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JJAILYmDNESpATk M4RCH. 22, 1979 ft 3 4 ftp? Guilts mme vmue to sue, 4 smtjm How subway crime dipped Felony Reports in the Subway: Before and After the Crackdown: Week of March 19 4 p.m. 2 a.m. to to 2 a.m. 4 p.m.

35 78 19 25 54 103 Week of March 12 4 p.m. 2 a.m. to to 2 a.m. 4 p.m. Complaints 76 73 Arrests 49 1 Total 125 136 improve subway security.

The details of this program fiave not been completed yet. The New York City police are covering 144 elevated or open-air stations between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a day-to day basis. ADOUt 50 to 68 laid-off transit cops wjII return to duty in two weeks, adding additional manpower to patrols.

Analyzing the crime figures, Garelik compared two weeks March 19 to 25. after the redeployment took place, with March 12 to 18, before the redeployment took place. Between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m., unsolved felony complaints dropped from 76 to 35, felony arrests dropped from 49 to 19 and total felonies reported dropped from 125 to 54. Between 2 a.m.

and 4 p.m., unsolved felony complaints rose slightly, from to 78, felony arrests dropped from 61 to 25 and total felonies reported dropped from 136 to 103. For a profit of a man to watch out for on thm subways, turn to Page 14 and read about Henry Weston, the latest subject in the Daily News' "Most Wanted" series. it was learned that city Police Department statistical experts have been asked by City Hall to evaluate Garelik's crime statistics and method of reporting. The embattled transit police chief-has been accused by some critics of juggling statistics to understate subway crime. Koch has hinted that he will ask for Garelik's resignation if he concludes that the public was deliberately misled.

Among other highlights of Garelik's report yesterday on the first week of the war on subway crime: The transit police fielded a maximum number oL. officers 1,123 on uniform patrol at 6 p.m. last Monday. By comparison, on a typical before the redeployment Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 8 a.m.

the department fielded only 491 cops. The overtime bill to the city for the first week of beefed-up coverage with most transit cops averaging a six-day week came to just under $500,000. A spokesman for the transit' police attributed the high figure to "startup costs" of the program. He predicted that weekly overtime would drop to $200,000 to $250,000. Overtime for city police guarding subway stations, which By NEAL HIRSCHFELD The large-scale redeployment of transit police last week cut the total of unsolved subway crimes by more than half during the peak period of 4 p.m.

to 2 a.m. But they rose slightly during the rest of the day when fewer cops were on duty, Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelik said yesterday. Crediting the increased presence of uniformed officers for the decline, Garelik told Mayor Koch "there is no 'evidence yet of any dramatic shift in crime to other hours." But the chief said transit cops will reinforce coverage during the off-peak 2 a.m. to 4 p.m. period.

Police evaluating reports One drawback, however, to the war on subway crime that began at 4 p.m. last Monday was a sharp reduction in felony arrests down 46.5 aitording to Garelik. Garelik said the decline resulted from the absence of decoy and plainclothes cops, all of whom have been put back into uniform as part of the city's effort to deter subway crime. In a related development yesterday, ran about $100,000 during the first week, was expected to rise, slightly in the coming weeks, however. Overtime for both forces will be paid from the mayor's $5.9 million package to combat subway crime.

In about a week, the -Transit Authority will start closing certain subway entrances in the continuing effort to tteeini i -2K' odh By DON GENTILE A 15-year-old tfirl will be prosecuted as an adult in the slaying; torture and drowning of a Madison Ave. building engineer, Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola said yesterday. 4 The girl, Rosa Howard, a sometime New Jersey Lottery Pick It: 668 Slraight Payoff: $418 Connecticut' Lottery Daily: 732 sr '-ys student in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman Intermediate School, could be the first female juvenile in New York state so charged. Rosa Howard and Abigail Vasquez. 19, were arrested Monday by 7th Homicide detectives as part of a gang suspected in the killing of Rudolph Ebanks.

54. Seven jnale youths are being sought. Police said that the girls had met the victim in a diner and accompanied him to his apartment at 1180 Anderson in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. After a while, apparently on a ruse of seeking angel dust, the girls left the door of Ebanks' apartment unlocked and a gang of seven armed toughs, aged about 19 to 22, rushed in to begin a of torture and terror that elided in Ebanks' death. "They kept him alive long enough to drown him," said Detective Sgt.

Vernon XJeberth. The youths played the stereo loudly to mask suspicious noise and drank the victim's liquor as they ransacked the place searching for money. In the end, the gang stole Ebanks' stereo and a small amount of cash, police said. Untouched were the victim's set of tools, worth $1,000, police said. "Tools are for someone who works, like Ebanks.

a hard-working guy," said Geberth. "No. for the bums who did this to him." Ebanks worked in a building at 72 Madison Ave. Detectives said he was separated from his wife. They have a daughter.

"Th3 girl will be treated as an adult," the district attorney said of Rosa Howard. Howard was arraigned last night in Bronx Criminal Court and held without bail until a hearing Friday. Vasquez is expected to be arraigned today. 1. JL Ntws photo by Carmin Donofrio Suspect Abigail Vasquez'(L) as she.

arrived for booking in Bronx yesterday. Bom tQ vhkme, children ofahe streets hue tolwte On the evening of March 12, a man named Rudolph Ebanks stopped into the luncheonette on the corner of 167th St. and Woodycrest in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. It was the kind of place where single men often eat dinners of omelets or bacon-and-tomato sandwiches and coffee that has waited in steel canisters all afternoon. It didn't even have a name.

PZTEs women and the man had known each other before that night. It appears to have been a simple chance encounter: an older man and two young women, meeting at the counter of a greasy spoon in a collapsing neighborhood on a mild evening. A small New York llision. One thing does seem certain: the women left with Ebanks. One of the women, according to police, named Abigail Vasquez.

She was 19, pretty, and lived at 1131 Ogden Ave. in the Bronx. The other young woman's name was Rosa Howard. She was the one who had come from Panama. And on that night she had traveled a long way from heir home in the city.

She lived at 50 Lenox Road, in Brooklyn. There was one other thing that was unusual about her. It might guarantee her a place in the criminal histories of this city. She was 15 years old. Ebanks and the two young women walked to 1180 Continued on pmg S3, cel.

1) Across the street, there were Durnt-oui Duuaings, and old brick walls collapsed into ruin. Yesterday, the luncheonette was closed; it did not seem the kind of place that anyone might have chosen for the last meal of a life. For Rudolph that's what it was on that earlier March night. EBANKS WAS EATING, around 8:30, on a eight that was mild with the soft winds of the false spring. Two young women came into the luncheonette.

Ebanks, who was 54, and born in Panama, looked at them, and went back to his meal. He finished his hamburger and was sipping a Coke, when one of the young women started to talk to him. There is, of course, no record of that conversation. Perhaps it was about sex or drugs, but it could have been about Panama, because one of the girls also Was from that country. And there is no certainty that th.