New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-17

Massed Drive
On Crooks by
Police Nets Is
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silver intact. The money was removed
to the East Sixty-scvcnth Street police
station for safe keeping. Quinn be-
lievcs the burglars we're at work when
he opened the front door of the store
and that thcg were frightened away.
Mrs. Catherine Maioncy, Of l0I East
10th Street, appealed to Patrolman
Rothamcl OF East 104th Street police
station, last night to arrest pick
pocket whom, she charged, had stolen
her pocketbook while she was in a mo-
ton picture house in East 10th Street.
Rothamel arrested Alfred De Martina,
fortv,fve years old. Of 1928 Second
Avenue. He denied he was guilty, but
was held for examination in West Side
Court to-day.
Watch for Thief at Nurses Home
Since Friday detectives have been
hidden every night. it was learned yes
terday. on the roof of st. Mark s
| Nurses Home, adjoining the hospital
of that name on eleventh Street, near
| Second Avenue, waiting for an agile
| burglar who has been preying on oc-
cuparts Of the home for three months
! to put in an appearance.
The burglar has visited only rooms
opening on fire escapes, but so fire.
quent did the thefts become that prac~
y
building have contrived burglar alarms
of one kind or another, which they set
every night on retiring.
All precautions have proved futile.
| The night of March %. the burglar
stole $500 in United States and Cana
dian bonds, clothing, jewclry, toilet
articles and several war medals from
the room of Miss +. NJ. East, night SUI
| pervisor. The medals were given her
by the British government 70" her
| services during the war.
A few days later he entered the room
Of the night superintendent, Miss Anna
Fogarty, stealing jcwclry and clothing
| Last Thursday night he got money and
| jewclry in the room of Miss A. Lau-
man, night superintendent of nurses
! In no case has his victim succeeded in
getting glimpse Of him, although fire.
quently she was asleep in her room
while he prowled about.
George Miller, twenty-nine years
old, of 358 West Twenty fifth Street,
was held up by three men at the cor
ncr of Hudson and Morton streets
during the morning and robbed Of $50
Patrolmen Conner and F'itzmaurice, of
the Charles Street police station.
hearing Milcr's cries for help. rushed
to the scene and arrested three men
who Miller said "lookcd like" the fell
lows who robbed him.
The men described them selves as
Thomas Burke, twenty-sx years old
80 Greenwich Street; Joseph Blake,
thirty-five, 1927 Washington Street and
Alexander Mcdonald, thirty years, %
christopher Street, They said they
were laborcrs and denied having any
money nor weapons were found on
them. They were arrai gncd in Jcfcr-
son Market Court and held without
bail for further examination on
/ Wednesday,
Five Seized in Auto
Inspector John Z. Sweeney Of the
( 9th Inspection District. in Brooklyn,
picked up five men in an automobile at
/ Clermont and Lafayette avenues,
Brooklyn, who were acting suspciously
/ in the neighbour God. The inspector
was patroling with another policeman
| in a car when he saw one of the sus-
! poets get out Of a big motor car, peer
| into a florists window and then walk
block and look into another.
The inspector got out and grabbed
| the man, who said he was merely look
! ing for cigar store. In a search of
| the automobile Inspector Sweeney said
| two revolvcrs were found. The five
| men were arrested and arraigncd be-
fore Magistrate Folwell, in the Gates
Avenue police court.
The men held gave their names as
/ Stephen Roberts. twenty-one years old,
/ of 43 Court Street; Peter Lenahan,
twcnty-three, of 149 Nelson Street;
I Thomas Powers, eighteen, of l49 Rich
ards Street; Joseph Caulteld, thirty
five, Verona Place. and Alton JAM
son, twenty, of 3OS Atlantic Avenue. all
! of Brooklyn. They were held in s. 900
! bail each for further examination on
| Thursday.
An evidence Of the intense interest
the public is taking in the offensive
against lawlessness developed at
hearing in the Yorkville Court yester-
day when three men were arraigned on
! the charge of having stolen an auto
mobile. Saturday night Louis Hofbe rg,
of 152 South Eighth Street, Brooklyn,
| reported his car stolen while it was
standing at Fifty ninth Street and Sec
ond Avenue.
Autoists Join in Pursuit
A citizen in another automobile
thought he saw the thieves get away
with the car and gave chase up Am
sterdam Avenue. The footing of his
horn drew other automobiles and soon
there was whole caravan Of automo-
biles speeding up the avenue with the
let him get away" all along the line.
Detectives Martin Owens, James
Leach and John Kieran, patrolling in a
car took up the chase at Ninety second
Street, trying to find out who was
| being chased from some of the other
pursuers. Nobody seemed to know whu
or what was being pursued, the occu-
pants of the automobile in the lead of
the chase not being able to inform
| them just what it was all about, e1-
cept that some one mad stolen a car
and that the thieves might have gone
up Amsterdam Avenue.
Turning in at 10th Street, the de-
tectives were passed by car going at
great speed. They gave chase on
Morningside Drive and caught it at
115th Street The three occupants
were unable to explain their presence
in the car and were placed under ar
rest Hofberg identified the car as his
and the three men, according to the