The New York herald., 1921-11-24
z BURGLARS CAUGHT
in FIGHTS, AROUSING
STUYVESANT SQUARE
Detectives Struggle With
Pair in House Behind
st. Georges.
SHOTS SUBDUE THEM
Man in Chapel Study Sees
Robbery of Apartment
of Two Women.
ONE A SCHOOL TEACHER
Police in Automobile Arrive
in Time to Halt Fugitives
Escaping by Roofs.

Two men who tried to rob an apart
ment in the seven story house at 21O
East Seventeenth street last night
were captured by Detectives David
Lambert and August Gilman of the
East Twenty-second street station af-
ter terrific fight on the stairway, roof
and fire escape Of the building.
The struggle aroused the whole
neighborhood and caused excitement
throughout the block. Detective Lam
bert had to knock one Of the men un-
conscious with the butt Of his revolver
and the other was not captured until
Gilman had fired half a dozen shots
at him on the fire escape.
A member of the st. George Me-
mortal House at 207 East Sixteenth
street. which is connected with St
Georges Church, looked out OF a back
window Of the house reading room and
saw two men in the apartment of Miss
jeanette Allen and Miss Florence Bax-
ter, the latter a teacher of mathe-
matics in Washington Irving High
School.
He watched the men because they
were acting suspiciously. and ne saw
them stuffing clothes into a suitcase.
One. big man we'll over six feet, later
said he was Herman Fishman. 2G, Of So
Sixth street. and the OF Ter asserted he
was Jack Klein, 20, OF $40 East Eighth
street.
Six Policemen Sent.
Convinced that the two meE were
sbarsiArs, tho man in the st. Gesfgo
House went to the telephone and called
J. c. Piedman. superintendent of the
Seventeenth street apartment house.
Piedman called the police. and Detec-
tives Lambert and Gilman. with four
automobile. The four surrounded the
place. while Gilman and Lambert went
to the roof. There they found F'shman
and Klein carrying a suitcase contain
ing about s40o in clothing. which they
had carried with them UP the stairs.
Fishman turned and ran down the
stairway as soon as he saw the dctec-
tives. Klein ran down the fire soape
and was pursued BY Gilman. Lambert
plunged down the stairs and jumped on
Fishman's back just as the man reached
the landing OH the sixth floor. They
fought down three flights OF stairs
Lambert's elbow smashed a panel In
doorway as they rolled and tumbled
downward, and once he fired snot. but
Fishman grabbed the detectives hand
and swung the gun around so that the
bullet went into the wall.
The shot and the crashing of the
bodies down the stairs aroused the whole
house and almost the entire population
of the building poured into the Railways.
On the landing Of the third floor LAM
bert wrenched his hand loose from Fish
mans grasp and hit the man with his
gun, knocking him unconscious
surrenders to shots.
Meanwhile Gilman and Klein were
fighting on the fire escape. Klein tried
TO hit the detective several times and did
strike him once or twice. but the de-
tective began shooting at him and he
quickly surrendered. lie was marched
back up TO the roof and down the stairs
and then he and Fishman were taken to
the police station, where they were
locked UP charged with burglary. Fish
man told the police he served as pri-
vatc In the Twenty-sixth Infantry dur
ing the war and received citation for
bravery.
Detectives Lambert and Gilman said
that year ago they arrested two men
who tried to rob the same apartment.
Nearby are the homes of several promi-
nent families