The sun., 1919-10-03
HOTEL BANDITS GET
TWENTY YEARS EACH
Law Should Increase Penalties
for Such Crimes, Says
Judge ROsalsky.
WOMAN AIDS GEM THEFT
Youth Arrested as Footpad
Heard City Was "Easy" for
Any One With Gun.

Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions
sentenced yesterday two Of the hotel
bandits to twenty years each in States
prison, the third to fifteen years, and
declared the only way in which such
crime in New York would be ended
would be through legislation imposing
heavier penalties. The men were ac-
cused of having terrorized hotels, apart
ment houses. poolrooms and cafes for
several weeks. Edward Mcintyre. 25.
giving his address as 435 West Forty
ninth street, who pleaded guilty to rob
berry in the first degree in holding up the
Sherman Square Hotel. Seventy-hrst
street and Broadway, and George Hope,
"a. Of Lynbrook. L. l., who made SINH
lar plea to the charge OF holding up
poolroom at Fifty-seventh street and
Eighth avenue, were sentenced to twenty
years Thomas Burke, 20, who said he
lived at 80 Eighth avenue, pleaded
guilty to robbery in the second degree.
admitting he aided Mcintyre.
Indictments are pending against each
of the men. Judge Rosalsky ordered
that bench warrants be placed with the
warden of the prison. to be served when
lne present TERMS expire.
Comments by Court.
In imposing sentence Judge Rosalsky
said:
These defendants are the most des-
perate criminals arraigned in our courts
In years. They had no regard for the
rights of others. The longer they are
away from society the better 1t will be
for society. Robbers are potential muir
derers. in my judgment. Unless the
] Legislature increases the penalty fol
robbery In the first degree other desper-
ate men will not be deferred from COM
hitting similar crimes. The scarcity OF
crimes of burglary in the first degree IL
! due, think, to the long penalty for tha
crime, which is forty years in prison
! Robbery in the first degree should bt
punishable the same as burglary in the
first degree. If the Legislature should
I SO decree the courts would be able tC
strike terror to the criminals of thii
F, community
William d. Embree. defending tn;
prisoners, submitted an affidavit from
Hopes wife, asking that Hopes menta
condition be examined. and stating tina
the defiance shown by the man led he
to believe he was unbalanced, inasmucf
as he otherwise always had been gooC
and dutiful husband.
Detectives of the East 104th stree
station are looking for two men ant
a woman who robbed the jewelry stor'
of William Orenstein, 1898 Third ave
nue. last Wednesday of $500 worth o
valuables. Orenstein was returning from
a synagogue. he has told the police
when he observed the woman actin.
suspiciously He went inside his stor,
and beheld the two men at work oil
his safe They escaped through a rea
window, from which they had removes
bars.
Arrested in Holdup,
Robert Porter 1s, giving his address
as the Mills Hotel, Blocker street, ha
been arrested charged with trying {
hold I'D the stationery store of Benja
min Karstedt. S35 Sixth avenue. Wednes
day night. When he demanded the con
tents of the cash register Karstedt, VIII
is so years old, put up fight. but wa
felled by the butt OF the intruder's re
voiver. Patrolman Thomas Gaines o
the East Fifty-hrst street station, CAV
chase and after firing two shots caugh
Porter at FortXseventh street and FIT
avenue Porter according to the poles
said he came here from Philadelphia
because he heard that any one with
gun or blackjack could make an cas-
living in New York.
Just before midnight Wednesday nigh
four masked men held up and robbie
Joseph Luccese. ticket agent Of the In
terborough subway station at 1877