The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-16
CHECK RAISED BY TURNING.
HOW HERTzOFSKT cor HOLD OF
sHAPPEIRoSS PROPERTY.

ssappsirsss Check was 30 ana Caiiea rSr
= watch ana Money - Wertrohskys Was
80, bet Csnea rsr AsthinE - &c rpside
psvn Reads so-nevtssfsky Toek the naint.
Morris Hertzofsky, an cast side cloakmaker
living at 300 Broome street, was put on trial
yesterday In Part II. Of General Sessions be-
fore Judge Cowing charged with grand lar
eeny. It was alleged that HeTtzofsky, BY
means Of trick and device. had robbed Isaac
shappiero Of q gold watch valued at $3.50 and
s27 in cash. Shappiero lives at 251 Monroe
street. According to the story told by the wit
nesses, HeFtxofsky followed Shappiero to q
bathing establishment at Coriears Hook and
there concocted q scheme By which he was en-
abled to get possession of Shappiero's watch
and money.
The story in detail is that on Aug. Is shap-
piero went to James Eagan's bath and paid 10
cents for permission TO have a swim. He
checked his valunbles with the bath proprietor.
getting as . receipt q brass check on which was
stamped the number SO. HertzofsSy, it was
claimed, noticed the number Of Shappiero's
check, and pretending that he wanted to take
q bath. asked Proprietor Eagan to give him .
check for q pocketbook containing $1.23 and
some pawn tickets When Easan produced
the check for Hertzotsky's property. Hertzof-
sky said that he would like TO have a differ
ent number.
I've always been lucky with number sixty
eight said Hertzofsky. cant you give me
that numberf'
Why, certainly replied Eagan, handing
over q brass check numbered 90.
IL was alleged on the trial that Hertzofsky.
instenc OF going in bathing. returned to the
office Of the bathhouse, and turning his check
upside down. so that it looked like No. 50, de-
ceived the bathhouse proprietor and obtained
Shappiero's property. The first witness was
the bathhouse keeper. who testified that short
" after Shappiero visited his establishment
and checked his valuables under check SO.
Hertzufsky came along and sot Shapptero1s
property by producing check 90. which he
turned upside down, so that is looked Ike
check SO. EaSan said that after his mistake
was discovered and Shappieru had raised a big
! row over the matter he, Easan, called q police
man. and all hands went 10 the station house.
There the Sergeant decided chat some OF Shap-
| pieru's friends had worked a ~1tim-tam'' game.
So the Sergeant detailed q detective on the
case. The detective vent to me banning es e
pocketbook containing SI-23. and pawn tickets
belongins to the defendant, HeTtz9tsky
was the next witness. He testified that re
took the pawn tickets found in the old pocket
UISx 1 Names se they Bore. Re learned from them
that the defendant was the man who had
pAwnej the goods described upon the DAWN
Joseph johnson. who saw Eagan deliver
Shappiero's property to fhe STRANGER az me
stranger. This completed the case for the
HertrotsEy. In his own behalf. admitted that
the old pocketDook and its contents, were his
property. but declared that he had lost them
on the day the him-tam game was worxsd:
probably had worked the game.
Assistant District Attorney MitShet cToss,
examined Hertzofsky. NJ. Mitchell ASKED me
Are you in the habit OF visiting bathing es-
why" said NJ. Mitchell. isn't it a fact
that you never took a batn IN your Hef
1T Is" said the witness.
The defendRn. called i've witnesses. all OF
whom were women; for the purpose OF prov.
Of the aim.tIam game Hsrtzotsky was in = reat
yard on Mangin street from 4 O'Clock IN the
afternoon until 10 At night
PENDANT, said that on that day her husband
bad visited her three times ut the Mount sinai
the afternoon he called upon her every hour
from 3 o'clock until b.
said he was a wholesale butcher, doing bust
ness on the east side; Il an a character Wy
a ae4s:, v ssia II I Know >. s a5oa5 Me- fshf Hs aszs * sSi
know him plenty, Ind moro besides. AL DEL
money in der world could not buy him to DC
something what vas not right 20 do
In giving hs testimony the character wit
ness held his hands above his head. and turn
ing 70 judge Cowtng begged him not 10 senc
he would swear By al that was holy thai Hert
zofsky could not be guilty OF Il common firm
fam sw!ndle. He knew positively that the de
fandant had spent the dav OF Aug Is n th'
Mangin street yard. but under cross exarnina
ton he could not remember anything that o.
currst on the day a week previous. Ang. :
which day Assistant District Attorney Mitch
ell used as a memory test
lawyer begged the Jury 60 acquit him on III,
ground that he had a wife and family. H
also referred TO the aIi1i which he Satd WAS per
feet, but the jury brought in a verdict nf Suli
ty. and Hsrtzotsky was renanGed to tn
Tombs Tor sentence