The sun., 1919-09-19
CHAUFFEUR TAKEN
In BOND ROBBERY
Driver Says He Was Forced
at Point Of Pistol to
Carry Bandits.
TAR GUILTY OF HoIDUP
Sailor Faces 90 Year Term
After Assembling and Strip
ping Victim.

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The detectives investigating the hotel
yesterday when they arrested Thomas
HanIey, Is. Of ass West Forty-third
street. who they say drove the autosno-
bile IN which str men were taken to the
Irving Bond Company. ss4 Fulton street,
Brooklyn. where 5000 in bonds and
cash were stolen Friday night Three
Of the men who took part In the theft
are said to be Thomas Burke. George
Hope and Edward Mcintyre. now held
for the four hotel robberiss
Distriet Attorney Lewis Of Brooklyn
interviewed Hanley at Manhattan Police
Headquarters and said he obtained
confession. Mr.. Lewis stated HanIey
told him the six robbers had engaged
him TO take them to Coney Island. but
when they reached Fulton street In
Brooklyn ordered him 90 stop the car.
They all got out, had q drink and all but
one Of the men disappeared.
Men FLED ny Trolley.
When they returned Haniey said one
Of them showed a revolver against his
rios and told him TO drive to Third ave-
nue. and Union street There all six
boarded q trolley. Hanley denied he re-
ceived any of the stolen money. Mr..
Lewis said.
HanIsy was arrested at Broadway and
rhirty-ninth street early yesterday
morning by Detectives England and
n SAL
suspected Of taking part Ia the Brooklyn
robbery IL being continued.
Harry Sexton. wearing his uniform as
sailor. was found guilty Of robbery,
FIRST degree before County Judge Me-
Dermott in Brooklyn, and Is liable 20
twenty years imprisonment as q re-
peated offender. He has served two
jail terms, once for assault. and the
second time for eriminally receiving
stolen goods. His conviction yesterday
was for assaulting and robbing John
Tvyman. a street cleaner. who lived
alone at I'll Pacific street. Brooklyn.
on January ? Twyman was found suf-
fering from a heavy blow on The head
He was robbed Of 5000. Sexton said he
aved at $50 Fresh Pond road.
Three stores Looted.
Three stores in the vicinity OF Central
and Knickerbocksr avenues, Brooklyn.
were entered early yesterday morning
and 1856 taken from a cash register
in one of thenl- In the other two places
the burglars were frightened away. The
place robbed was the confectionery
store of William Bartel, 72s Knicker-
booker avenue. The police at first re-
fused to admit the robbery had taken
place.
rutrtt. r.,-n..u N -, .--..&oS
as q piekpocket on complaint of Simon
Friedman Of West 18th street. who
said he was waiting for q train at 11sth
street and Lenox avenue when his wallet
containing $40 was TAKEN he saw
rJeannette running Up the stairs to the
street and followed. Jeanette said he
was a plano polisher living at 1902
Hoe avenue, The Bronx, and denied
the charge Detectives said they found
the lost money In a bag tied around
his neck He was held in $4,000 ball
in Washington Heights court
Another robbery, in which the thieves
apparently so little feared police inter-
ference they used a truck or van to cart
away articles OF furniture. came to light
yesterday when IL became known that
the home of Frederick Bruce, 500 Madt-
son avenue. had been raDacked on Au-
gust % At first the police in the East
Sfxty-seventh street station denied there
had been a robbery at the house At all
Later, when Mr.. Bruce's neighbors told
the details. the police admitted the
house had been robbed, but said the
amount Of stun taken probably did not
equal one-third OF the $4,000 which the
neighbors said was the thieves revenue
The Bruce home was closed for the
summer, the family being at Mr.. Bruee's
summer place In the White Mountains.
After other valuables had been gathered
up the robbers apparently took liking
to some of the larger pieces OF furni-
ture and carted them away too. Al
though detectives have been at work on
the case since the robbery was discov-
cred none OF the stolen goods has been
recovered and they have no clue to the
thieves
Held ms Housebreaker.
The police yesterday captured James
Mack, alias James McCaffery. whom they
charge with being the houssbreaker who
took advantage OF the absence of York
Vile residents at the Pershing parade
September 10 and robbed six apartments
in Lexington avenue Mack said he Is
Sc and has been Itving at the Salvation
Army lodging house, 223 Bowery.
Mack was arFaigned in Yorkville
court. where the six who were robbed
were given a chance to look him over.
A Z. Burrell. landscape architect Of
$40 Lexington avenue, Identified Mack
in court as the man he saw leaving his
apartment when he returned from the
parade The police are looking for a
second man believed TO be Mack's ae-
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