New-York tribune., 1920-09-28
Two Robbers
Shot i'm Battle
After Hold-Ul7

| negro chauffeur, Robert Armstead, to
follow it.
Arjelo's car is a powerful one and
his chauffeur a skillful driver. They
had no difficulty in keeping the fugi-
.tives in sight. At l21st Street both
cars swung to the east and Arjello,
| to his vast relief, saw the blue uni
Park Avenue.
I've been held upl" he shouted
leaning out OF the car as it approached d
Fatrolman Eugene Jennings.
Jennings, had marked the speed of
| the first car and the aspect of its
occupants and was poised for q leap
which took him to the running board
I of Arjello's car. The fugtives turned
south on Second Avenue and at 11Ath
Street Patrolman James O'Sullivan
Joined Jennings on Arjello's running
board
The chase led two more blocks to the
south. Then the robbers, apparently
realizing that they could not outspeed
| their pursuers, turned west into 112th
Street. Both patrolmen smiled con-
tfdently. The pursuit was leading
| toward thoroughfares that would be
congested with the late afternoon traf-
tic and they believed that soon the
CaI hHe1Q would De stalled.
Just west Of Second Avenue, how
ever, the robbers car slowed down and
two men jumped out. Arjello's car had
not crossed Second Avenue and neither
patrolman could use his revolver with
out endangering score of persons on
| that street. The two men darted into q
mouse on the north side Of 112th Street
and that was the last seen of them
Robbers Open Fire
The car which they had left was NOV
ing at a snails pace, and Jennings and
O'Sullivan believed that the chase was
over They leaped from their perch
and began running toward it. As thev
DID so the car stopped, and all three
Of its occupants leaned far over the
side, revolvers in hand, and began to
! tlazc away Gs fast as they could pull
triggers.
The patrolmen took shelter. Jen
| nlngs crouched behind a hydrant and
O'Sullivan sought to shelter his bulk
behlnd an inadequate lamppost. They
returned the fire and saw splinters fly
from the back Of the car At that it
began to move slowly ahead again, the
driver returning to his post, while his
fire on the policemen.
One of their bullets went throuoh
Jennlngs's blouse without touchi aAhim.
he and O'Sullivan darted from lamp
post to stsop and from stoop to lamp
post, firing at the fueitives from each
vantage point. The battle lasted all the
way through the block to Third Ave
nue..
There Patrolmen Allen Dooley and
John Murphy, of the East 104th Street
station, stumbled across it on
their way to supper. Dooley ran to
the middle Of the street and lcve!ed
MS revolver at the driver of the car,
shouting for him to halt A bullet that
lifted his cap from his head was his
answer. but the next moment the car
stopped and it's three occupants were
made prisoner.
Two Wounded in Head
The driver said ne was Salvatore Di
Cola. of 2l26 Second Avenue. Accord
ing to the police he carried two pis
tolls, one of them of Spanish make.
His companions gave their names as
John Bataglio, Of 1879 Cherry Street,
and Harry Laforte. of Is Monroe
Street. Each of them had a revolver,
the police said, and two more, one of
them ArJello's, were found on the floor
Of the car. Both Bataglio and Laforte
had slight bullet wounds in the head.
HeS we're locheo up AT tne East
1o4th Street police station, charged
with felonious assault and robbery,
while the reserves held back crowd
numbering several thousand persons
which gathered about the station AS
soon as the crowd was dispersed the
reserves were posted about the block
in which the two robbers had disap-
peared in the hope of intercepting
their escape
John Marino, Of o42 East 112th
Street. eleven years old. who got a
bullet in the right arm, was taken to
Harlem Hospital Mary Forestein, of
2l5 East ll2th Street. six years old
who was hit in the left shoulder, was
able to 20 home after her wound had
been dressed