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FUGITIVE SHOT RUNS HIS AUTO INTO SUBWAY
SLEUTHS AS DOCKMEN SEIZE TELLER
Bankman's Getaway Is Escapes from Officer He Had Halted After Staging Tried To Kill. Holdup.
New York, March stolen its driver apparently wounded by one of three shots fired by pursuing patrolman, lungand rocked northward through Eight avenue, knocked down a man carrying an armful of bread, and blundered into fifteen-foot. subway excavation between Fortieth and Forty-first streets. The driver, tall, fat man, escaped. Eight hours later police of the West street station found an unconscious man at the foot of thirty-foot excavation at the northwest corner of Eighth avenue and Forty-second street. He was of medium height and weighed 135 pounds. The police said he was not the driver of the stolen At Bellevue, where he was taken, it found that he had fractured skull and internal injuries. He said to Joseph Romanoff, 35 years of age, of 305 West Fortieth street. was in Thirty-fifth street, near Eighth avenue, that Edward Spaeth of the West Thirtieth street station first saw the tall, fat man. He was acting suspiciously front of loft building, and Spaeth approached him. The man ran to parked car and attempted to run the patrolman, who leaped back to safety against railing above thirty-foot drop into the subway. The automoblie turned northward Eighth avenue, nearly dropped into the excavation couple times, and knocked down Samuel Herzog of 4,121 Third avenue, the Bronx, who was delivering an arm load of bread near Fortieth street. Herzog taken to Bellevue pital with bruised legs. Spaeth fired three times at the speeding At Fortieth street the automobile dodged milk wagon and plunged between two red the way cut. All of Spaeth's shots had taken effect. One had gone into the gasoline tank, one into the rumble seat, and the third struck the top. The bullet which hit the top apparently richocheted downward into the drivfor it could not found and there of blood on the was pool seat. The automobile had been stolen from Miss Ethel Kitt Liberty She had avenue, ported its loss headquarters before the chase in avenue.
New York, March men in working clothes mingled all day with the longshoremen hustling freight and baggage aboard the Cunard liner Berengaria at the foot of West Fourteenth street. They did not handle any crates or cases but spent their time scanning closely all came on the pier with suitcases and grips. Late in the afternoon smartly dressed man with his young suitcase labeled for second-class passage to Cherbourg came through the "That's him," said one of the men, and the three closed round the newcomer. "Mr. Bestnyo, isn't one asked and when the man with the suitcase admitted that was his name he was told by Detective the marine division and Captain Vaughn and Operative Larimore the William Burns International Detective Agency, the pseudo longshoremen, that he was under arrest and wanted by the police of South Bend, Ind., for embezzlement. At police headquarters, the detectives say, Bestnyo admitted his guilt and told an amazing story of how he had staged fake bank hold-up his defalcations and when the officials of the bank became suspicious and called in the state bank examiners he fled from the city. Bestnyo, whose first name George, came here from Hungary after the war, He got position in the Fodor State bank in South Bend and rose to be paying teller. According to the police he gambled and his accounts short $3,400. Then he arranged the fake hold-up. The bank's depositors, mostly Hungárians, caused on the bank and the institution closed temporarily and Judge Cyrus Patte appointed receiver. The bank examiners found that the shortage was less than $4,000 and that the bank was solvent, so it was reopened. The Burns agency notified and watch was set on all ships sailing for Europe.
