New-York tribune., 1919-09-21


carry. REVIEWERS. but explained that
they had stopped carrying them two
weeks ago.
for months, left the Office where she
is employed at LOO Watts Street short
ly after noon for the Peoples Bank,
at Canal and Thompson streets. There
she drew 1915 in small bits for the
payroll and started back to the office
of thc~Casino Company.
When tho girl nearcd the corner of
Watts and Greenwich streets sho no.
ticcd several young men lettering on
the sidewalk. AS she approached the
men stepped back so that she was
forced to walk between them. When
she was almost surrounded man in
the group dashed handful of white
powder into her eyes and blinded her
To protect herself she threw up her
hands and. shaken by the pain in h>r
eyes. she dropped the pocketbook con-
tanning the money.
The girl screamed as she felt the
pocketbook leave her hands, and
number of truck drivers standing
near by rushed over She was cropping
about the corner. but managed to tell
them what had happened. The truck
men saw some men racing down Green
wlch Street and gave chase. At Charl-
ton and Varick streets they caught the
man who was rescued by Detective
Crabuchi. Simoneli who is twenty
one and lives at 246 First Avenue. was
identified by Miss Cohen as one of the
men who was standing on the corner.
At Police Headquarters it was said
by the police that Simonelli had con-
fessed his part in the holdup. but de-
clined to give any information that
might lead to the apprehension Of
others. The police say he served one
term on B!ackwel's Island for picking
pockets.
Alarmed at the loss of S75O,OO0
worth Of negotiable bonds stolen by
messenger boys in the last few months.
wall Street brokers arc considering
plans for transferring the valuable
bonds and securities by safer means.
1t was explained that many of the
firms contemplate employing ex-police-
men to carry them.
The police have found no trace of
Leo Julofsky, the seventeen-year-o -old
messenger employed by Levinson e.
Co., of So Broadway, who disappeared
with $1,000 worth Of securities Fri
day. An alarm circular sent out for
the hoy stated that 1872 Liberty bonds
of the third loan worth $1,000 each
had been taken. The circular gave the
bonds: 336,514 to 336.537 inclusive:
933 ;Ss6; 979.401 to 979, ,42O inclusive;
l,562,374 to 1,562,384 inclusive, and
l,562,474 to 1,562,549 inclusive.
The police have abandoned the
theory that band has been preying
on boys who are intrusted with large
sums of money in Wall Street. The
hundreds of Investigators employed bv
the insurance companies who are in
close touch with the situation in all
parts of the country however. do be i
lleve that the boys are being used bv
members of a cang who have "fencc"
in the Middle West
List Of Big Losses
In addition to the Levinson com
pan%. the following firms have lost
bonds since March,
l.. NJ Prince Go. o............... s63 600
l.. NJ Prince & Co. o...... ~ OOO |
+ reucht"anRer-Cahn Company ...... g., 900 |
Hartshorne & Battelle ... 900 |
Columbia Trust Company. So 600 |
Hertzfeld & Stern. Observation-Disclosures. 80 600
MCCLURE. Jones G. Reed . 100 900
o'fonR d Sturgis. ..-............. $1,000 |
Iwo men who have served time AS
safe robbers were arrested while they
were trying to break into a dentists |
safe containing $1,000 worth Of gold.
The prisoners said they were Harry
Morgenstein, thirty. Of 81 Clinton
Street, and David Marks. TWENTY-FIVE.
OF 1856 East Third Street They were
arrested in the dental laboratory Of
Edward Schmcer at Avenue r. A
sectional jimmy, drills, gloves and
other paraphcrnalia Of professionals
we're found in front of the safe.