Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-17
FIRE ON SHANKOS
MAKING FLIGHT
With Morrison and Others,
Robbery Prisoners Were
Being Taken to Co. Seat.
l00SENED HIS HANDCUFF
Ran Some Distance But Fin
ally Stops When Detective.
Opens Fire Upon Prisoner
LO0SENED HIS HANDCUFF

While being taken to New Bruns-
wick this morning. John Shanko.
alias Monroe. one of the four men
taken back from New York yester-
day in connection with the Fishkin
sporting goods store robbery in May
jumped from the police car at Wes-
ton Mills. and ran in the direction
OF the woods. Lieutenant JQseyh
lGutowski, who with Officer WIN Ni
Clooney, was taking the men to !
Brunswick. quickly started after
man, and after running some d
tance, pulled his gun and fired foL
or five times after the fleeing pris-
oner. The sound of the discharging
revolver had an effect on Shanko,
and he stopped, and he went back
to the autopobile with the detec-l
tive. The remainder of the trip to-
the county jail was made without
trouble
1t is believed Shanko was work.
ing on the handouts during the trip
from Perth Anboy to Weston Mills.
and when the police car slowed up
behind a big army truck at the late
ter place. he jumped from the car,
having succeeded in releasing his
hand from the handcuff, holding
Morrison and himself. Officer Cloo-
ney held the three other prisoners.
while Detective Gutowski chased
shanko. Shanko sometime ago es-
capped from the county jail by
climbing up through the chimney.
The county officers visited the home
of an aunt at Highland Park, and
after chase in which several shots
were fired, Shanko was recaptured...
Harold Morrison, twenty-fQU1
years old. of 357 High streeth
Shanko, twenty-five years o
Kennedy street; Arthur ProtV
| ty-four years old. Of Center
this city. and Keyport and
| Flowers, nineteen years old. OF 6o
| Penn street. were returned to th&
| city Yesterday afternoon by CAPITA
| of Detectives Lawrence Al. Long a 4
Lieutenant Detective Joseph GutoXA
ski from New York, to be brought AZ
trial in this county In connectite1
with the Fishkin sporting good
store robbery of several weeks agasN
The four men were taken to M
Brunswick this morning by Lieuter3
ant Detective Joseph Gutowski, a.
sisted by Officer William ClooneX
Morrison was handcuffed to Shank0
and Protz to Flowers. 1t isXlikely
bail will be fixed by Judge Daily and
the men released pending trial
out on bail awaiting trial on other
indictments. Protz was taken ihtc
custody by the local authorities with
other Amboy men in a liquor rob.
berry case, but no indictment was
returned against him. Flowers has
been taken into custody by the local
police on suspicion on several occa-
sions.
Arrested on Suspicion
Harold Morrison and John Shan
ko. the latter using the name Nom
roe. were arrested by the police OF
the sixth precinct in New York on
Thursday night. May s, four days
after the Fishkin robbery had been.
reported to the local police. These
two men had in their possession
quantity of loot, answering to that
taken from the Fishkin establish
ment. The local police were notified,
and Lieutenant Detective Joseph Gu
towski was detailed to the New York
police headquarters.
Upon arriving there, the local NosS
tective learned that Frank Flowers
and Arthur ProtZ. also had been ar
rested the same night by the police
of the 18th precinct. and these men
also had a quantity of loot in their
possession 1t is believed that the
local men had fence" in New York
where they were going to dispose OF
the stolen goods. when arrested by
the police of the sixth and thirteenth
precincts.