WOMAN CAPTURES BANDIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

WOMAN CAPTURES BANDIT.

HUSBAND STABBED.

Mrs. Alice Weller, of the Bronx, New York, tackled an alleged hold-up man, armed with a knife, and then held him until Patrolman Morris H. Glcnnon came to her assistance and took the man prisoner. The incident occurred on East Fourteenth Street, near the Lexington Avenue subway station, after the man had stabbed her husband.

The prisoner gave bis nam© as Raymond Partello, twenty years old, a Spanish sailor living at "the Sailors' Home. According to the story told in Court, Mrs. Weller and her husband, who is paymaster of an electrical company, were travelling in the subway, when the latter became ill. They left the tram at the Fourteenth Street station, and Weller went into the washroom while his wife waited on the platform. While in the washroom, if u alleged, Partello drew a knife and ordered Weller to put'up his hands, or ho would be killed. The latter,, despite his sickness, nut up a fight and was stabbed in, the neck. Partello then rushed on the platform, with Weller after him. As soon as Mrs. Weller saw the wound on her husband she started the chaso after Raymond

Her husband called after her: "Look out. Alice. He's got a knife. Keep away!"

Undaunted, Mrs. Weller followed the Spaniard up the stairs, overlook him on the street and then grappled with him. She hold him until the policeman arrived.