The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-18
DYING COP HELPS
ARREST OF THREE
Police Lieut.. Horton Kills Man
in Car Whose Shot Caused
His Own Death.
WOMAN AND 9 MEN HELD
Tragedies Follow JOY Ride and
Desire to Avenge Insult, Ac-
cording to Confession.
WOMAN AND 9 MEN HELD

Lieut.. Floyd Horton of the Police
Department died in Columbus Hos
pital early yesterday from a bullet
wound in his lung received in pistol
battle with bandits in an automobile
two hours before, but before he died
he handed to detectives at his bedside
a slip Of paper, wrinkled and dirty,
upon which, as he lay half conscious
on the pavement at Broadway and
I46th street, ne had scrawled the fig
ures 077s32, the license number of the
automobile.
And although Lieut.. Horton never
knew it. lying In the back seat Of tho
car as it sped swiftly down Broadway
was the dead body of the man who
had shot him. The bandit had been
killed by a shot fired by Lieut.. Horton
Just as he toppled from the running
board Of the car.
With the slip of paper and the num-
bers as a clue the police few hours
later arrested two men and a woman
and locked them up charged with hav-
ing been concerned in the shooting of
the lieutenant and in the holdup OF an
elevator operator in an apartment
house in $40 West 146th street. the
crime for which Lieut.. Horton was
trying to arrest them. The man who
shot the policeman and was himself
killed is said by the police to have
been Joseph Loresch OF 500 East Sixth
street, Brooklyn.
Three Under Arrest.
The prisoners are Joseph's brother.
Nicholas. also living at the Brooklyn
address; Mrs. Lucille Emma Brooks
and John Cavanaugh. both living at 20
Hamilton place, not far from the
apartment house in which the holdup
occurred. According to the police
Nicholas Loresch has confessed and
has given q complete account OF the
holdup and the killing which followed
It TO the detectives.
Nicholas Loresch was the first OF The
three 10 be arrested. As soon as Lieut..
Horton NaQ nRnutu 10 llt dettCtlNtS Ilo
piece OF paper with the license number
or IL a general alarm was sent out FOR
that car. Some time later Patrolmsn
Frank Benkler OF the Beach street Sta
ton found the car standing unoccup!ed
In front Of the building at s6 Beach
street. He waited patiently for a long
time for some one to come and claim II,
and finally Nicholas Loresch walked up,
got into the drivers seat and started 20
drive away. Benkler placed him under
arrest. and after brief questioning ~
headquarters the police say that the man
broke down and accompanied Detectives
Engander and Birmingham to the Ham
llton place address, where Mrs. BROOKS
and Cavanaugh were arrested.
The prisoners told OF having taken
Joe's body 90 the home OF another
brother, Michael Loresch, who drives a
delivery wagon for the New York Times
and lives at 2se West 14eth street, ana
Of having left 1t in the hallway before
Mlchaers door II was 6 :30 o'clock yes
terday morning when Michael came
home from work and found Il there. lie
picked UP the body and carried II into
the kitchen. where he put II on the floor.
Two hours later Michael went TO the
West 152d street police station and re-
ported his brothers death. He is being
held as a material witness