The New York Times/1918/11/11/Policeman Kills Hotel Thief
Policeman Kills Hotel Thief.
William Banks, a negro, 55 years old, of 234 West Sixty-first Street, who had been interrupted in a robbery at the Hotel Navarre yesterday afternoon and had fled to the roof of a house at 340 West Thirty-eighth Street, was shot and killed by Policeman Sabatella of the West Thirty-seventh Street Station. James Denham, captain of the hotel bellboys, caught Banks trying to get out of the Navarre with the stolen things and forced him to drop them. When Sabatella tried to follow the negro to the roof the latter jammed down the door and lay on it. The policeman fired at the door and the bullet went through it and into Banks' body.