The sun., 1918-12-24
6 MORE BURGLARIES;;
MAIN JAIL GUARDED
1Tall and Short Man" Are the
Perpetrators Of Daring
Holdup in Store.
ONE PAIR WORE KHAKI
Safe Blown Open and Another
Entered without Leav-
ing Least Scratch.

with the long arm Of the law trying
to make itself long enough to reach
the two bandits who robbed the East
Brooklyn Savings Bank and murdered
two of It's employees more than a week
ago, six more daring burglaries were
reported in Greater New York be-
tween 10 o'clock Sunday night and
yesterday noon.
In the face of ali this evidence that
robbery, sometimes accompanied by
murder, is getting to be the popular
indoor and outdoor sport In little old
New York, even the officials charged
with the safekeeping Of Police Head
quarters began to show what looked
very much like signs OF uneasiness
yesterday. OF course, no enterprising
burglar has attempted as yet to carry
away the headquarters building, but
there are things inside which can be
carried out, so Lieut.. William Bren-
nan, custodian thereof, has issued ar
order preventing any employee from
leaving the building with bundle I'M
less he has q pass for the same from
his superior officer.
Hereafter all entrances to Police
Headquarters, with the exception o.
the door on Centre street and the door
on Centre Market place. will be shu'
from p NJ. to 7 A. NJ. and any one
seeking access between those hour!
will have to identify himself
Far away from the watchful eye Of
Police Headquarters, in the Green.
point section of Brooklyn. Patrol
man Leander Brewer of the 1871
Precinct, entered a saloon at 22I
Greene street yesterday morning ant
after ordering a drink Is alleged e
have drawn a revolver and ordered
the proprietor OF the place, Mrs. Nellie
Sletchin. to turn over all the money il
the cash drawer. Brewer, so the stor,
runs, grabbed the s23 handed to hin
and ran out OF the saloon with Mrs
Sletchin and two men in pursuit.
Brewer was caught by Patrolmar
Frank Grsf and taken to the Green
point avenue station where he wa
locked up on a charge of attempted
assault and robbery. To the lieu
tenant at the desk he said:
Il think I'm going crazy, or mayb,
I am crazy. l have no recollection
about this matter at all. I've beer
drinking and really think I'm go.nl
d!ppy."
| Robbers Wear Khaki.
! Early yesterday morning two mel
| In khaki, with handkerchief owe
their faces. entered the rooms occupie,
| by Mrs. Catherine Conine, q widow
| ls6 Canal street, Stapleton. Slater
Island. and demanded. money. Mrs
Conine pleaded that she had none
whereupon. according TO her story. tn
men ripped up bedsheets. bound he
| hand and foot and ransacked tn
house. carrying away $40. AS the
were leaving one of the men. Mr.
Conine says. took a pocketknife an
cut a cross on her arm. Mrs. Comm
managed to kick telephone of IN
low table beside her bed. The IN
hooking OF the receiver attracted III
attention of Central, who heard Mr.,
Conine's screams and notified Polio
Headquarters.
The most daring of the holdup
however, was that in which the mys
FERROUS tail and equally mysteriou
short man figured. At noon yesterda
I 81 Of ~,
rolitan Jcwelry Credit Company. o
the second floor of A. West l25t
street, told Mrs. Rose Sacks, wife {
the manager, that they wanted TO So
some tewelry, and when her back va
turned covered her with revolver
Then the short man pulled q Bit
rope out OF his pocket, hoped nimbl
across the counter and tied her arm
and feet. The tall visitor kept h
covered with ms gun. threatening
shoot her II she screamed, while q
short one took $500 in money ar
Liberty bonds from the cash drawe
YeEgmen start Fire.
In forcing a safe in the factory {
IS Barclay street, where the Byers
Hayes Company manufacture go
fountain pens and pencils. carole;
yeegmen SGT fire To the rags they wei
using to deaden the sound OF the .,
piodinG nitroglycerine. They inCol
siderately hft the smouldcrinS ral
and carried OFF about $1,000 worth
gold stock. a passerhy saw smol
issuing from one of the factory vii
dows and turned in an alarm. tt
firemen reported the burglary.
Shortly before 10 O'Clock Sunua
night five mon entered the saloon ~
, by Mrs. ]. A. Culhane, Twelfth ave-
rue. between l29th and 1S0th street
and with their reviewers levelied In
businesslike way frisked the bartend,
, and two other men In the place n
walked of with the contents of I,
cash register amounting to sever
, hundred dollars. They escaped in
taxicab.
Some nimble fingered Jimmy Vale!
tine worked out the combination
the big safe deposit vault In the offic
Of Schleicher Sons, Inc. piaI
manufacturers, los East 105thN stree
and carried off $4,000 in cash al
Liberty bonds, The job was so neat
done Nat there was not sins
scratch on the door OF the sate, a
y though the thief had apparently u
screwed the metal from the combin
ton and smashed some of q
tumblers after swinging back the doc
While stopping over to get box
cigars out OF his case Alexander r