The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-17
MORE MURDERS
IN NEW YORK
New and UnsOlved Crimes
Set Public to Ridiculing
Police Force
TAXICAB BANDITS
KILL LIEUTENANT
Bullet -Riddled Body of Wen-Dressed
Man Found ON Street Early This
NIorning-These in Addition to An
drews Murder Stir City.

NEW YORK, Dee. E-ThTee more un-
solved murder mysteries, one involving
the theft of 100000 in iewelry and one
the Staying of police lieutenant, fur
nished more ammunition today for news
paper criticism of the police department.
Most spectacular of the new and nsolved
crimes was the hold-up and murder yes
terday in the heart of the fifth avenue
shopping district of Edwin Andrews,
wholesale ieweler
About midnight Police Lieutenant
Floyd Horton was mOrtally wounded by
taxicab bandits at l46th street and Broad
way when he leaped on the running board
Of their car in an effort to capture them.
Before he died in the hospital he said the
occupants of the car included a man and
a woman.
Almost at the same hour that he re-
ceiYed his death wound the body Of a
well-dressed man about 35 years old was
found bullet riddled in 10th street.
Today it was found that burglars had
blown open an old-fashioned safe in the
West l25th street court and looted 1t OF
$1,000.
Three arrests We're made today in con
nection with the murder of Lieut.. HOr-
ton, one woman who had been shot in the
elbow, supposedly while Lieut.. Horton
was exchanging shots with the occupants
of the fleeing automobile, one of whom
was a woman A blood stained and bull
let riddled automobile was found aban-
doned in a side street on the BrOlX.
On the body of one of the men arrested
was found a watch resembling closely the
description of one taken by the robbers
from the Negro elevator man in the hold
up which preceded the shooting OF HoT-
ton.
Edwin w. Andrews, president of An
~ Cfa tFn 1nyEa
and killed in his office on the eighth floor
of the Marcus building, 542 Fifth avenue,
by three bandits at , O'Clock yesterday
afternoon After binding and gaggIng
three men who entered the Office during
the hold-up, the robbers fled with $4,000
worth of unset gems and jewelry mingled
with the thousands OF shoppers that
thronged Fifth avenue and escaped
through a Gordon of police spread out
along the avenue as a special protection
to the holiday trade.
AS a result of the murder and robbery
the Sterling Silverware Manufacturers
association last night adopted resolutions
condemning the police for their failure to
cope with the crime wave and Cleveland
4 Dunn, one of the directors, of the as
sociation, suggested that unless something
was done to deal with the situation II
would be necessary for New Iork's cItI
zens to form vigilance committee $.
FOLLOWING so closely upOn the Hote
AstOr hOlduD OF the evening DeIoIe, II
also stirred the police to unusual activity
William j. Lahey chief insnector of the
department, took personal charge OF the
Investigation. Aided by Inspector John
J. Coughln of the detective bureau, he
assigned more than twenty detectives t.
the case. They found the crime had beer
daringly planned and methodically exc
cuted
Nj Andrews had returned from lunch
and following a long-estabGshed custom
of the partners, Mr.. Winstin had gone
out. When the bandits entered the of
fee Mr. Andrews was alone. There was
evidence that he had offered resistance
but neighboring tenants had heard no IN
usual noise.