New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
4 Shot, Dead
Days sCrine in
New York City
Three Major Cases and Many
Burglaries in Brooklyn;
No Clues to Work On
Murder in Manhattan
Also Cash Register Below
Fulton Street Dead Line
RiAed During the Night

Daring criminals made Brooklyn
their playground yesterday. One man
was murdered and two others shot.
Safes were cracked, houses burglar
i,sa pedestrians waylaid and beaten
by thugs and merchants held up and
robbed in their stores.
With all their energies rected
toward apprehending the two bandits
who the day before took $4,000 from
an Emergency Fleet Corporation pay
master, the police Of the borough were
ill.prepared to coe with the new out
b&ak of crime.
Meanwhile the Manhattan authori
ties, still seeking the second of the
tyo robbers who staged daylight
holdup in Madison Avenue jewelry
store Friday, found themselves con-
fronted with an East Side murder mys-
.try and the first burglary to be COM
mitted below the Fulton Street dead
line" in months.
Paymaster Still Held
Neil 'Sheftall, the Emergency Fleet
Corporation paymaster, who was ar
nssed on a charge of "acting in con-
cert" with the h ghwaymen who took
tie payroll money, was arraigned yes
.rday in the Fifth Avenue Court and
held without bail for a hearing Mon
day. He Atoutlv denies completely in
the crime although admitting he is the
same man who was arrested under the
name Of Charles Tharles on a forgery
charge in 1902 That charge was dis
missed.
Brooklyns re gn OF terror was ush-
cred in at l o'clock yesterday morn
ing, when three masked men alighted
from black taxicab in front of the
saloon at 1902 Thirty-ninth Street and
entered the place with drawn revol-
Vers They found Frank Petrozza, part
owner OF the saloon, alone behind the
bar. He was tabulating the nights
receipts, preparatory to closing.
His Loss Is $3.50
While two of the robbers guarded
the front and side doors, the third or
dered Petrozza away from the cash
register. He fed this and a drawer
behind the bar which he forced the
saloonkeeper to unlock. Petrozza
places his loss at $3.50 in cash and $50
worth Of iewelry.
After warning him that an outcry on
a's part would bring them back to kill
nn, the holdup men calmly walked
oat got into the black taxi and were
@iven of. Petrozza caught a heeting
s'impse Of the car as it sped away and
says the last three dig is of the license
number were "073."
a few hours later. Patrolman Pope
oi the Liberty Avenue station, fount
Dr. Harry Balzhiser's drugstore, a
-is5 Fulton Street, with the door un
'ocsed and the lights turned on. En-
'erns, be came upon DR.. Balzshiser ly
ng behind the counter, unconscious ant
0leeding from bullet wound in tn,
light side Of his head.
ine druggist said two youths, abou
elghteen years old each, came into nj
ssore shortly after midnight and aske
'sr bottle OF liniment When h
'arnsd to the shelf to get it, one 0
aefn shot him. While he lay insens
io!a on the floor they took $40 from
'as till and leisurely looted the show
1ses OF such merchandise as they de
sired.
Looking for Cocaine
Ds' Balzshser's wound is not seri
'as. He said the shallow complexio
s'a general appearance Of his assail
sn's leads him to believe they are dru
'sa'e's and that they picked out
poarmsey to rob nthe hope Of obtain
20 cocaine or morphine.
marry Banz, sailor attached TO tn
,V Ridge Barracks, encountered
.s''pad at Washington and Sane
Ts.eo', Brooklyn. who fclled him TO tn
sNs"alk and relieved him of $40 job
NS"ovsrn, who said he had no HON
arrested near the scene by D,
Nssivs Bridgetts.
askree Of mystery surrounds II
s''''ing Of Morris Biencnstock in h
y"s' lzso Forty-seyenth Street, Brool
~ Policeman Grama, Of the Par
s''s station, heard the report Of
'v''sr IN the house, and as ne star
W the front steps 70 inycstigat
man running out. He placed hi
'Ssf arregt. The prisoner, who IA
"SH Adoiph Hoekman, Of zl3 Cur
'Ahd strsst, was later arraig1ed
1 F'aIbush Court and held in $40
On . charge III carrying conceal
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