The New York herald., 1922-07-23
POLICEMAN LOEWE
DEAD AFTER BATTLE
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he was unconscious and decided to call
II doctor and went to the telephone"
The telephone call Of Mrs. Ryan,
whose husband. Thomas Ryan, is In the
| trucking business, brought Detectives
Eugene Daily and william Cassidy from
| the Classon avenue station. They made
fnEerprints of the dead man, through
which his identity was established as
much to the surprise of the police as to
his sister. The police had been looking
for Walsh. or Liverpool Jack, because
he was wanted In Trenton for robbery.
but he had changed since they saw him
last in 1914. His face had changed but
the lines of years did not alter his
measurements or change the whorls and
scrolls Of his thumb prints.
An examination of the body revealed
four bullet wounds, two of which were
in the abdomen. The physician found
that Walsh had tried to stop the flow
of blood by stuffing the wounds with
tissue paper.
Walsh's Long Criminal Record.
The following is what the police
archives revealed when his prints were
taken to Police Headquarters
John Walsh. alias Welsh, Walker.
Wagon. Wesley. Ward Warren Wren :
October 8. 1878. as John Wren, sent
to Sing Sing for three years for bur-
glary.
June 13. 1888, as John Walker. re-
ceiving stolen goods. five years, Man
chester. England.
April 15., 1898, as John Wagon, Sing
Sing for one year for burglary at Pough-
keepsie.
March 1a. 1895. as James Wesley,
burglary, St Louis, six months.
-, 1896. as James Walden, bur-
glary. Baltimore, ten years
| August 16. 1905, as James Wren, bur-
glary In England, seven months.
-, 1905, as John Walker, London,
burglary. five years.
-, 1911. as John Walsh, burglary,
Jersey City, three years.
-. 1914, as John Walker. burg
| larry, sent to Trenton penitentiary for
three and a half to seven years, but es-
capped In 1917"
Detectives questioned Mrs. Ryan as to
the recent companions of her brother,
but she said she was ignorant of their
Identity
The finding of Walsh cleared part Of
the mystery attached to The shooting of
Policeman Loewe. 1t showed clearly
that the policeman had as his opponent
at least one of the oldest and toughest
Of cop fighters" The immediate su-
periors of Loewe were full Of praise for
the plucky fight that he put up single
handed against such odds. Their words
| OF praise came before 1t was known that
one Of the men behind the opposing
guns and, according to his own admis-
sion, the one who shot the policeman
was no less than Liverpool Jack, the in
ternational character.
Praise for wounded Policeman.
Loewe was patroling his beat at about
o'clock In the morning when Mrs.
Marie Kennedy, who lives with her four
children on the ground floor OF 251
Eighth street. came running up to- him
and said there were men in the rear
yard OF the Heberlein Warehouse, She
had given the same alarm a few even-
ings before and the yard was searched,
but to no avail.
Going with the woman to her home
Loewe was Joined by her brother. Charles
Boyle, and Charles Mccormick, a roomer.
The two latter had no weapons. AS they
walked out into the rear yard Loewe
handed his nightstick to Boyle. They
climbed the fence between the yards Of
251 and 253 and in the latter Loewe saw
two men watching the warehouse build
ing. He pulled his pistol and demanded
that they raise their hands. One robber
responded Immediately. but the second
refused. Put them up" Loewe COM
manded. and the second raised his left
hand. PUT them up. for I'll shoot to
KILL he shouted. whereupon the second
robber whipped pistol from his pocket
and began firing at Loewe.
Loewe returned the fire, jumping from.
time to time to prevent the robbers
taking good aim; but one bullet hit him
in the side. After the first half dozen
shots two more men jumped over the
fence and began to blaze away at Loewe.
He was hit three times more. but kept
replying until his pistol was empty.
The four robbers then leaped the fence
leading into the yard OF 251. where Nc
Cormick and Boyle were. Boyle hit the
first man over with his nghtstick
ard I seemed to stun him. but he
regained his feet In a minute and con-
tinued with the others through to the
street. Loewe in the meantime ran
the robbers, but got only 100 feet before
he fell.
Two of the bullets lodged In Loewe's
sbdomen. one puncturing the intestines.
The two others hit his right arm above
the elbow. Physicians at the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital. to which he was hur-
ried In an ambulance, held out hope for
him all of yesterday. but last night there
was a change in his condition which
caused them to express the belief he
would not live.