DICE GAME HOLD UP

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1929, Page 11

DICE GAME HOLD UP

RUNNING FIGHT WITH GUNMEN.’ Patrolman John A. Henly, jun., of the Elizabeth Street station, New York, was strolling.- west of First Street between First and Second Avenues one cven.ug when he was attracted by the muffled sounds of a pistol fusillade. Breaking into a run, he saw three men emerge from. an areaway a few feet ahead of him at 68, First Street. All three dash-, ed down tho street, one of them dropping a pistol into his coat pocket as ho ran. •Henly shouted,. ‘Tut ’em up!” The man with the gun turned arid fired twice. He missed both times. Henly fired a shot in the air, then raced after the gunman. By the time he had'reached .the corner of First Avenue the gunman’s friends had disappeared, Henly’a pistol was empty, and Louis of 5714, Seventy-fourth Street, Maspeth, p.L, one of hundreds of spectators, lay on the sidewalk with a flesh wound in the hip, while his wife and children screamed. '■ In th 6 meantime Patrolman Abe Sblonion entered the, areaway. from which the gunmen had emerged, ran to a back courtyard, found over a dollar in silver scattered about, a diet? cube, an empty pistol and the inert form- of Morris Roth, 30 years old, of 2578,, Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn. He had so many bullets, in his brain that the police were-unable to count them. < As he was rounding up witnesses who told .of a. dice game interrupted by four hold-up men, Henly dragged in a man who later described himself as John Paresi, 24 years old, of 58, Catherine Street. Henly had found him in a doorway near the corner of Houston Street and First Avenue. The policeman said he was tho man who’had fled pocketing a gun and who had fired at him when he gave chase. • Paresi would supply little information, but from what he said and- the an- ' swers of others questioned the conclude that ft dice game, in which 25 * persons were engaged, had been ‘ helpup; that Roth had been killed when he objected to the interruption, and that Paresi’s companions bad escaped with the money. . >/ . J-A’