The New York herald., 1922-03-19
TRY TOLYNCH BANDIT
TAKEN AFTER CHASE
People Seek to Get at Man
Who Held Up Jeweler
i'm Hallway.
VICTIM SHOWS FIGHT
Leads Pursuit Despite Be-
ing Knocked Down and
Shot At.
RUM HAUL BY INSPECTOR'
Fake Investigator With Badge
Gets Nine Bottles in Gel
lar of a Home.
RUM HAUL BY INSPECTOR

An attempt to hold UP Charles jan
sen, jeweler, who is in partnership
with his father, Herman G. Jansen,
at 277 Eighth avenue. resulted in a
chase yesterday through Eighth ave-
nue in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth
street and the arrest Of man who
said he was James Harrison. aged 34
of Mills Hotel. Seventh avenue and
Thirty-sixth street. Harrison. revol-
YER in hand, fed from a hallway on
Twenty sixth street between Seventh
and Eighth avenues after, it is
charged, he had beaten Jansen on the
head and shot him through the left
shoulder.
Automobiles and motorcycles were
used In the chase that followed the
attack on the jeweler. AS Harrison
ducked into hallway on Twenty
sixth street. after lodging through
crowds of pedestrians and crossing
and recrossing Eighth avenue. he tried
to drive back the pursuers by -four
ishing his revolver. It fell into an
areaway and a shell in 1t exploded,
starting panic among men and wom-
en-, who believed the bandit was shoot
ing at them.
Jansen was on his way to the 1ewelry
shop after lunch when he was attacked.
A man crowded into hallway and de-
manded his none yand a $50 stick pin
he was wearing.
Gives Holdup Man n Chance.
Beat it." said Jansen. ''or I'll have
you pinched.''
The man gave Jansen a shove and he
tumbled into the dark hall He was hit
once with the bandits fist and then
with the butt of the gun. When he still
showed fight the shot was fired. Tho
bandit made no attempt to rob the jew
elsr after shooting. but fled into the
street.
Jansen was after him in an instant.
The man was running toward Seventh
avenue and the Jeweler shouting to at
tract attention had him headed off.
Patrolman Kleber of the West Thir-
tieth street police station started after
the man. but he lodged back toward
Eighth avenue. Kleber went after the
fleeing man on the running board of a
taxicab. and at Eighth avenue and
Twenty-sixth street was close behind
him. Behind Kleber was strung out a
crowd of several hundred men and
women. J. G. Hostobor of 161 West
Twenty-sixth street saw Harrison enter
hallway on Twenty-sixth street and
went after him. Kleber was only a few
yards behind and the crowd was closing
in. 1t was then that the man lifted his
gun and threatened to shoot.
Crowd Threatens Captive.
When Harrison was being taken to
the police station the crowd. surrounded
him and his captor several times and
threatened to hold a lynching. Kleber
had considerable, difficulty keeping the
crowd away from the man.
At the West Thirtieth street station
Harrison said he came here from Yuma,
Ariz.. five months ago and that he had
no work. He was charged with at
tempted robbery.
A man who described himself as
Charles Mesimer. aged 36, a steamfitter,
OF AT East Sixty-fourth street, was
arrested yesterday for the theft of nine
bottles of choice liquors from the cellar
OF 35 East Sixty-fourth street.-The
home of Mrs. Natalie Robb. Detectives
of the East Sixty-seyenth street police
station said they thought Mesimer might
be able to explain many similar thefts
that have been committed by a man who
posed through that neighborhood as an
inspector of electrical fixtures.
A servant in the Robb home admitted
the man, IL was alleged, after he had
shown badge with the word "Inspec-
tor" inscribed on 1t. Mesimer was held
tnnI hI a a n n
Sweetser in Yorkville court.
Grocer Robbed ms He Lies I'm Bed.
A diamond stickpin, worth 100. and
$50 in bills were stolen from Isidore
Cohen, grocer. as he lay in bed early
Yesterday morning in his home over his
store at 1i0i Manhattan avenue. Brook
lyn. The burglar wakcned Cohen, but
kept him silent with threats Of bullets
and a beating. Cohen told the police
later that he thought the man was
bluffing and that he had no gun.
Morris Sirop aged 10. OF 1881 Franklin
avenue The Bronx. was in the lineup
at Police Headquarters yesterday as a
result OF the activity of Chressie and
Nina Chalmers. sisters, of $40 Park
street, Hackensack, N. j.. who had him
arrested on a charge OF trying to steal
a handbag. The girls seized Sirop on a
Times square and Seventy y-second street
Friday afternoon. They held him until
n policeman came to take him In charge
lie was held in $500 bail on a charge
of suspicion of grand larceny by Mag
, istrate McAndrews In West Side Court
An investigation was begun yesterday
or the histories of Evelyn Gold, aged g.
of Ridge street: Herman Meyers. q,
of 12i West 10lst street: Philip Roskin.
49, OF IS East Eighth street, and Louis
Rosen, 20, of 40 Second street who were
arrested Friday night on the Eighth
street station Of the p. II. +. subway
In charges OF possessing burglars tools
Meyers was held In $500 ball by Magis-
trate Cobb In Essex Market Court Ball
was fixed at $500 each for the others.
safe in the office OF the National
Riscuit Compan yin Fourth avenue,
Mount Vernon, was blown early yester-
day. The yeggmen got $3.50. part in
checks
The burglars wore kid gloves, which
they left behind. The safe was covered
with blankets and coats and the charge
Of nitroglycerine ripped the door off the
hinges and flung IL several feet.
The Mount Vernon police said they
learned the biscuit company has had
five safes opened in this city recently
- q similar manner.