The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-21
TWO HOLDUPS LAID
TO EX-SERVICE MEN
Three RObberies and q Bur-
glary in Days Crime List
Reported to Police.

Three holdups and burglary were in
cluded in the latest chapter OF the local
crime wave reported TO the police yes
terday. Ex-service men are accused in
two robberies. while a woman IL charged
with the burglary.
William F. Watson, chief engineer of
the Rits-Carlton Hotel. reported to the
police that he had been held up about
midnight on West Forty-sixth street, a
few doors from the hotel. by Ave men in
navy uniforms, who closed about him as
he crossed Fifth avenue. They took 500
from him, he says. at the points Of their
revolvers after showing him into door
way.
An alarm sent out for the roundup OF
all sailors in the vincinity resulted in a
dozen arrests. All were released except
two. who were Unidentified by Watson as
among his assailants The prisoners
gave their names as William T. Demp-
sey. 10. of the L. s. s. Stevens and
James II. McCleney. 10. OF the u. S. s.
San Francisco. Magistrate Edgar "
rockingham in the Yorkville police
court held them in $1,000 bail on a
charge Of highway robbery.
Accused by Liquor Dealer.
Max Brustein. liquor dealer who
was robbed on March 10, identified
Dempsey as one of Ave men who had
beaten him and stolen a diamond ring
pin and $50 in cash. No money was
found on either man, but McCleney, the
police said. had a revolver.
Anthony Safer. a cabman, OF 414 Am
sterdam avenue, was the victim of an
attempted holdup by two negroes who
had hired his cab at Eighth avenue and
Forty-frst street soon after o'clock
mr. In sraw a..
street. near Ninth avenue, both men got
out and presented revolvers at the driver
with demand that he hand over his
money. Instead Safer drove rapidly
off. Later he recognized the men on
Central Park West and informed a po-
liceman.
They gave their names as Jesse Ma
jor, 3S7 West Thlrty-ift street, whose
papers showed him to be a former mem
Der of the old Fifteenth Infantry. and
Robert Aldsup. II. of Ala West Thirty
sixth street.
The third holdup reported was ap-
parently the work of a young man Of
unsound <.ind who had been reading the
stories of the robbery OF the Freeport
Bank According to the story told to
the Maspeth. l.. l., police by Edgar Volt
chauffeur for Mrs. Margaret Gage of
Sanford avenue. Flushing, A young man
who had asked Volt for a lift as he was
returning from Manhattan over the
greensboro Bridge IN his employers car
suddenly displayed a revolver when they
reached Corona and told the chauffeur
TO drive where he ordered.
Hunting for Bank to Rob.
The man talked about the FreepoTt
robbery as they drove through Corona
and Elmhurst and remarked that he too
was looking for a bank to rob. When
they finally reached Maspeth without
passing such an institution the stranger
ordered Volt to stop opposite a hotel at
IS Fresh Pond road, where he entered
the building. held up Louise Hohloh
daughter OF the proprietor. took 500
from the cash drawer and escaped IN the
machine which Volt had abandoned AZ
ter running II few blocks he stalled
the engine and left it in the road
Mrs. Dore Shnurr. IS years old. OF 40
East 1920 street was arraigHed in the
Harlem police court on charge of
burglary made by Abraham Friedman
OF East 120th street, who testified that
he found the prisoner ransacking his
apart ment the evening before. Eight
keys found in Mrs Shnurrs possession
were produced in court She declared
that she was looking for the ONCE of n
dentist in the building.