The New York herald., 1922-06-11

and his fellow detective followed them
up Fifth avenue to an apartment house
on 10th street near Amsterdam avenue,
where the leading cab stoppe! and
Wallace and the girl got out. leav-
ing trunk on the taxicab and taxi
ing bag into the house. Then Wal
into the waiting machine showing no in
dication that he knew he was being fol-
lowed and started downtown.
Twenty minutes later the apartment
house was raided by police and detec-
tives-which was not at all according to
our plans. Although there were several
men in the house all but one escaped.
David Minogue, alias J. Tobin, was ar
rested on an old warrant No trace of
the girl who had come with Wallace was
found
Whitman in his cab followed Wallace
downtown. Wallace stopped at Macy's,
at Thirty-fourth street and Broadway, to
telephone. He evidently got tip that
his apartment had been raided. Whit
man, watching him as he stood in the
booth, saw that he was greatly excited.
He rushed out of the department store,
got into his taxicab again and crossed
to the Thirty-fouroh street entrance of
the Hotel McAlpin. Whitman's car was
caught again in a traffic jam, so he
jumped out and darted through the traffic
just in time to see Wallace disappear
through the entrance into the hotel and
to hear the McAlpin starter tell the taxi
cab driver to check the trunk at the
Pennsylvania station and bring him the
check
Whitman searched the lobby, but failed
to see Wallace. Then he went back to
the starter and stood beside him until the
driver came back with the trunk check.
He Immediately took the check away
from the starter, and questioned him. The
man told him Wallace had said he had
friends in Room 1905 and was going to
see them. Whitman inquired at the desk
and learned that two women occupied
that ROOM He called me on the tele-
phone and two men were sent up to
watch the room. They ca-lped outside
17O6 all-night, but Wallace was not there.
Whitman meanwhile had gone over and
searched the trunk at the station. 1t was
packed full of articles of lingerie.
Wallace was fully informed now. His
checking of the trunk was trick to
throw us off the trail.
Whitman and l went back to Hoboken
and resumed the search for the hotel
which Russo and Scott had threatened
to buy. We searched for several days
and then things began to happen.
On the evening Of March tip came
to us that an Italian who might be Russo
had been picked up two days before for
disorderly conduct; that he had been
bailed out and that the case was to come
ur for trial in police court in Hoboken
the next morning, March 4, month after
the day of the robbery.
It was long shot but we were taking
no chance of letting anything slip
through our fingers, so we brought Helen
Brown to Hoboken to be present at the
hearing on the morning of March 4. While
sitting in the court she looked around
and saw Russo in the crowd. She pointed
him out, and then his trial was called.
He was discharged, and we Immediately
arrested him for the Wyomissing rob-
berry. He denied any knowledge Of it.
We had pretty good idea as to who
had furnished his 5000 bail bond. We be-
gan to seek for S-ott. While we we're
telling the desk lieutenant at Hoboken,
Police Headquarters to look out for Scott,
and giving a description of him. cap
tain of the Traffic Squad overheard. He
had seen the two-Russo and Scott-arm
in arm the day before. He left head
quarters a few minutes after he had
f. heard us telling the lieutenant of our
eagerness to set eyes on Russo's COM
panion and within an hour he was back
with Scott. He had bumped into him on
the street again.
The next day Scott was identified by
witnesses from Reading.
We had caught three of them; but all
three absolutely denied completely in the
robbery and all three denied ever hav-
ing heard of Stuart Wallace, Harry
Bernstein or James Rosen or any of
their aliases.
Sol Girsh, bond dealer, was one of
Wallace's close friends. So we set about
to center our action on him, using
pseudo bond buyer to bring whatever
bonds he might have to sell to light.
While Girsh was under surveillance he
was seen with Bernstein. We thereupon
put Bernstein too under surveillance. We
might have arrested him, but we we're
afraid we might spoil our case. We
wanted him to lead us to Wallace and
Rosen and we did not want to frighten
Girsh. We were after the bonds as well