New-York tribune., 1920-12-21
65 Caught in
Police Dragnet;
Only p Held
First Day Of Enright's New
Roundup Plan Results in
Arrest OF Many Suspicious
oersons and Criminals
Murder Suspect Caught
Judges Increase Bail Bonds
and Speed Up Trials to
Help Stop Lawlessness

Out of the citys breeding places of
crime the police dragged sixty-five
criminals and suspicious persons yes
terday for the morning lineup before
masked detectives in Manhattan and
Brooklyn. This was the net result of
the first twenty-four hours Of concen-
trated police effort in the new round
up policy adopted by Police Commits
soner Richard E. Enright TO put a
stop to the crime wave.
Of the siXty-five arrests forty-fivc
were made in Manhattan and the rest
IN Brooklyn, but in only twenty-three
cases were police able to present spe-
cl!ic charges against the arrested men.
AT Police Headquarters it was said
last night that as a result of the first
roundup there was every possi bility
that one Of the arrests would lead to a
solution Of the robbery at the Hotel
Palm, at Fifty-third Street. near Sew
enth Avenue, where the hotel clerk
was killed.
Because of Commissioner Enright's
complaint that criminals released upon
low bail continued their criminal &C
tivities while at liberty and awaiting
trial there was a marked tendency by
all the magistrates throughout the city
TO impose prohibitive bail in every
case of alleged burglary, robbery and
assault brought up before them.
Rosalsky Advances Cases
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky in General
Sessions put all cases involving rob
berry, hold-ups, burglary and assault
ahead on the calendar to speedily dis
pose of all such cases. He also re-
manded two men convicted of highway
robbery to the Tombs for sentence
December 81
AT Police Headquarters in Center
Street there were eleven men on the
morning lineup charged with specific
crimes. In addition, there were thirty
ur others caught in the roundup
that began Sunday.
One OF the eleven men charged with
specific crimes was said TO be George
Grnbotf, of 1a3 Avenue B, who, ac-
cordlng to the police, has been out on
$4,000 bail since last May on charge
rested Sunday morning, the police say,
in an automobile alleged to have been
stolen from Patrick Mccormick. Of u
Carroll Street. Brooklyn.
Detectives Jenkins and Schuveing,
who made the arrest, say they ob-
served some blood on the rear seat of
The automobile, and that they seized
Grabof and Harry Newman, OF Seven
teenth Street, Coney Island, who was
with him, on suspicion The prisoners
declared the blood was the result of an
alteration with friend who was rid
ng with them and subsequently got
into fight with them.
Ralph Damore, of 446 East 117th
Street, was charged with CARRYING a
concealcd weapon, and was taken Re
fore Magistrate Marsh in The Harlem
Court, where he was held IN $500 oail
for Special Sessions Damore was the
iirst man to be arrested in the rourd-
up. Magistrate Koenig in the Essex
Market Court, found three OF the pr:s
oners guilty of vagrancy ana remand
ed them FOR sentence and investioa-
tlon. They said their names we're
stephen Justin. of Chicago; Albert
Grim, OF Long Island. ana Justice
Robb, Of Detroit. They were picked
UP on the Bowcry
Marsh Discharges Twenty-threc
Magis trate Marsh discharged twenty
three OF the lcan picked up in the
round-up. Two others, Michael Kaa,g.
OF Albany, and Raymond Sterling. Of