New-York tribune., 1922-11-10
Police Bullet
Kills Man i'm
Motor Chase
Two Others Of Five Occu-
pants of Touring Car in
Duel With Patrolman
After Auto Climbs Curb
Unidentified Man Escapes
Trio Goes to Garage for l6
Gallons of Alcohol and
Refuses Payment for 1t

Andrew AEichaels, said to be Pole
one of five men in a black touring
car which had been pursued by Patrol.
man Eugene O'Connor, of the Oak
Street station In commandeered ma
chine, was shot and fatally wounded
last nigth in front of IS East Tenth
Street when he and two other occu.
pants of the touring car exchanged
shots with the patrolman.
A bullet fred by O'Connor pierced
Michaels's brain and caused his death
two hours later at Bellevue. One Of
the two other men who fired at O'Con.
nor with Michaels was caught after 9
chase. He described himself as Alec
Smith, Of Grand Street, jersey City
Ben Faust, chauffeur, employed at q
garage at a0-50 Bayard Street, also is
prisoner. He is charged with viola.
tion Of the prohibition law. Michaels
Smith and q third man opened FIRE OF
| o'Connor4,sfter- their automobile hae
climbed the Tenth Street curb and hac
come to a sudden halt. The shot,
were fired through the windshield.
Faust declares that Michaels, Smith
and the unidentified man tried to rot
him of sixteen hve-gallon cans of aIco
hol.
Piled Alcohol In Car
Michaels, Smith and the third man,
known as mike the Bum" called last
night at the Bayard Street garage, ac-
cording to Faust, to get alcohol which
he had agreed to purchase for then,
| through "A Pike Street barber. The
trio drove into the garage in their
glossy touring car, which bore a
Massachusetts license, and with the
assistance of Faust and two men with
him, it is said, piled the alcohol into
the machine.
With all the alcohol aboard Faust,
it Is said. asked for payment. But in
stead of producing money the three
men, according to Faust, produced
revolvers, fingered them suggestively,
and with sharp nmand and, threat
companions into the machine. Six men,
autom moblle and alcohol then moved
out into Bayard Street.
One Of Faust's companions, however,
refused to see himself and the others
kidnapped, and when the car reached
the street nc jumped from it and ran
for a policeman. The policeman he
found was Eugene O'Connor. "a
bandit carl" yelled the man to O'Con-
nor, indicating the vanishing machine.
.O'Connor hailed passing machine
and as he swung to the running board
shouted directions to its driver.
Shoots Bandit In Head
The chase continued up the Bowery
to Canal Street, through Canal to La
fayette and then north on Lafayette
O'Connor's machine drew closer every
half block and he was almost directly
behind the fleeing touring car, when
it came to a sudden stop after jumping
the curb.
The patrolman's car came to a stop
after drawing slightly ahead and
O'Connor, without drawing his re-
volver, sprarg out and started back
toward the other machine. Its occu-
pants. however, greeted him with q
volley Of shots and the firing continued
until he had drawn his own revolver
and had sent Michaels toppling from
the machine with bullet In his head
Alec Smith, after hard run, wound
up in the Chinese laundry and i'm
plored the proprietor to hide him. AT
that minute Patrolman Ed McNamara
rushed in and relieved Che Chinese OF
embarrassment by arresting Smith
Revolyers were found on Smith and
Michaels,s and third revolver was In
the car. Faust's companion in the car
at the time it was wrecked was not
arrested.