The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-16

man, menacing Whorley with his black
Jack. drove the Newark man into the
bathroom anad slammed the door on
him Handiboe, swinging his blackjack
at the two women, ordered them TO
stand behind the table, and while they
stood there he emptied their handbags
and then began stripping the jewelry
from their throats and fingers.
The bandit with the pistol approached
Linthwaite. He patted the newark mans
pockets and discovered the existence OF
a roll OF bills in his right hand trousers
pocket The bandit leaned forward,
thrust his hand into the pocket and drew
out S92 In cash. But as he did so his
eyes left I.lnthwate's face and the gun
wavssad for an instant. And In that
instant linthwste strrck downward
With all his force, his fist striking the
writ which held the gun. The weapon
leaped from. the mans grasp and clat-
tered across the floor.
With the bandit unarmed Linthwaite
leaped at him and they plunged TO the
floor in a desperate struggle. Linth-
waite struck the bandit several times
and was fast overpowering the man
when Handiboe abandoned his task of
robbing the women and jumped to his
confederate's aid. He struck Linthwaite
and once on the back of the head. The
second bandit was busy trying to keep
Worley in the bathroom and he was
having difficulty in doing so. Il re-
! ouired all of his strength to keep the
Newark man from pushing the door
open.
AS soon as Handiboe left them and
struck Linthwaite Mrs. Linthwalte and
Mrs. Morley began screaming. But they
al IN inc
They rushed around the table and threw
themselves upon Handiboe. kicking and
striking him and trying to wrench the
blackjack from his hand. Handiboe tried
TO slug them with his weapon, but the
best he could do was 10 kick Mrs. Linth
waite in the shns Meanwhile the
screams OF the women had been heard
ana from adjoining rooms there came a
great pounding on the wall. although nc
one appeared to help them
Mrs. L!nthwaite finally extr!cated her.
self from the struggling group on the
floor and made her way TO the telephone.
lodging several blows from Handiboe's
blackjack. She seized the instrument.
but for some reason she was unable to
get the operator. and after a moment or
so at the phone she was dragged away
by one OF the bandits She then ran 10
the|window and in spite OF the fact that
one Of the bandits was trying to strike
her she smashed the glass with her fist
and then thrust her hand through the
broken pane and waved il frantically.
II was Mrs. Llnthwaite's hand that Pa
trolman Tiffany saw from his post at
Broadway and Forty-fifth street.
Long Battle Rases On.
The smashing OF the glass spelled de-
feat to the bandits. One of them scram-
bled to his feet and yelled
BEAT It, Shorty. The cops is here"
The man who had been keeping the
bathroom door shut leaped for the door
and fled along the hallway without any
booty at all, closely followed by the man
who had been the leader of the gang and
whose revolver had been knocked from
his hand by Linthwaite. Handiboe was
unable to get away from Linthwaite aud
finally he squirmed loose and jumped for
the door. But as he passed the bath
room door it burst wide open and Wor-
ley. angry and hot. leaped out at him
and Jumped squaTely on his shoulders.
Handiboe went down. but got up, fight
ing and slashing with his blackjack.
Linthwaite was almost senseless on the
floor. but he crawled over and seized
the bandit by the ankles. throwing him.
The next instant Worley jumped upon
Handiboe and began pummelling him.
but again the bandit fought to his feet.
But Morley gripped the wrist that held
the blackjack and by twisting the mans
arm behind him forced him over to the
bed. There with the aid of his wife
and Mrs Linthwaite Morley threw the
man across the bed and pounced on him,
holding Handiboe's hand under him so
that the bandit could not use his black
jack Handiboe was getting rather a
bad beating when Tiffany and Burns
came into the room and placed him
under arrest. The blackjack was still
in his hand when the police got there.
but the hand was crampcd, and he
could not even let go OF the weapon.
much less use II in attack
In the West Forty-seventh street sta
tion Handiboe told tho police that he
knew the other two men only as Al and
Shorty ard that he had met them two
weeks ago IN a saloon at Eighth avenue
and Forty-third street
I'VE decided to stick UP some place.
he said. land we decided that the Astor
was about the best we could find
Handlboc told Detective Flarity that
he and Shorty and Al went to the Astor
shortly before S O'Clock and made their
way to the second floor. the first on
which there are sleeping quarters. They
wandered about the corridors, he said
and presently came to n room in which
the key had been left in the door.
THAT looked pretty soft" said Handl-
Doe. 80 in we went. But. say, there
wasn't much soft about it,