The evening world., 1920-12-29

war, and met again in this city about
eight months ago.
All four OF the men who took part
in the burglary were former service
men. Chaffee and Bitzburger did not
serve overseas, but the others did.
Frank Flahagan. who was released
recently after eighteen months in the
death house at Sing Sing Prison and
who was arrested ION suspicion" yes
terday by Detectives Flood and
Sheedy Of Police Headquarters was
held in $4,000 bail to-day by Magis-
trate Mancuso on charge Of rob
bing David Saylor. a messenger for
the ProTdent Diamond Company, Of
100000 worth of diamonds in a hold
up at 49th Street and Seventh Ave-
nue. on Nov. 27 Flanagan denied
knowledge of the hold-up.
There's the man who held me up
Sunday morning." said Frank Miller
of No. 314 East S1st Street to-day to
Patrolman Michael Murphy Of Old
Slip Station, pointing to man in
Fulton Street. Murphy arrested a
man who said he was Alfred Knapp
OF No. "a Debrosses Street Knapp
was taken TO Brooklyn, where the
robbery occurred, and was held in
$4,000 bail on a charge Of assault
and robbery. Miller said Knapp and
two other men held him up On the
Clark Street subway platform taking
SIC and 800 diamond ring.
REP oRTS BURGLARY FOUR
TIMES WITHOUT RESULTS!
Miss Anna McCabe Of No. 7l6 Lex
ington Avenue complained to-day
that burglary in her apartment on
Christmas Eve had been reported to
the police of the East Fifty-first
Street Station four times without any
apparent result. The police had not
been near her, she said. and the en-
tire house was in a STATE OF terror
as this is the second burglary there
in the last week. Miss McCabc's loss
she stated TO be about $3.50, mostly m
wearing apparel. She said that Mrs
Edward Olsen, occupying the apart
ment overhead, had been robbed a
few days before OF $500 sealskn
coat.
Detective Charles Flaherty OF the
West 47th Street Station early to-
day telephoned from Philadelphia Of
the arrest there OF a man calling
himself Carl Wehner alias CHARLES
Wilson, charged with completely in
the Hotel Astor hold-up Dec. IS, for
which Lawrence Hawthorne was
sentenced for from thirty to sixty
years.
Wehner has already been indicted
here, il is understood, and was
caught through a uecoy letter He
denied completely in the hold-up and
said he would hight extradition.
Fifteen men, including the pro-
prietor, Irving Fishman, were ar
rested early to-day in a restaurant
at No 1872 Eldridge street following
a free-fOr-all fight. They were
locked up IN the Clinton Street sta
tion charged with disOrderly conduct.
Patrolman Frederick Ross Of the
Clinton Street station fell while run
ming into the restaurant and was
taken to GOuverneur Hospital with a
sprained left ankle. Max Mitt.
twenty three, OF No. 54 Rivington
Street patron, was cut On the face
badly by a piece of glass. He was
not arrested.
Detectives touring the district for
bandits saw the men in a battle.
Fishman vas unable to explain how
the fight started and said he tried TO
stop it,
George +. LsBrun, secretary to the
Department Of the Chief Medical Ex-
aminer and OF the Legislative Society
for the Preservation of Human Life,
Is preparing an amendment to the
New York penal code to provide that
revolver permits can he issued in New
York City only by the Police Com
missioner and in all other parts OF the
State by a Justice or a Judge in a
court of record, thus preventing the
promlscuous Issuing OF permits by
Justices OF the Peace.