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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BANDITS SHOOT COP
IN FIGHT IN MOTOR
Lieut.. Horizons Bullets May
Have Hit Two Before He
Drops to Street.

bullet crashed through window of
the z & z restaurant, at Broadway and
10th street. just before midnight last
night, narrowly missed a party of diners
and plunged into a showcase beside the
cashiers desk. Half dozen patrons of
the place ran through the doorway onto
the sidewalk, where they saw Lieut..
Floyd Horton of the West 1921 street
police station, formerly one of the mem
bers of Inspector Honest Dan" Costi-
gan's staff, standing on the running
board of an automobile exchanging shots
with three men in the back seat
Seven shots altogether were fired dur
ing the battle. and as the restaurant
crowd watched they saw Lieut.. Horizons
hands flung into the air, his pistol rattle
to the pavement, and then the policeman
toppled off the automobile into the
street. He had been shot in the right
lung, and was unconscious when patrol
men who had heard the shots reached
the. scene. He was hurried to the CO.
lumbia Hospital, where it was said early
this morning that he was in a serious
condition.
The four men in the automobile-three
in the back seat and one driving-were
gang of bandits that had stopped
few minutes earlier in front OF the
apartment house in $40 West 146th
street, near Broadway Three of them
remained in the car, while the fourth
entered the vestibule of the house.
There he met Tyler Hamilton of 2139
Seventh avenue. the elevator operator
He backed Hamilton against the wall
at the point of a revolver and stole
his watch and chain. Just as he fin
ished robbing the operator l.. II. Miller,
superintendent of the apartment house,
entered the vestibule. The bandit started
toward him, but at that instant one of
his companions shouted from the street
and he turned and ran.
Miller and Hamilton ran into the
street after him. shouting. but the man
jumped into the car and it rolled toward
Broadway AS 1t turned the corner into
Broadway Lieut.. Horton, on his way
home after being relieved from duty.
saw it and jumped on the running board
The driver refused to stop, and Lieut.
Horton fired six shots at the three men
in the back seat. two of which are be-
lieved to have taken effect. Then the
bandits fired and missed the officer the
bullet going through the restaurant.
Their next shot struck Lieut.. Horton IN
the chest and pierced his lung.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
ASTOR HOTEL BANDIT
SHIELDS OTHER TWO
Handiboe Held in $4,000
Bail After Denying All But
Casual Acquaintance.
HAS RECORD AS ROBBER
Victims Show No Bad Effects
of Encounter With Des-
perate Thieves.

While the police were searching for
the two bandits who escaped Wednes-
day night after attempting to rob four
guests in a suite at the Hotel Astor,
Lawrence Handiboe, who was captured
after a fight, was held yesterday in
$4,000 bail by Magistrate Mancuso in
West Side Court for examination Mon
day.
Handiboe told the court that his real
name was Lawrence Hawthorne. that he
was % years old and that he came from
Wellsville, Va. He is tall, well built
young man with red hair. Although his
appearance would not suggest 1t, police
and hotel detectives said he was widely
known as 'hotel yegg." His clothes
were neat and his face bore no marks
of the fierce struggle Wednesday night
The police have only a meagre de-
scription of Handiboe's companions. The
prisoner, in the face of hours of severe
questioning. stuck to his original story
that he knew them simply as "Al" and
Shorty" and that they were chance ac-
quaintances. lie met them. he said, in
a saloon at Eighth avenue and Forty
tnlrd street ana agreed TO JOIN them in
the holdup business. He sad they de-
cided the Astor was good place to be.
gin. The police believe. however, that
the trip to the Astor was projected at
first for the purpose of layin. a scheme
to rob the cashier of the hotel funds.
The records at police headquarters
show that Handiboe, under the name
of Hawthorne, was arrested In May.
1919, while employed as a bellboy at
the Hotel Commodore. He was charged
with going through rooms and robbing
by the Grand Jury.
Handiboe told the police that he had
worked as n bellboy at the Hotel Nc
Alpin and the Breslin in this city. ard
that he had spent some time working in
hotels in Cleveland and Kansas City.
He came here from Kansas City, he
said, about ten days ago. He was Ia
desperate need CT money Wednesday
night he said.
Charles Dennlson Of the Bowman hotel
detective force told Assistant District
Attorney Lorenzo Carlino that HanGi-
Doe, or Hawthorne, had been suspected
since more than a year ago of being
thief Dennison said he saw him leave
the McAlpin after stealing a bag. He
eluded detectives. Dennison said, at the
station.
The victims of the robbery. Mr.. and
Mrs. Owen c. Linthwaite of Red Bank,
n. j., and Mr.. ard Mrs. Fl. l.. Worley
of Newark, said they felt no bad ef-
fects from the encounter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
PRISONER KILLED
IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT
Hit With Bullet Aimed at
Constable by Companion,
Says Sheriff.
TWO MEN IN HOSPITAL
Huntington, L. l., Officer
Loses Two Fingers in Bat
tie in Automobile.
TWO MEN IN HOSPITAL

Deputy Sheriff Anna w. Biggs and
Constable Charles Wendell of Hunt
ington, l.. l., touring the district near
that town early yesterday morning in
an automobile driven by Russell Sicco,
searching for bands of burglars who
have committed many robberies re-
Gently. came upoon three men walking
in the road carrying suit cases in the
Halesita section, near the estate of Mrs.
Julianna Ferguson.
Sheriff Biggs stopped the three men,
and when they failed to give a salts
factory explanation Of their presence
and where they were going with the
suit cases, he placed them under ar
rest and ordered them to climb into the
automobile. They did SO and the
machine started toward Huntington,
with two of the men seated with the
Sheriff in the back seat of the car,
another in the front seat with the chauf-
feur and Constable Wendell riding on
the running board. Neither the Sheriff
nor the constable had thought to search
the men to see If they carried weapons.
According to the story told yesterday
by Biggs. the car had reached New
York avenue and Main street, only
few hundred yards from the JAIL when
one Of the prisoners. who later gave
his name as James Scott. drew re-
volver from his pocket and fired at
Wendell. The bullet missed the constable
but struck another of the prisoners.
Wilbur Severance of New Rochelle, in
the back of the head, killing him in
SANITY Scott then tried to shoot Sheriff
Biggs, who threw up one hand to shove
the gun away. The bullet tore off two
of his fingers, and two more shots
struck him in the abdomen. Scott fired
again and struck Sisco in the right
shoulder, and another bullet went
through the leg Of WendelPs trousers
In spite of the pain from his own
wounds Sheriff Biggs drew his own
revolver and fred at Scott. The first
bullet struck the man In the shoulder
and the second hit him in the right
arm. causing him to drop his revolver
During the shooting Wendell and the
third prisoner, who said he was James
Sommer, we're the only ones who were
not hurt.
Sheriff Biggs ordered Sisco to drive
to the Huntington Hospital, where the
wounds OF the injured men were treated.
Biggs was sent home, while Sisco and
Scott were kept at the hospital the
latter being placed under arrest. Som
mer was locked up. Later the Sheriff
said that the suitcases the men had
been carrying when they were arrested
contained clothing and liquors stolen
from the home of Thomas e. Jovens at
Halesite.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
BEGGED ASSAILANTS
TO SPARE HIS LIFE
Murdered Bank Messenger
Made Pififul Plea.

CAMDEN, Dec. 16.-After making a
Flea to the jury to render a verdict of
murder in the first degree against Frank
]. James. who is on trial charged with
the killing of David S. Paul Camden
bank messenger. the prosecution revealed
to-day something which has not hereto
fore been made public--a ptiful plea by
Paul to his assailants to spare his life
The Prosecutor said:
paul asked them to take him to Cooper
Hospital and said he would say he had
been held up and that James and Schuck
had found him and brought him to the
hospital. or course this was not done,
and when they reached an out of the
way place. were the car was stopped.
Paul seemed to have again regained his
senses and begged them TO let him go.
and said If they wanted the money to
take it. but let him go. Instead of heed
ing his cry 10 be released he was again
beaten over the head"
Harry Paul, son Of the bank messen-
ger. identified in court various articles
found near the body of his father
Among them was an old wallet which
the witness said he had given to his
father as a present. An account OF the
finding OF the body in the Jersey pine
belt was given by George w. Duncan of
Audubon. who was one of the party 10
make the discovery.
Two taxicab drivers told Of parties in
Philadelphia and Camden on the night
of the day Paul was killed. Thomas HUI
lings one Of the drivers, Identified
James as the man who gave him $40
for his fare and asked him to call the
following morning 70 take him to Phila-
delphia. Raymond w. Schuck, who also
Is charged with the killing of Paul. was
the other man in the car. Hullings testi-
lied. They went 70 an apartment In
Philadelphia, where they met two
women, he said. Previously they had
spent two hours in a saloon. where they
srent money lavishly.
Robert J.. Knox, the other driver. said
Schuck hired a machine to drive to the
ferry, where he expected to meet some
one. This appointment was not kept and
Schuck was later met by another man,
who Knox thought was James He was
not positive In his Identification.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
KU KLUX KHAN HAS
BRANCH IN MANHATTAN
So RUnor Says, and Mr.. Tall
ley Calls Them BiRots.

Calling the members OF the Ku Klux
Khan marrow minded bigots and fam
atics' who are afraid to tight In the
OPEN Alfred J. Talley, acting District
Attorney issued yesterday what may b.
regarded as q challenge TO the mysterl-
Gus organization to come TO New York
and start something"
Mr. Talloy's outburst was occasioncd
by complaints which his office has re-
ceived from persons who are uneasy
about rumors 70 the effect that the Khan
Is organizing or has organized branch
In Manhattan for the purpose OF carry
Ing out its pledge 20 maintain the SUI
premacy Of the white race at all costs
and complete the separation OF church
and state
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
KU KLUX ISSUES WARNING.
Alabama KHAN Gives Notice TO
Vicious Elements.

ANN1sroN Ala. Dec 16.-Tvpewritten
rctces signed "Ku Klux Khan" and
rurportlng to have been issued by the
local branch Of that organization warn
ing reds, undesirabcs and anonymous
letter writer's" that the khan stood ready
to back up constituted authority In a
vice crusade launched n week ago, were
found posted to-day I'm different parts
o. the city.
The action Of the organization is be-
lieved by city and state officers 10 have
been taken because Of anonymous letters
received this week by Chief OF Police
George w. Rutledge, IN which not only
That officer but Gov. Kilby as we'll were
threatened II there was not ietup in
the activity OF Admission officers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
woman Gives Police Alarm.

Il figured" she said, that IL some
thing had happened we would need the
police. and that IL il was only the movies
the police would want to arrest some
body anyway"
Then some one else went down in the
elevator and summoned Patrolman Quig-
ley. the traffic officer on duty at Fifth
avenue and Forty-sixth street.
Quigley took charge OF things and n
few minutes later the police summoned
from headquarters by Miss Hoffman
came in great force. An automobile
roared up 20 the building and Chief In
spector Lahey. Acting Inspector John
Coughlin and Capt. Arthur Carey. head
OF the homicide bureau. clambered out
and hurried into the building.
After them came finger print experts.
police photogr3p piers and detectives from
Headquarters and from both the Twenty
ninth and Thirty-first precincts. Within
twenty minutes there were as many
or more detectives swimming about the
building, intecrogating everybody on the
eighth floor and almost everybody from
the basement TO the roof, than there
were curious people In the crowd out
side the Andrews g. Winston offices.
The police found Mulllgan still bound
and gagged and about half conscious,
lying on the floor beside the dead body
Of Andrews. No effort had been made
to sag the jeweller and there had been no
wire or rope tied about his hands and
feet II was very evident 70 the police
that the three bandits had come upon him
while he was working and when his back
WIS toward the door, and they had
struck him with the blackjack and the
section OF heavy pipe before he even
knew that they were In the room. And
then, the police believe, the bandits shot
him because their first blows. although
they had battered and hurt him and
caused blood to flow freely. had not killed
him or made him unconscious. The, po-
lice could, find no one who heard the
shot. and Il is believed that the bandit
had equipped his revolver with a
silenccr. At the time Of the holdup.
however. many Of the tenants In the
viclnlN OF the Andrews & Winston house
were out 20 lunch, and Il probably would
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
MINISTER TO U. S. RECALLED.

WASHINGTON. Dec 16.-Stephan Pa
naretoff. Bulgarian Minister to the United
States, was recalled to-day by his Gov
eminent and will leave. for homo within
a short time. Until his successor is
designated and arrives here DR.. p. Les
secretary of the legation, will
act as charge. Mr.. Panaretoff has been
Minister from Bulgaria here since De-
cemher % 1914.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Ask MATzoTHs FOR 5000, 900.

WARSAW. Dec. 16 (Jewish Telegraphc
Agency THE Jewish community of
Warsaw has appealed to the Joint Dis
tribution Committee for American Jew
ish Relief for the special food required
for the Passover. because conditions in
Poland make II impossible to supply the
100000 Jews here. The chief require
ment for Passover week is unleavened
bread, or "matzoths"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
$4,000 Necklace Overlooked

nave been possible 10 Shoot q man WIFI
an ordinary revolver and no one hear
the shot
$4,000 Necklace Overlooked
The exact loss to the firm Of Andrews
& Winston has not been determined. II
is known, however. that between $4,000
and $4,000 worth of uncut diamonds are
missing from the big safe, as we'll as
many articles of Jewelry set in gold and
platinum. and many unmounted dia-
monds, emeralds, rubies and other preci-
Gus stones.
One of the curious things about the
holdup Is the fact that the bandits
seemed TO have overlooked a $4,000
pearl necklace which lay on the work.
bench directly in sight 1t was still
there when the police entered the place.
and from it's position and other circum-
stances it is believed that Mr.. Andrews
was repairing it when the bandits en-
tered and struck him with the blackjack
and the piece of iron pipe.
The detectives. who carefully searched
the Andrews & Winston offices, found
considerable evidence through which
they hope to catch the robbers eventu-
ally. They believe. for one thing, that
the men, or at least one of them, were
drug fiends, as a hypodermic needle was
found lying on the floor near the safe
1t is not known whether any of the ban
dts injected drugs into his veins during
the actual robbery, but the police do be-
lieve that they may nave nerved them
selves to the crime by injections of mar
cotics. 1t was said that the needle
showed traces OF cocaine. A careful ex-
animation of the railing which separates
the main offices from the anteroom, and
of various articles of furniture about
the room, disclosed well defined finger
prints. which were photographed imme-
diately and sent to headquarters for
with prints in the Bertillon
room there.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17

those of Mertz were fastened together in
front OF his body. Then the bandits
clamped cheap padlocks through the
wires and after that. as they had done
with Mulligan, they gagged the two men
with thin sheets OF red rubber which
covered the greater part OF their faces
and were tied securely behind their
heads. So tight was this rubber fast
ened that they were able TO breathe only
with the greatest difficulty, and 1t ef-
fectually prevented any exertion to
loosen their bonds.
AS soon as the bandits had bound and
gagged the two men they dragged
them across the room and flung them
alongside the dead man and the body
az the unconscious messenger. They
said nothing, excepting that one of the
men, as he stood and looked at the
four stretched on the floor, said to his
companions:
Pretty softv'
''They even bring 1t to u.s." replied
one OF the others.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Mistaken fer Movie Actors.

1t seemed to them that the bonds on
their ankles offered the best chance,
and, anyway, they could barely hope to
cope with the padlocks that had been
clanped on their wrists. They began
loosening these bonds then. and after
what seemed to be hours they were able
to move their feet about. Finally they
could move enough so that they could
stand up, and they began to make their
way along the floor toward the door
inch by inch. supporting themselves on
each other and on the furniture. After
stumbling and falling several times they
reached the door and Provenzano man
aged to raise his hands until his half
numbed fingers clutched the knob lie
turned Il and the door swung open.
Mertz and Provenzano had both been
leaning against the door and When 1t
opened they fell forward into the hall
way and lay there for a time unable to
move. But then they began crying Tor
help, and although their cries were rlf-
fled and almost inaudible because of Tie
sheets of rubber drawn tightly across
their faces. they were finally heard by
Claud u. Edgerton of the firm of Elger-
ton & Son, manufacturing jewellers. in
Fifth avenue and Fifty-third strea-. La
gerton was in the office of Rpth,<i dg
Bros. transacting business when he
heard the thump Of the bodies OF Meitz
and Provenzano falling to the floor OF
the hall. and then he heard the inuf-
fled shouts. He opened the door and
saw the two men rolling about the hall
Edgerton told reporters that his first
impression on seeing Mertz and Pro-
venzano was that they were moving
picture actors engaged in filming a
thriller Furthermore. their predicament
at first sight appeared more humorous
than anything else. and he laughed and
started back into the Rothkrug office
wren Mertz and Provenzano shouted
their loudest and began rolling across
the sloor directly toward him. Edgerton
looked about then and could discover no
camera He shouted. and people began
10 stream from the offices on the floor.
They came from up stairs and down
stairs, until the hallway was packed with
a pushing. jostling crowd demanding to
know what had happened. Only one
person seemed to see at a glance that
something was wrong. That was Miss
Hoffman. a stenographer employed by
Rothkrug Brothers. She no sooner had
caught sight of the two men rolling
about the floor trying to cry out than
she ran back into her office and tele-
phoned Police Headquarters.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Leave Victims helpless.

The bandits, working leisurely and
apparently with no regard for the fact
that they were only few yards above
the largest stream of traffic in the
world. with no regard for the fact that
probably fifty policemen and detectives
were within two hundred yards OF
them, opened the bags brought into the
office by Mertz and Provenzano. and
carefully examined the contents. They
seemed to be tremendously pleased with
themselves, and one of them turned 10
Mertz and Provenzano as they lay tied
on the floor and thanked the two men
for happening into the place so oppor-
timely. And then picking up the bags
that they had filled or partially filled
from Andrews 6 Winsten's safe, sand
taking also the bags of jewels and
platinum brought by Mertz and Pro-
venzano they turned toward the door
There they faced the two jewelry sales
men, the only conscious men of the
four stretched upon the floor
You're all right" said one Of the
bandits. "There'll be somebody along
in a few minutes"
Then they laughed and went away.
Mertz and Provenzaro heard the door
slam they heard the three men walking
calmly along the wall, and then they
heard nothing but the multitudinous
reached their ears through the window,
the sound of automobile horns and the
noises OF the pedestrians. Once they
heard a traffic policeman SHOUT. appar-
emily at some motorlst:
Get back You're violating the law"
And at this the two men. bound and
gagged just above the policeman,
laughed.
Mertz and Provenzano waited for a
long tlme-it seemed to them to be
weeks--for some one to come along and
release them. They were almost suf-
located by the tight sheets of rubber
drawn across their faces Several times
they tried to loosen their bonds, but
they had to quit because they became
almost strangled. But finally It oc-
Cured to them that they might work on
each others bonds with less exertion,
and so Provenzano, after considerable
difficulty. managed to move along the
floor, half rolling and half crawling, un-
til he reached Mertzs side. There he
rested O while and then the two men
began working at each others bonds
with their hands, or rather with the two
or three fingers that the bandits had no,
tied together.
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have been possible TO shoot a man with
an ordinary revolver and no one hear
the shot
The log cabin Democrat., 1920-07-23

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 See Cline x Williams for real estate and insurance. Quitman. Ark.-129dtf
 Fresh cabbage and tomatoes at Hiegel- -Thessing Grocery Co. 721d3t.
 M. c. Turner, engineer of public utilities, is visitor in Little Rock today.
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 Mrs. DuVal L. Purkins of Hope is the guest of her parents, MT. ana Mrs. J. ". Akin.
 Jack Frost baking powder and free cook books at Hiegel- -Thessing Gro. Co.-7-21d2t
 For Sale-One good as new truck. Reasonable terms. See J. A. Mode. -7-15d10t*
 Mr. and Mrs. Otis Moore left this morning for a visit to relatives at Dardanelle.
 A. M Ledbetter and daughter, Miss Fletus Ledbetter, are visitors in Little Rock today.
 Mrs. Howard Malone of Plumerville is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. c. M Walthall.
 For Sale-An ice box, 100 pound capacity, also quart fruit jars. Phone 50W.-7-21d3t*
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 For Rent-Two rooms furnished for light housekeeping. Phone 533 SOP College Ave.-7-20dtf
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 L. F. Holt is visitor in Little Rock today.
 Miss Helen Hammer is spending the day in Little Rock.
 S. W. Simpson is business visitor at Pottsville today.
 For Sale-A lew choice milch cows. Erbacher Bros.-4-1dtf.
 -Woodchoppers. Apply to l. N Fields, phone 24.-6-19dtf
 See Dunaway a Bradley for real estate and insuraAce.-3-4dtf
 We can vulonnize your auto tires. Conway Overland Co.-8-28dtf
 Vote for Dr. H. B. Hardy for coun- ty and probate judge.-7-20d5t*