New-York tribune., 1922-04-17
Three Taken After Hold.
Up of Brooklyn Hotel;
Another Trio Taken
for Beating Chauffeur
Cunmen Suspects
Seized i'm Roundup
Enright Issues Statement
Patting Self ON Back for
WayHe HantlIesP Parades

ihe massed attack against criminals
by the city's combined police and de-
tectlve forces under the roundup order
or Chief Inspector Lahey resulted yes
terday in the arrest of seventeen sus-
poets. These were caught red handed
IN the actual commission of an al
legged crime or where found to have
pistols IN their possession without a
license. eight others were arrested
tor robberies some time ago.
There were no spectacular raids on
poolrooms, saloons or other haunts Of
laWbreakers, at least, none that netted
any captures. 1t may have been the
Faster holiday or that the underworld,
forewarned OF the net the authorities
were about to throw around it, has
scurried to cover and gone off to more
healthful climes. At any rate, the OK
pectcd wholesale roundup Of crooks
has not materialized as yet.
Enright Felicitates Himself
Commissioner Enright issued state
ment during the day in which he took
occasion to pat his adm mnistration of
the Police Department on the back by
pointing to some of the many letters
OF commendation received by the Police
Commissioner during the year 1921"
and enumcrating "some crimes of spc-
cial and unusual interest and ultimate
disposition OF the crmnals.'
The letters quoted arc from varied
business organizations, public officials
and private citizens, lauding the police
for their efficiency and discipline, their
success in handling parades, enforce
ment of the prohibition laws and sup
pressing vice aud gambling.
Three armed bandits entered the
Commercial Hotel. 2b4 Fulton Street.
Brooklyn, shortly before midnight and
held up the hotelkeepcr, William
Schnurr, who was compelled 10 turn
over to them $50 he had in his pockets.
The men then ordered him to open his
safe, which Schnurr was preparing to
do, when the robbers took alarm at the
sound Of distant police whistle and
fed.
The robbe1r took place within three
blocks Of the Brooklyn Police Head
quarters at time when there We're
still hundreds of persons on the street
and while scores Of police and dctec
tlvcs were patrolling the vicinity.
Policeman Pursues Trio
AS soon as the men ran out Schurr
went to the door and blew his police
whistle. Patrolman Rauchet, Of Poplar
street police station, who was less
than q block away, rrived in time to
sec tho three bandits board Fulton
,tt.Co Il tl,1
on foot. and when it stopped two blocks
awy all three men jumped off the front
end. Rauchet was Joined by Patrol
man Mullaney and Parano, and the
three officers overlook the robbers at
Borough Hail, where they resisted ar
rest but were overcome after a
struggle.
The prisoners were locked up at
Police Headquarters charged with rob
berry. They will be arraigned in
Adams Street court this morning. They
gave their names AS Patrick Burke,
nineteen years old, of 66 Fourth Place,
Brooklyn; Ralph Bright twenty-three,
83 Second Place, Brooklyn, and Charles
Forbes, twcnty-one, OF IS Columbia
Street, Brooklyn.
Three men armed with revolvers
were captured in a running fight last
night by Patrolmcn William Dudley
and Patrick Ippolito. Of the West 123d
Street police station last night after
they had attacked and beaten Thomas
Mckeown, taxcab driver, of II La
Sale Street McKeown was insensi-
Bile beside his cab when Patrolman
Dudley arrived at 127th Street and
Eighth Avenue, after bearing the cab
drivers calls for aid. They gave their
names as jeremiah Foley, thiryt-five
wears old. 70 Eastman Avenue, Long
Island City; Leo Brown, twenty-five,
4S West 11lth Street, and Frank Kelly,
eighteen, 554 West Fifty-fourth Street.
Safe Breakers Frightened Away
James Quinn, assistant manager of
q Woolworth store at 1484 First Ave
nue, while making his rounds late last
night found the store safe drilled and
the outer door open. The inner door
was closed and Quinn found $1,000 in
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