New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Police Learn of New Case
as 4 Boys Plead Guilty of
$4,000 Securities Theft
Stolen Bonds Recovered
Auto Aids Uptown Bandits;
Three Men Held for
Other RObberies in CITY

themselves yesterday because they had
arrested five youths charged with hold
ing up and robbing sixteen-y year old
Milton Strohm of 500 600 worth of Sc
curities in a hallway at 81 Broadway,
another successful holdup and robbery
of $4,000 payroll occurred in Harlem.
Other crimes Of similar nature were
reported to the police yesterday in
Manhattan and Brooklyn
From Gustave Mignone twenty years
old, of ITO Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn,
arrested late Friday afternoon, Detec-
tives Mayer, Brown, Hyams, Gilfillan
and Maringolo learned that Mignone's
brother, Theodore Mignone, sixteen
years DID, had planned to rob Strohm.
The detectives waited nearly all night
outside the Mignone home for Theo
dorc to come home. They arrested An
thony, another brother, seventeen years
old, before midnight, and then an
other youth, Edwin Andreas, nineteen.
of 1863 Anslie Street, was rounded up.
He told where Theodore might be
found.
The detectives found him at 4:10
Saturday morning in lodging house
at 339 Broadway. He had been tipped
off that the police were on his trail.
After that the detectives arrested
Lester Ostertag, seventeen, at his
home, 1856 Humboldt Street
Detectives Find Plumber
At first Theodore Mignone denied
all connection with the theft, but
later, the police say, he admitted it,
and declared that he had himself been
robbed of the securities. Finally he
told the detectives the loot could be
found in shop owned by Andreas's
father. at 271 Manhattan Avenue,
Brooklyn. There, buried in an old
water trap, the detectives found it.
The bag, as Theodore said it would be,
was found in a pile of debris on the
uptown platform of the Cortlandt
Street station of the Seventh Avenue
subway. He had thrown it there af-
ter escaping from the building follow
ing the attack on Strohm.
Theodore admitted he had been dis
charged three weeks ago from the
brokerage house of Henry Staier, IS
Broadway for fighting with the
cashier. He had been making SIC
week, he said, and by playing the
bucket shops, he said, he had made
$18 or so week extra. After his dis
charge, he said, h had planned to
"put the thing owe alone. He said
he took his brother and Ostertag and
Andreas into the tt ng. They were all
employed as messengers in Wall
Street.
81 struck Strohm with a wire bound
Insulation. | didn't mean to hurt him
very bad, and I'nl sorry if | did," he
told Mayer and Brown as he was being
arraigned before Magistrate Simpson
In the Tombs court.
He said Ostcrtag was in the building
when the attack was made, but he did
not take part in it. All that Andreas
did, he said. was TO take charge of the
loot and hide it, Gustave Mignonc. his
brother. Theodore said, was to sell the
securities and divide the proceeds.
The three Mignones and Ostertag,
when arraigned in the Tombs court
pleaded guilty % robbery and grand
larceny. Andreas pleaded not guilty.
They were all held in $4,000 bail
each for the grand Jury and taken to
the 1ombs in default. There they de-
clncd to discuss their cases with re
porters.
The three Mignone boys arc the sons
Of Charles Mignone, retired barber.
There are seven children in the family.
The father said Theodore had recently
suffered from fever" and must have
been mentally unbalanced.
The detectives reported that all the
stolen securities were recovered, and
at the Broad Street Hospital, where
young Strohm was taken, suffering
from fracture OF the skull, it was
said he would probably recover.
Harlem Robbers Make Escape
The Harlem robbery occurred yester-
day Just before noon. Two messengers
employed by the Sinclair & Valentine
Dye Company, of Gil West 10th Street,
were entering the Offices of the CON
Germ, just east OF Broadway, with So
800 payroll, when they were confronted
by robbers, who thrust revolvers under
their noses and demanded the money.
Before either could make an outcry the
robbers had snatched the money,
dashed outside and escaped in wait
ing automobile
Inc men then ran outside, screaming.
tclice and pedestrians came running UP
10 them and a passing automobile was
commandeered and went in pursuit Of
the robbers, but the car vanished
toward the Fort Lee Ferry and was
soon out of sight.
acting Captain Richard McKenna. Of
the West l25.h Street police station,
assigned twelve detectives to the case
The messengers were Anthony Match,
nineteen. Of 367 Edgecombe Avenue
VINO has been with the firm four wears
ana Henry Bnhrrnester, twenty Years
old, OF Yonkers. He has been with the
company two years
according to the police. Michael I.o-
reddo, eighteen, of 2349 Pacific Street
Brooklyn. has admitted participating
in three holdups recently, and has i'm.
piicated Tony Bagdonowitz, of 542
Sackman Street, and Aiphonse Monte
Of l27 Stone Avenue, ali Of whom are
held in the New Jersey Avenue police
court for assault and robbery. II If
alleged they held up and robbed Isl
dore Bass, tailor, of 1871 Williams
Avenue, and Benjamin Hoffman, gro
<.F al.