New-York tribune., 1922-04-08
Harry Crone, Assistant
Corporation Counsel, IL
Victim of Bullet While
Watching Bandit Chase
3 Negroes Shoot
Down Policeman
One Confesses After Can.
ture; Thug Held After
Wounding Cigar Man

One man was killed and police
man and another man were wounded
in yesterdays banditry.
Harry Crone, an Assistant Cor
poration Counsel, was killed last
night in Forty-third Street, near
Madison Avenue. by one of six OK
eight bullets which a policeman and
a watchman fired while chasing NJ
legged automobile tire thieves. His
wife, on her way to keep an appoint
ment with him at the Grand Central
Terminal, a short block away, saw
the crowd the shots attracted.
Patrolman Patrick McHugb. o.
the West 135th Street police station,
was seriously wounded by one Of
three negroes whom he was about to
arrest as hold-up men. One of ths
three was captured.
Ernito Alongo was shot in the
shoulder by negro who held him I'm
in his cigar store at 1906 st. Mich
olas Avenue. The negro was ar
rested and guarded from a mob.
Crone on Way Home
Mr.. Crone was on his way from the
Bar Association to his home at 2
Rarsley Place. White Plains, n. 2.
The bullet which killed him came
either from the revolver of Patrolman
Duffy, Of the East F'ifty-hrst Stree,
police station, or from that of Dennis
Ryan, watchmsn, who joined Duay
in pursuit of the alleged thieves.
Duffy ssw the two men whom he
suspected of being thieves lettering
beside autom obiles parked on Madison
Avenue, between Forty third and Forty
fourth streets. While he watched, he
says. he say them detach tire from
the rear of a car. He started toward
them and they ran. AS they crossed
Madison Avenue, they threw the tire
Duffy says, into southbound auton1o-
bile that passed them.
The two men kept on to the west
Duffy's commands to halt. Duffy fol
lowed at top speed. When he haG
cleared the Madison Avenue traffic he
drew his revolver and fired three shots
in the air, hoping to scare the fugi-
tives into surrendering or to summon
help.
Watchman Joins Chase
The shots had no effect on the men
~ tn al
speed, but they were heard by Ryan, y
night watchman, who Joined in tbs
chase, drawing his own revolver and
firing shot after shot.
From Madison Avenue to Fifth Ave
nue. Forty-third Street stretched ap-
parently empty save for the fleeing
men and their pursuers. Crone, how.
ever, was standing back near the build
ing line in front Of 10 East Forty
third Street, with a package under hii
arm, watching the chase.
Unheeded by any of the participants
he fell to the sidewalk. Patroimer
Coyne and Roman, of the West Sixty
eighth Street police station. who had
heard the shots and responded, al
though off duty and not in uniform
found him and took him to Bellevue
Hospital in a taxicab.
1t was found that the bullet hst
penetrated his heart, killing him out
right. He was identified by legal pa
pers he was carrying, by his commu
bunch Of keys in his pocket which
bore tag inscribed with his nam.
and Office address.
One of the two fugitives darted int
an alley on the south side of Forty
third Street near Fifth Avenue, wher,
he was captured by Patrolman Moran
of the East Fifty-frst Street pohe,
station, who turned the corner froH
Fifth Avenue just in time to see hin
disappear into the alley.
Suspects Are Brothers
The other man reached Fifth Ave
nue. and was overhauled by Duffy an,
Ryan. At the East Fifty-frst Stree
police station the prisoners said the.
were Patrick and John McCallon,
brothers, of 232 East Thirty-fiftl
Street. No weapon was found on eithe
police station pending an investigate.
of the shooting.
1t was said that a charge OF peti
| larceny would be made against the Nc
Gallons, the owner of the car fror
! which the tire was stolen having bee
| discovered. He is J. D. Osborn, Il
| Princeton student, whose home is i
the West He had motored into Ne,
York to-day with George Scott, fel
ow-student and they were at Dime
in the Hotel Biltmore when the shoe.
/ ing occurred. 81
Wife Waited for Crone .
News of the shooting spread quiekl
| opJ crowI rafberad III Sv
Street and Madison Avenue whie
| blocked traffic until several policsme
managed to get it under control. MI,
Edith Crone, wife of the man who wa
shot, saw the throng and heard thst
man had been shot ss she hastened I
the Grand Central Terminal. where Oh
was to meet her husband for the retpr
| trip to White Plains after spending tt
day with friends in this city. .
| 1t was almos. train time, but he
husband was not there. The hour g
1 unI noconI