At the time of the crime there was
$1,000 in cash and ?1,760 in bonds in
the office and the coroner finds that
the two men planned to rob the of
fice. He also declares Strank was
custodian and part owner of the val
uables.
TWO HEN ARE
BADLY HURT IN
SHOOTIM AFFRAY
One, Assailant Fractured
Skull Plunging Through
Window.'
Hoboken, N. J., Jan. 24 One man
was shot four times and another sus
tained a fractured skull in plunging
through a window during a shooting
fray in a hallway of a water front
house near the army debarkation
piers here early today. Emil Lailge,
42 years old, a restaurant proprietor,
who was wounded, and William Sie
gel, 36 years old, are in a hospifc..
Jersey City. The condition of both is
serious.
According to the police a crowd of
gangsters had planned to hold up
members of a club on an upper floor
of the building but were discovered
in the hallway and the shooting be
gan. The restaurant proprietor rush
ed into the hallway and was shot
four times.
Thomas Brennan, of this city, was
arrested on suspicion of being con
cerned in the shooting. George Mc
Carthy, John Portizio, both of Jersey
City, and Eugene Lange, a nephew
of the wounded man, were detained
as witnesses.
GIRL HAS NOT
SPOKEN SINGE
HE WAS FOUND
Local authorities are now puzzled
over the identity of an unknown girl
who was found in a hysterical condi
tion in Beardsley park about 6:30
o'clock last night, and who, since her
admittance to the Bridgeport hospital
has refused to utter a single word.
