The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-22
RIVERSIDE DRIVE HAS { J.
A SERIES OF .H0lDUPS
FoOtpad in Skirts Accompanied
Man Who Stopped Leroy B. :
Cranes Daughter. =.
MRS. DUNLAP ROBBED TOO
Frank Farrell's Sister Lost Purse and
Jewels at Rhinecliff Court
Entrance. .. IT,.
MRS. DUNLAP ROBBED TOO

There is considerable uneasiness in
the neishborhood. OF i5eth street and
Riverside Drive because men, and women
have been held up recently by street
robbers The holdups have occurred not
later than o'clock In the evening. While
IT Is true that the robberies were not re-
ported TO the police by the victims. most
everybody in the neighborhoQd has been
talking OF them. but the police in the
district and at Headquarters said yester-
day that they. had not received a hint OF
them. p
II was about. two weeks ago that Clara
Crane. the daughter OF ex-Ma gstrate
Leroy B. Crane. was stopped in the street
half block from her home in the Rhineclin
Court at 156th street and Riverside Driye
by man and a person dressed as woman
but who she suspects was a man. With
out waiting to parley with the man. who
asked for money. she gave him S2.S5. sall
the money she had in her pocketbook.
They did not try to inolest her.
week before that Mrs. Dunlap. a
sister OF Mrs, Frank Farrell, whose hus-
band owns the American League baseball
club in this city, was obbed of her purse
containing money and jewelry by two
men in front Of the Riverside Drive en-
trance to the Rhineclif Court. where the
Farrells live. Two nights after that a
man was robbed in front OF the Riviera
apartments at the northeast corner OF
i56th street and the robbers escaped.
On the evening that Miss Crane was
held up she was returning home about
.'xl. H. InEs Al .,.L,
i57th street and turned into l5ath street
from Broadway. She is an athletic young
woman. but the street is lonely one and
she said she was pleased when slio saw
man and woman wal king up the street
from Riverside Drive.
Il was about in the middle OF the block
opposite the American Hispanio Sooiety,'
she said yesterday. when the couple
stopped me. | was hum,ning Alex
anders Rag Time Band The man said:
NV wife and have just come over from
Sweden. and We want work viii you
give us work. The man wns rough
looking and the woman was awkward. and
I thought sine wore DARK wig ..
Il told them couldn't give them work;
| had nothing for them to do. Then
give us what money you've got. the man
said. The woman said nothing. Hooked
at them and decided il was best to, give
them what money had. opened my
pocketbook and gave them 5? IS. They
hurried away and I ran to the Rhnecli6
/ wasn't frightened. but l thought 1t was
the best thing 10 do. The couple made
no attempt to stop me. When told
father and gave him = description OF the
couple he said, I'm sure ono of them WAS q
man dressed in woman's clothes We
did not tell the police ..... ..
The ex perience OF Mrs. Dunlap was more
exciting The Parcels have the ground
floor apartment at the Riverside Drive
entrance to Rhincetiff Court aud Mrs
Dunlap frequently calls on them in the
evening. She WAS walking into the big
apartment house when two mon tackled
her. one Of them grabbing her bag. The
maids in the Farrell apartments saw what
was happening and. screamed : Eddie
Mack, a hallboy in the apartment house.
heard the screams, Eddie 10 a member
of the Morningside A. c. aud when he
is not training to be a sprinter he is n
featherweight boxer.
Eddie ran out after the two men. but
they had almost block start on him
One OF them. a tall man. turned into
I55th street. The other. who was stocky
and weighed about IFS pounds. ran down
Riverside Drive and Eddie chased him
to l5sd street.
Il could have got him seid Eddie yes
terday. but was running the elevator
that night and l was afraid that I would
no crit tcisnd for ooin o. fnu far a-av