New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

amount of her loss, but said the jewels
were very valuable.
''The police told me they would re-
cover them for me-" she added, but
did not know upon what they based
their confidence.
crashing window pane aroused
Warren Crane, a broker, when q
burglar tried to break into his home,
124 East Sixtieth Street, early yester-
day Mr.. Crane blew a police whistle
and saw a man drop from the second
story to the backyard. Policemen who
responded found nothing of the burglar
except his penknife.
Men out of work must get jobs, go
to Jail or stay in their own homes,
police told hangers-on in saloons and
billiard halls yesterday. Uniformed
lieutenants and sergeants, detectives
and inspectors plainclothes men made
the rounds Of the city's lounging
places, asking all they found if they
were working and where.
Occasionally one Of the unemployed
would ask the copper to get him a job.
He was told not to get funny and that
if he couldn't find work it would be
advisable for him to stay indoors.
Patromen on post went through the
same motions with men and boys
idling on street corners.
Forty-two suspects in Manhattan
Headquarters and twenty in the lineup
in Brooklyn yesterday morning were
the net results of Monday nights
roundup by the police. Most of them
were later discharged A number were
held in magistrates courts on charges
of suspicion of robbery and carrying
weapons.
Among those who fell into the net
VII
ward, farmers, Of Gouverneur, N. Y.
They had read in the papers Mayor Hy-
lan's clarion call to citizens 20 arm
themselves and so, when they started
to the city to see the sights, they in
cluded revolvers in their travelling
equipment. Patrolman Judge stopped
the taxi they were riding in, searched
their suitcases, found the guns and
locked them up. They were held in
$1,000 bail in jefferson Market Court
for trial in Special Sessions.
Three reyolvers, 200 rounds Of am
munition, $50 house KEYS and 500
worth Of jewelry and a lot of merchan-
disc and pawn ticke.s we're Iound in
raid on furnished room at 463 Thir-
tysixth Street, Brooklyn. The occu
pants of the room were Eugene Hal
vey, nineteen years old; Sugurd Ness,
nineteen, and Walter Van Dyke, eight
cen.
"If we'd seen you first we'd have
shot you" Patrolmen Stevenson and
Young said Van Dyke told them
Patrolman John Delaney arrested
Maude Wechcrley, thirty-hve years old,
motion picture actress, of 115 West
Ninety fifth Street, early yesterday SO
she wouldn't run the risk of being rob-
bed Of her jewels Delaney testified in
West Side Court he found Miss Wech-
erlev entertaining a crowd on the side
walk at Eighty-ninth Street and Co.
lumbus Avenue by singing in the small
hours of yesterday.
"On account of the crime wave [
thought it would be best TO take her in
before somebody got her diamonds"
the policeman said.
Miss Wccherlcy, said to be known az
Maude Vancott in the film studios,
thanked the patrolman for his thought
fulness and Magistrate Mancuso sus-
pended sentence.
Commissioner Enright yesterday sent
to the head Of each city department a
letter requesting that their various in
spectors and Investigators report to
the police any suspicious persons, cir
cumstances or places they observe in
the course Of their daily duties.
Margaret Ang in, the actress, last
night reported to the police of Ahe
West Sixty eighth Street station that
her passenger limousine had beer
stolen. She said that her chauffeur
left the machine in front of a restau-
rant where he went fer luncheon ant
that when he came out the car hac
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