The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Two Men Are Accused OF
Stealing Margaret An
glin's Automobile.
$1,000 CAR SELLS AT $500
No Trace Found of Bandits
Who Held Up Woman Ticket
Agent at 57th st.

board southbound train in the
Broadway Seventh avenue subway at
Fiftieth street last night when a gold
mesh bag she was carrying was torn
from her hand. Turning about the
young woman saw a man dash up
stairs to the street. She screamed
and two men standing near her started
after the thief.
/ The chase continued west through
/ Fiftieth street to Ninth avenue and
/ then turned south. Policeman Mix
/ sovsky of the West Forty seventh
! street station arrested Enrique Monge
of 249 West 116th street at Forty
ninth street and Ninth avenue. He
was led back to the subway station.
Miss Mcclure could not identify him,
but. the police say, two other passen-
gers said he was the man who stole
the young woman's bag. Monge was
locked up on a charge of grand lar
ceny. The mesh bag, in which there
were but a few cards, was not found.
! Miss Mcclure said she kept her money
in a safer place.
The theft occurred while several de-
tectives were busy trying to find the ROB-
bers who on Monday night held up Mrs.
| Ada Hoover, ticket agent of the Il. X. I.
subway station at Fifty-seventh street.
Manhattan. The robbers. as was told
yesterday morning in the late editions OF
THE NEW YORK HERALD, pushed pistols
in through the opening in the agent
cage and demanded that she elevate her
hands. They stole sos in bills and small
change.
Brooklyn Ticket Agents Armed.
Officers of the railroad company IS
sued statement explaining how the
agents of the stations in Brooklyn a:e
protected against robbery and intimating
| that these precautions would be extended
| to Manhattan. Many ticket agents are
armed. the statement said, and each
agent has n telephone within arm S
reach These precautions have not been
extended 10 Manhattan because they
were not considered necessary. The
holdup at the F'ifty-seventh street sta-
tlon was a big surprise to the officers.
Stephen Lucas. until recently a fire.
man attached to Engine Company No. 1.
in West Twenty-ninth street was in
dicted yesterday by the Grand Jury on
charges of grand larceny and receiving
stolen goods Lucas is charged with the
/ theft OF an automobile owned by Meyers
& Studner importers. OF 1915 Seventh
avenue, on November 2S. He was ar
rested December 16 as he stepped from
the automobile. the police say. at Broad
way and Fiftieth street Lucas. who
has been out on $4,000 bail. will be ar
raigned for pleading to-day before Judge
Grain in General Sessions.
Stephen Murphy. age SO. of los Eighth
avenue, and James Mclean, age 26, OF
24g West Seventeenth street, were ar
rested yesterday on suspicion in connec-
ton with the theft of the automobile of
Margaret Anglin. the actress. on Decem-
Der 21. The machine was stolen at
Broadway and Sevenety-seventh street.
Il was valued at $1,000 and was sold.
the detectives say for $500.
No hail for Eastman's slayer.
jeremiah III. Bohan. the prohibition
enforcement agent who admitted Mon
day that he shot and killed Monk East
man at Fourth avenue and Fourteenth
street on December 26. was held by
Magistrate Cobb in Jefferson Market
Court without bail on homicide charge.
Alexander 1. Rorke. who resigned Mon
day as an assistant on the staff OF
Edward Swami. District Attorney. acted
for Bohan. Detective Lieut. William
Funston and Detective William Botti
made the charge. Bohan was nattily
dressed in green suit and wore pearl
spats.
Thomas J. Hunt. the prisoner who
was half. way out a window OF West
side Prison Monday morning when
caught By George j. Anton. keeper.
was arraigned In the West Side Court
on a charge OF aiding and abetting In
the escape of Henry Lloyd Bitzburger.
New Jersey bank robber. Hunt was
being held on an assault and robbery
charge and his bail had been fixed at
$4,000. Magistrate Levine remanded
Hunt in default Of $4,000 bail on the
attempted escape charge.
Assistant District Attorney MORO be-
gan an investigation into the circum-
stances surrounding the death Sunday
morning OF Carl Bosselman, manager OF
an antique shop In Washington. His
father. Andrew G. Bosselman OF 3l2
West 109th street has said he was told
q policeman hit his son over the head
Among those examined by Mr.. Morro
were Policeman Walter Walsh OF the
East Isifty-nrst stret station. who found
Bosselman lying unconscious at the foot
I
East Forty-sixti street and Thomas J.
McManus OF j0i East Eighty-fourth
street. who admitted he had been out
drinking with Bosselman Saturday
night. Charles Englis OF 3is Park ave-
nue and James Harrison OF East
Sixty-eighth street said they saw the
chase but did not see Walsh hit Bossel-
man.
! McManus was quoted Sunday night as
having told the dead mans father tha,
watchman had said a policeman hit
Bosselman across the head. McManus
denied yesterday that he ever made such
statement Policeman Walsh said he
did not see Bosselman between the time
he chased him down Park avenue and
when he found him lying In Depew
place. MIR. Mario will continue the in
vcstigati1n tomorrow. when the watch
man and others will be questioned.
Frank Flanagan. age 25, who was re-
leased in October by Judge RosalslSy
after having spent 1G months in the
death house. was set free yesterday by
Magistrate Levine because OF lack OF
evidence In a robbery charge preferred
| against him week ago. The robbery
was that OF David sayior. messenger for
| "A jewelry concern at Seventh avenue
and Forty-ninth street, on November II.
Diamonds valued at 100000 were taken.