New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Thieves Escape
100 Police,
Four Vessels
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five others had jumped into the swift
automobile kept in front Of the station
for sudden sallies and went roaring
out on the pier past the perspiring and
astonished poultry merchants.
The detectives caught glimpse OF
two coatless figures which slipped over
the edge of the pier and ducked be-
meath il. clinging to stringers, as their
car slid to a stop about yard from
the water.
Carmody telephoned for help and
Captain O'Neill, of the West Thirtieth
Street police station, was not niggardly
in his response. All the reserves,
about thirty in number, were sent TO the
pier, and all the detectives on duty in
the precinct. Signal boxes in the vicin-
ity were flashed and the patrolmcn who
responded ordered TO report at the pier.
Sewer Searched
Detectives were called from other
precincts. Acting Deputy Chief In
spector Henry heard about the siege
and Jumped into his automobile and
sped 10 the pier. About sixty uni
formed men and forty detectives were
there then, and he telephoned to the
marine division for reinforcements.
Two launches filled with policemen
hastened 70 the pier.
Police lines were drawn from For
tieth Street to Thirty-seventh Street
and an effort was made to penetrate
the cavern below the pier in which the
currents swirled against the piles. The
tide was rising. however, and the water
drove the searchers out
They had noticed that a sewer led
hack from the river beneath the pie.
and they thought they had seen two
pairs Of legs straddling the big pipe.
The sewer experts Of the city were
notified Immediately, with view. TO
discovering whether the fugitives
might traverse the pipe and emerge in
a distant part Of the city. It was
though that the rising tide would foii
any such attempt to escape, but
special guard was posted in coal
yard where it was said the sewer had
an outlet.
Policemen Strip
The New York Edison Company was
appealed to for help and sent men with
new hand searchlights Of great power
which were called into play as soon as
darkness fell. The Fire Department
| furnished searchlights also and sent
the freboat New Yorker.
Twenty-four searchlights played upon.
around and beneath the pier. Police
men who are skillful swimmers stripped
off their clothes and patrolled the
farks Of the pier in rowboats, prepared
10 dive overheard and pursue to the
very bottom of the river any wharf
rat who showed his head.
II was an impressive scene and more
than 100 persons gathered to watch H.
They were kept back by lines OF uni
formed police.
Craps Game interrupted
The pier. which Is more than five
hundred feet long, is known as the
"dead horse" pier because carcasses OF
horses are shipped from it to Barren
Island.
The spectators grew in numbers as
the night passed and the police re-
fused TO relax their vigilance. Three
voutbs who had been surprised by the
convocation while shooting craps on a
car hoat moored in the slip we're en-
harrassed. They doubted that the
crans game had caused all this fuss,
hut 70 be on the safe side, threw the
dice into the river and sought conceal
ment beneath the platform in the CEN
ter Of the float. =,
detectives found them there and
hauled them triumphantly from their
stnffv retreat. They said they were
doing no harm. They had Just gone
in there to get the air, they said. They
were taken to the West Thirtieth
street police station and exhibited
with pride to Dimond and Zarkin.
Neither could identify any Of the three,
however, and the police admitted re,
I,ctantlv that unless they could find
some nefarious reason why the trio
bad. scuttled beneath the platform OF
the car float they would have to turn
them loose.
"Shoot to Kill"
Several detectives applied themselves
diligently 10 the search for the neees-
sary reason for holding the prisoners
At 10 o'clock the tide began TO re-
code and the hopes Of the police on
euard at the pier advanced proportion
stelv. once they could get under the
nier in rowboats they felt conhdent OF
fnding their quarry. In the mean tlme I'm.
thev were instructed to stand strlc'
r,,ard and shoot to kill at any one Try
Snc. 70 ret away who refused TO halt on
command. II was said that the siege
would be kept up all night If necessary
Woman Fights Footpads;
Sopes $1,000 in Handbag