New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-18
new YORK IN GRIP
OF new Crime WAVE
Series Of Criminal OHenses Keep
Cops Busy

New York, July 1S.-Gunmen, high
waymen and lesser brands of trouble
makers combined yesterday to keep
the police on the jump.
High spots on the police headquar-
tiers blotter included:
Three shooting ARRAYS as a result
of which two men are expected to die.
Holdup and theft by bandits dis
guised as policemen and detectives of
truck carrying $4,000 worth of silk.
Belated announcement of a $75,-
900 silk truck robbery that occurred
Saturday.
Assault and robbery of two pedes-
TRANS.
Attack by a crazed negro on sub
way passenger, which sent scores
rushing for safety.
The most spectacular of the shoot
ing ARRAYS was a patrol duel between
Frank Rogers and Patrick Cotter.
over an insult alleged to have been
offered Mrs. Cotter by Rogers. Meet
ing near the Cotter home this morn
Ing. both whipped out pistols while
pedestrians fed for cover After a
half dozen harmless shots had been
fired, Cotter drilled Rogers through
the chest with bullet and the latter,
fleeing, ran into the church of st.
John the Martyr, throwing morning
worshippers into panic.
Cotter was captured after short
chase.
John Jaconda, dealer in olive oil,
was shot down by four men as he
emerged from his home this morning.
Jaconda, regaining consciousness for
a few moments in a hospital said he /
knew no reason why the men should |
have attacked him. He is expected to
die.
When Patrolman Thompson sought |
to arrest Giro Corione, a cobbler, Cor
clone. fed. firing. and the policeman
followed, using his pistol. Neighbors t
of Corcione tried to brain the patrol
man with dishes and furniture hurled
from upper windows, but he fnall.
Captured his man, neither being in
jured.
I Police said the same bandits were
believed to- have made successful Il
getaway Saturday with $4,000 worth
of silk loaded on truck of the Ar
row Carrier Corporation, Paterson, N.
J.~t The driver of this truck was dis
possessed and the truck driven away
by bandits as it stood in front of a
silk house on Lower Manhattan.
., Pedestrians held up and robbed
were Alfred, Calvo, said to be a Gu
ban baseball pitcher, who is at his
Brooklyn home recovering from a re-
cent injury, and Harrison Simpson, a
negro. Calvo was set upon by two
mon uho first had ioStled him and
after receiving a thorough beating,
was robbed of $50. simpleson told
the police two white men had black
lacked and robbed him of SIS.
Leroy Sperring. negro. decided
not to let Richard Buckmaster, editol
of the American Fuffier, get on
train at Grand Central sta
tion shortly before noon. When tle
editor insisted, Sperring leaped ur"i
him and, it took six men to separate
them. Sperring tried to cut the /
throat of one policeman with broken
comb, it was charged. He was sent
to. Bellevue hospital for observation.
Herbert McLain, colored, was held
without bail for grand jury action by
Ma gistrate Silverman for what
the magistrate characterized as zone
Of the most atrocious crimes he had
McLain was accused of
having broken a heavy club over the
head of Mrs. Catherine p. Levin,
widow, in an attempt to get into her
home to rob her. McLain declared
another negro, who had compelled
him to aid at the point of pistol,
had struck Mrs. Levin.