The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-15
BANDITS IN TWO
DARING HOLDUPS
OBTAIN $4,000
Rob Madison Ave. Jeweller
of s.. 400 Gems and Shoot
Pursuer.
ONE FELLED AND CAUGHT
Three Others Seize $4,000
Fleet Corporation Payroll
in Taxi in Brooklyn.
ONE FELLED AND CAUGHT

Two Of the boldest and most amaz-
ingly successful daylight holdups New
York ever has known were perpe-
trated yesterday, one of them in the
heart of the city's best shopping dis
trict. the other in Brooklyn. In both
the bandits got away with the spoil,
worth $4,000 in all.
Both were carefully staged. In
Brooklyn three paymasters of the
Emergency Feet Corporation were
robbed Of $4,000 as they sat in taxi
cab in a good residential block.
In Manhattan at the noon hour Sid
ney Goldstein Of s6s East l63d street,
The Bronx, and companion whom he
will not name got diamonds and other
Jewels worth s7,400 from the Graham
& Clapp iewelry and art store, 42O
Madison avenue. Then they fed to
Fifth avenue, pursued down the busiest
blocks OF that thoroughfare by hue
and cry, then east, until Goldstein was
all but Drained by a nervy chauffeur
who braved the thief's pistol and threw
q hammer at him. One man was shot
by Goldstein.
One Paymaster Arrested.
After he had been questioned by Capt.
Dan Coughlin Of the Brooklyn Police
headquarters for more than three hours
Neal Sheftall, one of the three paymas-
ters who were the victims of the taxicao
holdup in Brooklyn. was placed under
arrest at midnight, charged with assault
and robbery, and with "acting in con-
cert with Others" He will be arraigned
to-day in the Fifth avenue police court
in Brooklyn.
Sheftalls arrest came after capt
Coughlin and Bertillon experts from
Headquarters had compared his finger
prints with those of Charles Tharies'
alias Neil Shettal, who was arrested last
April on a charge of forgery. but dis
charged by Magistrate Cornell because
Of insufficient evidence. Capt Coughlin
said last night that after he had been
arrested Sheftall admitted he had been
arrested for forgery. but denied that ne
was implicated in yesterdays roboery.
The other two paymasters were not de-
aimed by the police.
In the drizZle of yesterday noon James
Graham. partner in the firm of Clapp
Graham, waited in his art and jeweiry
shop. i20 Madison avenue, for the re-
turn OF his clerks from lunch. An end
.ess stream Of traffic, foot and vehicular.
flowed past the door. The district. one or
the most fashionable shopping centres Of
New York was at its busiest.
The store was dim with subdueo'
artistic lighting effect. but the showcase
in the window glistened with diamonds
and Jewels of all sorts. Outside Sidney
Goldstein, with the bulge OF an auto
matte in his coat, watched the window
with his pal Harry. 1t was the sec
ond time they had approached the WIN
dow in an hour. They looked around
Policemen were at every corner. Fifty
yards away was cop directing uaiilc'
Down the next block at the Ritz-Cariton
Hotel were three policemen. and they
were strewn along the avenue TOO.
Revolver Cows Jeweller.
1T looks a cinch." whispered Gold
stein, and they pushed the dooi
open. Graham was sitting in an ornate
mahogany chair near the showcase III
the window. Looking UP he found re-
Nn4F ct pOheO h'S
stein spoke quickly:
Now beat it for the back OF the store
or II plug you where you're at. Don
turn your head or ! shoot
There was no chance OF Resistance
Graham knew hts employees would no,
return for a while. and only hoped tina,
his negro porter. Howard Reed. wouio
tee what was happening from the WORK
shop in the rear.
Graham slowly walked across a rug
lie heard the showcase window curtain
torn away Harry had grabbed
tray holding some diamond rings, dia
mond necklace and diamond bracelet
You stay where you are" Goldste ir
ordered Graham. because II you don
tueres a guy outside that Will get yot
the minute you start anything me
door banged and they were gone. Pas
Graham shot the negro porter. who nae
been watching everything from the paru
toned workshop. He saw them turn IRON
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