The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-20
Girl Threw Them Into Panic.


Girl Threw Them Into Panic.
Up TO that point the three rascals had
worked with machine like precision. de-
liberately and with no trace of panic.
With Miss Moons flight their whole at
titude changed. They displayed a des-
perate hurry to get through with the job.
While two revolvers covered the still
cowed men clerks Spectacles furiously
ransacked Hemming's cash drawer.
sweeping out OF it about $4,700 in small
bills and stufflng them into his pockets /;
but he overlooked in his haste a COM
partment of the drawer that contained
$4,000 in larger bills and ignored the
wide open doors OF the vault wherein
was stored a cash reserve OF upward Of
$4,000. Their minds were on the one
track notion of getting out in hurry.
Covering the men as they retreated
and threatening with death any one who
tried to give an alarm they backed to
the sidewalk. jumped into the motor car
and were gone in a flash. Kraft dropped
his tired arms and telephoned to the
village police chief, Jim Hanse. who did
precisely the right thing. He warned
Queens Police Headquarters at Jamaica
that bank robbers were escaping in their
direction. The headquarters promptly
telephoned to all the patrol booths scat
tered along Long Island roads and
then sat back to await results. News
came speedily.
Patrolman Wandering, stationed at
the intersection Of Jericho Turnpike and
the Hampstead road. had just jotted
down orders to hold UP motor car 49,
72s n. Y. and arrest it's occupants when
the car flashed itself into sight. Wan
derling stopped n car driven by Abraham
Sech of 1863 Graham avenue, BROOKLYN,
which was coming from an opposite d.
rection and gave chase to the robbers.
But Sech's car was not fast enough. so
Wandering commandeered high
touring car they had caught up
with and pursued the chase. In Rocky
Hill road, near Bayside. Wandering
approached the bandits as they were try
ing to detach the license number of
their car. All three tried to run for II.
Wandering dropped one with a well
aimed bullet. The others, one Of whom
was Spectacles, the leader, lodged into
the woods. two shots from Wandering
singing past them.
spectacles Alone Escapes.
Why they separated isn't yet clear. but
a few minutes later Sech who followed
w anuerllng IN curiosity TO see what
would happen, was hailed by a breath
less pedestrian. who asked for a lift.
Sech recognized the man promptly as
one OF three fugltives, guilefully invited
him into the car. advised him to go 70
Hillside avenue and Queens Boulevard,
where he could get a trolley car, took
him there, deposited him at the trolley
station and then called up the police by
phone. 4 few minutes later motorcycle
patrolmen had arrested bandit No. and
were heading him for the Queens Police
Headquarters, where the wounded man.
shot through the right shoulder, had
been taken for examination before being
sent to the Jamaica Hospital. The third
man, Spectacles, managed to keep away
from the roads and was still a. l,,erty
last night
Detectives Denfer and Summers OF the
precinct last night arrested
Henry Berman. 23 years old. of l6S East
street, and locked him UP in
Police Headquarters on a charge OF hav-
ing been implicated in the Freeport rob-
berry. The arrest came after the detec-
tives had watched the block between
Third and Lexington avenues for sew