Show BURGLAR CHASE THRilLS GOTHAM GOTHA Cop Races After Taxicab and Beats Criminal I Unconscious NEW YORK Jan The 2 3 The The great I White Way trembled Tuesday when I an alleged burglar fired tired several shots abot I in a crowd pursuing him hit a 1 man manI manana I and ana a woman roman oman and fled lied In a IL comma comman commandeered taxicab I A few tew minutes later it experIenced a thrill when a policeman pus gh log chae In another r car through tangled I traffic jumped to the running board boardo of the fleeing machine and beat heat Its oc- oc occupant oc occupant unconscious with the butt of ohis hIs own revolver The man who Identified himself M as of West Orange N J was as alleged by the police pollee to have been caught In an ineffectual ual attempt to break into a rooming hoUse In West est Forty fourth street Ho He broke through a cro crowd d which about him leveled his automatic and fired ten shots Dashing Da to Broad Broad- Broad vv w a av he be pOl pointed ted his hla weapon at the first tall driver ho he saw and forced him to torace torace torace race down town Patrolman Halstead off oft duty and ani riding In his own motor caught sight of the taxi and seeing the crowd headed by several policemen running after it gave chase Both car cars zigzagged traffic at breakneck speed v while mobile crowds on the sidewalks watched spellbound At Forty third street the cars came abreast Russo pointed his pistol at Hal stead Hal stead and pulled the trigger It was empt empty Halstead jammed on his brakes and took a IL flying leap He landed on the taxicabs taxicab's running b board ard pulled the empty weapon capon from Russo Russos Russo's hand and using it 11 as a club beat his quarry unconscious The woman struck by one of ot shots suffered a slight flesh wound The man was hit in to the hip Russo was arrested for tor attempting burglar and tor for carr carrying a concealed weapon capon He was as quoted by the police as saying he had committed 14 bur burglaries In the theatrical district nn |