The New York herald., 1922-09-16
TWO WHITES SLAIN
ATOP NEGROES ROOF
Strangled With Own Neckties
and Beaten and Robbed
Even of Shoes.


/ yesterday morning on the seventeenth
floor of the Gotham National Bank at
Fifty-ninth street and Columbus Circle.
happened to glance from window
which overlooked the negro tenement
houses in Fifty-ninth street 10 the roof
or No. 32l He saw huddled there some
thing which was either dummy.
drunk or corpse, and he telephoned
the police of the West Sixty-eighth
| street station.
| When the detectives swarmed over
the roofs they found not one dead man
but two, for upon the roof OF No. 325
as we'll as upon the roof of 32l lay a
murdered man. Both were white and
beth had been beaten and strangled,
killed for what little money they may
| have had. Even the shoes had been
| taken from the bodies. Papers found
| in the pockets of the better dressed of
the two led to his identification as Louis
Rothstein. 10, an insurance collector, OF
| 20i West Sixty-ninth street. The other
| has not yet been identified. He appears
| TO have been a disabled former soldier,
| and was about ) feet T. weighed
about 10 pounds and wore brown
suit. Like Rothstein, he had been
strangled with his own necktie.
| The investigation of the detectives
led them to evolve the theory that Roth
stein and the other had been lured into
Railways and possibly to the roofs, and
there murdered. After an autopsy per-
formed on Rothstein's body DR.. Benja-
min Schwartz. Acting Medical Examiner,
said that there was no doubt the man
had been murdered.
Crowd of 1000 Sees Arrest.
thousand people gathered at Sixth
| avenue and Thirty-ninth street yester-
day afternoon, thinking there was a
holdup, when four Bergen County, New
Jersey, police officers drew their re-
voivers and forced the surrender of
Arthur Corbett. 26 of 432 West Fifty
sixth street. who Is wanted for robbery.
lie and another man. 1t is alleged. held
up the paymaster of the Spencer-Kel-
logg Company. linseed oil dealers, en-
River road, Edgewater. n. j.. on March
II last and robbed him of slOCOO
capt. Edward McFeely and Policeman
). K Scott of the Hoboken police were
riding on Sixth avenue trolley car a
week ago when they saw man they
| thought shey recognized as Corbett
standing at Thirty-ninth street When
they returned to New Jersey they got
warrant for his arrest and every day
since then they came to New York and
loitered for awhile at the corner In the
nope the Corbett would reappear. When
they got there yesterday. accompanied
by County Detectives Allyn and Daw-
son, all in plain clothes. they saw Cor
bett standing at the opposite corner
talking to a group of friends and drew
their revolvers before any of them had
chance to make move.
Corbett and his friends did all they
] q ra rrt ft..
among the crowd that they were the
victims of bandits and even the New
York police, who responded to their
cries. were fooled for a time and started
to arrest the New Jersey policemen.
When the situation was explained Cor
bett was taken to the West Thirtieth
street station. where he will be held
for the New Jersey authorities.
Hatlcss Burglar Escapes.
The police let it be known yesterday
that on Thursday the guests and en-
ployees of the Gotham Hotel at Fifty
fifth street and Fifth avenue chased a
burglar after he had been surprised at
work in the room OF Charles Ledlie. a
merchant from the West on the sixth
1 floor of the hotel The burglar. who
wore no hat. finally escaped after firing
a shot at his pursuers. The police said
he stole nothing.
Charles Leonard of the Mills Hotel No.
2. said by the police 10 be an old time
safe cracker known as Klondike, was
arrested with Morris Berger at "a East
Houston street yesterday by Detectives
John Finn. Henry Mugge and William
Raftis of the pickpocket squad. Each
man had a revolver and was charged
with violating the Sullivan law. The
p9lice said they were acting glsDicfOlgiy
In Tenth avenue near Twenty-fourth
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