The New York herald., 1920-12-28

iuAQc, IL IS SAID put lnS SOihihiSStS'tSt
found he could not obtain an armery
instead the drill room on the fourth moor
Of Police Headquarters will be utilized
Men who have been engaged for years
in the work of grinding out recruits SAID
they did not envy Capt. Sconelds task.
as there is bound TO be great amount
Of confusion since there viii be more
than 700 young men jostiing each ether
in the drill room each afternoon when
the classes change.
A. II. IdIer IL Identified.
August r. Idler. who was arrested
Christmas night after he had applied at
New York Hospital for treatment Tor
cuts and bruises about the mead ana
body. was identified positively yesterday
oy Robert l.. ireland, retired manu-
facturer, as the man who assaulted nun
and his wife in their apartment IN tne
Murray Hill Hotel last Friday morning.
The identification of Mr. and Mrs. Ire
land was supplemented by that OF Major
Ernest Bevington of the British army,
who was a guest in the hotel the night
of the attempted robbery and had struck
the thief between the eyes as he Ned
downstairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ireland tried to identity
the youth Saturday evening, but potn
we're of the opinion Idler was taller than
the man who had attacked them. What
ever doubts they may have entertained
Saturday were dissipated yesterday when
they looked at the youth when he was
arraigned before Magistrate Max ,.
Levine in Jefferson Market Court. Mr.
Ireland was 50 positive he insisted on
being listed personally as the complain
ant against the youth.
Detective Roscoe Jenkins OF the West
Thirtieth street station. who arrested
Idler in an extensively furnished Har-
lem apartment Saturday night. said the
youth had been arrested before for a
hotel robbery and that while he neVei
mad been arrested in this city before, the
police expect to be able to fasten a few
Of the recent hotel thefts here on him.
Idler served prison sentence, jenkins
said. for robbery he committed in a
J hiladelphia hotel. The detective gave
it as his opinion that the furnishings and
forty suits of clothes found in ldler's
Harlem home could not be purchased
for $4,000. The apartment, he said,
cost the youth at the rate of $4,000 a
year, although he had only occupied 1t
for five weeks. Magistrate Levine held
Idler in $4,000 bail for hearing De-
cember 81.
Four Held as Heldups.
The police believe at least one holdup
in this city and another in Hawthorne,
~ j., will be cleared up through the
arrest yesterday OF Charles r. Larsen of
269s Eighth avenue; John Huther. 29, OF
26 Central avenue. Hawthorne Daniel
Naughton "a, of 522 West 124th street.
and Joseph Hughes. %, of 30S West
145th street. The New Jersey holdup
was that of the Community Club two
weeks ago. John Guinness, driver of
milk wagon. was the victim of the Man.
haitian holdup. which occurred December
13 at Macomb's Dam road and 1S5th
street. Guinness lost $4,000.
Detectives said they went to the home
of Larsen TO arrest him for the Hacken-
sack police and there found Huther,
who. they say. had a loaded pistol In
his pocket Both Larsen and Huther
were taken TO Police Headquarters,
where they were questioned by In
spector John D. Coughlin. head OF the
Detective Division, and are reported
10 have made statements duplicating the
other two men. whose arrest followed.
The four men returned voluntarily 70
Hackensack. the police OF which city re-
ported last night that they had been
identified as the bandits who have been
ierrorizing the shopkeepers of towns In
:. Bergen county for the last few weeks.
Among the towns where the men are
alleged TO have held up citizens are
Fairlawn, Midland Park. Oakland and
Ridgefield. Larsen. Hackensaek detec-
tives said. is the leader of the band.
Naughton formerly was the proprietor
Of a garage In Bergenfelds. where there
have been two holdups recently.
Five men arrested Saturday by one Of
Mr.. Enright's roundup squads on sus-
picion OF connection with a holdup OF
a Harlem grocer were released yester-
day by Magistrate Ten Eyck In Harlem
Court for lack of evidence. The men
had described themselves as John
Bransheid. "a, OF 1877 East 1924 street |:
Ernest Slezaek, 81, of 353 East Eighty
seventh street: Louis Roth. 2S. of 486
Williams avenue. Brooklyn; John J.
Bastable. 26, OF o65 West 129th street.
and Ludwig Richie. 26. Of 3l5 East
1884 street. The Bronx.
Benjamin Cooper, 26 years old a
chauffeur OF 233 East Twelfth street,
was walking past Arlington Hall. in st.
Marks place, yesterday morning when
he was shot in both legs. Detective
Moore Of the Narcotic Squad and ne-
tectives Smythe and Quinn of the Fifth
street police station arrested John
Bazaraick 25. OF 52i East sixteenth
street; his wife. Helen. 20 years cid
Daniel Dolan. a. of 206 Avenue ID, and
Mary Prof.tka. IS. a telephone operator,
Of 543 East Thirteenth street, In con-
nection with the shooting. All four
were held by Magistrate Douras In
Essex Market Court Ia s5o0 bail eacs
Tor further examination
Held for Grand Jury.
Three men were held for the Grand
Jury by Magistrate Silberman In Wash
ington Heights Court. accused of rob-
bling Herbert May, a salesman, of 356
West 10th street, OF gold watch and
chain. a stickpin and IS as he lay
asleep on a bench in the 1s1st street
station Of the West Side subway. The
trio described themselves as Max Sand
Ter. 23. OF Ill Bloomfield avenue. Ho-
boken James Brown, 20, of 214s Fifth
avenue, and John Hall, IS. OF "a West
136th street. Policeman Herman Ringer
of the West 1T7th street station said
another passenger who was waiting for
train saw the men going through
Nays pockets and notified him.
Benedict Dlneen, Assistant District
Attorney characterized as bold and
nudaclous" the statement made by Ber-
nard ". Sander. attorney for Nicholas
Jaresch. who has been indicted in con-
nection with the Staying of Police Lieut..
Floyd Horton Mr.. Sander. In the state
nent. declared that District Attorney
Swanns office was letting the real
nurderers OF Lieut.. Horton GO free. he
referred 20 Mrs. lucille Emma Brooks
and John Cavanaugh. who testified be-