The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-13
ROBBERY SEQUEL IN
10TH V. WHITE WAY
I'VE Denizens Of District Ac-
cused of Sharing $4,000
Of Express Loot.
ENDS THREE DAY WONDER
Sailors Flush With Long
Green Vanish After Cut
ting a Swath.

4h,eo women and two men were ar
,sr,ed yesterday on charges Of grand
larceny In having received .s17.006
,,ol,n from the American Railway Ex-
orss, Company, and held in $4,000 bail
,.eh IN the Jefferson Market Court. all
b.c.use there are places on Tenth avenue
where neutrality-suspicious. anybody
xbo acts like q sallor--can get more
than his 2.75 per cent worth. Bartenders
ara always kinds to sailors. and they
take what amounts almost to a family
interest in scSfaring persons with their
pockets oozlng greenbacks.
Tn, ROBBERY which put i've OF the
Iover Tenth avenue set to the incon-
vsnlence Of going to court occurred in ar
srnress car at Long Island City Septem
ber 4, and a messenger employed by the
express company was suspected of draw
Ing down the prize. While special
agents Of the company were out looking
.or him they learned that two men. cor
responding strangely to the employee
md pal, had been trying to show that
tenth avenue could rival Broadway.
Those acute students OF human nature
had noticed them during three days,
mastered with bills and otherwise. The
pair indicated by the way they navigsted
Tsnth avenue that they were seamen--
and also there was plenty Of green
sround them. 1t was noticed that as
ths going grew heavier and the glass
dropped-to use a nautical phrase-t1at
The $50 notes began to fiutter from their
pockets more frequently, and the sea-
faring language spluttered faster from
their lips
They would enter a 2.75 exchange and
say in their sailor jargon, Lets splice
the main brace" meaning pipe all hands
on deck and wet the whistle. Oddly
enough, the bartenders would grasp this
like lightning and bring out the ais, or
beer to that effect. Then the visitors
would hoist a IS or $40 bill with the
remark 'nautically, Keep the change :"
and uncanny as It may seem. the bar
tenders would understand this deep sea
lingo too.
In fact, It came to be understood all
up and down Tenth avenue in short
time for the more they looked on the
s75 when it was something else, the
more their fancy was caught by any
little knicknack into which they CHANGED
the avenue picked up quite a little
marine phraseology and currency in the
three days, wondering If the financial
seat Of New York was being transported
from Wall Street to the district between
Twentieth and Thirtieth streets.
Women who didn't care whether their
NAUTICAL character was real 80 long as
their money was. made the acquaintance
Of the pair. and their smiles speedily
became golden. Several were said to
have annexed 5000 or $500 each, which
meant that just that more was added
to the Fl Dorado of Tenth avenues
business section.
But suddenly the two men who had
been posing as sailors with enough
back pay to irrgate a desert disap-
peared. perhaps because Assistant
United States Attorney Cotter took a
hand and several men and women were
made to answer Yes" or mo- to very
personal questions. Search warrants
were issued to ferret out the hidden
treasures in Tenth avenue tenements,
and the trail is said to have led Maurice
A. Newheld, a special agent, to the
homes Of those arrested by him yester-
day.
The defendants were Mrs Eleanor
Notice, 10 years old, 2S2 Tenth avenue /;
Iustus Fredas, 81. bus boy. 11S West
Twenty-e' ghth street Mrs. Jennie Whei-
land, A, dressmaker. 40 West Twenty
ninth street; John S. Murray, %. truck
driver, 2s2 Tenth avenue, and Mary
Campanelta, IT. cigarette maker, 80
West Twenty-ninth street.
In the complaint presented yesterday
by Newfield to Magistrate Corrigan in
court, the agent stated that the stolen
money had been divided asong the
defendants by the suspected employee.
who is still a man of leisure somewhere.