New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Jeweller l. Shot
In Night Hold-Up
In South Brooklyn
Samuel Gold, i'll Hospital,
Identifies Man Taken by
Police as One of Robbers;
Second Man Makes Escape

A spectacular hold-up in a jewelry
store in the Bay Ridge section of
Brooklyn late last night made total
of twelve robberies reported by the
police in the greater city yesterday
Seven of the robberies occurred in
Manhattan. Numerous arrests were
made.
The only shooting Of the day punctu-
ated the Bay Ridge hold-up. Samuel
Gold, thirty-six, proprietor of a jew
elry store at 5515 Third Avenue, was
closing his shop at 10 o'clock when two
men entered. One was tall and spoke
with slow, Western drawl. The other,
considerably shorter, was apparently
Norwegian.
Gold was taking a tray Of rings out
Of the window, when the tall man
fourished a revolver and ordered him
to throw up his hands. The trayful
of rings fell TO the floor as Gold
obeyed. The shorter man bent over the
open safe and raked his fingers through
Jewelry-tilled trays.
Struck by Bullet
Gold unable to stand it any longer,
disregarded the revolver and leaped
for the man examining the Jewels. The
short man saw him coming and opened
fire. Gold stopped, bullet through
his right side.
The report of the revolver, "38,"
sent assersby scattering in all direc-
tions. The two men ran from the shop
and sped south along Third Avenue
At Fifty seventh Street they turned
toward Fourth Avenue The tall man
tossed gun over high board fence.
lie was ovcrhauled before he reached
The corner by Corporal Patrick Muir
name and Patrolman Louis Lerlane. Of
the Fourth Avenue police station. The
short man turned the corner and es-
capped.
At the station house the prisoner
gave his name as John D. Smythe,
twenty-one, of 421 Forty-eighth Street.
He said he was discharged from the
navy in January. His home is in Texas.
he said. The police say the pair have
three furnished rooms in various parts
OF the city.
Identified by Jewe1ler
Smythe was taken 10 the Norwegian
Hospital, where Gold identified him.
The Jeweller said, however, that the
smaller intruder and not Smythc fired
the shot. Physicians who are probing
for the bullet in Colds side said that
ms first lob" The East Brooklyn
Detectives intend to question Smythe
further. He maintains that this was
his first job" The East Brooklyn
savings bank murders and robbery
We're committed by a tall and short
man, the taller one described as speak
ing with a Slow, Western drawl
The S12,oV0 robbery in Brooklyn last
week came to the fore again yesterday
when Neil Sheftall, the paymaster of
is involved in the hodup, won his
release before Supreme Court Justice
Lazansky on writ of habeas corpus.
Sheftall's attorney contendcd that there
wasn't sufficient evidence to hold him
} Judge Lazansky decided for the
prisoner, and he was released.
Say They Found Pistol
Helen Smith, of 81 Halsey Street.
brooklyn, was arrested yesterday in
with the case of Nicholas Di
Vito. 1876 Marion Street; Peter Quiglev.
271S Atlantic Avenue. and James Mar
tin, Of 1850 Putnam Avenue. The three
boys are accused of being implicated IN
the shooting of Dr. Balzhiser in his
drug store at 2O4o Fulton Street lasr
Friday night The police said vester-
day that Di Vito admitted a share in
the affair.
When detectives went to the Halsev
Street address to arrest the bows thev
claim they found a revolver and a
blackjack IN the Smith girls room. All
three wero held for a further hearing
Tomorrow
Ciyde Vent, seaman. was ar
rested at the Hotel Central. CHARGED
with violating the Sullivan law. The
police say he is implicated in a rob-
berry of the store of sadore Taber
l4S West I'orty-second Street. on
| eburary Z. Fabcr said that two man