The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-06-15
THREE CAPTURED
4. AS 'MASTERM|ND'
OPENS THE SAFE
Police Surprise Burglars at
Work Near West One Hun
dredth Street Station.
TWO SHOTS ARE FIRED.
One Bullet Breaks Glass and
Fragment Wounds a
Pc Burglar.


to-day in Augustus Mays shoe store.
No. SIS Columbus avenue. near One
Hundredth street. . few minutes AZ
ter two had succeeded in opening .
safe that contained only Sis. instead
Of the small fortune they expected
In the West One Hundrsdth street
station they described themselves -
Samuel Rauch. twenty eight. laborer.
Of Twenty-second street. Coney Isl
and; Jake Weiss. twenty-thres. ped
der. No. 40 East Houston street:
Bernard Goldman. twsnty-four. la
borer. No. - 8angin street
The shoe store v In building re-
Gently damaged BY IRE. and on Sat.
urday May wound up Ore sale. The
police quote weiss - saying bs went
- the place that night and saw the
swarm Of purchasers and decided that
With possibly . weeks receipts In the
safc. Il would be q good location for .
burglary. He tipped OF the others.
Early to-day they went through the
cellar Of No. los West One Hun
arsdth street. not in the least wor-
ried because the police station wa0
only . few doors up the street. BY
crossing . back yard and climbing .
fence they were able to get on . shsd
right against one Of the barred win.
dows Of the store.
CITIZEN HEARD NOISE AND
TIPPED POLICE.
Il required moro time and energy
than they expected to out the stesa
bars. and they broke pipe cutter In
two. The noise they made attracted
the attention Of some one living in
the rear Of . One Hundredth street
tenement, and he crossed over to the
station and notified the police.
Detective Boyle and Sergeant Lane
hurriedly collected a. many policemen
a. they could find and surrounded the
place. Some went to the front OF
the store and others through No. eas
Columbus avenue to the rear. while
precautions were taken that the bur
glars did not get whore they could
reach the roof.
According to Boyle, two o: tho men
had gone into tho window. leaving
Weiss ON tho roof Of the shed - .
lookout. Boyle waved his revolver
and ordered Weiss TO como down. In
.tsad. Weiss dived through the win
dow into the store.
In front, screened by the oak back
iuGs Of tho display Windows. was
SsrRt. Lane with drawn revolver.
sergt. Lane nred two shots to stop
them. One bullet broke . piece OF
glass out Of tho door and . fragment
hit Weiss ON tho side Of the head.
iufiicting q scalp wound that later
had 70 bs dressed by DR.. Peterson
Of Knickerbocker Hospital.
Mr.. May says he took away his
money with the exception Of SIC Sat-
urday night. He locked the safe which
u In tho rear. but Il was open this
morning. On the floor were strown
cloves used to avoid leaving finger
prints and the various implements OF
men who do "can opener Jobs on
,afes. There were no explosives. Tho
police believe that Goldman picked"
the lock Of the safe or felt out" the
combination Jimmy Valentine fashion
1ust about the time Weiss ran In to
tell them the police were outside. The
01S was not touched.
Goldman, or GreengrasA took HIS
capture philosophically. declaring that
his only regret was that he had had
an engagement to take his girl SWIM
ming at Coney Island to-day. A. he
was leaving Police Headquarters for
arraignment In court q patrol wagon
drew up and youth alighted between
policemen. At sight Of him Green
grass exclaimed:
Ibid they get you. too? Looks a.
~ all we'd have to do Ia wait and
they'll get the whole gang"
The newcomer was Louis Newman.
Of No. 1851 Prospect avenue. the
Bronx. who, like Greengrass. u out
on $1,000 bail for the attempt on the
Irving hat store Detective Sxermsr
says he saw Newman take q pocket
book containing $50 out Of Raphael
Weiss's pocket last night as Weiss
was at westchester and Pelham ave-
nues, on his way home to No. 1889
Arthur avenue, the Bronx. He
grabbed Newman and James Brown
Of No. 2D3 East Fourteenth street.
Mounted Policeman O'Neil got Nor
ris Ginsberg of No. Sss East Eighth
street after chasing him into Pelham
Park and firing q shot at him.
Magistrate Deuel. In Night Court
let Brown and Ginsberg go with hnes
OF IS. but held Newman for grand
larceny.