New-York tribune., 1920-12-24


tae part of patroinsen. He directed
tKat captains lecture to the men OF
their command on their duties.
The arrest last night OF Harry
Spann, OF sig West Forty seventh
Street, and Kasper FurmaA proprietor
OF q dress shop at 1913 West Forty
seventh Street. was said by the police
70 solve series of burglaries in apart
ment houses from Fifteth to Fifty
ninth streets, between Fifth and Madi-
son avenues.
After being lodged in the East Fifty
first Street station Spann confessed ac-
cording to the police, to the apartment
h,ase robberies. AS result of the
alleged confession Furmai WAS taken
into custody.
In Furman's shop, it is charged, were
found dresses valued at more than
$4,000 which were stolen from the
apartment houses in questions. Mrs
George Thoms, of 81 East Fifty fourth
Street; Mrs Frederick Knight, of 73l
Lexington Avenue, and Miss Lucille
Grunning, of 12S East Fifty seventh
street, whose quarters had been robbed,
Identified some OF tho gowns, the police
asserted. They also said they recov-
cred chest of silverware, valued at
$1,000, which. was stolen from Mrs.
knights apartment.
Spann, it is said by the police, has
been operating for several months, al
ways in tre late afternoon. In each
case new tack hammer had been used
to jimmy the apartment door.
Tack Hammer Is Clew
Always the burgisr left the tack
hammer behind him together with its
blue paper wrapping. which was ascer-
taired to come from Macys. Detectives
Jones, Hauser and Hooker, of the East
ffty-first Street stat on, took up their
Eafch in the hardware depa of
Mays and their vigilance was re-
~arded yesterday, when. they say, they
saw Spann come in and buy tack
hammer.
''Hhey trailed their quarry up Fifth
Avenue to Fifty-seventh Street. He
rui ned west there, they assert, and
entered No. II, an apartment house.
these premises are just inside the
new thieves deadIne district estab-
ished by Commissioner Enright.
Spann, it is ALLEGED. climbed the
stalrs to the second floor The de-
tectives waited in tie lower hall few
minutes and then heard G woman
cream. She was the negro maid III
the apartment of II. NJ. Gals. The
leuths dashed for the stairs, hut Spann
vas too quick for them. He eluded
oapture for the moment and sped east
n Eiftv-seventh Street. At Madison
venue Traffic Patrolman JOSEPH O'Con-
nell put his bulk in the path Of Spann's
200 pounds and handcuffed him.
A chauffeur by trade, Spann told the
police. they say. that he has found
burglary a much more lucrative and
lu tAy, H.,
Friends of Furman appeared before
Nagistrate Tobias in Night Court last
evening and asked him to fix bail for
the shopkeeper, who is charged with
criminally receiving the apartment
house loot
The magistrate refused to do so and
ordered that Furman be held without
bail.
When Robert Ryan, of 2277 Grand
Avenue, the Bronx, was arraigned in
night court On disorderly conduct
charge by Patrolman Patrick Carr, of
he East l04th Street station, who testi-
led the defendant struck him when he
ordered him TO move on, Frank Surello,
cf 234 East 10th Street, stepped for
ward and identified Ryan as a man he
said held him up in hallway near his
home on the night OF December II and
robbed him of SIS and an overcoat.
Magistrate Tobias held Ryan without
bail on a charge of robbery. Detective
lanes f. Fitzgerald had observed q
Ike ness to Surello's description of the
hoid-up' man when Carr brought his
prisoner to the station house and had
sarello on hand in court
Man Mysteriously Shot
Ps trdlman Grimes, OF the A,nity
sation; heard shots in a rooming house
At 10 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, last
light and hastened to investigate.
Ee found Alto Zalenti, forty-four
ears old, lying in bed, with five gun
hot wounds in the chest and abdomen.
The victim was removed to Long Island
College Hospital. where it was said
he may die, in an unconscious condition.
The police refused to divuige what,
i ANYTHING, their investigation of the
ahooting had brought forth Thev ad-
n.itted they had found no trace of
Zalenti's assaiiant.
The arrest OF Ashby p. Long, who
described himself as a salesman, twen-
ty-seven years old, of 1925 New York
Avenue. Brooklyn, followed his being
observed by guests of the Hotel Endi-
colt, Eighty-frst Street and Columbus
of the sixth floor, 81 suitcase in his
hand. The hotel clerk notified the
West Sixtyeighth Street station, and
Detective Joseph Lawless went to the
notel and took Long prisoner.
IN the suitcase, the police assert,
Tss found jewelry valued at $1,000, the
property of Mrs. Irene jaeger, wife of
!. r. jaeger, president Of the Trade
siotor Trucking and Storage Company.
long Is s'alleged to have confessed to
having entered Mrs. Jager's room In
ne Endicott with key and stolen the
gems. Several keys and pawntickets
we're found on the prisoner, the police
4ay.
Burglar Map Captured
map Of Greenwich Village, with
notations indicating the best doors OF
certain houses TO jimmy and the time
when policemen pass given points. was
Found wner John Vernotico. of 196
Prince Street, was searched at the
Charles Stree station Verno.ico and
Joseph Gordella, seventeen years old
we're arrested by Detective John Kcll,
IN SUSPICION CT robbing the home
q Anna Snyder. 1l6 Waverley Place
.ase Tuesday night OF household goods
valued at $1,000. Each prisoner was
aeld in $4,000 bail by Magistrate
Levine.
The police suppressed until yeAter-
fay tAat watches and jewels valued al
@l,e00 had been stolen last Monday
night by thieves who hurled BRICK
through the window of Maurice Pig
ness shop at SO East Twenty-third
street No arrests have been made.
4 bandit walked into the delcatessen
store Of Carl Helmond, SIT East 162d
street, The Bronx, in broad daylight