The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 6

* {gsued and the apparatus hurried to Latest Bronx News "FAITHFUL JOHN,’81 )POLICE PUZZLED FLIRTS WITH DEATH | BY A TRIG ROBBING INLUMBER BLAZE} PHONE COIN BOXES Aged Watchman Saves Plant} Use a Jimmy Like a Wheel With Only Puny Gar- Puller and Have Es- den Hose. caped Detection. Bighteen years of faith and trust Despite a dozen different ingen fm the character of John Thamer hy] traps NX police are sull without his employers, the Larkin Lumber] clue to the band that has for the post Compnay, of White Plains Road and] five weeks been robbing telephone evin Gleason Avenue, the Bronx, were vin-] boxes in the upper section of that @icated last night when, true to the} borough sobriquet vf “Faithful John” fastened | have been made on him long ago, the aged watchman In the past week the band has risked injury and possible deavh to] operated in the east Fordham section Over a hundred compliint fight a fire which threatened at one/The definess with which the thefts time to destroy the $100,000 lumber] are accomplished and the markings on plant. the telephone machines after 1 Confronted with choice of disro-|tiefts are discovered have convinced garding his own personal safety Or} the police committing what his code held a breach of trust, Tha one, met the test unhesit that three men tees the band. That they have p + some new type of jimmy, somewhat after Armed with a slender hose} the fashion of a wheel puller, is the] ° from which a puny streact of y opinion of some detectives assigned te issued, Thamer entered th Tae two-story building, ust as ¢ place for valuable lum In most cases where the rohberic and checked the flames from spread-|are effected the police found the job ing to thousands of feet of lumber} jaa peon stored nearby. Thamer, wh Southern Loule his rounds ss ing back tc the storige , in one corner of which is an office, he found the place in flames. The office was ablaze and filled with smoke, but Thamer groped his way to the telephone and told the op- erator to call the fire apparatus. He then left the office apd attached his small hose to a faucet outside the building. Then he went back into the office and fought the flames as best he could. The telephone operator notified Bronx Police Headqu titers, but in the mean time the fire had been seen by passersby who sounded an alarm from the box at Tremont and West~- chester Avenues, a distaace away, The apparatus responded to e alarm before the location of the blaze w.s phoned by the operator at Police Headquarters. New directions were accomplished by virtually 2039 lives at N the lumber plant. Firemen found Thamer still manning his hoseline, while the flames had spread to a storeroom. They had been materially checked, however, and the firemen, under Acting Deputy Chief Charles White, soon had the munder control. Damage to the building and part of the lumber jn the storage room wus estimated a $30,000, —_——_-- SHANLEY, IN AUTO CRASH, IS SLIGHTLY INJURED Windshield of Machine Smashed, rant Owner Is ¢ Show with glass from the broken windshield when his automobile struck the rear of an automobile repair truck, while proceeding north on Pelham Road. near Split Rock Road, the Bronx, es this morning, Peter Shanley, fft proprietor of Shanley's restourant at 424 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y., Feceived lacerations of the lip, Patrol- summoned Dr. Jacobs from Hospital. Shanley, howeve medical attention and cor home. ued on ‘The repair truck, which wax ais0 pro- ceeding north, was operated by Everard Page of Bay Street, City Island. EE GIRL GETS $20,000 FOR FALL DOWN STAIRS After being ‘out t twenty minutes abjury before Justice Whitaker in the Supreme Court, Bronx, yesterday brought in a Verdict for $20,000 In favor of Rose Ms Bhafrey, sixteen, of No. ie models. e Avenue. ‘The girl we the house at No. 214 Btreet, owned by B 1 Drucker, anc fell down a flight of stairs April 14, 1921, oS a salle 1,200 TO DINE IN GARDEN. Distinguished Speakers and Guests Mark Merchants’ Anulversury. Twelve hundred n will gather fm Madison Square Garden to the twenty-fifth anniversary cele of the Merchants’ Association 0} York. Many thousunds more will lis- ten fn on the radio broadcast whily Gen. Pershing and other distinguished men address the mee Gov.-elect Smith Copeland have ae Harry A. Wheeler of C E. Plerson of the | Bank, who will preside. cial guests, chosen selentifie ix spe wause of their nlty, will i GIRL SENT TO TRAIN IS LOST Fails to Arrive Here From Ossining mand Mether Seeks Police Aid. Mme. 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