The evening world., 1922-05-27
s. SHOTS FIRED
IN 3-MILE CHASE
+. OF STOLEN TAXI
Alderman'S Son One of Two
Men Caught in Crash
Three Escape.

Residents along three miles Of
Brooklyn streets were aroused at
A. NJ. to-day by thirty five shots fred
by policemen in three automobiles
chasing stolen taxicab containing
five alleged hold-up men, one Of the
latter said to be the son OF a Brook
lyn Alderman. Three of the fugitives
escaped by jumping along the route
of flight, and the other two wers
caught after they had wrecked the
taxi against a billboard in trying to
turn a corner. ',..
One prisoner, Joseph p. Larney,
twenty, a printer, living at No. 44e
Lincoln Avenue, is the son Of Alder
man Patrick II. Larney of No. 252
High Street, Brooklyn, representing
the 33d District. The other man at FIRST
gave the name of Fred Ward, but ac-
cording to the police admitted later
he was William O'Connor, twenty
four, No 30 Vanderbilt Avenue. Tho
police say he was recently released
from Elmira.
Thomas Perso of No. 431 Gates
Avenue was in his taxieab at Myrtle
Avenue and Skillman Street at I A.
NJ. when five men got in and ordered
him to drive to store in Skillman
Street. near Park Avenue. They re-
mained in the store a few minutes,
came out and ordered him to drive
along Myrtle Avenue.
Suddenly they ordered him to get
out, and when he hesitated attacked
him with their fists, he says One took
- from him. They threw him ont
and drove rapidly up Myrtle Avenue.
Perso ran to Policeman James Ster-
rett of Clymer Street Station at Myr-
tie and Bedford Avenues, and Sterrett
commandeered a passing automobile
and gave chase. He fired ten shots
without causing the taxi to slow up,
but saw three of the men jump out
and run. At Myrtle Avenue and
Broadway Police Serst. William
Scheifer of Wilson Avenue Station,
who was in department car, saw
lowed When he got abreast of Ster-
rett's car and was told what was up,
he joined the chase and fired five
shots.
At Myrtle and Bushwick Avenues.
Ridgewood, Detectives Leonard
Woodle and James Drum, in a de-
partment car, Joined the procession
and each fired ten shots. At Myrtle
and Greene Avenues the driver Of the
taxi tried to turn but was going SO
fast the car climbed the curb and
smashed against a billboard.
An examination Of the taxcab
showed the back filled with bullet
holes, and 1t ID believed one or more
Of the three who escaped may havs
been wounded. The two arrested
were charged with assault and rob-
berry and operating an automobiIe
without a license.
The store entered by the five men
is grocery store kept by Mrs. James
Music. She said that the men de-
manded money and that her son
James started to give them a battle
and that she screamed at which they
ran out. ..... .......
To-day the men were held by Mag
istrate Dale in the Williamsburg
Plaza Police Court until next Friday.
Larney was released in $4,000 ball.
but bail was refused O'Connor on ac-
count Of his previous criminal record.
Alderman Iarney attributes the
trouble of his son to bad hooch, to
which he says his son is not addicted.
but in company with some OF his
friends last night found a "place''
where. after two or three drinks, he
lost his memory. The Alderman is
the father Of eleven children and had
fourteen, three havind died. He says
that Joe has always been a hofne-
loving and churchgoing boy, that he
Is married and has a child and In
steadily employed.