New-York tribune., 1921-09-30
Nv oman Held i'm
Hunt for Slayer
OF Patrol1nan
-
Detained With Companion
Who Has Police Gun and
Nippers He Says He Took
From a Guard on Subway
Five Alibis Are Offered
Quintet Halted by Slain Of
-. fcer Hasten to Estab-
lish Movements That Day

Little progress was made yesterday
in the police search for the murderer
Of Patrolman Joseph A. Reuschle, who
was shot to death on Riverside Drive,
near 168th Street, early Wednesday
morning. The person or persons re-
sponsible for his death left no trail.
AL Of the FIVE men who were arrest
ed.three weeks ago by Reuschle as they
drove up Riverside Drive in an automo-
bile alleged to have contained re-
volvers, masks and a blackjack were
accounted for yesterday to the satisfac
Three Of them-Abraham Meekler, of
266 East Thirteenth Street; Edward
Lewis, of AZ Essex Street, and Henry
Garfinkle, who lives at Coney Island
surrendered Wednesday, when they
learned the police wanted to question
them.
Curry Booked as Casey
"a Joseph Curry, also booked as Joseph
Casey, went to the District Attorneys
Office yesterday and offered an alibi.
The fifth member Of the party, Sam
uel Bloch, is in the Tombs awaiting
trial on q charge Of violating the Sui
livRn law.
Curry told Acting District Attorney
Banton that he went to bed in St.
Marks baths half an hour before the
policeman was shot. This and the
alibis Of the others are being checked
up. Until the investigation is COM
pleted, however, the four will remain
as more or less voluntary prisoners at
Police Headquarters. They favor this
themselves as a measure Of self-pro-
lection.
Detective Oswald, who was sent to
Curry's home, at $50 West Forty-third
Street, came back to headquarters with
a man, woman, pistol holster of the
type used by the police and pair OF
nippers such as policemen carry. The
woman, who said she was Anna May,
Of Detroit, is said to have had news
paper clippings telling of Reuschle's
arrest Of the five men September and
Of his murder Wednesday.
- Says Guard Had Nippers
The man who said he was Joseph
Spitz, name which the police con-
ffrmed from their records, is alleged
pistol in his pocket. Oswald said he
came into the house while he was there.
Spitz and the woman both denied know
inE anything about Reuschler's death
except what they had read in news
Spitz. however, is said to have ad-
n::itted that he was one of gang which
held up Louis Goldman in his jewelry
shop, at 1900 Southern Boulevard, the
Bronx, Monday Goldman was shot
through the lip by one Of the robbers,
all Of whom ran after the snot was
fired.
According to INSPECTOR Coughlin,
Curry admitted ownership of the hol-
ster and the nipperS and said he had
rot them from an marlborough guard
S.sth whom he had had s. fight
q. ,gsters are being tai N to pre-
e.s,2 .tations for question ag: A par
ticuIssrly careful combnlg IS pelng
giver the Hell's Kitchen tfeighborhood,
shot l.. death. on the theory that there
nav he n possible connection in the
two m ders.
. Funeral Arranged
Every available clew was pursued to
SLAYER Of Reusclle, this number includ-
ing not only the detectives assigned
10 the case, but a hundred policemen
who volunteered to help in their of
The flag at the West 177th Street sta
tion. to which the slain patrolman had
been attached for years, flew at half
staff and shopkeepers in the neighbor-
hood devoted many moment to relllng
customers Of this or that bit of fine po-
lice work done by Policeman Reuschle.
Funeral services, to be held Saturday
morning in St. Edmund's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Morris Avenue and
177th Street, will be marked by ex-
Yraordinary police honors. -Four COM
.panies Of patrolmen from the Wash
fn1ton Heights district will lead the
ccrtege from Reuschle's home to the
church. They will be preceded by the
police band and followed by the police
company of singers. Burial will be in
Woodlawn Cemetery. The Rev. j. G.
Smiley will officiate.