Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-04
crime PROBE fires
SPECIAL BLUEC0AT
pr;vate Guardian Declared Un-
fit--Polios Protection
4 Held Inadequate
MooRHoUsE SCENE VISITED

r,o sneciol Board Of Inquiry ap-
.o;ntod hy the Mayor to investigate the
p,,roos In which H.. T.. M0orhouse was
sbot and robbed of q $4,000 payroll
hr @ bandits. visited the scene OF the
ho,d nm nt Richmond and Bridge streets
.nJov The board will make its report
'oT THo story of the hold-up was told
h.. Harry Kolb. IN eighteen year-old
ciork. who vas forced to turn over the
ZINE to the bandits. Kolb said the
ennnG had been taken from the bank
w. q o'clock on the G-y of the shoot
~ ino and deposited in the safe ten min
n,ss n,s later BY Mr.. Moorhouse. There
,,s was no sign of the bandits in or about
thc place ut that time. 49,
3.3O O'Clock the money was taken
from the strong box by Mr.. Moorhouse
anJ and thc bandits Immediately entered.
Testimony was taken from Edith
Avling, 1926 Darrah street, ana Sarnh
nJ,nmnds. 3410 Highly street. clerks.
Miss Ayling said she was shot at py
,hn bandits on guard outside after she
had jumped out n window IN ah enort
Wiuiam Keunzel. 1926 Emery street.
,cho cave the alarm, and Miss Clara
Ortb. who lives opposite the Moorhousc
mill, added their testimony,
n was admitted by MEMBERS oil the
hoard that there are not enough patrol
men TO guard the homes IN that sc.tion'
4 nriynte wntchman. George {. ID.
uacnoyita. was stripped of his badge.
tors md commission. He was declared
w. bc .'unfit to be an officer of the
law" nftcr he had finished testitNlns
heIore the board. The wntchman teSti'
,ed that although he was paid by CIT
tens TO guard their homes. he also
hold position at night in 4 garage anI
was in restaurant on North lbroau
street several nights ago when the place
was held up by gunmcn.
"Tagnovitn wnS employed 10 protect
,o,nes In the block bounded by Taskcr.
WnrrIs Broad and Sixteenth streets
Instead of beinc en- his beat int admit
tcJ h, was in the restaurant of Will
Iiom George, III North Broad street.
nj il. 80 O'Clock December ~. when
bandits entcrtd the y ace.
The board included Assistant D.rcc-
for Tempest, Of tho Department OF
Public Safety, who acted az chairman -;
CAPTAIN Harry Schrltz. Captain An
drew s, Jolly, and Civilians Emil I.
Albrc hit and Norman Mcleod. The
board met Litutcnant Andrew Hamil-
ton. II the Twenty fourth District ;
detective John Dou3herty and Patrol
inan Michael Doyle.
"The plant is so situated said
Lieutenant Hamilton, THAT it would
not be possible for patrolman to dis
cover the hold-up.'
Captain Jolly said. "Sou can't blame
the little fellow with pistol If he fails
to detect a hold up like this
The entire Commission agreed that
the section should be better guarded.
It was made known by Lieutenant
Hamilton that in ten years the section
has increased 26,390 in population. In
that time 1000 additional homes have
.boen built and are now guarded by the
same number of putrOlmen AS were
formerly used there. which Is 1O4.
'Of course IL would not matter how
many patrolmen had been there the day
Of the hold-up," said Lieutenant
Hamlton, THE affair would have oc
cured just the same. But 100 more men
are needed to properly care for the
section against banditry.