The New York herald., 1922-05-24
PARIS CABLES CAUSE
A SHATTUCK ARREST.
ROssi Suspected as Look
cut in $4,000 Robbery;
Messages Intercepted.
HAD HIDDEN A BANDIT
Blank Shots Fired in 81 ,466
HOldup of Tea Store Col
lector in Brooklyn.
CASH REGISTER IMMUNE
Water Supply Department
Laborer Is Locked Up on
Murder Charge.
CASH REGISTER IMMUNE

FRANCOIS tSOSSl, dlldS faul MdTllIl,
suspected as having been the ''look-
out" for the band of French thugs
who held up the home of Albert r.
Shattuck, 10 Washington Square North,
and made off with $4,000 in jewelry,
was arrested yesterday by detectives
Of the bomb squad.
The police now hope to round up
the others in the gang which threat
ened the lives of the retired banker.
his wife and eight servants when they
locked them in a wine vault on April 2.
The internationa aspect of the rob-
berry, limited at when the alleged leader,
Henri Boilat. was thought to have es-
capped to France. was borne out by the
facts of the arrest of Rossi. His arrest
was due to the appre hension of a man
In Marseilles, by an American detective
operating in France, In whose pocket
was found a piece of paper bearing
Rossi's name.
Another angle which led detectircs
here to keep Rossi under surveillance at
his home at 233 West Eighteenth street
was his receipt OF numerous cable
grams from France. which were inter
cepted by the police.
Previous Robbery Recalled.
Detectives Geegan and Fiaschetti
who made the arrest assert that Ross
knows the whereabouts of Boilat, for
ner butler in the Shatuck home, who
disappeared in 1917 coincident with
$4,000 worth of Mrs. Shattuck's
jewels.
They also allege he. took Maurice
Bagnoli. who with Eugene Diaset is
serving a forty to sixty year term in
Sing Sing for the recent robbery, from
this city to New Jersey in an auto
mobile and harbored him for several
days.
After a quizzing by the detectives
Harold w. Hastings, Assistant District
Attorney. said the man denied he knew
where Boilat Is, but admitted he had
concealed Bagnoli at the Mountain
House. near Plainfeld. n. J.. after the
robbery. He also denied being directly
implicated in the robbery.
fRossi will be arraigned before a Mag
istrate to-day. and It is expected he
will be held for action by the Grand
Jury on a charge of being an accessory
IN that he harbored Bagnoli.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shattuck are abroad.
They left this country it was announced
at the time of their departure. to re-
cover from the shock of their rough
treatment at the hands of the thugs and
to enlist the aid of Scotland Yard and
French operatives in running down the
three members of the gang who are still
at large.
Robbery I'm Tea store.
David ]. Hickey. an assistant superin-
tendent OF the Great Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company. was held UP with four
other men in a store OF the company at
125 Reid avenue. Brooklyn, yesterday
afternoon about l o'clock by four arme
bandits. who robbed him OF a leather
bag containing $1.466. which he had col
iected from eighteen of the companys
places. The other men were not robbed
and the cash register was not molested.
II In the store. besides Hickey, were
Joseph Mcdonald. a food inspector for
the city. of $50 Twenty-third street
Brooklyn: Russell ]. Disharoon. man
ager of'the store John S. Kehoe, a clerk
and George c. Hislop. Hickey's chauf-
feur.
Hickey was followed into the store BY
four men. Two OF them stopped near
the front door. while the others drew
revolvers and ordered the five men tc
step into the back room
Hickey stumbled over a barrel of
potatoes while walking into the back
room and one of the bandits fired point
blank at him. Hickey was not touched
and there were no bullet marks TO be
found later. which led the police to be-
lieve that the guns of the bandits were
loaded with blank cartridges. They
fired two more shots at the ceiling be-
fore escaping in an automobile.
Fergus Mullen of 422 West Thirty
third street, a laborer employed by the
Department of Water Supply, Gas and
Electricity. was arraigned before Mag
istrate Hating in Jefferson Market
Court yesterday. charged with the MUIR
der OF Patrick DAILY of the same ad-
dress. who died in Bellevue on May l.