The evening world., 1922-03-09
TWO WOMEN IN ROBBER CAR /
CAPTURED AFTER MANY SHOTS
|NPENN-POST HOLD-UP CHASE
Thugs, One Tall, One Short,
Escape After an Exciting
Two-Mile Pursuit by Police
in Communicated Machine.
Cars Are Riddled by Bullets
After, "Abie," Newsboy,
Gives Alarm-One Woman
Is Former Policeman'S Wife.

Two alleged women bandits and
man were captured early to-day
after one Of the most thrilling auto
mobile chases in which the police
have taken part. Though moro than
thirty shots were fired, five going
through the robbers car. no one wat
hit. as far as known. The two
thugs, who held up the night clerk
Of the Penn-Post Hotel at 31st Street
and Eighth Avenue. escaped.
The prisoners are Mrs. May o'Britis
or Belaskey. as the police records
carry her name, thirty years old. No.
20i Grand Street. Brooklyn. where
she lives with her mother. husband
and -year-old baby; Miss Beatrice
Berman. a stenographer, twenty-one
years old. who lives with her parente
at No. 214 Grand Street, and william
Bunce. twenty years old, No. 431,
Third Avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. O'Rfitis
is the wife OF former policeman.
The three prisoners were held with
out bail by Magistrate Levine In
Jefferson Market Court.
The women told a story OF .
drunken JOY riding excursion from,
Brooklyn to the Negro district OF
Harlem and downtown again and as
serted the police had chased their car
in error because Bunce had been the
only man in the car from beginning
to end. They said they had gone TO
the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza to beg
II joy ride and happened on Bunce.
whom they had never seen before, in
a willing mood,
CHAUFFEUR'S STORY DIFFERS
FROM THAT OF WOMEN.
The story was almost plausible un-
| I'll Bunce, Just as earnestly, told one
quite different. saying he met the two
| by an appointment made last Sunday
and that after he had become intoxi-
Gated with them they had invited .
man who was apparently an acquaint.
ance to join the party. This man, ha
said, went into the Penn.Post Hotel to
t"get his mall" came flying out and.
pursued by policemen, jumped on the
running board. rode for awhile as
Bunce was trying to get out OF the
way of the policemen and then
dropped off. He gave the police the
name by which he knew the man.
| The police settled themselves for an
Ian day cross questioning of the three
| One of the heroes of the affair was
liable the Newsboy." a fourteen
Year old lad who sells papers outside
1.-THE Penn Post and carries a club
Iunder his coat because three times
before the hotel has been stuck up
and he was afraid OF robbers. The
police do not know his name.
The Penn.Post is dlagonally oppe.
site the Pennsylvania Station and
near the Post Office, where Marines
are always on guard. In the once
David Pierce. the night clerk. had
finished counting $2o2.5o at 2 A. NJ
to-day and put 1t in the cash register.
Frank Kelly. a steamship mate stay.
ing at the hotel, had obtained his key
and was sitting near the desk talking
TO Pierce.
A Dig touring car drew up 100
feet from the hotel. backed up near
some empty mail trucks. and two
men. one tall and one short got out.
The driver Of the car and the two
women remained in II. the one said
70 be Miss Berman being on the seat
with the chauffeur,
The two men who had left the car
walked over 10 the hotel door ana
drew pistols, the tail man having an
automatic and tho other an ordinary
revolver, The tall -man halted lnniAa