The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-20
STATEN ISLAND HAS
A DEATH MYSTERY
Arrest Of Three Follows Dis
covery of Mans Body Out
side of Window.
MORE CASES of H0LDUP
New Jersey Enjoys Busy Week
End With Bandits-Stolen
Car Is Recovered.
MORE CASES of HOLDUP

Inc police Oh oldlth iSioAAN NtS -
vestigating the mysterious death OF
Martin Capazi. "A years old. a copper
worker, whose body was found early
Yesterday morning outside the window
of his home DR.. George Mord, Chief
Medical officer of Richmond county
said that the circumstances led him TO
believe that the man had been murdered
and thrown out of the window.
Two men and a woman are being held
pending an autopsy and an investigation
by the police. Capazi roomed at tns
house of Stephen koss in Richmond
Valley. Stephen Demi. another copper
worker, rooned with CapazL hoss. MS
wife and Demi are being held
shortly after the body was found tne
police learned that Dem let Capazi INTO
the house at / o'clock yesterday morn
ing. He insisted that he did not nave
a quarrel with CapazL and that ne ana
not miss him until Koss ran into ms
room at 6 o'clock and told MIN tnat
| Capazfs body was lying OUTSIDE the
window. The police say that Il was
practically impossible for Capazi to have
fallen out of the window. The fact
that he was to change his boarding
place soon, they believe, may have had
something to do with quarrel.
Murder of Wife Charged.
1 John Heating. 50 years old. was ar
! raIgne, before MAGISTRATE Doyle in the
Flushine Court charged with the MUIR
der of his wife, Mary in the parlor OF
their home at 70 Forty ninth street.
4 Corona. He was held without pan lor
examination to-day.
! THE notice learned that Mrs Heating
left home Saturday following a quarrel
with her husband and returned that
night accompanied by Otto Knaack OF
124 Forty-ninth street, Corona, trlend
of Heating. Knaack told the police
/ that Heating met him, forced him at the
! point of a revolver to come TO MS mousse
| and have a drink with him. went into
the parlor where his wife was sitting
] and shot her through the breast
| The three Heating children knaacK
! said. were upstairs at the time They
| told the police that they heard their
/ father telephone the Flushing Hospital
that somebody had been shot. knaack
/ notified the police and Heating was ar
rested.
/ Detective Roscoe jenkins saw a tour
/ ing car pass him last night at SlNth
avenue and Thirty-sixth street he Pc
came Suspicious and arrested the driver
| and his companion and locked them up
in the West Thirtieth street police ST.
ton charged with grand larceny. They
gave their names as George GrapoSs
of 143 Aven1e B and Harry Newman
| who said he lived on Seventeenth street,
Conev Island Patrick Mccormick OF
| 1900 Carroll street. Brooklyn. identined
the automobile as enc which was stoien
from in front Of his home on December has,p
/ T. The police say that poth men nave
/ criminal records.
i MAGISTRATE Schwab in the. yorkville
! nolica court held three men in $500
bail for the Grand Jury on the charge
| of holding IN John Cassata. bartender
at 1874 Third avenue, early yesterday
! morning The men protested that they
were innocent Cassata charged them
| with stealing SIS from the cash register.
| but the police could not find that amount
! on them.
A man who gave his name as George
| Comm of IS Washington street was ar
rested early yesterday by Patrolman
NcInerney of the West Forty seventh
street station. Tho policeman was pass
| ing 124 West Forthwith street when he
saw man swing from the top of an ex-
tension roof to a fire escape and try the
window OF an apartment. Mclnerney
fred shot i'm The air and called to the
! man to throw IN his hands When the
{ policeman started toward him the man
went up the fire escape to the roof. where
he was subdued after brief struggle.
Four New Holdup Cases.
7 Joseph Genareno, 20 years old. of 10
/ Bowery. was arrested last night by De-
tective James Mccarthy of the Flatbush
precinct charged with assault and rob-
berry in connection with the holdup of
Frank Leese at 2115 Church avenue.
| Brooklyn, on November IA. The arrest
was made at 20 Park row.
Christopher Falls, manager of a meat
market in Hackensack, was carrying
bag containing 5000 when he was at
tackled and robbed late Saturday by a
man who sprang from back OF tree
opposite his home. at State and Camden
streets Falls had a revolver In his
pocket, but was unable 20 Use 1t. as he
was knocked unconscious by a blow
from a heavy iron pipe. He could give
no description of his assaiiant.
George Jeffries of Ridgefield Park,
v j., reported TO the police that man
attempted to hold him up near the Fort
Lee road crossing while he was on his
way home at 2 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. He fired two shots at the man,
who disappeared.
Mrs. z C. French of Oradell, ~. J.,
was stopped near Westwood by two men
on motorcycles and robbed OF s1S6. Mrs.
French. whose husband Is an official In
the Hackensack Water Company, said
the men were well dressed and had ex-
cellent manners except for their bandit
proeiivities.
DIR, Thomas Edgar Of as West End
avenue. whose wife was robbed Friday
night while driving through Central PARK
in a taxicab. announced Yesterday that
he would give a reward OF $500 for the
return OF the Jewels, which were worth
$1,000 Mrs. Edgar denied that the
| bandits searched her stockings
Patrolman Doughertv Of tho West
Thirtieth street station. on duty at
Broadway and West Twenty-ninth street,
saw two men following Miss Katherine
Maroney OF 206 West Thlrtieth street. as
she walked through Twenty-ninth street.
He hid IN a dark hallway. and as the
men passed he heard one OF them say
Go set her now !"
The policeman stepped from the hall
way as the two men ran toward Miss Ma
roney and tried 20 grab her handbag. re
seized both, and aftCr q fight ia which
he struck one with the butt Of his re-
volver, succeeded In ovorpowering both.
He took them to the West Thirticth
street station. where they gave their
names as John Collangelo OF 241 East
Twenty-eighth street and Joseph Lotto
of 20S East Twenty-eighth street. The
prisoners, according to the police. fol-
lowed Miss Maroney from Madison ave.
nue. and Twenty-nlnth street.
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