New-York tribune., 1919-03-16

req. ZS.-Ihe branch once OF tne
Standard Oil Company, 61o West For
and the contents of the safe taken.
March 2.-Two hold-up men drove a
mail wagon automobile in front Of
Samuel Shapiro's candy store, 568
Eleventh Avenue, and robbed Shapiro
of $3.50. The men left the store, got
into the automobile truck and drove
away.
March 3.-George Tatas. SOB Broad.
way, Long Island City, was attacked
and robbed in East Fifty-ninth Street,
near Second Avenue.
arrested charged with having entered
the brokerage Office of Isaac Leder-
man, 131 East 106th Street, and held
him up. Lederman was ordered to
throw up his hands. When he cried
police" he was struck on the head.
Mikoluesky and supposed confederate
were frightened away.
March 3.-The home of Henry Wei
ner, 895 West End Avenue, was robbed
Of jewelry valued at $4,000.
$4,000 in One Robbery
March 8.-Milton Strohm, messen-
ger for the brokerage firm Of L. M.
Prince, was beaten with black jack
and robbed of s63,000 in Liberty
bonds, stocks and certified checks on
the fourth floor Of the Chase National
Bank Building, 81 Broadway.
March 4.-Louis Zabllanski drygoods
merchants, 24O East Forty-fourth
Street, reported he was robbed Of $240
and a watch and a diamond ring at
the point of a revolver.
March 8--Two bandits held up the
cashier and assistant cashier Of Sin
clair & Valentine, ink manufactur-
ers, in the vestibule of 609 and Gil
West 129th Street, and robbed them Of
$3,8OO.
March 1o-The safe in the Adelphi
Theatre, 24o9 Broadway, was robbed of
$1,000 in cash and $1,000 in Liberty
bonds.
March 10-Joseph Crouther, manager
Of a grocery store at 247 Sumner Ave
nue., Brooklyn, was held up and beaten
with piece of gas pipe. The robbers
were frightened away by Crouther's
cries for help.
March 1o-Isadore Rosenfeld was
held up in his stationery store, at 81
Park Avenue, Brooklyn. He was robbed
of $780,
March 11-Alleged burglars found in
the apartment of Mrs. Lillian Dixon,
300 West 153d Street, attacked Patrol
man Gamble, Of the 152d Street police
station, a tenant in the house, and he
was severely slashed. The men had at
tackled Mrs. Dixon.
March 12-Max Green, an umbrella
manufacturer, was held up and robbed
of an $1,000 diamond ring and $40 in a
hallway of his home.
March 12-Sarah Bernsky, employed
by the Fifth Avenue Dress Company,
144 Fifth Avenue, was robbed of $3.50
in the Public National Bank, Broad
WAV and TWentv-fifth Street
March 12-The Cosmopolitan Bank,
803 Prospect Avenue, The Bronx, was
robbed of $4,000.
Woman Robbed in Street
March 11.-Mrs. May Taylor, of 1873
East 122d Street, robbed by three men
at 121st Street and Sylvan Place; two
armed men entered drug store of
Julius Siegelman, of % St. Nicholas
Avenue, and ordered occupants to
throw up their hands" Burglar
alarm was "set" and after firing two
March 12.-While two armed men
held three customers at bay in the
drug store Of Kapalob & Chadaby,
165th Street and Amsterdam Avenue,
third took the cash in the register.
This was the fourth robbery in the
neghborhood in three weeks.
March A2.-Max Green a manufact-
urer, of 1853 Vyse Avenue, was held
up in the doorway of his home and
robbed of jewslry and money amount
ting to $1,500; Sanshiro Ogihara, a
Bank Of Coney Island building when
one of gang of thieves grabbed a
handbook from his hand and ran away.
1t contained 5000 and several checks;
Henry Bucek, q messenger for Lam
bert Brothers, jewellers, at Fifty
eighth Street and Third Avenue, was
held up at the point of revolver and
in the hallway of 65 John Street;
Henry Poliakof. a Brooklyn tailor,
was held up and beaten in his store
and robbed of few cents.
March 13-Policeman William Null
fry, attached to the West 152d Street
station was walking to the 145th
Street subway station when ap-
preached by youth who demanded
money; Mulfry refused and the boy
stunned him with blows on The head
with a blackjack; the policeman was
in citizens clothes; shots fired by Null
fry attracted the attention of other
policeman, who arrested the boy
Charles Birchall, stevedore, was held
up at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-third
Street, Brooklyn; despite the display
of an automatic Birchall fought the
men and Still possesses his money and
jewelry; one Of the highwaymen shot
Birchall in the groin. Meyer Miller,
his brother, Benjamin, and George
Morganbasser, arrested by Captain Nc
Kenna; the captain said they could
answer for the theft of fifty automo-
biles within the last three months.
The store of Bernard Zolotarofe, at 1863
Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, was en-
tered and the proprietor was forced to
empty the register of $28. Detective
Stretch Hauppmann, driving q truck
along West 120th Street with load of
merchandise worth $4,000, when he was
held up by bandit who commanded
him to drive the wagon to more quiet
thoroughfare; q second detective fol-
lowing the wagon came to Haupp-
mann's relief and the bandit was ar
rested. Herbert Brody, thirteen-year-
old schoolboy, of SO Seventh Street,
was robbed in the street of $40 belong
ing to his teacher. Six men armed with
revolvers entered Solomon Greenberg's
drug store, at Wales Avenue and 152d
Street, The Bronx, and took $500 from
the register and customers and escaped
in an automobile. Mrs. Berenice Manix,
Of 203 West Ninety-eighth Street
missed $1,000 worth of jewelry after
delivery of merchandise to her apart
ment. general alarm was sent out
for the recovery Of Police Depart
ment automobile used by Inspector
Cornelius Cahalane, of the Sixth In
spcction District. 1t was left standing