New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17
''LEFTYS" FRIEND TAKEN
FOR BIG JEWEL THEFT
$4,000 Worth Of Diamonds
+ Stolen from a Broadway
Concern.
POLICE MAKE 4 ARRESTS
Woman Pleads with Detectives
Not to- Take Diamond Case
Which They Found in
81, Flat in Bronx.

Suspected of stealing diamonds and Jew
eIry valued at $4,000 from the safe OF
the Bennett Manufacturing Company, al
No. 175 Broadway four men were ar
rested last night in The Bronx by detec'
tlves under Acting Captain Mckinney
head of the I'd Detective District. Inc
robbery occurred some time between NO.
vember 0 and II. In the apartment OF
one of the prisoners, Samuel Meyerson. o
waiter, OF No. $40 Dawson street, The
Bronx, the detectives found a large leather
case, which, according to Acting captain
Mckinney, resembles diamond bag tha'
was taken from the safe In the BeDnet'
establishment
In. the apartment the detectives also
found a group photograph. taken at a
seaside resort, of three men and two wom-
en- one OF the men the detectives recog-
nized as Louis Rosenberg CLefty''
Louie), now on trial for completely In the
murder Of Herman Rosenthal
That's Rosenberg" declared Meyerson'
according to the detectives; II have
known him for several years. / am one
Of his friends
The other men were arrested In nat
nj No. go st. John avenue, The Bronx.
They described themselves as Henry
Cohn. of No. 6S Allen street; Harry Cor
don, q salesman, living at the Broadway
Central Hotel. and Abram Abramson, a
paperhanger, OF No. rs East lcSd street
When the detectives entered Meyerson'
fat they found. they said woman VINO
said she was the mans wife. Meyerson
was I'm bed. As the detectives entered he
ATTEMPTED TO thrust his hand under the
pillow on which his head rested. but his
arm was seized By Acting Captain Nc
Kinney. Under the pillow, the police say
were a revolver and blackjack. Search
ing the fat. the detectives say they found
scales for weighing diamonds and three
electric flashlights. The woman was very
nervous when the detectives located the
Iaraa leather case. Seeing that II was
their intention to take II with them she
,su on her knees and begged them TO let
II remain in the apartment.
Don't take that" she pleaded accord
ing TO the detectives. That VIII get my
husband into trouble"
Following the arrest OF the three men
az the St John avenue address there "as
found q telephone lineman's trouble
Under" with which IL Is possible TO tap
telephone wires at any point and OBTAIN
connection with the central ONCE VIZ
less outfit and other electrical pasaphe'
malta and two revolvers. GORDON "ho' lhe
liz. sav owns the electrical equipment
,v,s charged with having revolvers In MS
possession. NIL.
,r., rrisoners were taken to Ponce
IIeadauarters. Impressions OF the pris-
nrors, fingers were taken by Acting In
,,,.ctor Faurot, and they VIII De com
rora5 with a finger print on oot'ie iouiiu
g., ,nh BENNETT establishment al'e' NNN
robbery. ,.,ad heen
,,,o ,our men arrested last night mao oee"
~ for several days. Acting captain
,,aI,,n,ov said that while the men "e'0
hC &c. tha Bennett robbery, he was con
adm, that 1t would be proved ma. rha
- also implicated in roooei' - H..
prony and possibly in others ne s''n $50 -
- "a, S,d,rg Of the large pocketoooN wac =.
8 ,,1rortance. Private deteS''e~
- .iaycd nv concerns where looUeite'
,a, - occurred and by the jewelers. o
anr,,y Alliance, which. 1t was s"iu, 70
..,s,orod heavily as result ofse'es"' 80, 10
hcrIes. including one amouhuns ~
go haye worked with Central once men
,,,,o ersIng OF the bottle bearing III.
-,aor,v-deaned flngerprint In the ben'ie''
o.,abushment was OF Importance Wv
81 cav Through 1t Acting inspector
-, when he has completed his worn
:, cnmpar,ng It with the hnserprih's Vi
a., mon now under arrest, hopes 10 oo-
tain definite results. ,S ,hs
Tb. police credit Meyerson WIN w
o,,asa. Ginger" Miller" and "Sheparo'
,r,,u,, sav he has been arrested se'era
,,,,es hut never convicted. Conn, they
49, has been known as Little Artai
ana .,psniamin Frank; his picture Is III
,no poeues Gallery and he has served
t,yo terms for burglary, according 10 the
police. ,.
Gordon Is said TO have been known as
..snolensky''; TO have been committed 70
Tho House OF Refuge and to be at present
rrder the charge OF violating his parole.
Ills pIcture, the police assert is also In
the Rogues' Gallery. Abramson Is not
known to the police.