The New York herald., 1922-08-15
POLICEMAN, HALTING
CAR, SHOT IN WRIST
Four i'm Automobile Make
Their Escape After Injuring
Patrolman O'NeilI.

Patrolman Francis O'Neiil Of $50
Tenth avenue. probationary officer
attached to the staff of Chief Inspec-
tor William j. Lahey. was shot in the
wrist at Tenth avenue and Thirty third
street last right by one Of four men
who the detectives believe to be boot
leggers. The men were in an automo-
bile and escaped. although Patrolman
O'Neill fired twice at them
ONeill said afterward that he was
standing at Tenth avenue and Thirty
third street in plain clothes when he
saw the machine approaching from the
north. Four men were in the car and
the machine was piled high with boxes
and cases which the police beMeve
contained liquor. The policeman
stepped into the street and stopped the
machine. He showed the men his
shield and told them he wanted to ex-
anime the cases.
You won't examine anything!"
shouted one of them in the back seat.
The man at the wheel started the
car. and as O'Neill jumped to avoid
being run down the man in the back seat
fired a shot which hit the policeman's
left wrist and knocked the shield from
his hand The shots created consider
able excitement in the neighborhood, and
a report reached the West Thirtieth street
station that a policeman had been killed.
Three detectives went to the corner in
an automobile and sent O'Neill to the
French Hospital. He went home after
he was treated. He did not get the
number of the car and was not able to
describe the men.
Two bandits armed with revolvers
stole the payroll of the Phalanx Silk
Mills of III Irving street. Jersey City
yesterday afternoon when they held up
the superintendent Auoiph Ecker OF 1924
Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, and an
other employee. Charles Falst of 7OS
Cortlandt street. West Hoboken. The
money amounted to s1.9s5.15. The
bandits escaped in motorcycle and side
car
Ecker and Falst had drawn the money
from the Merchants National Bank a.
Central avenue and Hutton street, Jer-
scy City. and were on their way pdcis
to the plant when the holdup occur-c !.
Ecker carried the money in canvas
sack and was walking on the inside,
when the two men stepped from door,
way and pointed revolvers at them Ona
of them snatched the bag and both ran
to the corner. where the motorcycle was
waiting, with another man in the driver 9
seat. The holdup occurred In front or
81 Irving street, within n few doors OF
the silk mills.
Max Klapman fought with three men
early yesterday morning when they
entered his restaurant at 14I1 Madison
avenue and held up six of his customers.
While two of the men were taking
money from the cash register klapnan
wrenched revolver from the hand OF
the third. The other two fired two shots,
both of which missed. and then ran 10
the street. They got away with $50 OF
Klapman's money. but Klapman got the
revolver and cap.
John Rozwell of 191 Allen street. who
has but one leg and uses crutches. was
arraigned before Magistrate Douras in
the Essex Market Court yesterday and
held for the Grand Jury. He Is accused
az robbing John Ketel of As Allen street
with che aid OF another cripple who has
tut one arm, at Hester street and Broad
way early yesterday morning.
KeteI told the police that Rozwell
knocked him down with crItch and
beat him with II while che other cripple
took s11 from his pocket. But Rozwcll
Hammered so industrously that he broke
the cr,itch so when Patrolman sullivan
Of the Clinton street station came along
he tried to get away with one crutch. He
ran so fast that he lost his grip on II
and 1t rolled into the gutter. Even then
Tozwell hopped along on one foot for
block before the patrolman caught him.
The other cripple escaped.
Mrs. August j. Mennell Of so Willow
street. Jamaica. said last night that her
son. August j. Mennell, Jr.. clerk en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
vas held up near the Pennsylvania Ter
minal on August 8, drugged and taken
to Harrisburg. NJ j., where he was kept
prisoner for six days by band of thugs
This, she said. was the story her son
told her when he returned home after
having been missing for six weeks. The
Jamaica police said that they had no
record OF such an affair and that Men
nell had not reported the holdup to
them. Mennell himself would neither
affirm nor deny last night that he had
told HIS mother that he was held up
and kept prisoner. z