New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
Thomas Flanagan, With a
LongPrisonRecord,H Held
as Homicide Suspect in
Murder at Columbia u.
Autoists Detained:
Women Are Sought
Business Men and COLLEGE
Officials Declare Police
Protection Inadequate

NaShAS
Thomas Flanagan, r rcputed dcs-
pcrado with II long prison record OF
general banditry, WAS arrested ycster-
day IN connection with the murder
day night OF Samuel Hadas while r..
sisting tho robbery Of drug store at
'2oth Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
whero he was Il cashier. The shop is
under Whittier Hall. girl students
dormitory associated with Teachers
College Of Columbia University.
While the search for Hadass slayer
vas on nine new hold-ups we're report
ed IN various parts of the city. Twens
ty-two bandits took part in these.
Early in the day two other men.
Edward Carson, 1888 Stebbins Avenue,
and Jack Cardhuf, 1884 Brook Avenue,
we're picked up by the police at Third
Avenue and 152d Street in a car, the
possession of which they could not
explain. 1t was thought by the au-
thorties that they might know some
thing about The Hadas shooting, and
they were held under $4,000 bail each
for examination tomorrow.
The police regard the Flanagan ar
rest AS the most important of the three
IN the Hadas case, and have lodged a
charge Of suspicion of homicide against
him. His photograph had been picked
out of the rouges' gallery by William
Carroll and Leon Cook, two soda clerks
in the drug store who witnessed the
shooting. as resembling one of the
three bandits who attempted to hold
up the place.
Identification Not Positive
Cook went to Police Headquarters
after Flanagan was arrested and after
examining the prisoner in lineup of
five men said he could not positively
ndcntfy him. Carroll also obtained a
profile view OF the prisoner, but was
equally doubtful. He will be given an
opportunity to pick him out of an
array of six men at headquarters this
morning. Flanagan WAS surly during
the identification procedure. He denied
knowing anything about the murder.
detectives Walter CuIhane and John
Walsh, of the East Rifty-frst Street
police station, in q saloon at Forty
ninth Street and First Avenue. He
told the detectives he lived at S42 East
Forty-eighth Street. He is twenty
seven years old and said he was a
salesman. He is brohcr of "Death
House Frank" Flanagan, whose cxecu-
tion for the alleged murder of Il saloon
keeper has been held up for two years.
Flanagan, the police say, also is
wanted in connection with the robbery
of $4,000 from the Horton Ice Cream
Company some time ago. He was ar
rested at the time and was held in
$4,000 bail: This was reduced to s15,-
600. He failed to appear when his case
was called to trial on January Is,
1922, having gone to Canada. He re-
turned, say the police, about three
days ago.
He was detained for various periods
in the Catholic Protcctory and the
Elmira Reformatory, and was SEN
fenced to Sing Sing person for six
teen years for assault and robbery.
He served only three years and nine
months Of the time, however, accord
ing to the records, his sentence having
been committed by Governor Smith.
inspector OOu2nI1H SdlI CNc TWO
clerks partly identified Flanagan as the
man with whom Carroll grappled. This
man, according to the versions of the
hold-up, did not do the shooting.
Three Women in Crime
New details of the murder given to
the authorities indicate that three
women participate in the holdup, and
that the crime was carried out in &C
cordance with series of signals in
which the women played the most i'm
portant part.
According to the latest discoveries
it appears that the long black touring
car in which the bandits made their
escape drew up in front of window
on the 120th Street side of the Fried
gen drug store, which gave those in
the car a view Of the soda fountain
counter. Two women were seated at
the counter at the time and were in q
position to see the car and its occu-
pants through this window.
Three men alighted from the auto
mobile and went to the corner, where
they loitercd, leaving a man at the
wheel and woman beside him
Shortly thereafter the woman in the
car, who had been watching the window
intently, dropped q handkerchief to the
pavement, whereupon the three men
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