Two Alleged Gangsters Trapped by Cops in Harleigh Cemetery

Two Alleged Gangsters Trapped by Cops in Harleigh Cemetery BANDITS ROUTED BY CAMDEN GROCER Four Held for Grand Jury in Drive to Curb Crime Trapped by police in Harleigh Cemetery, two alleged gangsters were arraigned in police court today and held without bail for the Grand Jury when they pleaded not guilty to carrying concealed deadly weapons. Arrest of the pair marked a weekend in which two bandits were routed in a battle with a South Camden grocer and two other suspects were arrested on charges of carrying concealed deadly weapons. One of the latter was nabbed by police in the automobile of Dr. Charles Ley, police surgeon, 20 minutes after the car was reported stolen early Sunday morning. According to Detective Sylvester McGrath who signed the formal complaints against the two alleged gangsters caught in the cemetery, both are out on parole from prison in Pennsylvania. The pair gave their names and addresses as Michael Quinn, 22, of 856 Craney street, and Harry Schwartz, 27, of 608 Cantrell street, both of Philadelphia. They were represented in court today by Walter S. Keown. According to Motorcycle Policeman Nate Wine, he arrested Murray near Broadway and Federal street Saturday night after customers in a nearby store told him the man was carrying a gun. The policeman said Murray threw away six bullets before he was captured. Guns Found A sawed-off shotgun, a .38-calibre revolver and several boxes of shells were found by the police in Harleigh Cemetery a short distance from where they captured the other two suspects. The suspects were alleged to have fled into the cemetery when their automobile hit a pole at Lansdowne and Princess avenues, but they told the police after their arrest that they were in the cemetery "to keep a date with two girls." They denied knowledge of the guns. Shortly before noon yesterday police were notified of an automobile crash. Their informant said two men had jumped from the car, one carrying a carpetbag, and dashed in the direction of Collingswood. Patrolman Howard Bean and George Schuyler went to the scene in a bandit chaser car. They followed the general direction taken by the men and were informed by several pedestrians they had entered Harleigh cemetery. The patrolmen started to make a search of the cemetery and saw two men standing beside a tree. They fled. Admit to Jail Sentences In the meantime Motorcycle Policeman George Smith, of the Collingswood police, joined in the chase and helped trap the men as they were about to climb a fence. They were arrested on suspicion and placed in a cell. Questioned by Detective McGrath, the men admitted to having served time in jail but would not disclose the reason. According to Philadelphia police records Schwartz was sentenced to from three to ten years in jail after his arrest on April 4, 1927, for forcing his way into a Pennsylvania railroad gasoline station and was released on parole, Nov. 4, of this year. The records also show Quinn was sent to a reformatory in 1917 for removing fixtures from a vacant house, again in 1924 on suspicion of arson. He was put on probation for larceny of an automobile. He was twice found not guilty on the same charge in 1925 but later the same year was sentenced to from five to ten years in jail for larceny of an automobile. He is still on parole from that sentence, according to police records. In September of this year Quinn was found not guilty of stealing an automobile in Philadelphia. Harry Yates, an employee of the cemetery, found the shotgun and revolver, as well as the carpetbag which proved to be empty, near where the police first saw the men. The automobile figuring in the crash was a sedan, that had been reported to police as stolen on October 31, from Broad and Buttonwood streets, Philadelphia. It is the property of the Guy A. Willey Motor Company, 415 North Broad street, Philadelphia. Two bandits held up and attempted to rob Bronislaw Zemba, who operates a small grocery store at 160 Norris street. When the grocer grabbed a knife and attempted to chase the bandits they fired their gun at him and then fled. One bullet pierced a window directly over the head of the grocer. The men jumped into a waiting automobile and escaped. Zemba, however, noticed the license number of the car and reported to police. Several hours later Detective Joseph Carpani located the automobile on Mt. Ephraim avenue, opposite Evergreen Cemetery. The tags on the automobile were those of Arthur Quigley, 2014 Broadway, while the car had been stolen from Herman Natal, 1254½ Kaighn avenue. Carpani found two revolvers, both a .38-calibre and the other .38, and a sawed-off shotgun under the front seat of the car. Arrested in the automobile of Charles Ley, police surgeon, 20 minutes after the car was reported stolen, Stanley Sheldon, 23, of 1621 Olympia road, pleaded guilty in police court today to charges of stealing an automobile and carrying concealed deadly weapons. Policeman Anthony Melloch testified that he found a pair of brass knuckles on Sheldon when he arrested the man in Dr. Ley's car at 1:20 a. m. yesterday. The car was reported stolen at 1 a. m. from Seventh and Federal streets while Dr. Ley was eating at a restaurant nearby. Melloch found it at Mt. Ephraim and Kaighn avenues. Sheldon was held without bail for the grand jury. Brass knuckles are "deadly weapons," according to the law.