The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-06
$1,000 HAUL BY
AUTO BANDITS;
ONE CONFESSES


Miss Emma Schroeder. an employee OF
the American Can Company. was coming
down the street when she saw two men,
one short and one rather tall, leap into a
DARK green. dirty seven passenger tour
ing car and speed toward Tenth avenue
nearly colliding with a trolley car In the
getaway. She caught the number +22l6,
rushed into a telephone station and called
Police Headquarters. Within a few min
utes every policeman and detective from
ionkers to the Battery was looking for
that car.
Just Back From Rauk.
*. II. Ismon. secretary and treasurer
OF the company. told the story of the
hoidup. Joseph Bonnsvist OF 2ss Chapel
avenue. Jersey City, a man SO years old
who has been with the company as a
porter for eleven years. and John W.
armstrong OF as Prospect place. Brook
iyn. who began four years ago az an
ohice boy, and IL now q cash clerk, were
sent to the New York County National
Bank at Fourteenth street and Eighth
avenue for the payroll money.
AZ they walked neither noticed that
they were followed. At Ninth avenue
they passed Policeman Egan as he turned
up toward Seventeenth street to ring a
pox there. They did not notice an auto
mobile running along slowly and drawing
close to the curb AS they made for the
step or the building. As Bonnaviat put
strong was struck on the back OF his
head At the same instant blackjack
Tell on Bonnaviat's head. At the first
DIow ne reeled and threw up the leather
bag to shield himself. Another blow and
yet another and he fell.
one OF the men grabbed the bag tossed
IL into the automobile and slammed the
door as his companion Joined him. Paul
ANDERSON, a factory clerk, happening to
look out OF a first floor window, saw the
assault. He said the automobile did not
come to a full stop, but was moving slowly
when the two men Jumped into II. He saw
the machine turned quickly toward the
car tracks, trolley car was stopped
suddenly to avoid a collision. The next
moment the automobile was taking the
corner OF Tenth avenue. 400 feet away. on
two wheels.
George weissman, Henry Stewart and
Herbert Ross ran out OF the factory. but
when they got to Tenth avenue the auto
mobile was edging Its WY through a, Jam
two blocks away. John smith OF les
avenue A. the motorman OF the trolley
car got the number OF the machine also
anu Michael Landau OF IS First avenue.
whom Smith was breaking In as a motor
man, agreed with him that the number
was 42,l26. They went to Mr.. Ismon's
liz
Bonnaviat and Armstrong had stumbled
into the building with confused tale Of
what had happened to them. DIR. William
+. Crutchiey Of 3s5 West Fourteenth street
dressed their wounds and they went home.
BY noon time the number OF the auto
mobile had been spread broadcast and Of
ticial eyes everywhere were on the alert
for II. Detective Harry White of tho
Morrisania police station was saunterlng
up Jackson avenue In The Bronx when he
was suddenly aware that he was gazing
straight at the number he was seek
ing. The machine stood In front Of
the home OF Mrs. Annie Smith, at SIS,
and while White stood there short,
slightly built man wearing glasses came
out and started to crank up. White let
him crank, then stepped into the seat
next the driver and told him to move
rapidly In the general direction OF n
golden domed building In Centre street.
Kelly at first told with apparent franz
ness OF what he had been doing all day.
He said that for the last four days he
had been taking out this same car, which
belongs to Charles Pace OF l947 Lexing-
ton avenue. and picking up business
making his stands at Eighth avenue and
10th street. or Eighth avenue and Fifty
seventh street, or Park avenue and l25,h
street. He said he left the garage at S 30
o'clock and went TO his home. There he
got Mrs. Kelly and their two children and
went for ride through The BronA