The New York herald., 1922-01-13

BELLEVUE AT night
With TAXICAB AID
Plotters Supply Clothing,
and Patients Leave
Through Morgue.
TWO BARS ARE SAWED
Pajamas Arouse Chauffeur's
TWO BARS ARE SAWED
Pajamas Arouse Chauffeur's
Suspicion but He Notifies
Police Too Late.

William Kornblick of AZ Powell
| street, Brooklyn, chauffeur of Brown
and White tasicab, walked into the
West Thirtieth street station last
night and told the police there that
he had just driven five men from an
entrance Of Bellevue Hospital at First
avenue and Twenty-ninth street, to
First avenue and Forty-fifth street,
Three men hired my cab about 8
o'clock" said Kornblick, land told me
to drive to Bellevue Hospital. They
..sked me where the prison ward was
and then two OF them went into the
hospital, coming out about an hour
later with three other men who wore
pajamas.'
The police notified the hospital au-
thorities and an investigation was be-
gun about the time that Louis Hess. a
nurse, noticed that three of the men
In the prison ward were not in their
cots when he went around to take the
evening temperatures. These men were
John Little. a chauffeur of ESQ East
Forty-fourth street: Michael Burke.
alias Hickey. no home. and Arthur
Peiser Of 303S Third avenue, The Bronx.
Prison Bars Twisted Back.
After some time the detectives and
the hospital officials learned that the
three men had fed down the fire escape
OH the second floor OF the prison ward,
after two bars on q window had been
sawed In two at the bottom and twisted
back to make an opening about Is by
s inches through which they slipped.
The men who hired Kornblick's taxi
cab and who later went into the hos
pitL through the general admittance
office carried bundle, which Is believed
to have contained overcoats and caps for
the three prisoners These men appar-
emily went about the grounds until they
found the prison ward. and then they
climbed the fire escape and proceeded 10
saw through the bars, protected by the
iron railing of the escape and a concrete
wall from observation
The two men gave a signal after they
had sawed the bars and bent them back
to make an opening through which a
man could squeeze his body. and then
Little, Peiser and Burke hurried to the
NihdOV ~ efeb poJahoS- ihty optHCu
the window, slipped through the op<ning
made in the bars and onto the fire es-
cape. closing tne window behind them.
Then they pus on the caps and overcoats
and walked down the fire escape.
Escaps Through the Morgue.
After the two men had gone into the
hospital the man who had remained in
the taxicab told Kornblcll to drive to
First avenue and Twenty-ninth street
where he waited with the cab for an
hour. Then five men walked through the
morgue's side door, got into the taxicab
and ordered the chauffeur to go TO
Forty-Hfth street. The man who had
waited for them left on foot At Forty
fifth street the hvc men got out, paid
the fare and vanished down the street.
Kornblick gave to the police a de-
scription of the five men. and detectives
arc searching for thm. Little was shot
in holdup In Wes: Sixty-third street
late In December and was sent to the
hospital from the Tombs on January 4.
Burke. a-drug addict, caught pneumonia
while waiting trial In the Tonbs charged
with robbery. and was sent to Bellevue
on December Is. Peiser was charged
with grand larceny and was sent to the
hospital from the fremont avenue sta
tion In The Bronx on September IL. be-
cause when he was arrested he was un-
der the influence OF drugs.