New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Police Shoot at
Thief i'm Chase
On Fifth Ave.
Robber, With Four Others.
Interrupted in Attempt
to Hold Up a Restaurant
in the Shopping District
Exciting r ace Follows
Fugitive Halted by a Blow
From Club; Friend Found
i'm House Where Grim Died

John Troy, twenty-one years old
sprinted through the retail shonning
district early yesterday pursued By tw,
patrolmen, who fired ten shots he
they caught up with him and one o,
them knocked him down with a clus
They arrested Troy On a charge ~
trying to rob the London Coffee Horss
at l07 West Thirty-hfth Street. wber.
the chase started.
Louis Vros, proprietor Of the nlace
said four men staggered into Tia
coffee house and one of them aske5
Where is the money!" Troy tbsn
threw some cards in his face ard
kicked him in the stomach, Vros saS
at that momen. Patrolmen Wal.er
Clancy and Harold J. Bowers ,n.
peared and lookout warned the ouar.
tet, who suddenly sobered Up and scat.
tered. The patrclmen pursued Tro,,
east on Thirty fifth Street. and nm
Fifth Avenue. The fugitive turned
east on Forty-second Street dodeino
early commuters in front CT the Grand
Central Station, and reached Third
Avenue before the policemen wara rs,o
close enough to use club. TROY fell
when he was hit, but picked himself
up and tried to go on. After repeated
blows he surrendered Patrolman
Bowers broke his right wrist in fall
during the chase.
While Troy was being led to tho
Ihirtieth Street station James !
Ready, thirty years old, was arrestad
as one of the four who fed He was
taken in his room at 1853 West Thir.v-
fourth Street, where Edward Han
Grim, West Virginia banker. was
found dying on August of mornh;ne
poisoning. At that time Ready WIS
arrested, but was dismissed when he
showed that some one mad. forced TIM
door to the room and had admitted
Grim. while Ready was in the Herald
Square Hotel.
Ready and Troy were arraigned be.
fore Magistrate Raphael Tobias in JEFF
ferson Market court and were held in
$4,000 bail for examination Tuesday.
Both said they lived at 1O5 West lSSth
Street. a
Nross the restaurant proprietor, iden-.
tilted them as members Of the nold-up
gang. They confessed, according to the
police.
A description or the gang agrees
with that of four men who visited the
Epicurean Restaurant, at Seventh Ave
nue. and Thirty-fifth Street, shortly
before the attempt to rob the London
Coffee House One of them seized an
apple and ran out. and when the
cashier failed to pursue him the others
departed.
Yesterdays arrests disclosed the rob-
berry of the Liberty Restaurant. on
Seventh Avenue, near Thirty-eighth
Street, on Tuesday night. v nile .wo
men, wearing caps, leveled revoIvers at
about fifteen customers two others took
Sl95 from the cash register The pro-
prietor said the police asked him rot
to disclose the incident. so that they
might have a better chance to catch
the men. .
A woman superintendent OF the
house where Ready roomed SAID that
Re was seldom there at right. but slept
there by day and often had visitors,
one Of whom wGs Troy. Ready had
told her OF { brother, manage in ons
Of the leading hotels. An ass slant
manag in one hotel said yesterday
that he had q brother named James ).
Ready, but did not know where he vas,
and did not Gaze. because the brother
always wanted money.