Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Patty MacVeigh a Patient Cop Worked Hard HardT T To o Solve Hugger Mugger in in Automat Mystery By BILLY GILLY ROSE As a Ive I've done dOlle a considerable amount of hanging around police pollee stations lately and Ive I've made a highly edifying discovery dis dIs- covery the covery-the the average New York detective is plenty smart and considering considering con can how few lew of them there are gets plenty of results To give you an idea of what the ordinary cop can do once he gets going goIng going go go- ing let me tell ten you the classic story of Detective Patty MacVeigh and how he solved the case usually referred to as Mugger Hugger Mugger in the Automat One morning in August 1933 two people died suddenly and within a afew afew afew few minutes o of each other In the nickel in the the- he t E slot restaurant at Broadway a and n d street One a ado dowdy w d y old dame named Lillian Lil LII lien lian Rosenfeld keeled over in the fi restaurants restaurant's mezzanine mezzanine mezzanine mez mez- and the theother Billy Dilly Rose Hose other a middle middle- aged garageman named Harry Jel Jel- linek was found outside the little boys' boys room in the basement The coroner coroner certified that both deaths were caused by a powerful dose of ot cyanide of ot potassium Was Wat it il a II cast case of double murder mur mur- mude murder de der Was Wat it il double 0 Or it iI murder mender and suicide Detective Patty MacVeigh was handed this sizzling spud and went about cooling It off not like a Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sher Sher- lock Holmes but like an ordinary policeman He Ue started by question question- where the victims had lived inchIng inch inch- Ing log everyone in the neighborhoods inched by-inched the tenement flats they had called their homes sawed Jig together a lot of ot biographical bits and pieces and came up with a solution so so- lution so simple that no one CIne connected connected con con- with the case could Imagine why it hadn't been thought of right away Jellinek's past was reconstructed easily enough Starting as a helper helperin in a garage he had managed to save enough to buy his own business bustness busi bust ness and his garage had prospered until the depression hit it When things got tough he borrowed from a bank and when he couldn't meet th the note on July 1 I he was threatened with foreclosure Figuring he had nothing to live for he purchased 3 worth of powdered powdered powdered pow pow- dered cyanide and then with his last nickel bought himself a poppy- poppy seed roll roU at the Automat lie He dug ahole ahole a ahole hole in it poured the powder in bit off oU as much as he could chew and headed for the mens men's room Athe AI At Atthe t the foot of ot the stairs he collapsed collapse and died So lr far I to 10 clear duro Next Mae V Veigh went to 10 work e on 0 Lillian Rosenfeld Sh She had bed been bt 4 III harm hilr less hit a old J bill bet bat 1 til UI h bo a revenged aroun junk funk hU heaps l end and for lor 28 years yean had bad lived in I a III e 7 tf a basement room which will wet tilled filled U lIh everything from old oU piano rolls to 10 a rusty weather van vane From employees of the Automat the detective learned that on oss several sev several eral occasions the old dame bad had parked herself herselt in the mezzanine where she could watch the tables on the main floor and when someone someone some some- one left without finishing a meal she would hurry down and eat the remains or scoop them into a paper bag i That finished the case Obviously the scavenger had seen Jellinek leave part of his roll and had popped the half eaten bun into her mouth MacVeigh's Investigation uncovered uncovered ered an additional irony While sift sifting ing through the hodgepodge podge in Lillian's Lillians Lillien's Lil Lil- liens lian's room he found six bankbooks which showed she had stashed in various banks in Manhattan Manhattan Man Man- Manhattan hattan and New Jersey The annual Interest on her nest egg was 1200 or eight times the amount Jellinek needed to save his garage and life Ute |