The New York herald., 1921-12-23
ONE BANDIT SLAIN,
ONE HURT IN BATTLE
AFTER HOLDUP BY 6
Negro Waterman Shoots
Man i'll Gun Fight Out
side Tenement.
FIVE FLEE IN TAXICAB
Policeman Wounds Driver,
Who Later Is Captured
After a Chase.
a ESCAPE AFTER CRASH
Rental Office i'm West 63d st.
Raided-TwO Women Ter
rOrized-$8OO Stolen.

Charles David, negro watchman,
yesterday afternoon matched his edu-
cation as n marksman, acquired in
the military police force of British
Guiana, against the gunfire of six
armed white bandits. He won. One
of the bandits lies in the morgue; an
other, wounded, in the prison ward Of
Bellevue, and the other four are
hunted men with their descriptions
and antecedents known to the police
In the negro district on the West
Side, the crest Of which is known as
San Juan Hill. there are eight flat
houses known as the Phipps Model
| Tenements for Respectable Colored
Families. Phipps No. is an apart
ment house in a block Of four at 243
West Sixty third street. between Am
sterdam and West End avenues.
| 1t is in Phipps No. that David,
night watchman, lives and has his
house that David was strolling after
lunch about o'clock yesterday after
noon.
| In front of the building a taxicab,
with motor running noisily. was stand
ing. That interested David. So did
the fact that a we'll dressed young white
man was pacing nervously up and down
before the building, glancing first one
way and then the other, with eyes
that returned always TO the entrance of
Phipps No. 2. David scented trouble.
But he scented even more trouble IL he
| attempted to go into the house. leav-
ing a suspicious man. probably armed
4 with revolver, behind him and fac
ing he did not know what. Conse-
quently he loitered in the neighborhood.
watchmnn shoots one Man.
Shortly thereafter fve white men in
| a hurry ran out of the house, one Of
| them removing white handkerchief
that had masked his face. David
thought he heard a scream. The hand
kerchief was enough. however. He
| sprang up the steps of the house as the
! men hustled into the taxicab, and. with
wall behind him, cut loose with his
revolver.
| The last man to get into the car was
| hit in the right side. He jumped off
the step. reaching for his hip pocket.
Daviu fired another shot. getting hir
just below the heart as the man, with
the others already within, opened
| fusilade. The man twice hit dropped
to the ground.
| At this point Patrolman Harry Pray
| rounded the corner of West End ave-
| nue. at a fast run. He saw the men
who had scrambled into the cab and
the wounded man on the sidewalk. with
I all mis- failing strength concentrated in
| the trigger finger OF his right hand.
The wounded man directed a shot or
two at Pray as the taxicab shot away.
Pray kicked the revolver out of the
mans hand and turned as the depart
ing bandits in the cab opened fire. He
sent several shots after them.
The taxicab turned In Eleventh ave-
nue. and the driver fired at Patrolman
Patrick Monahan. who was watching
the careening car. Monahan returned
the fire and wounded the driver. but the
car kept on down West End avenue.
;Monahan obtained an automobile and
started in pursuit.
Al Fifty-sixth street the driver of the
fugitive car, in attempting to turn and
head eastward, crashed into truck.
The driver and his four companions
climbed out and. disregarding the Ian
guage of the truckman, walked east
with every appearance of unconcern.
Policeman Catches Driver.
| The actions or the five men attracted
| the attention of Patroman Adolph
| Gunther of the West Forty-seventh
street station, and when he started to-
ward them they ran. Gunther caught
the wounded man who had driven the
| cab Then Monahan arrived and the
| fls.tw .x~fu
| searched for the other four men, but
they had disappeared.
Meanwhile, the man who had been
twice wounded was being hurried to the
Roosevelt Hospital but he died on the
way. David the watchman went into
the house, where he learned what had
happened.
/ Miss Maria Stocknger, a gray haired
white woman who Is superintendent OF
the eight Phipps tenemcnts, was sitting
| In her office on the ground floor shortly
before 2 o'clock when young white
man came In TO inquire about some
family Miss Stockinger did not know.
He left and few minutes later five
men came in. Three OF the five had
ma SKIS on, and all held revolvers. Two
took stations at the windows, while the
other three pointed their revolvers at
Miss Stockinger and at Mrs. May Trim.
the negro caretaker Of the house.
Take II easy" said one. I'VE just
want to collect that jack from the rich.
We won't touch you II you keep still"
The terrified women obeyed. One
man climbed over the grating and told
Miss Stockingcr to open the gate lead
ing into the inclosure. She did so. The
other men. except the lookouts came in.
bringing Mrs. Trim with them. With
out much hurry they went through the
safe. and through everything else in the
place. One man found Miss Stocking
er's pocketbook, but tossed II aside. tell
ing her they were only after the rent
money. In all they collected about
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