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Show 'POLICE AND I KITS HAVE I EEiTiG HOUR I Bandits Fire on Detectives Who Stop Them After Robbery PAIR ARE ARRESTED j Prisoners Found to Be Carrying Car-rying Weapons Stolen From Lowe's Store ! I The store of John DeRocco, 301 l Tw enty -eighth street, was held up and robbed of $41 by two bandits last night and in the next hour and 10 minutes things happened swiftly and thrl linglj fpr bol h bandits and police. These events were: Holdup or two defectives who confronted the bandits as they left the sceiic of the robbery. Attempt made to kill Detect Ire Y . V dunes bv the two armed bandits 1 u-!llj(ie. of shots fired at the bandits by pollev oiucvrs. ami finally Arrest of the two robbers and the discovery they carried pis-tois pis-tois stolen from George A. Ixjwc's on election night. Oul ".' the hour and 10 minutes of' 1 "e.ner.t. Patrolman Arch J. Gale i runt6H cut a hero cj no smell pro- portions, for he arrested Jock Lewis, ! i K-oonvlct, recently released from th imlng st ile prison, and Lewis had the drop pnGale when the arrest was J made at tho Arlington hotel. i;r partner In the holdup, A B. , Saunders, escaped from tho hotel by tumping from a window In the rear, but later was caught. H Three other suspects and a woman arrested and are being he!d J pending further investigation by the 'authorities- i ROBBERY REPORTED. The report of the holdup of tho ton received at police head- H quarters at 7:85 o'clock and the dc- H ription tallied with that of the men that had recently held up the noodlo parlor of . Nagota. taking $16 from . H the oi the proprietor, who was H at the cash register. ' 1 Del tl vi 9 W .. Jones and Grant ) I Syphers left police headquarters In H car after the report had been re- H ceJ H Near th,- Intersection of Hudson H ami Twenty-seventh street H walking rapid!. hW They stopped tho car, got out and H confronted the men. asking who they H were and telling them they wore of- ml fleers. lfl PISTOL is DRAWN. Lewis Immediately Jammed a pistol agalnr.t the body of Detective Jones ami Saunders against that of Syphorj H with the command, "Stick 'em up!" Detective Syphers complied and was H backed toward the police car by Saun-i Saun-i dors. Saunders turned and saw De-lective De-lective Tones reaching for his pun I underneath his overcoat. Saunders HI promptly took a shot at Jones. Detective Jones dropped to the ground and the holdups, evidently be-i. be-i. ' ing that ho was hit. turned and -'fifl started to run. whereupon Detective '',!! Jon.s, having gotten his gun out, jumped to his feet and running after them emptied his pistol at them bo- M fore they disappeared In the dark- H ness ! FIRING BRINGS POLICE, 'th. firm? brought other officers from police headquarters about ha H a block away and a thorough search H was made of tho wet ground which H showed that both men had turned H and ran toward tho business section H Their descriptions had already boon telephoned by police headquarters to all patrolmen. Patrolman Gale be- ffi gun making a search of the hotels and rooming houses. As he was talk (Continued on Page Two) oo OGDEN COP IS HEROOF HOUR (Continued from Pace One) Ing to a man in tho hallway of the Arlington. Lewis walked past him. Gale called to him to stop. He darted dart-ed down the hall Instead and Into a room. Galo followed, flashlight In on hand and pistol in the other, demanding de-manding that Lewis open the door, which he refused to do. Gale then kicked In the door only to look into the muzzle of Lewis's gun. Flashing his light Into the ees of Lewis. Gale knocked the gun down and disarmed the man. Detective Jones In the meantime had been searching for Saunders and went Into the room Saunders had occupied. oc-cupied. He found tho gun that Saunders Saun-ders had shot at him with lying on the dresser as ff lis owner had escaped es-caped whllo reloading It. The window was open and below It footprints on the. roof and footprint;) In the soft mud on the ground b-.-low Detective Jones, still searching for Saunders, saw him enter the hotel later and accompanied by Detective R. H, Wootton and Police Chauffeur George Finn arrested him In the lobby of tho hotel. Later he took the shoes of Saunders Saun-ders and compared them with tho footprints which ho said they fitted perfectly. Detective Jones positively Identified both Levis and Saunders as the m n he and Detective Byphers had met t Hudson avenue and Twenty-seventh street and positively identified B&Un-ders B&Un-ders as the man that had shot at him. Mrs. J. L. Turner was later arrested by Police Chauffeur Finn at the hotel and Harry Lang and Harry Bates on Washington avenue between Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets by Detectives Jone3 and Byphers |