The New York herald., 1921-11-26
One of Culprits Is So Badly
Beaten He Has to Go
to Hospital.
MAY CLEAR UP 800 THEFTS
Good Detective Work, 1t Is Be-
lieved, Lands Chief in West
Side RObberies.

Detectives Nancy and Cordes OF the
West Forty-seventh street station saw
two men coming from the apartment
of Justice Henry w. Herbert of the
Court of Special Sessions. at 304 West
Eighty-second street. late yesterday
afternoon carrying suitcases and bum
dies Of clothing. The detectives cap
tured the two after a terrific fight st
Riverside Drive and Eighty-second
street.
Such hard fight resulted that the
detectives fired several shots. which
aroused the neighborhood and caused
so much excitement that the reserves
OF the West Sixty-eighth street sta
ton were sent for. The bandits he'd
been subdued. however, when the re-
serves arrived.
One of the men under arrest, who
gave his name as Eugene Metuli OF
342 West Forty-eighth street, is In Belle
vue Hospital unconscious from the boat
ing he received. and Is suffering from
spasmodic hiccoughs induced by the
blows dealt him by Detective Nancy. Ills
arrest is said by the police to be one
OF the most important the depart
ment has made in recent months, as
he is believed by the detectives to have
successfully committed more than 500
daylight rohberies in the last six
months on the West Side between
Fortieth and Tooth streets.
Arrested as Counterfeiter.
The other man. William Neeley Of
the ST. Paul Hotel at Columbus ave-
NJ. and Sixty-sixth street, has been
working with Metuli only few weeks,
but he is now under ball OF $4,000.
having been arrested on October 10 by
Secret Service agents charged with
counterfeiting.
Detectives Nancy and Cordes have
been searching for two weeks for the
burglars who have been committing
the many robberies on the West Side,
particularly In the Forties. Yester-
dav thew saw Neeley and Metuli talk
ing at Broadway and Forty-ninth
street. It appeared that the suspects
resembled the descriptions OF men
who had been seen leaving apartment
houses that had been robbed, so when
the two went uptown on Broadway
surface car the detectives followed
them.
Neeley and Metuli got off the car
AT Seventy-second street. and the de-
tectives said they watched the Two
20 into a half dozen apartment houses
But as they always came out empty.
handed the detectives did not arrest
them, preferring TO get erect eVi-
dence.
Find the Door Jtmmied.
Finally the men men went into the
epartrnent house at S04 West Eignty-
second street. Forty-five minutes later
they came out. Metuli carrying suit
case and Neejey with bundle OF ciotn-
ing over his arm. They saw the oeteC-
tives and ran toward the Drive. WIKI
Cordes chasing Neeley and win MAIZE!
In pursuit of Metu,!. Both were caught
AZ the Drive and subdued after fight
They were taken back to the apart
roent house. where it was found that
the door Of Justice Hcrbert's apartmen.
on the third floor had been 5immied
and the rooms ransacked. Last nisht
Justice Herbert estimated at 5000 the
value of the stuff stolen from him. all
of which was recovered by the police.
The detectives said that one of the
larges. burglaries committed by Neeley
and Metui occurred two weeks ago.
when they entered apartments occu-
pied by Miss Sally Fields. Miss Florence
O'Neill and Miss Eva Tanguay at 3ls
West Eighty-sixth street and stole
$1,000 worth OF clothing and jewels.
They are also accused Of recently en-
tering the apartment OF DR.. Henry p.
Bennett at 81 West Forty-ninth street.
In the suitcase carried by Metuli, the
detectives said. they found 100 skeleton
tx.eC A.
and Nancy said that Neeley and Metuli
offered them 1000 cash for their free
dom as they were being taken back to
Justice Herebert's apartment They
said they were friends of Waxey Cor
don. an old time gan&ster who was once
one OF the leaders OF the Dopey Benny
Fein gang, and has served time In