Several Places Entered and
N umerous .Depredations
Reported.
2 ARRESTS ,ARE MADE
Florist's Safe Skilfully j
Tried Open art*! $1,100
Taken A waft.
LAINDUYMAN IS HELD
Accused by Girls, Tot Lee Is.
Saved From Angered Group
of Residents.
outburst of crime In which two
men were killed, a sa.fe robbed, sea-oral
storekeepers relieved of their receipts
and numerous other depredations com
mitted kept detectives on the jump
j-e.sterday.
Two arrests in the more important
crimes were made during the day.
Abe Ward, manager of a Hungarian
restaurant, was formally placed under
arrest, charged with the murdc-r of
John Coffey, a former policeman, after
he had been questioned for several
hours at the East Sixty-seventh street
police station. It is alleged that he
contradicted himself several times.
Katherine Farrell, a waitress In the
place where the murder is pjleged to
have taken place, was held as a ma
terial witness.
The cracking of a safe with $1,100 in
cash in It became known when Detec
tives Golding and Foley last night
brought Into the West Sixty-eighth
street station George Divine, who said
he was 24 years old, a laborer, of 203
West Sixty-seventh street. The de
tectives held Divine on suspicion of
Implication in the unusually skilful
and carefully planned safe robbery.
The victim of the theft was the firm
of David Clark's Son, florist, of 2141
Eroadway. Thieves on Easter night
entered the shop, at the northwest cor
ner of Seventy-flftii street, by going
through the sen-ice entrance of an
apartment building, opening the florist's
sioreroom with a key and hoisting them
selves in a dumbwaiter into the shop.
