New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-18
Host at Card
Game Stabbed
Seven Times
Three Of Eight Players
Trapped in Shed and
Arrested After a Fight;
Seven Stilettos Found
Taxicab Driver Is Shot
Body of Man With Deep
Wounds in Head Found
Lying Between Buildings


Martin Bibreck entertained seven
men at his home at 243 Moore Street.
Brooklyn, last night, where a game of
cards, al ftesco, in the front yard was
the chief entertainment. Bibreck is in
st. GATHERINGS Hospital this morning
suffering from serious stab wounds.
He has three knife marks in his abdo-
men, three in the back and one in right
arrmfi making total Of seven, or one
for each Of his guests. He is not ex-
pected to live.
According to neighbors of Bibreck,
the eight men had been playing for
some time and the game appeared to
be progressing amicably, when one Of
the players was heard to refer to an
other in polite and restrained tones as
"You dirty cheat"
Fifteen minutes after this remark
was passed the desk lieutenant in the
Stage Street police station received a
hurry call for reserves.
Players had Disappeared
When the reserves, headed by Ser
geant John Williams, reached 243
Moore Street, all the card players save
Bibreck had disappeared. They found
the host lying, probably mortally
wounded, on his back by the side of
an overturned card table. Around
Bibreck, in crude circle, they found
The reserves were deployed about the
Bibreck home and sNarch was begun
for the wounded mems guests. In a
woodshed adjoining the Bibreck home
three men were found hiding. When the
door of the shed was opened they
rushed out on the police and were III
rested only after considerable struggle.
They were taken to the Sragg Street
station and charged with felonious as
sault and violation of the Mullan Gage
law. Each prisoner is said to have been
in possession Of flask containing al
legged whisky.
The men gave their names as Stanley
Hilowitz, thirty-eight years old, of 1858
Johnson Avenue; William Zulapski,
fortyhve years old, of "a Cook Street,
ana William Visco, fifty-three years
old, of 1858 Johnson Avenue, all of
Brooklyn. They will be arraigned in
the Bridge Plaza court to-day.
Man Found Murdered
William Lafferty, of 5317 Second Ave
nue., rlveter, was found dead between
buildings 5 and 6 of the Bush Ter
mlnal Railway yesterday by Thomas
Shore, motorman of the company, liv-
ing at 238 Sumpter Street, BROOKLYN.
Lafferty's body was lying face down.
ward. There were deep wounds in his
head, which had been wrapped in q
newspaper bearing Saturdays date.
Shore summoned Patrolman Shea, of
the Fourth Avenue police station
Laffertx was unmarried and lived at
the address given with his mother. He
was paid off Saturday at noon, receiv-
ing $50 in currency. Later blood
stained hat believed to have been that
worn by Lafferty was found at Thirty
first Street and Second Avenue. From
developments of an investigation made
by detectives assigned to the case it is
believed Lafferty was waylaid, robbed
and murdered.
Mrs. Mary Lafferty, mother of the
dead man, told the police last night
that he had no quarrels that she knew
of and no enemies. The possibility
that Lafferty was struck by train and
that the paper found about his head
was blown there by wind is also being
considered
H. J. Frank, a taxicab driver of 5O2
East Eighty third Street, Manhattan,
was attacked by three men who en-
gagged him late Saturday night to drive
them from Luna Park, Coney Island,
to East New York. When they arrived
there they ordered Frank to await
them at Church Avenue. He insisted
on payment of the fare and one of the
men attacked him with a blackjack.
When he resisted another shot him in
the left breast Patrolman John Fisher,
Of the Atlantic Avenue station, pur-
sued the men, who escaped. Frank was
removed to St. Johns Hospital, where
his death is expected.
Joseph Geneva, twenty-three years