New-York tribune., 1919-12-30
4 Adjoining e Shops
OF Broadway Are
Looted i'm a Night
Other Burglaries Since
Christmas Eve Bring Total
of Known Yhefis in Last
Days TO Nearly 1000

Burglars broke into four adioin
ing business establishments in West
Forty-sSth Street a. one time, it was
learned yesterday. and removed goods
and cash amounting approximately to
$1,000.
The robbery took place between Sat
urday midnight and 3 o'clock Sunday
morning. At 157 West Forty-sixlh
Street the tailoring shop Of J. Beleta
was cleaned out Of $500 worth Of cloth
ing. At 159 the Motion Picture Actors
Association lost $40 in cash from a
desk which had been pulled out Of the
office OF the association into hallway
and broken open.
Steal Four Roasted Chickens
On the ground floor Of l6l the regis
ter of the O. q W Restaurant was
riifed Of Sl5 and four roasted chickens
were taken from an ice-box. On the
second floor of 16l the tailoring estab-
Ashment OF j. Goldstcin was entered
through a front window and 5000 worth
OF goods taken out. Goldstein lost
~, COO IN previous robbery on June %
The victims say the robbers must
have had vehicles to haul their loot
away The places are within a dozen
steps Of the busiest section OF Broad
way and tho victims are at loss to
understand how the thieves got away
without being observed
Martin d. Greenwald d manufactures
OF blouscs at POS Fifth Avenue. reported
yesterday that some time or Christmas
Day robbers took $1,000 worth Of silks
from his place. They gained entrance
b! removing plate glass and All iron
!.
ment on the fifth floor Of the building
at that address.
Three thousand dollars worth Of
silks vas taken from the shop of Abe
CARTEL, al 24S West Twentv-third
Street, Oh Christmas Eve Mr.. CARTEL
SAID the robbers cut big hole in the
ceiling 10 enable them to remove me
plunder. truckload of stuff valued
a. $4,000 vas also reported to have been
stolen from the place OF l.. Wah az 395
Fourth Avenue.
$1,000 Thief,
More than nifty guests Of numerous
hotels of the city appeared at the
Jefferson Market Court Yesterday TO
Identify $40 600 worth Of loot which the
police charge was stolen by Harry Ed
ward Shelley and Maurice ]. Gray. De
'octlges Of the West Thirticth Stree,
station who caught the two Saturday
aight say that Gray and Shelley admit
having committed more than thirty-Hve
oulgiarles IN various hotels Of the city
within the last three months. Thcv
were held in $500 bail each bv Mag
strate Corriean for further examina-
tion to-day
Warren Kellogg. twency-nine wears
Old. OF a Mills Hotel, and Michael
Stevens, thlrty-two. of r. Macdougal
Street, were held under the same
amount, charged with having aided in
storing away the loot stolen by the
other two.
Legion Membership Denied
Shelley is thirty years old. and said
he was an actor. living at 45O West
Forty-sxth Street Gray is twenty
wears old also an actor, living at 5l9
ct tortieth Street. At places IN East
Eleventh Street, Bayard Street and East
Thirtysixth Street the police found
trunks full OF stuff which Shelley and
Gray. they say. admit having stolen
and stored for future disposal.
Shelley's statement that he was sec
retary Of Washington Post 10, OF the
American Legion. was denied by officers
of the New York County organization
Of the Legion, who say that there is
20 such post in the Legion Post 10 is
woman's post in Brooklyn.