New-York tribune., 1918-12-18
Daring Robberies
Are Held To Be
Result of War
Police Attribute Series of
Grimes to Unsettled Con-
ditions and Return of
Workers From Camps
By BRIGGS

Numerous violent crimes in the met
ropoltan district the last two weeks,
eliminating in a series which began
last Friday with the raid on the East
Brooklyn Savings Bank and which in
cludes double murder on Staten Is
land. holdup in Astoria, L. l., and a
taxicab robbery in Manhattan, make it
apparent, according to the New York
police, that the greater city is facing
serious situation. The police att1ib-
ute this to general unsettled condi-
tions and the fact that the ending of
the war is bringing large numbers of
men into the metropolis from indus
trlal centres all over the country
Inspector John j. Cray, commanding
the detective bureau, said last night
that reports that the Astoria and
Brooklyn holdups were the work of the
same men were false. He expects i'm
mediate arrests in both cases.
Developments in the bank case came
yesterday, when George H. Mccullough,
driver of the taxicab used by the rob
bers, and Jerry" Mulligan, taxi starter
at the Hotel Navarro, Manhattan, who
sent the two to Mccullough when they
asked for man who could keep his
mouth Shut" were arraigned in Brook
lyn.
Mccullough and Mulligan were
brought before County Judge Camp
bell in Part 1 of the County Court.
Mccullough was charged with murder
in the first degree. and committed to
jail for trial. Mulligan was held as a
material witness and bail fixed at $40
Iofn IL
TO the Raymond Street Jail. McCul-
Tough pleaded not guilty.
A clew in the bank case has come
from person whose identity the po-
lice refuse to divulge, who told story
indicating that tie two bandits had a
furnished room in Brooklyn for sew
eral days before the raid. The room
THESE man were supposed to have occu-
pied has been searched and some soft
collars, identical with those the police
found in the little black bag in which
the bandits carried away their loot.
were discovered there. The collars.
like those in the little black bag. bore
no laundry marks.
"A Development in the crime record
OF the day came with the arrest in
Brooklyn Of two ffteen-year-old bows.
George Reid, of 554 Forty y-eighth Street,
and Almond chamberlain, of Asp Sixth
Avenue, Brooklyn. In these lads the
police believe they have captured two
daring fat robbers.
The police said the boys confessed
TO having committed more than forty
thefts in two months. Detectives Wis
tied the room in State Street where the
lads had been living since they ran
away from their homes about three
weeks ago, and said they found $4,000
worth of loot cached there.
Both boys come of good Bay Ridge
families. and only recently quit high
school.
The story of the hold-up of woman
in taxicab in Eighth Avenue, Man
haitian. early yesterday morning was
told to Magistrate Ten Eyck in the
west Side Court by Miss Beatrice
Anges, twenty-one years old, dress
maker, who lives at 236 West Fifty
fifth Street. The defendants are Fran
cisco Lopez and Camille Ferandas.
The woman told the police that she
was on her way home, when three men
entered her taxicab and beat her. Then
they took small amount of cash and
several rings. The men leaped from
the cab after the robbery. Lopez and
Eerandas were arrested by Patrolman
Enright, who fired several shots after
them