Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-20
Three F0otpads
 Rob Cashier
GET AWAY WITH s7so AT NOON IN
 NEW YORK
WAS BEATEN OVER HEAD
Thieves Worked wi.hi. cospl. of Blocks of PoIieemen-T~o of Then, are stiIl at Large.

New York, July le.-The question of whether the footpad fraternity, supposedly crushed by Inspector Eau rots detectives. can come back was answered yesterday at the expense of Edward Heffernan cashier and book keeper of the Blair Tool Machine and Pattern Works
 Later in the day the police, after holding the wrong man for several hours. mace two arrests that they am nounced would solve the mystery of me crime. They were busy last night piecing together the story of a plot that had been more than two weeks in the making, and in the search for holdup.
 Got Weekly Payroll. Heffernan was knocked senseless in the hall of the loft building at 523 Greenwich street yesterday and rob bed of s75o-the weekly payroll of the ] firm The thieves also relieved him of his own money. his watch and chain and few of his papers. He is in St. | NincentS hospital now. suffering from concussion of the brain and scalp wounds.
 One Captured.
 As if to emphasize their efficiency | the thieves worked az noon and with
 Two of them are stih st large. a third, | who acted the part cf Q lookout it is alleged. in front of the building, being in custody. This mar. who gave the
 name of Joseph Fitzpatrick. of 2sI Hudson street, was identified Iy pr. Otto Schmitz- of Bellevue hospital, who was passing by at the kinle Of the robbery. Dr. Schmitz says Fitzpatrick
 ran out of the building directly after
 the crime.
 Within Ten Feet of Monday Crowd. The boidness of the robbery, which was committed within ten feet of the
 monday crowd walking Greenwich
 street at the time, aG;azes tile deteo-
 tives. They ciain, it must be the work
 of old hands. and so far Gs Fftpetricle is concerned they are right. Already he has confessed to having robbed a man some time ago in the park The building in which the crime oc- 1 cured is at the northeast corner of
 Spring and Greenwich streets and the
 outer doors are kept open during bus mess hours. Heiernan, Whc is A years old and lives at SIG West fifth street. made 1t his weekly custom to
 draw from the Coal and Iron BI-
 change bank the S750 necessary te pay
 off the employees of the company. This , he did at I1-3O yesterday. coming back to Spring. street on an Eighth avenue
 car.
 Knocked to the Ground. ! He noticed that the outer doore were l diInOsI SnOt, put InlS nc dIlT1Duted to t the heat. which had prostrated the elevator man the day before. He pull r ed them apart and slipped in. The hall was in semi darkness. and he groped his way over to the elevator. As his finger reached the button the outer door changed shut and a blow on the head struck him to the ground. | He struggled up. and another blow beat him back. A third smashed his eyeglasses and drew blood and as he
 sank down half-senseiess the thieves rapidly went through his clothes A few minutes later-he cannot tell just |, how long-he staggered over to the doors. wrenched thern open and fell 2 outside on the pavement.
 An arrest was made shortly after
 the crime. Joseph Fitzpatrick, of PSI : Hudson. was pointed out as one of the d three men seen emerging from the l building after the attack on the s cashier. After several hours the pris-
 the victim of mistaken Identity and V was released.
 |, One Man Locked Up. Meanwhile. the police had locked
 up the elevator man of the building
 Domonick Casentino. He stood the :. grill for two hours and then, accord ' ing to the police. admitted that he had been implicated in the plot to relieve
 Hsffernan q the payroll
 Later they went to the home ot . Charles Romeo, at 34 Downing street 2 . and placed him under arrest. He read. i' fly admitted, they said. that he haf a been concerned in the holdup. TheJ recovered $250.
 Romeo told a story which made Ca. r sentino the leader in the plot to 1olt
 up the cashier. He said the elevator !, man had conceived the plan and com I municated it two weeks ago. Tester 'f day the men followed the instruction
 given them by Casentino. Romeo ad mitted that he swung the five pount !, bar that feIled the cashier |. The police expect to get the thirt e man implicated by Romeo.