New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-25
Bandits i'm Park
Trapped by Cry
OF Girl Victim
$500 in Rings Stripped
From Fingers at Pistols
Point, Marjorie La Roux
Shrieks, Despite Threats
One Caught i'm Fifth Ave.
Two Men Fight Desperately
With Police; Escort of
Young Woman Robbed

Louis J. Brickhafer, nineteen years
old. of 1856 Second Avenue, and Meyer
Simon, twenty two, of 215 East Tooth
Street, arrested yesterday after g dar-
ing hold-up ia Central Park and n re-
volver battle in which Patrolmen John
FLYNN and Albert Dwyer, of the West
flfty-fourth Street police station, fired
fifteen shots, confessed the robbery
last night after they had been held by
Magistrate Tobias in the West Side
Court under $4,000 bail each.
Just after l o'clock in the morning
Joseph Wesley, twenty-rour years old,
of 81 West Sixty-fifth Street, was pass
ing through the park escorting Miss
Marjorie lie Roux, twenty one, to her
home at 80 West Eighty-second Street,
when three men with drawn revovers
stepped from the shrubbery and or
dered them to hold up their hands.
From Wesley the bandits took gold
card case, gold watch and $3.50 in
money. Diamonds valued at 1900 were
stripped from the fingers of Miss LIE
Roux. who fought fiercely against their
surrender and was threatened with
death by one of the bandits The young
woman was bruised by the repeated
thrusts of revolver muzzle.
Girls Cry Brings Help
AS the men ran they threatened to
return and kill both Wesley and his
companion if they made an outcry. De-
spite this warning Miss LIE Roux imme-
diately screamed for help and Patrol
man Flynn responded The robbers
were still in sight when he took up the
chase
Shouting at the men to stop Flynn
fired three shots from his revolver, but
without bringing them to halt. At
ninetieth Street and Fifth Avenue the
bandits scaled the park wall, followed
by Flynn, who fired two more shots
One of the robbers fell as he reached
the top of the wall and ran lame after
that. His companion essayed help and
thus delayed the men were overtaken
by Flynn at Ninetieth Street, where a
who had followed the sound of shoot
ing, engaged one of the fug ltives and
Flynn closed with the other. Flynn
was struck on the head with revolver
butt and dazed. Dwyer, in a close
struggle with Simon, heavier of the
bandits, fired several more shots, but
was overpowered and knocked into an
areaway. Simon ran, but was over
taken by Dwyer before he had gone
block The patrolman knocked him un-
conscious with his empty revolver.
Brickhafer escaped, only to be ar
rested an hour later at Second Ave-
nue. and Ninetieth Street by Patrol
man Roth, of the East Eighty-sixth
Street police station. Brickhafer had
44-caliber revolver and three spare
cartridges in his pocket. Both men
were we'll dressed, but had torn their
clothing and been badly battered in
their engagement with the two patrol
men.
Later Wesley and Miss LIE Roux
identified both men as their assail-
ants. Magistrate Tobias in setting
the bail bond at $4,000 expressed him.
stlf as we'll pleased at the arrests and
characterized the men rs dangerous
and low type criminals"
Police Hear of Other Hold-ups
According to a police ssatemen. made
later both men confessed under uues-
tioning and admitted participation in
other holdups. Details of the confess
sions were not made public.
Shortly after the capture of Brick
hafer and Simon,- Detectives Reilly
and Morrisey, of the safe and loft
squad, captured Louis Veggelo, 80 Nell
son Street, Brooklyn, in the act, they
say, of robbing Quong Fat, Chinese
laundryman of II Doyers Street, who
was relieved Of 5000. An accompllce
escaped.
When Vegelo was arraigned before
Magistrate Mancuso in Tombs Court,
two men who appeared as witnesses
Tor him were arrested in the court
room: They were Thomas Chrome, of
1876 Cherry Street, and Paul Tabaco,
OF 81 Catharine Street.