The sun., 1919-02-16

A blow from n table leg Knocked him
out, and when Policeman Harry States
found him $40 was gone from his pocket.
states chased stranger, whom he
caught several blocks away. The sus-
pect said he was John J. McGovern, a
machinist. IS years old.
Norris Bienenstock was shot as the re-
suit Of a family quarrel. His brother
in-law. Adolph Bookman, is said TO have
threatened that Bienenstock would never
attend his daughters wedding next Tues
day. Early yesterday they met nc Tenth
avenue and Forty-seventh street and
Bienenstock was shot twice through the
leg. Policeman Branmer caught Book
man after r. long chase. He Is held In
$1,000 bail for felonious assault
The firm Of Tyson White 4 Sons Is on
the second floor of $40 Bridge street.
Cracksmen concealed themselves in the
building over night and ripped open the
safe with tools OF the engineer of the
building. A similar robbery took place
in Manhattan paper box factory last
week.
John Ward. arrested for entering the
apartment of Mrs. Catherine Powell. So
Wyckoff street. Ia IS years old He was
Intoxicated and was getting away with
q clock when Detective Clair arrested
him.
The Detective Bureau gave Its chief
attention yesterday to the pay roll rob-
berry OF Friday. Nell Sheftall. the Gov
errment paymaster. who was arrested
after the holdup at Carroll and Clinton
streets, maintained his innocence OF COM
plicity in the affair His father and
uncle appear In the rogues' gallery as
forgers. and he himself was arrested in
October. 1909, for a forgery in Blocker
street, but was not convicted.
The one clue the police have IL the fake
auto license tag on the stolen taxi used
when Sheftall and his two companions
were robbed. This tag bore the number
"152-S41." On the assumption that the
car lay in a garage from "Wednesday
eight, when It was stolen, until Friday.
the garages were canvassed by detectives
yesterday. but with no avail.
Under the bogus name OF James b.
Lane. s64 East Teeth street, The Bronx,
the thieves got the license tag from the
Secretary Of States Office. which makes
no investigation of applicants for tags.
I'VE are up against a pretty tough
proposition in the taxicab problem" said
Capt. Coughlin yesterday. 1T II the
surest means OF getaway for criminals,
and detectives tell me several convicts
are driving machines around New YORK
and Brooklyn. They cannot be mo-
Tested, TOR they We tho fiBnt 70 OWN eheh
means of getting q living.
For the first time In many months
burglary occurred in New York below
Fulton street, the so-celled dead line"
The two entrance doors OF tho cigar
store of J. w. Surbrug. Inc. 156 Broad
way. wero wedged open and $S5 was
| taken from tho cash register. though
none OF the merchandise wns touched.
| In another compartment OF the till was
SIS, which was overlooked.
The robbery was discovered by John
Gerrathy, a clerk, when he arrived TO
open the store in the morning. The
cash register was In full view from
/ the street, on which persons are con-
tinually passing day and night. but the
burglary appeared to have been Effected
without attracting the notice Of pass
| ersby.
store and Customers Robbed.
Two audacious holdup men. not con-
tent with rifiing the cash register OF
| Arthur Pats shoe store at Sol West
! Fifty seventh street last night at $50
o'clock and with running through the
pockets Of two customers, locked the
storekeeper and patrons in back room,
! fred a few shots about tho place and
then ran shooting down Fifty-seventh
street in the direction Of Eleventh ave-
nue.. making their escape.
Norris Binder Of Ss2 Eleventh avenue
and Harry D. Addelman OF 2s7 East
Tenth street were In the Patt store
when two men came in. Harry att
son of the proprietor. started TO walt or
! the robbers Instead they waited or
him with guns, driving him and his two
4, customers into back room, where they
were locked in until the cash register
was robbed. after which the intruders
went through the pockets Of the three
prisoners. obtaining a watch ana rims
from Addlemann. Binder. however
saved $50 in cash by hiding II.