orders Of peaches and cream.
Youngest Tells All.
That got Mcintyre, who is apparently
the youngest OF the lot and an impress
sionaple youth despite a long police
record; he asked to speak with Cap
tain Walsh In the private office.
I'm glad you're going to talk" said
Walsh kindly. Il think you're In for II
anyway. as you are all Identified"
II know IT," said Mcintyre. "and I'm
coming through. I'll squeal."
ne then told the captain that the three
OF them, under the leadership of Hone.
had put through the robberies mem
toned.
Capt Walsh brought him back into
u sne ois room ana looking at Hope asked
him II he had anything to say.
What the hell have you been doine?"
snarled Hope. looking at Mcintyre. "I've
eot nothing to say. What have you been
doing in there7"
I've come Clean" Mcintyre answered.
They got II on us. WHAT'S the use"
They haven't got anything on me-"
ROPE insisted and settled back into
surly. silence
Burke. however. threw up the sponre
az the same time. He asked to talk to
the Captain and In the side room con-
nrmed everything that Mcintyre had
said. When this was revealed 10 Hone
ne too broke down and ali three men
Were waiting to sign the confession
which the police were writing out.
The police records show that Hope has
an arrest for homicide standing against
him for several years. He has eluded
trial He served a term in the Eimira
Reformatory for felonious assault and
has been arrested for assault robbery,
assault and robbery and for impersonat-
ing an officer.
Burke. according to the records. was
once convicted OF abandonment and got
on with suspended sentence. He has
been arrested for burglary, attempted
burglary and grand larceny, but has
never been convicted.
Mcintyre has served one sentence for
unlawful entry and has been arrested
several times for grand larceny.
Detective DAILY is of the opinion that
the men wave about to start on a foray
when he arrested them. Careful search
of them and Of the taxicab failed TO
reveal any guns. The police say. how
ever that few professionals carry their
weapons until 1t is time for an
actual job. They go to their place
of concealment and pick them up at
the last minute, discarding them again
as soon as possible.
Hope lives at 1444 Avenue A, Nc
Intyre at 534 West Forty-ninth street
and Burke at 90 Eighth avenue.
Bandits still ut Large.
The police admit they have by no
means rounded up the whole gang
They believe that the robberies and
a ssaults committed in Harlem and in
the Tenderloin early yesterday NOM
ing after the arrest of these men were
perpetrated by others who may or may
not be directly connected with this
gang
The Ulikit restaurant, on Eighth ave-
nue. between 129th and 130th streets. was
robbed in a daring manner early yester-
day morning by three men who looked
like the hotel bandits and worked in the
same efficient way. They pointed revolt
vers at Henry Schiffman when he was
alone in the place. took s224 in cash and
s1.400 in notes from the cash register
and $50 from Schiffman's pockets He
was beaten unconscious with their pistol
butts when he tired to resist.
A crowd coming from the nearby
elevated station was passing the door
at the time and cooks and bakers we're
in other parts OF the restaurant, but the
robbers worked SO quietly and quickly
that no one saw them.
Policeman Curtin at about the same
time arrested a man in 18th street.
near Lexington avenue, after firing three
shots at him. Oscar Olkinen, a cable
splicer. charges that the man held him
up and took IS from him as he was en-
tering his home at 23h East 120th street
The man was booked as Frank Lorer. a
longshoreman.
George Sche'rer. q ticket SPECTATOR.
was arrested at 1:40 A. NJ. when iden-
titled by George Wolf. a bartender. NJ
one of three men who had beaten and
robbed him of $50 a short time before
at Third avenue and Fifty-elghth street
Wolf said he was attacked by three
men who jumped from an automobile.
When they left him he ran to the sta
ton and took up the hunt for his as
sailants with Detective Hughes. Spot
ting Wolf alighting from car on Third
avenue, ne yelled. There's the man."
and rushing at him got home healthy
waliop before Hughes could put the
handouts on him. In the excitement the
other two men In the car drove off.
Max Alpern was arrested on a Madi-
son avenue surface car early yesterday
on complaint of Mario Fontano, q COM
mission merchant. who charged him with
attempting to pick his pocket.
Policeman Thomas OHanlon Of the
Stapleton precinct. Staten Island. caught
one OF four men whom he saw carrying
heavily laden suit cases to the, ferry at
st. George at o'clock yesterday morn
Ing. When the men saw O'Hanlon they
dropped the cases and started to run
He fired at them and blew his whistle
but John Eatora, IT, of 413 First avenue.
Manhattan, was the only flushed bird
who came to hand. The suit cases con-
tained about $1,000 worth of mems haber-
dasheIy, and O'Hanlon, working on a
cope pay, was sure that that was more
than any four men in the world could
rightfully possess. His shrewd deduc-
tion proved correct later in the day when
George z. Egbert reported that his
haberdashery at IS Oretta street, Tomp-
kinsville, has been looted.
Meanwhile the police and Commits
sioner Enright have not. so far as couid
be learned, rejected the advice which
Mayor Hylan asked II he might not Of
fer on Friday with regard to the bandit
situation. All suspicious vehicles and
persons on the streets after midnight are
being searched and questioned. All pa
trolmen are watching for cars whose
license plates are not plainly visible.
So confident are the police, however
that in the quick arrest by Detective
DAILY OF Hope, Mcintyre and Burke they
have struck the heart of the gang that
the special squad OF twenty detectives In