New-York tribune., 1920-12-29
Bank Thieves
Taken In Battle
On Broadway
lCcn.inued from paas onel

were taken only because the Pnkerton
Detective Agency, after recovering
$4,000 of the loot when q go-between
tried to sell it to Wall Street firm,
furnished the clew Upon which the ,po-
lice made the arrests.
The third man in the car was Ches-
ter ]. Levine. He was booked with the
ether two, charged With being a fugi-
tive from justice.
In the tax icab With the women were
Two suitcases, packed with their be
icngings and those of their husbands
in which the detectives found two re-
yolvers-a .38-caliber and a AS auto
matte The women said the guns be-
longed to Chaffee and Bitzbercer Eac'l
-aid she knew her husband had Grim
nal record.
Detectives Allies, Manning, Herman,
Ieriagola and Lawless and Pinkerton
Operative Grogan took up their station
across the street from Bitzberger 5
apartment, at 238 West Seventy third
Street, about s O'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Shortly after noon they saw Bitzber-
ger come downstairs aud e. into tele-
phone booth in = cigar store on the
Z neg. Detective Allies entered the
adjoining booth AMI says he heard the
alleged bank burglar tell some one on
he other end that he needed 500
more TO have enough money to get out
Of town.
a few moments later Mrs. Bitzherger
nd Mrs Chaffee, each carrying q suit
case, appeared on the sidewalk, walked
around to SeventY-second Street and
stepped into a taXicab Allies and
Kiernan edged toward the taxcab and
kept watch or it. The women told the
driver &c wait awhile.
Police Trap Suspected Men
Not long afterward a touring car,
with Levine at the wheel and Chafee
seated beside him, drove up TO the
Broadway side of the st. Andrews and
bitzberger climbed IN Manning, Law
,ss' and Meringola jumped to the run
iirg board just as Levine was about to
Start the car and ordered him to halt
he rolice thought they observed in
on. Of the prisoners a resemblance Il
member Of the bandit gang that muir.
Crred Edwin II. Andrews in his jewclry
sho9 at Fortv-ffth Street and Fifth
AYnuue about ten days ago and escaped
with $4,000 il gems They sent fol
The two ieWelry salesmen and the mes
senger who were bound and gagged By
the Andrews despcradoes. but they
Tere unable to identify either Biz
oe~rer or Chafee
1t was said at Headquarters that sew
er&l recent burglaries in Westcheste
County might be fastened on the pair
Both Chaffee and Bitzberger, accord
ing to the police, confessed 70 the Mill
town Bank job The other two me,
who participated in 1t were captured b
posse that surrounded the bank build
ing, and sixteen hours later they plead
ID guilty to grand larceny in the Mid
dieSex County Court and we're sen
fenced TO serve from seven to tie
Years eaca II state prison at Trenton.
The police said last night the tw
women would probably be released, a
there was nothing to indicate they ha
had knowledge of the alleged recen
operations OF their husbands. Chafe
SAID ne had been working as a chaui
'eur for Edward l. Farmer, Of 16 Eas
Fifty sixth Street
Chaffee was sent to Leavenworth !
1915 for assaultng an army officer i
Manila. He met Bltzbereer, who wa
sent up for similar offense, in l91'
they renewed their acquaintance j
New York about seven months ag,
tach accused the other Of having su4
gested the Mllltown robbery, the polio
said.
Gem Theft Kent Hidden
The theft Of Jewels valued Mt 50 90
last Monday by two Latin American
who iured q young man 10 TIER apart
ment. where they oeat and robbed hin
was not made public by the police un
III yesterday. No arrests had bee
made up TO last night
William Beauchei, OF Newark. n !
"hose mother had advertised for sal
IN Spanish language newspaner 0em
at II West Fighty-fourth Street WI
.ne Jewels after he had met two We
dressed Spaniards or South American.
"no mad answered the advertiser, er
and invited him TO call with his ware
beaucnef laid GU the jewels on
,2o'e, and, wo'ic one Of the suDpose
customers vas examining them "a
otner sreaked up behind him an
1ca.t him 4 blow or the head vii
I"o pieces Of broom handle, boua
with tape and eucased in .oweI.
Inc victim wss stunned. When y
ca"e t. to bandits mad dsappeare,
They evidently had left IN hurr.
because stoue5 valued al $4,000 wcr
scattered around the floor. A ravazin
in the apartment with the name Bur
oan written on il Is the only clcw th
police have.
A negro shot and Killed his commo
INV wiSe and then killed himself in
Limousine belonging 10 the lato E;nhe
Charles Sumner H1rch at 130th stree
and Seventh Avenue Just before foid
night Monday. The identity If IN
murderer and his victim and tho fa,
that the machine belonged 10 the B,gt
ops family and was driven BY thei
ehauneur were not learned until yc.
terday. '''
"ss: Lncia Harper, twenty years al,
nsgroes and Charles Brown, twent,
nvs years old, also negro Of tg