The New York herald., 1922-04-18
TWENTY IN DRAGNET
HAULED NBY POLICE
Many Captured in Fights
and Chases on Scenes OF
Crimes.
BANDITS SEIZE S1,750
Three Patrolmen Save.
$1,000 in Goods by Run.
ming Down Taxicab.
CLUB FELLS A FUGITIVE
Magistrate in Coney Island Ad-
yocates Closing of Dance
Halls on Sunday.
CLUB FELLS A FUGITIVE

In the general police roundup of
Easter Sunday night and yesterday
twenty prisoners were taken. some
after stiff fight.
Toward daylight yesterday four men
were loading $4,000 worth of stolen
clothing into taxicab under the ele
waited structssre in Fifty-third street
near Eighth avenue when Patrolmen
Cordes, Sheehan and Cooney dis
covered them. and closed in. The
chauffeur stepped on the gas and the
car sped up as TIE patrolmen
scrambled on the running board the
men inside striking furiously at them.
Cordes was struck in the jaw by
Thomas Mcmahon, the chauffeur, and
knocked sprawling. his head striking
the pavement. SheeLan belted the
driver over the head with the butt
OF his gun and knocked him off the
seat. Sheehan tried to stop the taxi
and got control only in time to pre-
Vent smashing into the glass front Of
q store.
Cooney. with gun drawn. held the
others in the cab at bay. Cordes. COM
ing to his senses as the chauffeur tried
10 run, let fly with a bullet which hit
the chauffeur in the right arm. He threw
up his hands. The four arrested in
addition TO Mcmahon were all mere
boys. John Cameron. II: Arthur krieger.
IL: Joseph Mahoney. 10. and Frank
Brown. is. all living in o. around Hell's
Kitchen, Magistrate Levine held them
in bonds of $4,000 apiece for examina-
lion on Wednesday. although the Dis
srict Attorney asked for only $4,000.
Abraham Pressman and Max Katz.
partners in a market at 241 Stanton
street. were closing up a few minutes
before midnight and preparing to go to
sleep when there was knock at the
door. Three men with drawn revolvers
ard flashlights entered. backed Press
man and Katz into the back of the
anarket and robbed the cash box of ST.
$50.
Pressman had taken $4,000 to the
bank late In the afternoon. As the
three bandits left they warned Press
man and Katz not to make any outcry
Tor ten minutes. The poultry dealers
waited a few minutes and then called
the police Detectives from the Clinton
street station under Capt Whalen be-
gan search of the neighborhood
Gun Fnits; Club stops Fugitive.
Another running fight which alarmed
neighborhood took place when PATROL
man Greene of the West 177th street
station shot at fleeing man. missed
him with bullets and downed him with
well thrown club. Greene was passing
an apartment house at $50 West 1s6th
street early in the morning when he
- a
Greene got TO the courtyard in time to
see his man scootng over the back
fence, and when he ran around the
corner the figutive had a neat start. The
chase turned up Fort Washington ave.
nue. and with the men so yards apart
Greene fired twice
The bullets went wild. but Greene was
gaining steadily. and though he fired
again and again and missed he got so
close TO his man at 1S9th street that he
threw his club at five yards. cracked
The runner on an ankle and dropped him
Aroaning. The fugitive had loaded
revolver in his hand when he FELL said
Greene. He gave his name as Jacob
Politzer. 20. According to the police
his pockets also contained $500 worth
of jewelry. later Identified by Opaile
Dempsey of the apartment house from
which Politzer fled Politzer was held
without bail.
Thomas Leonard, %, OF 657 Eleventh
avenue, was walking with his wife and
two children i'm West Forty-seventh
street, within half block of the police
station when four men beckoned to
him. lie walked back to them. and
they stabbed him four times-in
abdomen. chest. arm and head. In
Flower Hospital he said he did not
know who the stabbers were nor why
they attacked him.
sranners-Tayior Home Opened.
An attempt was made on Saturday
night to rob the house occupied by J.
Hartley Manners. playwright. and his
wife, Laurette Taylor. but the burglars
Nycro probably frightened away. They
lad cut out the glass panels OF two
doors. opened n window and left foot
prints upon the rugs just outside but
nothing had been taken.
MAGISTRATE Brown. sitting In the
roney Island police court. expressed the
opinion that the main cause Of crime is
that ioafers and rowdies arc permitted
10 congregate in dance halls and low
resorts. He recommended that all such
places be closed all day on Sunday and
at 10 80 p. NJ on week days.
Samuel Dana OF 1922 Second avenue,
held In connection with the theft Of a
package OF silk valued At 1915 from the
wagon OF David Summerviie OF 320
West f2fth street few weeks ago. was
freed In Yorkville court. Witnesses said
they could not identify Dana as the
thief. Summerville fell dead while
chasing the thief, and Dana was at one
time charged with homicide
Jose Nunez OF 1S9 DufFlold street,
Brooklyn, was sentenced in the County
court IN Brooklyn to pay a fine OF $500
and 10 serve from three and half TO
seven years for carrying a pistol. This
Il the maximum sentence.
Richard NJ. webb OF 32f East Twenty
nfth street was locked up charged with
stealing an automobile owned by Charles
H. Connolly. editor of the Irish Nation.
The police said Webb and five other men
Jumped into the machine after Connolly
had left II In front Of the Carmeite
Church In Twenty-nlnth street near First