The sun., 1919-03-19
MAN WAYLAID AND
ROBBED BY 2 GIRLS
Abel Costello, Waiter, Is Re-
lieved of S196 on East
Side at Night.


the distinctive feature OF yesterdays
contribution to the current carnival OF
crime In this city. His story. told in
the Harlem court stuck out from the
maze OF the days murders. highway
robheries. assaults and other felonics
and misdemeanors
According TO Abel he was piodding
along toward his home, S77 Third ave-
nue.. at night, when he noticed two femi-
nine forms standing in a doorway. Man
like Costelli skirted the doorway to
avoid proximity to the women. but ac-
cordng to the tale he told IN court yes
terday. they grabbed him and pulled
him. resisting, into the vestibule, where
they relieved him Of his weeks pittance,
$ls6. Costelli Is a waiter.
As result of his story Mary Aurlo,
a. OF 1905 Third avenue was held In
$4,000 bail for examination tomorrow.
She is charged with grand larceny.
Ex-Fugilist Killed.
Two alleged ex-pugilists, neither OF
whom is recorded In ring history, figured
IN the days proceedings In the Brook
Ign courts. One OF them. wild BIZ
Rooney Of Brooklyn. was named as the
victim In murder charge preferred
against Angelo Clement, SO. a bartender,
OF 1927 Gates avenue In the Flatbush
court yesterday. Magistrate Reynolds
held Clement without bail. Rooney
was shot and killed In a saloon row at
100 Flatbush avenue.
Bert Spencer, another pugilist. was
arraigned in the Gates avenue court yes
terday on a charge OF assault. Two de-
tectives said they saw him and two
other men. who, as is Spencer. are en-
ployed as motormen by the B. r. T., at
tack a drunken man at Broadway and
lIalsey streets at 1 o'clock yesterday
morning. The detectives. thinking It was
a holdup, interfered and arrested Spen-
GER and his two companions after a
chase in which several shots were fired
by the detectives. Spencer's real name
h said to be Spencer Cavanaugh. He
lives at s62 Macon street. Brooklyn.
Private Frank Kruzinski. 25. OF II
Berry street. Brooklyn, who waswoupded.
gassed and shell shocked In the cours-
OF his overseas service. received n stab
wound under the heart and two in his
left hand In the course OF an alteration
In the Brooklyn streets early yesterday
morning. AS a result Stephen Gluck. So.
Of 159 Wythe avenue was arraigned in
the Bridge Plaza court yesterday on a
charge or felonious assault. kru5inskt
told the police at the Williamsburg Hos
pital that the stabbing was a result of a
feud dating back to a time he beat up
Chuck for forcing his attentions on Kru-
zinskis sister.
Wounded by Policeman.
A man who said he was James Kane
and homeless was shot in the back by a
patrolman early yesterday while attempt
ing to escape after he and four other
young men had been arrested IN connec-
ton with the robbery of a drugstore at
10 Manhattan avenue Saturday night.
The other men arrested In Connection
| with the same case described themselves
as John Sheehan, 23, of II Amsterdam
avenue: Bernard T. McGarry. 10. of 1853
West 12Sth street John Kilgalon. 20. of
1922 Eighth avenue William Rogers.
10. OF the Mills Hotel, Seventh avenue
and Thirty-sixth street.
Daniel Leechan, %. OF 337 Forty
fourth street, Brooklyn, a marine fire.
man. was held without bail on a charge
of burglary in tho Fifth Avenue Court.
Brooklyn. yesterday. Leechan is alleged
to have been one of three men who stole
linen valued at $3.50 from the cellar of
| an apartment house at Il Prospect Park
S. w. A colored janitress who saw the
robbers making away with the linen
raised a cry OF stop. thief" starting an
exciting chase which ended with the cap
ture OF Leechan