New-York tribune., 1922-05-05

= Men Lead Pursucrs
Down West End Ave. al
Furious Clip Before
Crashing Into Arcaway
Automobiles Weave
Through, Traffic
On" of Alleged lire
Thieves Goes TO Hos
piial; Other in Jail

detectives in automo mobiles pursued p
car containing two alleged tire thieves
Tor forty blocks down West End and
Eleventh avenues last night. cmptyinc
their revolvors time and again at ;he
'uglt'ves, who finally crashed through
IN IRON railing trying to make tine
turn from Eleventh Avenue into Fifty
seventh Street and dropped. automo
bile and all, INTO an sreawav more
than twenty feet deep
One of them. Michael Cello, of 4le
East lc4th Street. suffered multiple
fractures Of the right leg and is in
bellevue Hospital, prisoner, charged
with grand larceny The other, Dcmi-
nick Albero, Of 324 East 122d Street. is
locked UP at the West Sixty-oight III
Street police station on similar
charge. suffering only from bruises ro-
coived in the accident and in a subse-
quent fight with the detectives.
Albero's brother, Salvatore. known as
Bullets, had an accident last night
almost exactly parallel to the ono which
occurred on December 2G last. De
tectives were pursuing him through
etysecond Street as tire thief
when his automobile Went through q
rail guard in Riverside Drive, pinning
him beneath it.
Detectives Spot Car
Detectives Horan, Fitzpatrick, Ma
loney. Gilen and Davis got tip last
night that tise thieves who had been
husy in tho precinct for several weeks
were using a Packard car with yellow
wheels and went out on patrol in a
police automobile hunting for it.
On West End Avenue between Ninety
seventh and Ninety eighth streets they
saw such car. 1t was standing next
to an automobile owned by NJ. Markell,
OF III West End Avenue. and it looked
to the detectives as though Celzo and
Albero we're tinkerlng with Markell s
spare tire.
Fearful of arousing the suspicious of
the pair the detectives drove on up
West End Avenue and turned into o
Ninety-eighth Street to round the block
and steal upon the suspected tire
thieves unaware In Ninety-eigh hit h
Street. near West End Avenue, Koran
and Fitzpatrick got out to stalk Albero
and Celzo. while the others drove on
in the car.
Alberto and Celzo spotted Horan and
Fitzpatrick as they approached, how
ever. and jumped into the yellow
wheeled car. which was headed south.
They sped past the northbound car Of
the detectives at better than forty
miles an hour and roared on down tic
avenue.
Gillen. who was driving the police
car, slithered it end for end and set
out in pursuit, while Horan and Fitz-
patrick hoped taxi and brought up
the rear. Down the avenue the three
cars sped at a pace which sometimes
exceeded sixty miles an hour.
All Of the detectives had drawn ther
revovers and fred whenever a gap in
the traffic gave them a clear view Of
the fugitive car.
Threads Through Traffic
At Eighty-sixth Street the yellow
wheeled car barely missed an cast
bound bus. The bullets of the de-
ahead, hummed past the rear Of the
bus.
BY the time they approached Fifty
seventh Street Gillen's car was within
fifty feet of the fugitives and was
gaining steadily. The driver Of the
fugitive car gave a twist to his wheel
to turn east into Fifty-seventh Street
which is broader than most Of the
cross streets and gives a better oppor-
tunitv for a sudden turn.
The pavement was slippery from the
rain. however, and the car slid broad
sideacross the street, jounced across
the curb and crashed into an iron rai!-
ing in front Of building occupied by
the O. J. GUIDE Company, at the south
east corner of Fifty-seventh Street
and Eleventh Avenue.
The railing gave away and the car
and occupants plunged into the we'll on
which the basement windows open
which is more than twenty feet deep.
Cillen managed to make the run into
Fifty-seventh Street without climbing
the curb, but was going at such pace
that he found himself almost at Tenth
Avenue before he could come TO stop.
Then he backed up TO the corner
reaching there just as the taXicab with
Horan and Fitzpatrick aboard came in
sight.
Albero, almost unhurt, was climbing
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