| Show BATTLE WITH HARBOR PIRATES New York Police Have a Hot Hoi Time With Men Mon Stealing Coal Goal from Barges RECEIVED WITH A Tt 10 Officers Propped Into hell timid and I K l ut itt Hands Of OC Men They Nv cew York Tork Tan Jan 7 After an on exciting tag InS pistol duel dual in the tho hold of ot a it coal coni ba go yesterday t two o policemen cd eti Jour fOil I harbor pirates w 1 1 were iere ac tue according cording cordI to tho the police caught In the act Ml of ot stealing coat coal cl l While the police boat PAtrol was wall steaming down don time the harbor harbora a 11 tow tin oC or 15 f coI bUlge barges was passing i through the Kills between S Staten tat on Is h Island Island i land and Shooters Shooter Island The Tho master of ot the tile Patrol his glosses glasses saw two boats fastened to td the tact barge baige In tho tow ton into which four tour w nere re shoveling coal Tho rhe boat hoat was wall turned In that und amid the tho men on the tue burgo diN dis discovering covering the boat iott Jumped Into their small maU boats and amid titter otter a It moment appeared again running over ovel tho the top of or th the coal coni barges barsell toward the tho tow towboat towboat towboat boat The fust fast gasoline was isas put over oter and Crelghton Creighton and Ellis got Into her Reaching the oate at mit the end of the tho tow they found lound each contained about ht tons of ot coal coni and amid that an attempt had Mil been ma made do to scuttle them Hastily plug plugging ging the holes hol 1 In the small boats nn ua II that they the would not sink the two of 01 Jeers l along the tha barges baiges the mauler master of o the time Patrol PI rol which had como come up having told them that the time four tour men had hud gone gono down Into tho hold ho of ot the tho barge barg from the tho towboat each with a I revolver In his hi hands hand Without thinking or oC the danger tho the two police policemen men dropped lIro lell down Into flue hold bold of oC the barge to be he saluted by I foul four shots as na they lucy struck the bottom They Th fired In at the flashes of ot time the pirates pistols and a n was ivas exchanged until the pirates pirate guns were empty j Then three of them were captured Tile The fourth was WIlli found later Inter under the inner bottom bollom of jC the tho hold lying In water ateI anti and coal dust and exhausted td from fear Cear ear All four tour were locked l up Ul the two boats be being being ing Int tied up at ut the police lolice wharf as nil art evi evidence dence against them |
