New-York tribune., 1918-07-09
Looked On While Thieve.
Coz $4,5O0 From Auto
Company Paymaster
Three Men In Plot
Used Stolen Car in Which
to Make Their
Escape

The great resemblance between
movie" rehearsal and an ord;ns,r
hold-up discouraged spectators from b,
terfering with three highwayrneo. wbo
stole the weekly payroll Of $4,000 from
Harry Brian, Of Ridgewood Park. ny
paymastcr of the White Motor e.,
Company, yesterday afternoon in bro.s
daylight, as he alighted from an anti
mobile in front of the White Offices ..
Fifty-seventh Street and Park Avenns
The car in which the three men egcane,
was found deserted half hour later
at Henderson Place, near Fifty-frst
Street and the East River.
Brian left his Office shortly after
O'Clock to go to the Colonial Bank. AZ
Sixty-eighth Street and Broadway, and
returned by way of Park Avenue. As
ne stepped out of the car. with the bsg
containing the money in mis- hand r.
was stopped by man clad in laborer,s
clothes. VINO pushed revolver against
his stomach, saying quietly, "Glmme
that bag"
@1S Dildii SiO"ly teilDQulSneQ the bag
another man, well dressed. emercea
from a door leading into the White
company Offices, grabbed the bag from
the first man, and dashed swiftly tow.
ards waiting Overland car. which
stood on the northwest corner of Fjftv.
eighth Street and Park Avenue. in fronr
Of the Clarendon Hotel. When the man
carrying the bag and the other follow.
ing closely behind him reached the car
the door was opened by still another
man, who sat at the steering wheel.
Brian, followed by the chauffeur Of
his car, Harry Ryan, OF 2.12S Eighth
Avenue, ran after them shouting for
aid but the crowd watching the Der.
formance made no effort to stop the
fleeing thieves, one woman saying to
her companion, "let's watch the movie
actors rehearse.'
Policeman William F. Allmendinger,
who was regulating the traffic on Fifty.
seventh Street and Park Avenue had
his back turned to the White COMPANY
Offices, and did not know what was
going on until some one blew police
whistle. Before he could reach them,
the thieves were off, followed by Brian.
and dashed through Fifty-seventh
Street to Madison Avenue, in the hope
of stopping the car containing the
thieves. which had gone through Fifty
eighth Street to Madison Avenue The
quarry had disappeared, however. be-
fore he reached Madison Avenue and
he found that Brian, who had followed
the car to Fifty-seventh Street, had
given up the chase because OF exhaus-
ton. Allmendinger said that Brian
gave him the number of the cars
license. which was 23,O31 Connecticut.
All this time Ford car, manned b.
an unidentified person who had seen
the burglary, was following the thieves
down Madison Avenue to Fifty-ffth
Street, east through Fifty-fifth Street
70 Third Avenue, then south on Third
Avenue to Fifty-second Street, where
ne stopped to get policeman. By the
tine he got started again the car con-
taining the thieves was lost trace Of,
and later was found deserted by the
police at Henderson Place
1t was taken to the Fifty-frst Street
station. where it was learned that 8
search had been asked for it by Har-
wood Glider, of Stamford, Conn. who
owned it. Mr.. Glider said that he had
left his car at Tenth Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street, and that when he re-
turned it was gone.