The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-28
WALL ST. HOLDUP NETS S4.2O
N 4. ID. T.. BOYS. Just Pam
OFF. THE BEREFT.
They'd Gone Downstairs AT ~ wall
TO Change Their Clothes and Go
Homo. When In Came Three Youths In
Masks with a Gun-Much TribuiatIon.

Homo, When In Came Three Youths In
Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn
bolted from Headquarters down to Wall
street in his automobile last night TO get
at the meaning Of a messag ge that had
come over the wire at 7i5 o'clock direct
from the Western Union telegraph Office
at 81 Wall street This was the message:
Held up by three masked men. Send
detectives"
When Flynn got to the telegraph Office
they told him about the Qtieerest robbery
south of the financial district dead lire
in many dav.
Eleven messenger boys cooped up in
cell-like dressing room in the basement
had been backed against wall by three
youths not much older than themselves
who put pist OILS TO their heads and ordered
them to hand over the money that had
come to them in their pay envelopes
few minutes before.
/ Six OF the messenger boys complied
The rest hid their cash in their trouser
legs or threw it on the floor underfoot,
where the robbers didn't find it. The
robbers. each of whom had his face partly
concealed by handkerchief, got sIi 20
and got away with it.
The telegraph Office is AT the corner of
Wall and Water streets. block east OF the
elevated road. It's superintendent is
Charles Lesser Lesser paid the boys of
at : o'clock and told them to 60 below
and change their uniforms for street
clothes.
| Down to the basement they trooped
and into the cement walled room. 12 by I
feet, that they call their wardrobe. Most
of them had hung their blue coats and red
braided caps on hooks along the wall
and were reaching for the coats they 90
home In when a stocky person entered
| with q revolver.
About his face from the bridge of the
nose down was tied " h,te handkerchief.
Behind him came other youths They
too had handkerchiefs and guns They
waved the guns at the messenger boys.
Sal he foremost robber:
Back up aga inst that wall and hold
up your hands"
The boys backed. They hadn't read
Nick Carter" for nothing along our proud
est streets. This was a real holdup. and
the manner Of the visitors with the guns
was orthodox.
| Now one OF you boys step forward.
continued the spokesman for the masked
ones. Here. we'll start on you
He indicated Benny Gala CHER, n mes
senger boy whose regular station is a
bench in the Cotton Exchange. Benny.
with tips and all, sometimes makes $50
a week He's the plutocrat of the bunch
! In his breeches pocket last night was 81
| At the appea rance Of the robbers he had
dropped a s. gold piece en- the floor and
one Of his comrades promptly put foot
on it. The rest Benny handed over to the
gun men.
The next boy looted was Max Cohen
Of $40 st. Paul's place. The Bronx. Al
the robbers could find on Max was S.
cents and gold plated watch. which they
pocketed
Then they took s. 25 from Solomon
Podgorsky of 4l5 Chester street, Brook
lyn. who also haunts the Cotton Exchange
From Able Kissem of 285 Monroe street
they got 81; from Benny Gelernter OF 1876
Wallabout street. Brooklyn. %: from Ma 4
Hirsch Of 90 Sheriff street. 80 cents.
While these boys were being searched
the others, mum against the wall. tenta'
lively wiggled their upstretched arms
As no bullets were forthcoming some OF
them made bold to drop their hands all
the way TO their pockets. whence they
drew forth pay envelopes, which they
stuffed up their sleeves, down Their
breeches legs, under their shirts and be
meath their collars. One boys mouth
receiv ed all OF Ss67.
The robbers, who had now go,
s442O. started 10 make genera
search of everybody. but fourth younl
man who stood outside on guard whistlec
and the looting stopped. As the trio in
side started to back out OF the room on'
took of his mask
Listen, boys" he said; If any o
youse move he gets shot,
Nobody moved. The robber who's,
, face was now bare picked up a paddock
that lay beneath a gas meter. At tina
moment John Kelly. clerk Of the tele
, graph Office sauntered down to the base
ment to ask one of the boys about a mes
sage he had delivered
The robbers grabbed Kelly and clappet
him up against the wall with the boys
Then they locked the door on the outside
with the paddock and went away
II was all over in about eight minutes
Not a sound reached the telegraph Office
, from the basement Presently anothe
i boy descended to change his clothes
found the dressing room door locked, un
locked il and beheld eleven messenge
boys still standing silent where th'
, thieves had left them.
When Deputy Commissioner Flynn
. got there, outracing Detectives Barne,
McConville. Gaynor, Muggey and Foy
he could only sadly survey the faces o
the messenger boys and learn from then
that one of the robbers wore q blue serg'
suit and light gray cap with long visor
None of the crew. the boys thought, wa
more than 20 years old.
Lastly SerRt, Lyons Withdrew the polio
, reserve which had rushed forth from Ok
1 Slip station.
, Mr. lntermyer's Costly shave.
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