Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-22
Child, Two Officers, Two
Gangsters and Cabman
KiIIed-12 Injured.
CHASE RUNS IL MILES
IN NEW YORK STREETS
Two Carrying $4,61s From Bank
Are Accosted by Pair-Patrol-
man Is Shot Down.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August ga gun bat
tie between police and two pay roll
robbers extending for IL miles IN
streets of upper Manhattan and the
Bronx and lasting an hour and a hall
cost six lives last evening. Twelve
other persons were wounded by bullets
Two policemen, one robber and taxi
driver accompanying the robbers were
killed outright. The other robber died
in q hospital, as did q baby who was
hit by a stray bullet Three police
men, two firemen and seven bystapd-
ers, including two women, were sent
to hospitals with bullet wounds.
The city's 10000 policemen were
under orders today to put every un-
licensed gun holder behind bars COM
missioner Mulrooney called police exec
utiyes into conference early this
morning.
Bandits KIN Policeman.
Patrolnan Walter D. Webb and Lloyd
PromhoH. paymaster for the Mendoza
Fur a. Dyeing Co.. arrived In an au-
tonaobiie at the company's yards on
East 1880 Street at 4:30 o'clock yesteT-
day. They brought pay roll OF $3.50
from a bank. Two robbers accosted
them in an areaway. AS Webb feaened
for his pistol both robbers fred, killing
the policeman.
The robbers threw FromhoH out Of
the car and drove to Third avenue and
$3.50 street, where they abandoned 1t
and got into taxi driven By Herbert
Hasse, ~, and resumed flight. At Bos-
ton Post road Motor Cycle Patrolman
Edward Churchill, suspicious at their
dizzy sneed. raced after them and fired
Two bullets hit him In the abdomen
and he fell on his machine dead.
Vincent Hyde, q, city fireman who
happened by, snatched the policeman's
pistol. hoped a taxi and fired 1t the
fugitives A bullet dropped him, too.
He was seriously wounded.
Girl. 4, wounded.
Three other persons. including Gloria
Lopez, aged 4, were struck by robbers
bullets at this point as the Lopez fam
fly automobile swung into the line Of
Ere Gloria died 10 hours later.
Three policemen IN d taxicab closed
Morris avenue and 162d street. wliNTe
two more policemen attempted 70 shoot
them. These two were felled By BULLETS,
wounded.
At Dyckman street and Broadway
the three policemen in the pursuing
taxicab forced the bandit car against
the curb and close-range firing began.
Hasse, the taxi driver, was killed out
right, as was one Of thu robbers, John
Preciiti The second gunman, Martin
Bachoriks died IN hospital . few
minutes later. Each robber was about
20 years old.
Meanwhile police headquarters was
flooded with ambulance calls rs citt-
zens we're rushed 10 hospitals. Several
bystanders were injured at every cor
ner the gunner turned
The taxi used by the pursuing de-
tectiyes was bullet-punctured and its
windows shattered The driver was
hit By one Of the robbers bullets.
Empty Shells.
When q lone patrolman yarlked open
the bullet-marked cab Of the robbers,
the package OF stolen money was found
intact. In the back there were II
empty bullet shells and 7 pistols
The robbers. fingerprints showed. were
arrested by State troopers In Esopus,
n. Y, for q dance hall hold-up q year
ago.
Police said they found q pistol in the
dead taxi drivers clothes, but his wife
defended him as an honest cab driver
forced into the drive by the gangsters.
He left two children.
In Greenwich village, another police
man. Bertrand Ray, crashed into q
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