The New York herald., 1922-06-27
shot FOR FUGITIVE
!. HITS BOY IN CROWD.
Narcotic Agent Recaptures
Prisoner and Carries Lad
to Hospital.
FOUR FALL INTO TRAP
Detectives Leap From Door
ways as Dope Is Sold in
Harlem Street.
MAN, WIFE AND BOY HELD
Accused of 25 Burglaries--
Firm Manager Arrested
in $4,000 Theft.
MAN, WIFE AND BOY HELD

Internal revenue agents of the mar
cotic division chased four alleged dope
peddlers through one Of the most
crowded districts of Harlem last night.
During the chase Agent James Moog
fired shot at the four men and the
bullet struck Tony Ray. 10 years old.
Of 800 East 109th street. After the
men had been captured Moog carried
the boy to Harlem Hospital, where
1t was said that he had received
flesh wound, but that 1t was not seri-
Gus.
The prisoners. captured at First ave-
nue. and 10th street and at Third
avenue and 10th street, gave their
14sth street, The Bronx; Louis Pace
Of IS East 106th street and Joseph
Harris and virceryo Amerdgha, who
gave their address as the Lenox Baths
at 116th street and Lenox avenue.
According to the Federal agents the
four men had come to 10th street
and Second avenue to conclude nego-
tiations for the sale Of drugs. The
sale was completed, Agent Pasquale
Napolitini handing over $50 in marked
money In return for a quantity OF
morphine.
AS soon as this was done a signal
was given. and the other agents jumped
from doorways in which they were
hidden. The four men started to run
through the crowds. Moog grabbed at
Harris. and said that Harris or one of
the other men shot at him. Harris
ducked and got out OF the detectives
grasp. and Moog drew his gun and fired
one shot, the bullet striking the Ray boy.
The detectives then separated and pur-
sued the alleged vendors arresting
them without much trouble. They were
charged with violating the Harrison
act.
Three Held I'm rs Thefts.
Detectives Of the East 152d street sta
tion yesterday arrested young man
and his wife and a boy who are said by
the police to have committed more than
twenty-five apartment house burglaries
within the past six weeks. In a room
they occupied at 553 West 161st street
the detectives found furs. clothing, jew
els and silverware valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000, together with pawn
tickets for other stuff. Ten persons
identified property stolen from them late
last night, including a wedding gown
stolen on June from Mrs. Grace Moss
of S38 Riverside Drive.
The prisoners are Walter Stroh, %, a
steam filter; his wife. Frances. and
Frank McCavie. an office boy, II years
old. They were found by Detectives
Mccoy. Sullivan, Quinn. Prail and Teed
yesterday In an apartment on the third
floor of the house at 419 West 12Sth
street. They were seen In the place by
the superintendent of the house, Fred
erick Pusit, who called the police be-
fore anything was stolen.
Detectives Hoffman, Foray and Reil-
ley. investigating the theft on Saturday
of $4,000 worth Of silks from a loft at
304 Fifth avenue, yesterday arrested
David Meltz of 773 East Second street.
Brooklyn, manager of the American Car
pet Company OF 306 Fifth avenue. The
police say that the burglars cut a hole
through the walls of Meltz's offices to get
into the other building. In the Jeffer-
son Market Court he pleaded not guilty
and was held without bail.
Meltz said that he did not know Jo-
seph Morris and John Behrman. who
were arrested last Saturday in connec-
ton with the crime. He admitted that
he owned the electric drill which the
police say was used to make a hole in
the wall between No. 304 and No. 306.
1t was learned yesterday that some
time between yesterday morning and
Saturday night burglars broke into the
left of the Irwin Manufacturing Conf
pany at Debcvoise street, Brooklyn.
and stole 400 suits of clothing ana
forty rolls of cloth. valued at $1,000.
James Gibbons OF 81 West 12Sth
street, division chief for tho New
York Telephone Company, Is In st.
Mary's Hospital at Jamaica with
fractured skull as a result of an at
tack by bandits on the Merrick road,
near Samuel street, Jamaica, early
Sunday Gibbons was In an automo-
bile with Harry Martin of 144 East
Forty-first street. Frederick Lee OF $50
Park avenue, Mrs. Lee, and two other
men when the party was held up by
four men in a small car. Martin, Lee
and Gibbons resisted and were beaten
with a hammer and wrench. but be-
fore any OF the party was robbed a
privatae watchman came along with
revolver and frightened the robbers
away.