New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-14
Armed Men
Guard Hotels
Fro1nBandits
Restaurant Robbed in
Eighth Ave. +; Police Fail
to Find Trail of Auto
Gang That Is Still Busy

Armed guards were stationed unob-
trusively yesterday in the Hobbies of
many hotels 10 repel hotel bandits
The step was decided upon by hotel
managers after Fridays sensational
raids on the upper West Side had been
followed yesterday by new holdups
The hotel men also requested the Po-
lice Department to station patYolman
within calling distance Of every hotel.
Unusual precautions were taken even
at such hotels as the Waldorf Astoria<
the McAlpin, the Pennsylvania, the
Biltmore and the Astor. The assign
ment Of hotel detectives was rear
ranged so as to put most of the men
on duty late at night, and they were
under strict instructions never to leave
the cashiers cage unguarded. VaIu-
ables and money were placed in the
safes as soon as they were received
and the safes kept locked.
Hotels along the side streets in the
Broadway district, such as the Algon-
quin, the Gerard and the Webster, took
similar precautions, and every en-
ploye was warned to be on the alert
and scrutinize with suspicion every
stranger entering.
Still Using Automobile
The marauders yesterday made their
rounds in motor car, as in their
previous depredations. The motor pa
troll suggested by the Mayor failed to
intercept them. They drove up to Isl
dor Schifman's restaurant, at 2421
Eighth Avenue. Three men, all armed,
entered the place, attacked the propri-
etor and drove away with $1,6S0.
The systematic manner in which the
holdup was carried out convinced the
police that the robbers were the same
gang which has been working in Man
haitian ard Brooklyn, apparently raid
ing one of the boroughs one day and
the other the next. No arrests have
been made.
AT Police Headquarters all requests
fer information were met with silence.
Police Commissioner Enright and
Deputy Commissioner Lahey refused
to see newspaper men.
Durin gthe day reports of numerous
smaller hold-ups, robberies and as
saults came from all parts of the
city. In a few cases arrests were
made.
Leader Has Red Hair
The descriptions of the bandits
given b ythe victims practically agree.
They are described as between twenty
Two are said to be about five feet
eight inches tall, and the other two
feet i've inches. The man who has
been acting the part Of an intoxicated
leader is said to have red hair. They
used a Packard touring car.
The robbery at Schiffman's store
occurred at o'clock in the morning
Three armed men entered the store,
and pointed revolvers at the pro-
prietor.
put up your hands and be quick
about it," said the leader.
Evidently Schitfman did not despond
quickly enough, for one of them struck
him over the head with the butt of
revolver, knocking him down.
The bandits then went through the
cash register, and got $3.50 and s1,400
in bonds. They searched Schiffman
and got $50 more.
One of the employees working in
the kitchen started for the door to
give the alarm, but was warned by the
robbers not to move One of the ban
dts started to "frisk" this worker, but
stopped when another eXcla aimed, CAV,
don't be a piker."
The three men left the restaurant
slowly, then drove away in the wait
ing automobile. An ambulance surgeon
from Harlem Hospital attended Schiff
mans wounds.
Throughout the early hours of the
morning q party of detectives, under
Detective Sergeant Patrick Sheridan,
toured the districts where hold-u ups
were expected They were working in
thre eautomobiles, and help up all sus-
picious looking cars.
An all day search in Brooklyn failed
to produce any arrests following the
taking of $4,000 worth of bonds from
the Irving Bono Company at 9S4 Fulton
Street. Harry Schmidt, oneof the pro-
prietors of the place, said the leader
had said: 1--WE have been waiting
three months to get you, and we will
get your partner soon"
Three young men, who said they were
Luke Callaghan, twenty-five, of 1908
Myrtle Avenue; Henry Heck. twenty
one, Of 374 Hooper Street, and Philip
Bicking, nineteen, of 426 Rodney Street,
Brooklyn. were arrested yesterday on
charge of criminal assault and robbery.
Miss Celia Meyer, of 313 South
Fourth Street, Brooklyn. says that on
home she found the door
locked, and went into the street to look
for a policeman to help her open it.
The defendants, she says, offered to
assist her, which they did. After that