The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-12
BANDITS STAY, THEN
FLEE EMPTY HANDED
Brooklyn Shopkeeper Killed
During Holdup by Two
in Store.
WIFE SEES MURDERERS
Baby in Crib Sleeps Through
ShoOting-Pursuers Of
Pair BaffIed.

One of those wanton murders by hold
UP men, who in this case did not profit
so much as one cent by the taking OF
human life, stirred the Rldgewood sec
ton of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon.
Samuel Wolchock was shot in his cigar
candy and stationary store at EOS wyck-
of avenue. A bullet penetrated his
heart, but he ran forty feet before drop
ping dead.
His wife chased one of the robbers In
the street, but lost him. Her baby
slept through everything in his crib in
the Wolchock home back of the store.
Her older girl and boy came home
from school swinging their books in
black oilcioth bags. Policemen were
tramping in and out of the store with
witnesses and talking to the mother at
the counter. No others were admitted
Many persons buzzed and CAPPED on the
pavements. For hours the two school
children were part OF the crowd. No one
had the heart to tell them what had
taken place; all were waiting for the
mother to do that So It was almost dark
when Marion Wolchock, 8 years old. and
her brother, Percy. 6 years and In IA at
the public school, found out that their
father was dead.
wife Sees HoIdup.
Hundreds of small merchants have
stores just like that OF Wolchock, living
In rooms at the rear and having their
wives help them walt on customers. Two
young men, one thin and OF medium
height, the other short and stocky.
entered the store at 2 p. NJ. One of
them asked for a stick Of licorice and
laid down a nickel wolchock, on the
other side of the glass counter, handed
over the licorice and walked a few feet
to put the nickel into the drawer OF the
cash register.
II must have been a second or two
later that the storekeeper's wife, hear
Ing loud voice III the store. LEFT her
kitchen. From the threshold between
the store and the fat she saw her hus-
band near the cash register holding both
hands above his head. A stranger, also
back of the counter, was pointing q re-
volver at him. Another stranger, at the
front OF the store. was in the act of
pulling down a green roller shade hiding
the interior of the store from any one in
the street.
Mrs. Wolchock screamed. ran through
the fat to hallway giving access from
Wyckoff avenue to her home and the
tenements above. She ran through the
hallway to the avenue. While still In
the hallway she heard shots As she
gained the sidewalk, crying Murder 20
Help ~ the stranger whom she had
seen lowering the window shade walked
out OF the store right beside her and
turning south on Blocker street started
TO run. She ran after him, but was
soon outdistanced
Her shouts brought all of wyckon
avenue in that neighborhood out of
doors. William Mueller, who plays the
piano In the Wyckoff moving picture
theatre, opposite Wolchock's store,
chased the man he thinks was the one
Mrs. Wolchock was after. His quarry
ran down Blocker street and disap-
peared after turning and sprinting
along the Long Island Railroad freight
tracks that parallel Wyckoft avenue.
The piaho player and two youths who
Joined him boarded a passing automobile
belonging to the New York Public Ii
brary and tried to ind the fugitive. In
Greene avenue they sighted a man who
wore long green overcoat and was
walking fast.
Chase or Slayer Fails.
"1Ie had n big bulge IN his back
pocket" says Mueller We figured II
was a revolver rap,ap,haroJ e.. ~ .