OCR Text |
Show FOR THIEVES IN POLICE BATTLE I NEW YORK Jan lg. Discovery, today of an abandoned automobile containing a burglar's outfit, completed complet-ed the r;nd made Tuesrln. nlghl by thej police on a gang of alleged thieves, during which one of the supposed rlmlnals was fatally wounded and -i others were arrested. The raid dovel-; oped Into running fight through severs sev-ers streets The back of one mnn xvosj j riddled xvlth bullets from policemen'! pistols. Nr.YV YORK, Jan. 18. One allegod lur thief xvas killed and six othe.s captured Tuesda) xxhen police frus-irntei) frus-irntei) their ,-rtenipt t" hie,,;. Into the Import Vnr company on West Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth street An Incident of tho roundup was an exciting chase along Fifth avenue, during xxhlch bullets whizzed past motorists who qui. !lx deserted the avenue for quieter thoroughfares. thor-oughfares. ESCAPE ATTEMPTED. The dead man xvas Francis McAr-dle. McAr-dle. 12, nnd his companions gae their names as Timothy O'Mara, 27, his brother John O'Mura, 24, John Donnelly, ' 1 , John Qaris, 80, William Untler " ..nl 'V,.. U..l 1 -''-- - - . "i.u 1 1" i irn tiuj. lull, I . All were charged with attempted bur- fflary Detectives Rellly, Foray and Hoffman, Hoff-man, who made thf capturo. declared their prisoners belonged to a band of notorious fur thieves who had been under surveillance for weeks. Trailed by the police In another machine, three of the alleged burglars approached ap-proached the fur store In an automobile automo-bile .hb h Mopped ne;lr the door. A whistle brought (heir four confederates confed-erates xx ho had been lurking in the shadows of a doorway, NABBED AT HOSPITAL. Several of tho suspects surrendered at the first cry of "hands up." Mc-Ardle Mc-Ardle and txvo others leaped for their automobile, McArdle staggering under the first shot. Then their machine Bped around tho corner into Fifth avenue as the officers fired without further effect. McArdle and Boylan were arrested arrest-ed when the former, fatally wounded, applied for treatment at a hospital. Butler was picked up several blocks axvay as he abandoned the automobile automo-bile in whli h he Is said to have confessed con-fessed to have taken McArdle to the hospital. |