BATTLE IN A FLAT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 8

BATTLE IN A FLAT.

RESULT OF A NEW YORE POLICE ;......■ ... RAID. '■.. •:••■'.■. A pitched battle took place.on November 18 in the -Hotel' Elsmero, one of tho smaller hotels of-Harlem, New. York, frequented by foreigners, -when:detectives attempted to arrest'a'man named Henry Vogel and his wife for jewellery thefts:. In the battle Vogel and his. wife were killed as were two detectives, while three other men were very 'seriously wounded. The detection of. Vogel ,came about through the arrest of a Timid servant in one of the fashionable Now York hotels on a charge of stealing diamond rings from one of. the guests'at the nouse. Upon her arrest 6ho confessed that she had stolen the jewellery, .but it was not for herself. She 'was acting for tho man Vogel, who had formerly been a-chef-in. some of the principal hotels m New York and in other, cities. 'The.servant stated that Vogel, who had great povrer over his victims, had made a practice of training girls who •'we're domestic servants in the hotels in which ho Berved to steal for him. He instructed them that the best ! time to tako. jewellery was just before dinner, .when, the guostsi woro preparing to dress. 'Vogel had, she said,, ladies' 'maids]; also ! ih',his employ; ; who acted in concert with the'ehambernmids. Though several susp"e'ct's wero arrestkl no- j thing was proved against them, and.in no I cbbo until tho present was inilorma-.i tion givon against,-tho-.'chef himself. Acting on this information four detectives went at, a late; .hour to the Hotel Elsmere, and, rousing tho manager, Louis Mondschoinv' went to the room wherb Vogel and his .wife 1 weftv steeping. Hoping to Burprise them Mohdscheitu knocked at their door, saying he.wishcd to see Vogel for a moment,'but the mttn, evidently suspecting trouble,/refused to come outi and thoso outside jEo'uld hear him and his wife moving fufijituro'about to bari- • cado the door.; The i'dctectives attempted to break the door in.V but the couplo were both, armed and limm'Sdiately began firing ,upon the attackers.' -The detectives 'responded, and for some time there,was a rapid excharigo, of bullets, which awakened tho rest of,,the.guests. , An excited throng gathered inside and outsido the hotel. •' Dotoctivos Callon and Fay wero killed; nnd when the'.'shattered door-was finally burst open after the/shooting had ceased both Vogel and his: .wife wero found lying dead on tho floor with three revolvers boside them. The'othcr two detectives and Mondscheim, the hotel manager, were shot and had tobo taken to the hospital. Other officers/on" searching the trunks of tho Vogels, found thousands of gems, most of which had been torn from their settings. The value' of tho booty riuiß into thousands of pounds. It was expected that other stolen jeweller would bo found in safe deposits. It .was known that Vogel had been accumulating these valuables for tho past five or six years.'