Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — FLEES DOWN A PHONE WIRE [ARTICLE]

FLEES DOWN A PHONE WIRE

But It Cuts His Hand and New York Policeman Cat<jhes the Fugitive. New York. —Three men alighted from an auto at One Hundred and Eleventh street and Lenox avenue at four o’clock yesterday afternoon and, leaving the chauffeur in the machine, entered the apartment house, 109 West One Hundred and Eleventh street. Soon a tenant phoned to the West One Hundred and Twenty-third street police station that three burglars were in the flat of John Gray on the third floor. When Patrolman Clinchy arrived the men had fled to the roof. Clinchy got there in time to see two go down the rear fire escape. The third man started to slide down on a telephone wire. The wire cut his hands so badly that at the seqond floor he swung himself through & window of Charles Levy’s flat. Clinchy followed, found him hiding behind a bed and arrested hifh. The prisoner described himself as James Regan, a chauffeur, of 214 West One Hundred and Fortieth street. His hands had to be dressed by a doctor. The other men fled In the machine.