The New York herald., 1922-05-19
RUSH GIRL TO JAIL,
FEAR GANG RESCUE
Police Heavily Guard Woman
Accused of 81, 500 H0ldup
of Two Men.
HAS UNDERWORLD PALS
Grand Jury Indicts Four Men
Trapped in Building by
Police Gordon.
HAS UNDERWORLD PALS

Mrs. Josephine De Ciccio of 1872 West
112th street was held for the Grand
Jury at Pelham Manor last night by /.
Balch Lewis, police judge. charged with
holding up salesman for A. Paul of TAI
Lexington avenue and stealing a fur
coat from him. Because the New York
police said she had many influential
friends in the East Sides underworld,
she was hurried under heavy guard to
the Westchester county Jail at White
Plains.
She sent four or five kilograms in the
afternoon to men in New York asking
them to go to Pelham Manor and help
her. and the town authorities there
began TO fear that they might come.
The Pelham Manor lookup is not par
ticularly strong or well guarded
The New York detectives who ar
rested the woman at the Harvard Inn at
Coney Island last Wednesday night said
yesterday that she is woman of many
criminal accomplishments. She said
when taken to Headquarters that II she
so desired she could tell interesting
things about the murder of Vincent Mo-
relic. who kas shot and killed a few
weeks ago in an Italian bootleggers' war.
Morello owned the Harvard Inn, where
the woman was dancing when arrested
her resemblance to a photograph in the
Rogues' Gallery although the picture is
that of a woman with black hair. while
Mrs. De Ciccio's hair is a vivid and
sparkling henna. But the police say the
henna is the product of drug store.
Mrs. De Cicco has been identified by
the salesman for A. Paul, who alleges
that the woman drove up to Paul's fur
shop last January in limousine and
went with the salesman to show the fur
coat to her husband. He charged that
in Pelham Manor she drew a gun and
made the salesman get out of the car,
robbed the chauffeur of gold watch
and chain and then compelled the chauf-
feur to drive her back to New York
where she got out of the car at the
Hotel Astor and vanished.
Since then the police have been search
ing for her. The woman has seven
aliases. the police said. In 1920, they
charge, she was sent to Bedford re-
fo-matory for stealing 81 200 worth of
lingerie and escaped later.
The four men, one Of whom is In
Bellevue Hospital with four bullet
wounds, who were rounded up early
Wednesday morning by Gordon Of po
lice thrown about block on Broadway
in the Madison Square section, were in
and carrying burglars tools
They are David Beitzler. sc Sheriff
street, the wounded man: Abraham
Finleel, lis Madison street Louis Rubin,
1900 East New York avenue, Brooklyn.
and Henry Van Gulick, 31S South Fourth
street. Brooklyn.
The second patrolman to be sent to
prison this week in General Sessions was
John p. Sodden Of s Bethune street.
sentenced to four to ten years by Judge
Mancuso for manslaughter in the first
degree. He had previously pleaded
guilty to having shot and killed John
McGuiness on January 90 in saloon at
so Ninth avenue. The shooting followed
q drunken quarrel.
Judge Mancuso also sentenced Harris
Mann. negro. of 307 West 119:h street.
to n maximum term of ten years for
killing James w. Spangle, aged 80, an
other negro of 226 West 144th street.