The New York herald., 1920-12-29

ruandad To know who they were. ana
when informed. the detectives say. tried
20 lump out into the street Allies m
formed the women they were engaged IN
real serious business. To emphasize ais
remarks he drew q pistol from ms sue
pocket. This cowed the women. VINO
dropped back into their seats. ana the
detectives ordered the chauffeur to drive
90 the West Sixty-eighth street station.
While this was happening Detectives
Lawless, Meringo and Manning were aa-
ninistering the leather py which
name the police refer TO blackjacks' TO
Chaffee and Bitzburger in the other car
Levine, who was driving, had been GOV,
cred with a pistol and readily acceoe1
20 the demand to drive to the stat'o"
house q.
Ritzbureer answered closely the de-
rcription given the police of one OK the
robbers who killed Edwin w. Andrews
senior member OF the Arm OF Andrews *
winston, silversmiths. In his Office at of5
Fifth avenue on December TO- LuAe
Mulligan, the aged messenger anu
Arthur Mertz and Vincent Provenzahl;
xhe jewelry statesmen, who were pouhu
and gagged by the thieves, were sum
moned to Police Headquarters py IN,
spector Coughlin to see II they coulu
identify Bitzburger or Chaffee. Inc tnreo
a line composed of detectives and the
two prisoners without recognizing any
one.
INSPECTOR Coughlin was closeted WITH
Bitzburger and Chaffee for severai nours,
at the end OF which he announced they
had made statements. In order that
newspapermen might get first intorMa-
ton regarding these statements tne In
spector summoned Chaffee from rear
room and had him recount his me
history from 1914. when he enlisted In
the army in San Francisco. up TO the
hour of his arrest. Chaffee told his
story as though the telling Of 1t relieved
him greatly.
Four men participated IN the bank
robbery. A posse OF citizens. headeo Dy
the Mayor OF Milltown. surprised them
at work The robbers fled through the
rear OF the bank and two OF them, FRANK
sailor" Voorhees, and Walter watson
were arrested In an adjoining building'
Chaffee and Bitzburger walked and ran
ell the way to jamestown. distance
OF fifteen miles, where they obtained
train to New York. voorhees, and
Walter were indicted, tried and convicted
of the crime the following day They
hays been sen. to prison for from seven
TO ten years each.
Got Terms I'm Leavenworth.
chaffee, who is 81 years old. said he
lived with his wife. Mrs. Rose Clara
Chaffee, at 203 West 11ith street. He
was in Manila In 1915 when he assault
ed an officer and was sent 10 Fort
Leavenworth. II was there that he met
Bitzburger who had been convicted OF
the same offence. chaffee was released
In 1918 and came on to New York and
was married here In July OF that year.
Since then, he said. he had been en-
ployed as a chauffeur by Edward ].
Farmer OF 16 East Fifty-sixth street
Bitzburger got out OF prison this year
and also came to this city after having
spent a short time in Lancaster, Pa,
where he met and was married to his
wife two and half months ago. Bitz-
burger planned the robbery. Charee
said. and supplied the aocompices with
the tools for opening the bank safe and
guns. Bitzburger gave Chaffee $500 to
buy the car the robbers used in the
crime.
Levine is accused of acting in concert
with Bitzburger and Chaffee. The police
say his part consisted of trying to dis
pose of the securities. which was done
a few days ago in Wall street. 1t was
when the securities were offered for sale
that tho police learned of the location OF
the robbers. Levine. who lived In the
same house with Bitzburger. was traced
from "go between" in Old Slip to the
Seventy third street apartment. lnspec-
tor Coughlin declined TO say where the
securities were recovered.
Mrs Chaffee and Mrs. Vera Bitzbur-
ger admitted. Inspector Coughlin said.
that they knew their husbands had par
ticipated in the crime. They said that
the pistols found in their bags were the
property OF their husbands. Neither OF
the women was held by the police In
connection with the robbery.