The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-14

BANDITS ARE CAUGHT
BY NEW POLICE CAR
Landed i'm Upper Fifth Avenue
After Chase Following
Cafe Holdup.
SHATTUUCK In DOUBT
Not Sure Suspect Is Robbcr-
Figures on N. Y. Criminals
Show Most Are Young.
sHATTUuCK In DOUBT


yesterday with the capture OF two ban
dts in upper Fifth avenue who had
held up cafe near tho l25th street
station of the New York Central Rail-
road. getting $500. Twenty men were
in the cafe when the robbers entered
the pac at bay while the other leaped
the counter and got to the cash register.
They made off I'm taxcab, but sus-
picious policeman telephoncd for assist
ance.
That started department car in pur-
suit, and the robbers were caught at
Fifth avenue and 135th street They
said they were Frank Devlin. aged 81.
and Patrick j. Dealy, g. The police
found two loaded revolvers and $40 In
cash in the cab. The taxi driver. Charles
Vessel. aged 25. was arrested as an ac-
complete.
Three negroes were arrested while
trying to enter the drug store of Mat
thew v. Boutte at 2339 Seventh avenue
yesterday morning and were held in
$40, 900 bail each by Magistrate Nc
Quade. The men are Ollie Bosher aged
81. convicted OF burglary in 1919: chr
ford Morris, "a. released from Sing Sing
only last Saturday after serving two
and "A half year sentence for burglary,
and Al Berry "a. who had served
term in prison. In the chase Tor the
men dozen shots were fred
shy Detectives Beat Them.
six men complained to Magistrate
Corrigan in the Harlem Court yester-
day that they had been handled brutally
nv the poice in visit made by detec-
tives to q pool room at 226i First ave-
nue. Tony Colo. former soldier. made
the complaint supported by John Marsh.
The Magistrate issued a summons Tor
Detective William J. Quaine and for
Detective John Shields
Magistrate Nolan in the West Side
Court refused bail yesterday to Frank
Rezac. aged H. who invaded haber-
dasher's at Broadway and Ninety-siXth
street on Wednesday and shot the clerk,
Morton Lipp. twice when Lipp showed
signs OF resisting.
Mrs. Ethel Rosensweig of 1877 Madison
avenue appeared in police court rs COM
pla inant against Alfonso Aranendi,
aged 80. whom she accusedd of trying
TO rob her. She went to a bankk to de-
post money and while on the way felt
hand . in her coat pocket. She
screamed and the man ran. but dropped
a letter in his A detective went to the
rested Aranendi.
The two silk thieves arrested in East
Twenty-seventh street after a pistol
battle on Wednesday morning, Nathan
Gordon. aged 20, and David Teitel. 26.
we're held without bail for the Grand
Jury by MAGISTRATE Hating. Frank
Pechota and Peter La Guardia. accused
OF shooting Herman Pollock fatally In
Pollock's candy store in East Seventy
81 Al
this magistrate.
PHtroIman Highly Praised.
Hating commended Patrolman James
Curtin of the East Twenty-aecond street
station. who arrested William Covert.
aged u.s. He had seen Covert blackjack
George Barry in East Thirty-fifth street
and ran Covert down after a chase.
- want to compliment You" said the
Magistrate. You were right on the
job. Keep up your good work.
Albert NJ. Shattuck. whose Washing
ton Square home was robbed Of $4,000,
went to Police Headquarters yesterday
to try TO identify Maurice Bagnoli,
Corsican. arrested on Wednesday night
while hiding under bed in roadhouse
ir the Watching Mountains near Plain
field. y. j. Mr.. Shattuck looked at the
prisoner, accused of having been in the
robber gang organized by the former
Shattuck butler. Henri Bollat. another
Corsican. and listened to Bagnoli's
voice, but was urablc to identify the
man positively.
The police sought Intellectually yester-
day for the two holdup men who robbed
Abraham Nicholson, a jeweer, at III
West Forty-seventh street, Of jewelry
valued by him at $4,000 and OF $50 in
cash.
Statistics of New York Criminals.
Figured issued by the Department OF
Correction show that OF 36.790 male
prisoners in New York In 1920 7,497
were from is TO 20 years old ard 1876
from 81 TO 81. A few more than 5000
were from 81 to 40 and few thousand
only over 40. There were 1895 bur-
glars, 2,T49 cases OF assault, 33T5 cases
Of grand larceny, 1892 cases OF robbery
and ~ murder cases, together with a
long string Of less serious offenses. Al
most every one OF the $4,000 and odd
had received a common school cduca-
ton. only 4S3 used liquor freely and
l0,614 had never used it.
In Brooklyn there was the usual re-
port OF burglaries and hodups. Joseph
Brjsock was arrested charged with hav-
ing participated In a burglary in the
ONCE of the iron foundry OF John, Nc
Grath. 474 Leonard street Brooklyn.
John c. Biggn was found guilty before
County Judge Taylor OF burglary and
got a sentence of ten years