The New York herald., 1921-02-04
CHASE ENDS In A CELL
Suspect. Found in Pawn
shop, Eludes Police Until
He Lands in Coal Bin.
SUSPENDED COP Is HELD
Off Force a Month, lie Is Ar
rested With Fur Coat and
Much Jewelry.

Burglars. gun toters. taXicab bandit:
and sneak thieves. including women
q policeman, a saloon looter with g
thirst and a sense of humor together
with several varieties of ordinary
crooks. toiled at their trade yesterday
and last night, as the court records
and the police station blotters re-
vealed. on the other hand. Justice
employing Judge Rosalsky of Genera
Sessions to balance her scales, tucked
seventeen men into prison, loading
them with sentences totalling 211
years
= Detectives Sommers and Marks o,
the East Eighty eighth street sta
ton went into Stern's pawnshop at
Eighty fifth street and Third avenue
late yesterday afternoon and found
Fred Matthias of 425 East Eighty
second street. alias Young ketchel
alias Joseph Ketchel, alias Monk Mat
thias, trying to pawn a suit of cloth
ing. The police say that Matthias has
a criminal record, having served sew
eral terms for burglary, so the de-
tectives decided to take him to the
station and find out about the suit.
They had reached Third avenue and
Eighty sixth street when Matthias
twisted out of the grasp of Detective
Sommers and ran down Eighty-fifth
street, with the detectives and a crowd
In pursuit. Sommers fired two shots
into the air. but the running man did
not stop. He turned down Eighty-fiftn
street. but found two policemen waiting
for him at Lexington avenue.
So Matthias lodged into the apartment
house in $50 East Eighty-flfth street.
He ran UP stairs to the fourth floor,
with the detectives and policemen be-
hind him; broke down door of an
apartment. ran through the apartment
to fire escape and dropped down the
fire escape to the back yard.
Fleeing Mnn Found in Coal Hin.
There he leaped a ten FOOT fence and
ran through garage. with the detec.
tives close at his heels. He then lodged
Into the basement or the house in 14s
Last Eighty-fourth street and hid in the
coal bin, from which he was dragged
out unceremoniously. He was hand
cuffed and take:; 10 the police station
where he was charged with burglary
and sent to Police Headquarters to APP
pear i'm the lineup this morning.
Judge Rosalsky. very severe on evil
doors. especially the kind that poke
; loaded guns into citizens faces or swing
blsckjacks. added notably to the series
,of examples he is setting to the under
Nworld. The seventeen brought before
him yesterday for burglary and crimes
of violence committed in January re-
ceived an average of about twelv. and
half years apiece in prison sentences
Some were amateur crooks or so
their counsel represented. but the Judge
was making no distinctions in degrees
or shades OF wrong. He hit every head
that showed
The list included John Holt. no home
who held UP the girl ca ashier OF a
laundry on East Twenty-ninth street, a
sentence OF fifteen years: Joseph Stew
art. chauffeur. who TAXED bandits to
and from Chinese restaurants. twenty
years: Louis Teichman. young Brook
lynite. who held up n man in Eldridge
street in Manhattan. ten years James
Smith. who robbed the cash drawer OF
bakeshop in West Forty-eighth street
of s56. twenty years; John Shannon
Of Tenth avenue. who stole thousands
Of dollars worth of goods from "a ware
house in West Twenty-frst street and
was shot by the police in trying to fee
Ave years f: Edward Hrsch, who achieved
the curious feat of stealing $500 worth
OF clothing from florists shop ir West
Fifty-cighth street. three years and six
months: Edward Engel who robbed q
poolroom Of $500. four years Albert
Russo. assault. FIVE years: Paul Berko
vitz. grand larceny. ten years Johr
Bataglio. robbery. twenty years: VIII.
lam Karsteip and Michael McDonough
robbery. twenty years each: William
Saline. robbery. eighteen years James
Porte and Assad Ganin. robbery. twenty
years each; Harry La Porte, assault
i've years: william Garland. robbery
twenty years: Fred Koran robbery
twenty years. and Salvatore Dicola. as.
sault indeterminate sentence.
Several Of these men were very young
but Judge Rosalsky refused to send then
10 the reformatory at Elmira.
Judge AssaiIs EImira Reformatory
II have no use for the Elmira Re
forrlatory any more" he commented. 81
don't think they are capable OF reforminf
amateur crooks An inmate often comes
out worse than he goes in"
A policeman under suspension since
December q last. for assautinR citi
zcn. was arrested early yesterday
charged with burglary. His name is Otto
Baag and he lives at 500 Third avenue
Astoria. end has been attached TO tn,
East Eigh;y-eighth street station. Pa
trolmsn Vincent OF the East Fifty-1rs
street station testified that he saw Haa
run from a jewelr. tore at $50 Third
avenue after he. the policeman. hat
heard the window being smashed. auc
that when he caught IIaag nearby Haas
had wstchcs,and jewelry TINT hed beer
taken from the store. The policemr'
wore a furlined coat gold watch ant
chain. novine becu p plumber even be
fore he hccqmc policc7n \. Tho Mag.
istratc he'd H.'"r ir 81 moo h. H.
E ircnp At police riesdduarter.
~~srerday appeared y ;. Ethel B"uker
81. who gave her ad lrcss rs 2is Wlni
avenue. The Bronx. Tho 20 icc acc"a,
her OF disappearing from tho home o
Charles Ellingor, s33 Longwood avenue
The Bronx with various articles o
iaw<,ry. Magistrate Cobb held her IL
bail Of 1000.
Mrs Stella T-,pot, motion pctur,
actress. h~T William Fox. taxical
driver. arrested on the suspicion tina
he worked In concert with the men wh'
robbed her OF a sable coat willie sh'
was In Fox's taxicab at Ninth avenu,
and Thirty-fourth street Maristrat,
s~eeyer hels SAs without bah