New-York tribune., 1921-11-26
Furrier Dies Of Wounds
From Bandits, and Man
Is Shot Dead in Pres
encc of Three Children
Matinee Robbers Caught
Burglars Get $40, 700 i'll
Furs in Four Minutes:
Girls Prisoners in Taxi


larry and robbery cases kept New York
policemen engaged yesterday.
Samuel katx, furrier with show
rooms at 504 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn,
while taking stock on the second floor
cf the building late yesterday. was con-
Sronted by three masked men carrying
tevolyers, who demanded the key Of
his safe. Kat ignored the demand and
closed with one Of the bandits, who
dubbed him into nnconsiousness with
q pistol butt.
katz's shouts for help attracted at
tencion of tenants on the same floor,
who ran to his assistance, and the ban
dts fed. pursued by more than score
of persons. The furrier was taken TO
the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, where
he died three hours later from COM
pound skull fracture
Caught Nhile Fleeing
One OF Katz's alleged assailauts was
captured at Fourth Avenue and Third
Street Nv Bert Hall, of 250 Twelfth
Street, who saw the man running, pur-
sued by mob and tripped him up. The
police say Katz identified the PRISONER
when detectives took him TO the hos
pital The man gave his name as Otto
Holtke, and said he lived at the sea-
mans institute, Carroll and Clinton
streets. Brooklyn. A charge of homi-
eide will be made against him to-day.
Anthony Genna. fort years old. of
S44 Loritrner Street, Brooklyn, was shot
three times following = dispute last
night with Luigi Prisko. his next door
neighbor, according 20 the police.
Genna was talking with Pr.sko IN the
presence of the formers wife and
three children, it is said. He fell nor
tally wounded at their feet and died
within few minutes.
The quarrel between the men was
due to a sudden extinguishng of cleo
trio lights in Gennas barber shop
while Prisko was in the cellar. Genna
accused Prisko OF having put them
out. Prisko emerged from the cellar
and after wordy argument, fred the
the three shots that killed Genna, the
police say. A general alarm was sent
cut for Prisko. who had not been cap
tured up to 4 late hour last night.
Three Fire en- Patro!man
= Andrew Corlett, twenty-five years
old, of 55S Eleventh Avenue, Manhat-
tan, was arrested yesterday afternoon
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by Patrol
man Thomas Murphy, of Prospect Par1
police station, afte, revolver battls
in which two cor panions of Corlett
also participated, l.ut escaped.
Corlett and his accomplices were
WITH three young women in an auto
mobile near the d..ck pond in Prospect
Park when Patroiman Murphy hear6
the women screaming. Investigating
ha
three men as he approached the car
returning their fire as he advanced
All the men ran and Murphy captured
Coriett after a pursuit of block.
The three girls in the taxicab tolc
Patrolman Murphy they had been in
vited to ride by Corlett and his friends
They We're driven through the park tt
the duck pond, when the three mer
suddenly threw laprobes over thei,
heads and threatened them with dealt
if they utterd a sound. All thre,
screamed for help.
Held as Burglar
The girls gave their names as Ellis
Kossuth, sixteen years old, 515 Eas
Seventy Street; Rose Grant, sew
enteen, 254 East Seventy fourth Street
and Ethel Bloom, sixteen, y Wes
106th Street, all of Manhattan.
Corlett was charged with attempte
assault and arraigned before Magis
trate O'Neill. Miss Kossuth wthdre,
the charge against Corlett on polio
recommendation and he was dismis sse
to be rearrested by Detective Clark. c
the Thirty first Precinct, on burglar
charge.
The detectives say Corlett's car COZ
tanned stolen automobile tires an
tubes, recently taken from an aut
mobile accessory shop at 1881 Secor
1 Avenue, Manhattan. Corlett is said {
have confessed participation in sever
robberies, duplicating his companion
William Neeley and Eugene Mitch
or Matula, who were arrested yeste
day after a chase and fight in Rive
side Drive, charged with breaking in
the apartment of Justice Henry !
Herbert, at 304 West Eighty secol
Street, are believed by the police
be the matinee burglars" whose afte
noon industry has laughed at loo
smiths all the way from Fourteen
Street to 1i0th Street on the We
Side.
Detectives Cordes and Nancy, of ii
West Forty seventh Street police st
ton, who had been trailing the fastie
ously aprarelled young men, saw the
handed and emerge, one with neat
wrapped parcel and the other with
suitcase. The detectives closed in al
8 the men ran.
Fought With Detective
At Riverside Drive Cordes fred
shot into the ground and Neeley fe
He was uninjured, however. and VIII
CordeS bent over him, believing h
wounded, jumped up and fought the {
tectivc. Nancy overhauled his m
near Eighty-first Street, and tn
fought it out. Nancy using his pis
butt and the fugitive jimmy.
Mitchie was so severely cut about I
:. Hospital In the bundles he and Nee
carried were clothing. silver and je
eiry belonging to Justice Herbert. I
police have telegraphed to the pol
OF Atlantice City in the belief Il
Neeiey may be wanted there in G,
nectIon with a robbery committed Il
august at tae Hotel Traymore.
william Buckley, twenty three ye
cid. OF 265 West 14sth Street, is i,
ritical condition at Harlem Hospi
with p:stol end knife wounds in
chest and back. Edward Joseph. tw
gy-.we wears cid. Of 42o West II
Street, WAS also badly wounded
Seph told the police he had b.
stabbed durii.r an alteration in
housc in Fas5ush Avenue, Brooks
lie Is under arrest, charged with be
implicated in another stabbing t
tock place in Eighth Avenue, near II
Street.
Peter Brady. thirty eight years
af 254 West In4th Street, third vic