New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-23
Liverpool Jacks Life of
Crime Ends i'm Sisters
Home in Brooklyn; Had
Spent 33 Years in Jail
Patrolnan a Filler
In the World War
Had Fought Gang of 4
Trying to Break Into
Warehouse i'm F1atbush

Patrolman Arthur Loewe, of the
Fifth Avenue station, Brooklyn, died
last night from wounds suffered early
yesterday morning when he fought a
revolver battle with four warehouse
thieves in the Flatbush section Of
Brooklyn. Two of his brothers were
at his bedside when he died. Physi-
clans said the bullet had penetrated
his intestines and that peritonits had
set in, causing death.
One Of the four gunmen with whom
the young policeman exchanged shots
died yesterday afternoon. He was
John Walsh, known to the police as
Liverpool jack" who had spent
Ihirty-three of his sixty-six years in
prisons of the United States and Eng
land. Loewe died at the Methodist
episcopal Hospital the death Of Walsh
occurred at AZ Carlton Avenue. Rrook-
iyn, his sisters house, into which he
had staggered at daybreak with blood
streaming from his chest and right
hand
Death Reveals His Past
., We" nv ultli dIter ne mad died
that the police established the fact that
he was one of four who had planned to
rob Heberlein's warehouse in Eighth
street, between Fourth and Fifth ave-
nues, and one of the tour who blazed
away at Patrolman Arthur Loewe. ex-
aviator and plumber, when he cornered
them IN the pitchy darkness of an area
way and told them to throw up their
hands.
In the exchange of shots that fol-
iowed-there were thirty fired, at least
-Loewe was hit four times, one of the
bullets entering his right side and
ploughing through to the left.
Trails of blood found near the scene
OF the battle convinced the police that
at least one, and perhaps two, of tho
gunmen with whom Loewe had ex-
changed shots had been wounded. and
acting on this belief a general alarm
was sent out before daybreak for ali
hospitals to be on the lookout for a
man or men suffering from bullet
wounds: And when Mrs. Rose Ryan of
AZ Carlton Avenue, sister of the no.
torious "LiverpoOl Jack" telephoned
Brooklyn Police Headquarters that she
who had been shot twice, detectives
felt certain that they had located one
of the four Brooklyn burglars. They
rushed to the Carlton Avenue address,
but Walsh had died before they ar
rived. An ambulance from Cumber-
land Street Hospital reached the house
soon afterward
Mrs. Ryan told the police what had
occurred at her home since her brother
stumbled through the front door at
dawn.
She heard groans, she said, after he
had gone to room, and when she went
TO him she saw that he had been shot.
The gray and grizzled yeggman, burg
lar and second story man raised him
self to half sitting posture and
grunted contemptuously as he indicat-
ed his wounds.
Got in a little fight with a cop" he
said. me and three other fellows. Fix
me up bit, will you?"
Threatened to Kill Sister
Mrs. Ryan bathcd his wounds and
told him she would send for all am
bulance.
mol" cried Walsh fcrcely. mo
ambulance for me--let me die"
She suggested priest.
mo priest either" he snorted. ri
don't want nothin'."
He did ask, however, that she pour
iodine upon his wounds, and when she
had done so he turned over, and q
short time later appeared to be asleep.
Mrs. Ryan said that before she left
him he told her that he would kill
her if she called an ambulance.
At o'clock she entered the room
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