New-York tribune., 1921-01-30
Two Murders Albert Offers
In a Day Here n. Y .-Ostend
Battle Police Race Trophy
Three Men Are Lured
to Stanton Street Flat.
Where One Is Shot Dead
and Others Wounded
Druggist Killed
In His Apartment
Israel Turk. of East Broad
way, Is Reading Paper
When Assailant Enters

w ncn ASSaIlant Enters
Two murders were committed in New
York City yesterday. Up to press time
last night no arrest had been made in
either case.
Early yesterday morning Israel
Turk, druggist, was shot at his home,
271 East Broadway. His assailant
escaped.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon
Jacob Mazura, a Pole, was shot in an
apartment in 1913 Stanton Street. The
m -derer fed.
Mazura, fifty years old, had gone to
the apartment of julius Rothman to
obtain first hand information regard
ing living conditions in his native
country. Wasyel Heukoch, a porter, of
238 Seventh Street, who was planning
to return to Poland with Mazura, and
Andrew Servick, of 258 East Houston
Street, accompanied Mazura
$1,000 Taken From Bank.
The three men had met Rothman.
the police say, in a Fifth Street res
taurant Friday night and told him of
their intention to sail next Wednes
day for Poland. They had everything
fixed; they had withdrawn their saw
ings, which totaled nearly $4,000, from
the bank and had their passports vised.
AS proof, Servck says, they showed
both the money and passports to Roth
man, who Immediately became soici-
tous Of their welfare.
He told the three men that he had a
sister living with him in Stanton Street
who had recently returned from Russia
and Poland. She would be more than
willing to tell the three gentlemen of
conditions in their native country. He
invited them to come to his apartment
on the following afternoon.
1t was in response to this invitation
that the three men visited Rothman's
apartment yesterday. They were met
at the door it is said, by woman who
introduced herself as "Mr. Rothman's
wife" She invited the three men into
the apartment, assuring them that Mr.
Rothmaais would be in any minute the
police say.
Heukoch and Mazura had just &C.
cepted proffered chairs when two
strangers entered.
"Put up your hands," one of them is
said to have ordered, drawing a pistol
Heukoch quickly raised his hands
Servick dropped to the floor and
scrambled past the two men before
they could bar his way. Mazura re.
fused to do as he was commanded and
began to argue with the gunner. Two
shots were fired.
Policeman Finds Man Dead
When Patr olman William Wittenbere
of the Fifth Street station, arrived
shortly after the shooting, he founc
Mazura dead on the threshold with g
bullet through the roof of his mouth
and Heukoch on the floor, holding his
bleeding arm. AFTER being attended b,
an ambulance surgeon from Bellevue
Hospital, Heukoch was taken to the
Fifth Street police station.
Search of Mazura S body revealed
S1,24060 in one pocket and $1,000 ir
cash strapped to his leg. An empty
handbook. two passports and three
Polish certificates also were found IL
his pockets. Heukoch showed the
ponce @G,U1o Wnlcn ne drew from the
bank yesterday morning. Servick tole
the police he had not drawn his money
When the police arrived the Roth
man family had fed. A cradle, still
warm, and upset in one of the rooms
gave evidence of the haste with which
he family departed. Friends Of Ma
zura, who knew of the mans struggle
tc amass his small fortune, were dill
gently searching the neighborhoot
last night for the alleged slayer.
Sarvick wGs found last night by tht
police hiding in the restaurant il
Street where he had met Roth
n.on. No descr ption was obtained O
the two men who entered the apart
ment.
Druggist Mysteriously Shot
A dark, stocky man wearing derb,
hal ohot Turk in the bathroom of hi
ONE at 2 o'clock yesterday morning
Turk died at Gouvcrneur Hospital al
hour later, without Identifying the maj
who shot him or disclosing any posi-
hle motive.
ooh 20 away; don't bother me-" h
exclaimed, and then tainted, while Pa
rolDan James +. O'Bren. of the Madi
son Street station, was questioning
| him.
Turk merely told O'Rrien that he ha,
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