The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 2

ANDIT IS SHOT DEAD BY DYING POLICE LIEUTENANT HORTO fan Fred Bennkler of the Beach Btreet station saw a touring car in front of the gurage, No. 36 Beach Street, which Is about 200 feet from the police station. The number on the car—077,832—correspomded with that taken by Lieut. Floyd Horton, as he lay gasping out his life in the = fer on Broadway near 146th St The number had been sent out in a general alarm. The car was a dark Blue Reo and when examined bullet holes were found in the curtains, On the rear floor were deep splotches of | OWNER COMES TO CLAIM THE CAR. Detectives James J, Collins and Tony Fater kept wateh over the ear And at 8.45 o'clock saw a small, dark man approwh the machine. He started to get in when the detectives grabbed him. He suid the machine was his property. He gave the name of Nicholas Learsh, He was placed ‘under arrest. About 6 o'clock this morning Michael Laarsh, who lives on the third floor of No. 289 Wost 142d Street, and who ds employed as « driver for a morning ‘newspaper, returned from work. In the haif-dark hallway on the second floor he stumbled over the body of a man. On examination he found that the body was that of his brother Joseph. He immediately notified a policeman and an ambulance was summoned from Harlem Hospital, The ambulance surgeon said that the man had been dead for fully two hours. According to the story told by the potion, che two brothers with Lilliay Emma Brooks went out last evening in the touring car, PRISONER'S BROTHER KILLED THE LIEUTENANT. ‘fhe police say that Nicholas Learsh, owner and driver of the murder car, eonfesged that about midnight they | | into it, and at the sume instant Mor- decided to visit the apartment house No, 540 West 146th Street, where one of the party said they could make a/ good haul. When Lieut. Horton ha ap | pened along they tried to make thelr! escape. When the Lieutenant jumped on the running board Joseph Learsh, | according to the police, pulled a -re- volver and shot the officer, After the killing It was found that | Joseph Learsh was shot and the| machine ran down Broadway and turned into West 142d Street to the/ home of Michael Learsh, another brother. Finding that Joseph was dead, Nicholas curried his body up to the second floor landing and left it there. After driving the Brooks woman fkome Learsh took the car to the Beach Street garage. Joseph Learsh Was married and! Nivea with his wife and one child at| . No, 303 Sixth Street, Brooklyn. Nich. olas Learsh lives with his brother Michael in West 142¢ Street. Joseph and Nicholas were chauffeurs and when not working lung around the neighborhood of Amsterdam Avenue and West 146th Street, near where the Brooks girl resided, until yester- "day. After the arrest of Nicholas Learsh, he was taken in the murder car, @ band pushed side J, lumbus Hospital, where ho die 245 A.M. In the meantime the police \POLICE LIEUTENANT KILLED BY BANDIT IN REVOLVER DUEL} | UTEUT FLOYD HORTON deen Apartments, No, 540 146th Street. HE JUMPS ON THE MURDER) CAR. ‘Then the Lieutenant noticed & touring car, curtains drawn and en- gine running, standing near by. The man with the gun ran and jumped ton jumped on the running board, ordered the drive to halt, sald he was 4 police off und drew his revolver, He saw a woman on the front seat with the driver, and as well 4s he could muke out there were three men inside. As the car leaped into Broadway ide the curtain, thrust out a revolver and fired & |ullet into Horton's chest. Horton emp was firing the six shots the bandits fired five or six at him, all except the first going wild, nd his revolver, and while he Horton fell to the street, but wrote jdown the number that was on the bandits’ machine. He then struggled to his feet and managed to get in- Gruner’s restaurant at Broad-|since Fifth Deputy Police Commis- | way and 146th Street before he col- lapsed. | Several of the robbers’ balets nad Jentered the restaurant, through the windo: One passed between the heads of Herman © Street and Dan Levy, No. 610 West 162d 8 glass from the window. and lodged in the counter. ves, No. 515 West 177th wet, Both were cut by broken Lieut. Horton was taken to the driven bv a detective, tothe Polico| 4d got the story of what happened Btation at 162d Street and Amster- | dam Ayenue, to which Lieut. Horto! was attached, ‘The story of Lieut, Floyd Horton's | fight with the gunmen, which result- |“ ed in’his death, is deserving of being ehronicicd in the police book of fam With utter disregard tor bis own life, and in keeping with his & record, the plucky officer exchanged | 1 Sat @bot for shot with the gunmen, as he elung ‘enaciously to the fast running assault at the Aberdeen when Horton came {UPON the retreating bandit. Josep Learsh, whose bullet killed \the Lieutenant, is on the polles ree- C ieholas Carroll. On Des, he was arrested charged wita ny, bul was discharged by Appleton, On Feb, 8, 194%, sted charged with y and was sault fiseharged by 25, 1915, hie a charge of robbery and was an. and touring car and éven as be lay gnsp- | teuced to the Ne Keformatory, | ing for life in the gutter his efficiency as a policeman was demonstrated | when he scribbled down the number | , @f tho retreating machine, It was | * this act that furnished the clue to th Mentity of Lhe ca, owner and resulted | in the subsequent arrest. “VE GOT THE NUMBER, GASPED. Well liked by all bis associa! regard by Patrolmen Mrancis Rico and | James Wall of the West 152d Stret Station, who looked upon him as their wentor. Rice amd Wall were return- mg from duty to the station house when « man ran up and told them a man bad been shot and was in the restaurant at 146th Street and Lroad- way. Rice telephoned for an ambu- fance while Wall dashed into the res- taurant. Wall almos, collapsed from the shock when he recognized the Lieutenant in the dying man lying on the floor, Wall was raising Lieut. Horton's head, avking if he reoog- ized him when some one in the res taurant said “Why don’t you cut that business out and go and try t get the num- ber of the band! automobile * Lieut. Horton raised bimuelf and an- swered: “Never mind, I've got the number,* he gasped. Rice by this time had joined Wall in the restaurant, and without waiting for the ambulance they commandeered @n automobile and took Lieut, Horton to the hospital, remaining with him until he died Leut. Horton, formerly one of In epector “Honest Dan’ Costigan's most trusted und efficient alds, in citizen's ¢lothes, had left the West 102d Street Mation about midnight on his way to his heme, No. 1151 Gist Street, Brook- Wyn. He was walkins through 345th Twhen he hee-t a shot and saw revolver in his hand moar fie Ms | dent. Horton was held in particular | GENERAL SESSIONS. JUDGES DENOUNCE WAVE OF CRIME (Continued From First Page.) of Inte because it saves work for the District Attorney's staff and saves the trouble of 4 triul, But now it is to stopped The two judges’ agreed that the criminal clement bas challenged the iviligation of New York and de- clared that posses should be organ- | |ized to lie in wait for the crooks and get ther ‘Highway robbery,” said Judge salsky, “should be punishable by ‘eo imprisonment. Every man who is t into this court accuand of crime Violence hereafter must plead guilty as charged or go to trial, In these days, when so many serious crimes are being committed, 1 will not accept pleas, My judgement ia that the criminals now infesting Now York are directly challenging the ww abid- ing citizens and the courts. We have got to bring bear the power of justice and let these crooks know they cannot run riet here as they are new doing “The only way to cur the crim- inal fe a to organize a posse of me sort and lie in wait for them and get them. Let ue blot them out of society, put them behind bars for | the longest time possible, Highway robbery is potential murder, and should be punished By imprisonment for life GETS TWENTY YEARS FOR | | Sophia and | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920. Enright Makes Big Catch—Finds | TwoCops sTalking Denounces Cily Hall Sentries Who | Exchanged Pleasantries Beneath Mayor's Window, Police Commissioner Enright made} @ great catch this morning, Was it] jthe perpetrator of the Wall Street | | outrage that resulted In the death of thirty-six persons? It was not, Was it the gang of bandits that murdered @ Fifth Avenue jeweller |yosterday and got away with $60,000? It was not. Police Commissioner Enright caught two patrolmen in CONVERSATION! ! It happened right beneath the, win- dows of Mayor Hylan's office in the jcity Hall, While the Mayor is in| his office patrolmen do sentry, duty} around the building. They have every | Appearance of being selected men, for they have been repeatedly compli- mented upon their attention to duty. Shortly after 9 o'clock Commis- sioner Enright approached the rear entrance to City Hall just as two of | the police sentries met at the Junction | pf their posts at the northwest corner f bf the building, An eyew!ltness says one of the cops saluted the other and | the salute wag returned. ‘Then began]! an exchange of pleasantriés between the two men which was sudden.y in- | terrupted by the appearance of Com- | missioner Enright. There was a scowl on his face as he approached his! |subordinates. It changed to great} anger a he addressed them, shaking | his finger under their noses as he de- nounced them. The Commissioner's complaint was | quite audible to persons nearby, He} told his men that in indulging in | wersution while on duty they had| grossly violated discipline and that he wasn't going to stand for it, ‘The censured cops stood at “attention” and made no reply. Having fully expressed himself the Police Commissioner took out a pen-| cil and @maper and wrote burriedly, whereupon he hurried into the office | of Mayor Hylan. There he was in| conference for eeveral hours, Inas- | much as neither Mayor Hylan nor the Police Commissioner would dis- cuss to-day's meeting, which is one of a series that has been in progress aloner O'Grady resigned, it could not be learned whether Commissioner Enright had been coplimented by the Mayor on this morning's great cateh. old, who said he lived at a lodging house ut No. 150 Park Row, was brought for sente 1 conviction of highway robber: He got twenty years, In sentencing him the Court sald “] am sorry that 1 camnot give you twice that sentence, New York is suf- fering now from an avalanche of out- of-town crooks, men like you, devoid of human sympathy, ‘The men who are committing these crimes are not New Yorkers. This city is a magnet for all the crooks of the universe, it| appears. You are a specimen of the robbers running amuck in this city. You come here from out of town, live in Bowery lodging houses, sleep all day and go out at night in aearch of your prey. ‘The courts will have no con- sideration for men of your kind. There ls no use dilly with men caught red handed as you were.” On Oct. 19 Vassar held, up Guetano LaBaur, confectiober, at No. 69 Main 3 Brocklyn, at Stanton Street and the Bowery, knocked him down with a revolver when he showed fight und rotbed him of a wateh and $2 Vv r wus ceptured a few minutes the Centre Street Court this morning Salvatore di Martini, No. 29 Hast Kroadway, was held in $10,000 by Magistrate Simms on a of highway robbery. It is dhe held up the proprictor 4 guests of Chin: Quay's Chinese taurant at No, 14 ery early mornin, {tiny and some Chinese money, He was arrested by Walter G. Martin of the Hlizwbet) Street Station OPINION OF POLICE OFFICIAL ON CRIME INCREASE. A Nigh police official at Police Head quarters gave the following opinion regarding the causes for the increase im erime "Whit can you expect? A number of Unleves and crooks are arrested bry the pol y have to pay yer and a bondeman to be Feloased on bail. When they are released they have ne money and they start on an other cruninal carver to mtise money to my the Inwyer and bondsman, The epidemic of sufe burglaries 18 only of recent date, “Eight or nine good wife burglars we ught by the police, but for some reason they hive not n brought to trial. Most of th lber- ated on bail and th will have the trouble of watching therm and thelr work all over again, sim- “© criminals are not speedily brought to tral and sent to prison where they belong.” a KING SAILS FOR GREECE. VENICE, Dec. 17 (Axsoctated Press). — King Constantine, Queen eck officals sailed from Venice yesterday on poand the Greek cruiser Averoff for Phaleron A steamer carrying the newspaper correspondents and Greek officials left immediaivly before the Averof sailed, There was no excitement along the HIGHWAY ROBBERY, Before Judge McIntyre this m os meorge Vasoas, twenty-lwe »¥ < aha laa HORTON, GALLANT OFFICER, WAS EXILED BY ENRIGHT ‘HORATI SEYMOUR, EDITORIAL WRITER OF THE WORLD, DES for only 1 ploe Katz, twenty-three, of No. 104 | , Brooklyn, was pursued te gi of an apartment house at McKibeen Street, | to-day and arrested by yatrolr Coulter of th early | Brave - Fearless L uae says, she saw Katz trying to; apartment of Samuel Dunn, Dunn's home 0 in cash and jew- | jon the fourth oor, robbed of about §1 | elry about a w The police saig Katz confessed to the | previous robbe ‘The tenacious devotion to duty and | inborn police ability of Lieut. Floyd Horton resulted in the capture of the men and woman responsible for the r . 540 West 146th Street r of the officer. Mortally wounded and lying onthe | Horton accurately took: ]]] the number of the machine that bore | Gasping for life he atfempt to get into Special ets | Two Days of Pectoris—Sixty-Six awuy his slayer. gave the nunmer to policemen. Years Old. | number sent broadeast over the city, resulted in the identification of the car and the subsequent arrest of its years old, a vete an newspaper: | man and for many years an editorial Lieut, Horton wis appointed to the | wigiar on The World, died at 2 Commissioner | He served with distinction under six other commissioners in: ithis afternoon at his home, No.@530/ . confidential | West End Avenue. Mr. Seymour v klegant Louis XIV. 11-Piece Solid “French White Ivory,”’ best quality. Special price (Mail Orders Filled) Mme. 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SPECIAL AT Te is convertible, In vain the two officers sought a mutual ex: change of detail, although this is customary in the department. formerly a mposing stick for the local room of a newspaper office, “$16.50 |, $9.75 to $350 lle became city and telegraph editor Bags, and innumerable beau- tiful gifts can be bought here at money-saving prices 175 BROADWAY 2ND FLOOR at Cortlandt St with the paper in that cwpacity and that of night editor tll 1883. Seymour was editorial writer, and gambling promotion to a cleaning up poolrc laces resulted tn i (Genre? aving that publica come wdilor and pubd- of the Chicago Chronicle. positions until 1907 and in » following year was made edito- and editorial tom in 1895 to by Commissioner, staff of Inspector : | with, Captain . Louis Republic from | . as his right * he had been a writer on The New York World. went to Com- 's office to-day When reporte: from LEVINE are much lower in cost than is com- mensurate with the quality “My dear, you're not the only one. everybody says the same nice thin, » a8 Police Com- Lieutenant Horton served, wna greatly affected MeAdoo add: “Tam shocked at the tragic death 1 knew him welt for his work on the Vice Squad. | was well efucated, highly intelligent -\and absolutely incorruptible, “His acxions in the tragedy that From $75 Up Ancre Cheese.” waterfront. | te mm) CHRISTMAS ANOPPRRS bi Should fortify themssives nat colds lawlesmnesa and crime he never hesi- Heike! dabu't dedidne” Hein wnder, kane tated to tule " te has ads, fod arenas LASERS NN brought about his death were char- lacterintic of him. Wherever ha naw N. J. J. 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