The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-08-19
BOGUS DETECTIVES
ARREST MANN TAXI;
OWNED DBURCLARK|T
Joe Lorraine" Who Had
Apartment on Broadway,
WhiSked Out of Sight.
HIS ROOMER ARRESTED.
Rifled Wall Safe, Revolver,
Masks and Tools Found-No
Trace of Lorraine.

Burglar tools, black masks. nash-
lights. n loaded revolver a small
ripped -out and riied wall safe ard
one protesting prisoner are in the
hands of the police as the ingredients
of mystery which begins with an
arrest" in u taxicab and ends as vet
nowhere.
The prisoner, who calls himself
Robert Earl Normandy, was taken
prisoner early this morning in a we'll
furnished apartment at No. 2791
Broadway. where the burglar kit and
other paraphernalia were found. He
denied ail knowledge of them, said he
had lived in the place only. three
weeks and rented Il room for IS a
week from the tenant, Joe Lorraine,
a friend or his
Although Normandy was arraigned
in the West Side Court to-day
charged with having the tools and
the revolver in his possession. the
police are more interested in learn
/ ing something about Lorraine and
the mysterious arrest" of him in the
! taxicab.
! Aside from Normandy's side of the
story all the police know of the case
comes from William Kaska. a taxi
driver of No. 1898 First Avenue. who
went to Headquarters early this
morning to report that he wanted
help in collecting a S33 taxi bill. He
said thaA for the last three or four
days he had been driving u man
named Joe Lorraine about the city
and getting tor it tips which ranged
! from IS to $40. Yesterday afternoon,
he said, he picked up Lorraine and
two other men and three women at
the Hotel Remington, No. 123 West
46th Street, and took them all for a
ride.
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Broadway near the Strand Theatre,
Kaska went on, when two men dart
ed from the curb, leapcd on the run
ming board of the car and grabbed
Lorraine. They said they were de-
tectives, showed shields and took
Lorraine from the car. kaska drove
on for a block after that and there
the other five passengers left the
machine and the unpaid bill of $53
Then Kaska went to Headquarters
about it.
He told his story to Detective
Treanor Of the Homicide Squad, and
Immediately an inquiry went out as
to what detectives had made the "ar-
rest" Of Lorraine and where he had
been taken. Not II scrap of informa-
any such arrest Treanor learned
lfrom Kaska where his patron ,r-
lraine lived and thither they went n
the taxicab. picking up Detective
Trojan on the way.
At the Lorraine Apartment the doc:
| was OpcHtu DN 'Ho Sou'ib man W u ,
said he was Normandy. He declared
he knew nothing at all about Lor-
rainc, but the detectives pushed past
him and searched the apartments.
Discovery of the burglars kit in an
expensive leather bag followed soon
after.
Normandy said that he was u lunch
man at the Victor Lunch room at
99th Street and Columbus Avenue.
He said he came from Providence,
II. l., and had met Lorraine at the
lunch, room and been asked TO shara
the apartment. He added that he had
served in the war in a machine gun
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