New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-11
Ticket Station
Bandits Caught;
Three Confess
Prisoners, With No Police
Records, Tell of Six
Hold-U Ups of Subway and
ssL'' Men in Last Month
A Stolen Cars Recovered
Patrolman George Roeder
Gets Quick Promotion
After Six Are Arrested


Quick thought and action on the
part Of patrolman returning home
from his boat early Yesterday morning.
resulting in the arrest of six men.
three of whom have made written con-
LESSONS. is believed by the police to
have cleared up the series of robberies
Of elevated and subway stations which
have taken place in the last month.
The patrolman, George Roeder, of 329
East 152d Street, attached to the Simp-
son Street station, was rewarded by be-
ing promoted to a first grade detective,
which office carries with it lieuten-
ants pay.
The six prisoners, when arraigned
later before Magistrate Sweetser in
the Morrisania Court on short afr
for examination next Wednesday on
charge of robbery. They are John Lue-
beck, nineteen years old, of 5o4 Bergen
Avenue; William Flynn, nineteen years
old, and his brother Charles, eighteen
years old, of 429 East 148th Street;
Henry Richter, thirty-two years old,
said to be the stepfather of the Flynns;
Henry Turner, twenty years old, of 420
East 148th Street, and Henry Bergman,
nineteen years old, of 231 West 10th
Street.
Three Confess Six Robberies
Richter, Charles Flynn and Turner are
said by the police to have made written
confessions duplicating themselves in
the hold-up of the l3Sth Street station
OF the Third Avenue a." Desbrosses
Street station Of the Ninth Avenue
"L,' Eighteenth Street station of the
Lexington Avenue subway, 238th Street
station of the Jerome Avenue subway,
1d6th Street station of the Third Ave-
nue. IL" and the Longwood Avenue sub
way station in the Bronx.
The confessions exculplate William
Flynn of all knowledge of the rob
berries, as does the admission of Berg
man. The police also say that the
three confessions contain an admission
of the robbery of Metropolitan Tobac-
co Company wagon in Yonkers recent
ly. Four stolen automobiles have been
found by the police through the arrests,
they state.
Roeder was passing the Freeman
Street Subway station at about 2 a.
m. when he saw Lubbock flee wildly
down the stairs, and run towards an
automobile standing nearby. Suspect
ing something wrong from the mans
actions, the patrolman leaped to the
1uuUiitE DOdIu Ol the car, anu stopped
him with drawn revolver.
Lubbock explained the situation by
saying that he had just taken friend
to the subway, and was in a hurry to
get home. Roeder, while thinking the
explanation plausible, held the man in
order to investigate.
Police Whistle Sounds Alarm
"A moment later police whistle
sounded from the station platform,
and ticket chopper plunged down the
stairs. He told Koeder that three men
had held up the ticket agent and stolen
$l1b. The other two men in the mean-
time had escaped Dy otaer stairs, and,
according to Roeder, Lubbock deliber-
ately stalled his autom obile in order
to permit them to get away
After examination at the Simpson
Street station Lubbock led Detectives
Wubbenhorst, Meagner, Armstrong and
Wilson, of the Simpson Street and
Bathgate stations, and Detectives Boyle,
Carney, Hoffman, Tuite and McNamee,
of the West 1884 Street station, to a
house in 10th Street. where Bergman,
Richter, Turner and Charles Flynn
were captured at the point of the
officers guns. All four men were said
to be holding loaded revolvers in their
hands. ready to put up fight. when
they were. cowed by the police con-
tingent.
In the room. according to the de-
-tectives, they found bags of money
taken from subway and elevated sta
lions. There were also found number
OF automobile parts.
Detective Tuite later captured Will
liam Flynn in Eighth Avenue after he
had seen the man acting suspiciously
He found loaded revolver in Fiynn's
pos session.
The bandits were taken to Police
Headquarters, where it was learned
that they had no police records, and no
one was able to identify them at the
police lineup. The police agree that
the men are about the last persons
they would have thought of associatng
with the desperate series of robberies.
The men. the police say, declared that
they had been in the game only about
month and that they were forced into
II because they were out of work.
Following the arrangement of the
men In court Magistrate Sweetser de-
c.ared the capture to be one of the
most brilliant pieces Of police work
that had ever come to mis- notice. He
soid Inspector Uomini1k Henry that the
attention OF the Police Comm ssioner
should be called to RoeGer's work.
The fact Of I,oeders promotion was
given out by his lieutenant, and no
details could be learned becau~e of the
fact that ali high officials Of the depart
ment were attending the police gameS.i
II is sAiei 10 Le tna quickest case of
promotion in TIE nicinory of the Oldest
rAtrolmcn
The act:cn OF Fraui. Schneider, the
&tickes agc..t oil the freeman Street
k'tator, III ~csistiIe the bandits. was
ala, ceiancnde! py ofliciais. Schneider,
Msaea &c fsarc himself gazing into the
hu,4 ri h y
drorpa.. to the floor. from which posi-
tton he seized telephone and called
the police. The robbers took what
money was lying within reach and fed
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