The sun., 1919-09-20
GIRL, IS, RODS FIFTY
FLATS IN 3 MONTHS


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$4,000; another patrolman last night
| captured three negroes who were making
away with clothing of similar value
man in an automobile at ST. Nicholas
Park was robbed and wounded. and g
| slxteen-year-old girl was reported &c
have confessed that she earned her live
lihood by robbing hfty Bronx apart
ments in three months.
In addition there were little spasmi
of lawlessness that might be called mere
pranks to give the police that worried
| look, though in a class by itself was the
discovery that blackguards had not only
stolen $2,700 worth of gowns from loft
building on West Forty-fifth street. but
also had abducted ten quarts of rye
whiskey with which the owner might
have drowned his sorrow over the loss
Over In Riverhead, l.. l., new system
, was tried when secret service agents
notified the three local banks and the
| sheriff that Manhattan robbers seemed
likely to pay them a surprise visit soon.
and reception committee of three
guards was placed at each bank.
The girl implicated in the wholesale
robbery enterprise was Molly Rosen. 16,
of "a East 10th street, whose name was
signed to a confession which informed
Magistrate Norman ]. Marsh yesterday
that she had instituted clear-up weeks
In fifty flats in the Hunts Point section
during the last quarter of a year. Fol-
lowing the arraignment of the girl on a
charge of burglary Herman Fliederblum,
fufa toNw
sented the confession, stating that it was
made by the girl on the preceding day
when detectives took charge of her
career.
Her Toll Well Rewarded.
The document states that in her in
dustrious moods the girl averaged three
burglaries a day. and lately she had
adopted a union six day week. BY UNI
RENTING toll, 1t was alleged, she had
accumulated $4,000 in jewelry and $4,000
In other persons savings She told her
mother, the police said, that she had a
position downtown as clerk and left
her home punctually at Q A NJ. to look
after the property OF others. Her return
in the evening also conformed to the
regulation business hours. She informed
her mother that she was receiving $50 a
week, and according TO the police, duti-
fully turned this amount over to her
mother.
Her method of operating, according to
the document filed in court, was to enter
an apartment house, pick out the name
of any tenant that struck her fancy and
then go on an ostensible hunt for that
person. explaining she was looking for
this tenant to any one who didn't seem
abel to mind his own business. Trying
oil 4. III.
were unlocked, enter an apartment where
tenant was in another room and seize
a purse or any other valuable memento
of her visit
If she didn't make her exit snappy
enough and an occupant suddenly APP
peared from another room, she would
work the sick :. mother plea and re-
turn her hard earned booty. Sometimes,
1t appeared from the confession, the ten
ant who detected her would drive a
hard bargain and demand in addition a
little of her own currency. Then she
and the tenant would part. without mu-
tual regret.
Trousers Give Theft Clue.
On Thursday Miss Rosen was arrested
after Samuel Weiss of 1449 Minford
place, The Bronx, noticed the peculiar
ing a beauty sleep in the rear of his
apartment on the first floor to fit him for
executive session as a night motorman for
the lnterhorough, when he heard the
noise of some one using his hall door
Notwithstanding. Not wishing any Wis
itors at that time. Weiss got out of bed,
went to the door and discovered that
his trousers, which he had left on a chair
near the door. were PROSTATE on the
floor. with evidence that SO had been
dragged from them after a terrific strug-
gle.
Weiss Immediately jumped into the
trousers and ran after the SO. In the
street neighbor pointed to Molly Rosen
as having just come out of the building,
and just then-this is the hardest part OF
the story to believe-three detectives
drove up in an automobile. The three
detectives, who were Herman Meyer.
Michael Hegney and Albert Hazlett of
the Simpson street station, The Bronx,
were good enough to arrest he girl.
When arraigned in court the girl was
charged with burglary by Herman
Friedman of s27 Kelly street, The Bronx,
who alleged that on the afternoon Of
September IL she entered his apartment
and stole pocketbook from a dresser
darkeniDg his life to the extent OF $19
III Sdoh anu a uldH1OHQ ring valued at
SIPS. She was held in $500 bail for
examination on Monday
Three negroes were arrested after a
fight and chase last night and later
confessed at the West Twenty-second
street station that they were Ephraim
Roe. an elevator operator of 241 West
1920 street; Raymond Smith, a chauffeur
of 100 West l39th street, and Gueon-
weuer Meyers, mechanic of the same
address but denied knowing nothin'
about no $4,000 worth of clothes"
They were caught by Patrolman Charles
Westervelt. who said that while out
side the loft building at 1872 Fifth ave-
nue. he noticed two men come out, hail
a taxi and make a deposit of bundles
inside.
Cop Becomes Suspicious.
When a third figure came out and re-
peated the performance, the patrolman
decided to investigate. After learning