The sun., 1919-07-23
MOST ROBBED MAN
VICTIM FIFTH TINE
Neyrowitz Loses $500 Though
Police Hear Crash as
Window is Shattered.
MAKE FRUITLEss CHASE
Right Across Street But Are
Surprised to Learn Thief
Got Anything.

The most robbed man in New York
got II again early yesterday morning
The police now have to record the shfth
burglary of the optical store of Paul
Meyrowitz. Not only have the police
this record to their credit, but they &C
tually saw the Job done.
The burglars, however, showed nice
sense Of artistic aspiration by picking
out the Meyrowitz store, which 10 III
Fifth avenue between Forty~fourth and
Forthwith streets instead or the mack
neyed old task Of mopping up the Negro
WITT shop at Fifth avenue and Ihirty-
sixth street, which has already been done
four times and where now Mr., Negro
WITT has good iron gratings In front OF
his windows at night. being firmly con-
WINGED that the police have no iron II
their souls Having completed the sum-
mary of what has gone before, now
read on.
At 4:30 tbs morning one of the hired
handle Of the "best Police Commissioner
New York ever had" Quotation from ex'
tempore, postprandial remarks OF Niche
IL Rouge) was discussing the psychology
OF crime with a faithful and astute EN-
ployee of a private watchmen's agency
They stood beneath the shelter of pro-
jecting canopy of glass which in day
time serves to protect swell ladies en-
tering swell shops opposite the swell
shop of the most robbed man In New
York. In other words they were on the
west side. Of Fifth avenue between For
ty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets.
Suddenly the academic calm of Their
discussion was shattered by the crash OF
O brick upon plate glass, They had
just determined empyrieally. had these
two experts in crime, its detection ano
prevention, that the thing to do when q
crime is committed Is to chase the Grim
inal-so with all the speed of their thu:
predetermined subconscious automatisn
they sprinted for the crash and the store
front of the once most best robbed mar
in New York, just across the narrow anc
Riistening stretch of Fifth avenue In its
dawn emptiness.
Hence 1t was that they were abl'
clearly to see what had happened. So
TOO. was the criminal. After the habi
of criminals in the face of brass but
tons and blue coat, he took to his heels
But the police, both Of them, knew thi'
dodge, too. They ran after him. TIT
criminal--both policement insist he wa;
a criminal-scuttied around the cornel
of Forty-flfth street like a cotton tai
rabbit around the barn. The police made
the turn as gracefully as the Leviathar
in Ambrose Channel. And when the,
got a view of Forty-fifth street the Grim
inal had disappeared either up or dowr
Madison avenue.
So the police, having fulfilled thei
duties of the chase, went back to thu
scene of the crime and made report
They informed the Fifty-first street sta
ton house that the window had beef
smashed with a brick. but that as the!
had been supremely on the job Their
was fortunately no other loss. In fact
all of their theories of crime had worked
out beautifully.
But when Mr.. Meyrowitz came AROUND
to oper up yesterday morning he called
up Headquarters and Informed then
&that, theories aside. there were MISSING
from his shattered window thirty wris
watches and a number Of gold fountain
pens, total value $500.