New-York tribune., 1919-09-20
Girl Tells Police
OF Robbingg Fifty
Apartment Houses
Worked Faithfully Every
Day, Giving M o t h e T.
$40 a Week, She Says
in Written Confession

Molly Rosen, sixteen years old. who,
according to her confession, is the
hardest worked burglar in New York
City, was arraigncd before Magistrate
Norman J. March in Morrsana Court
yesterday and held in $4,000 bail for
further examination.
Within >the past three months the
girl says she has robbed fifty apart
ment houses in tho Hunts Point dis
trct of The Bronx. Recently, she as
scrts, she has committed three rob
berries day and has worked faithfully
six days a week. In all. she estimates.
her efforts in~thc last three months
have obtained for her $4,000 in cash
and an equal amount in jewelry.
The girls confession. which she
signed Immediately following her ar
rest. was presented in court Yesterday
by Deputy Assistant District Attorney
Herman Fiederbaum. Detectives who
arrested the girl said that she had
job downtown and received pay OF $50
week. This amount she gave her
mother faithfully every Saturday
night. z
Told Story When Caught
IN her confession the girl said that
before entering an apartment house
she would memOriZc some name in the
vcstibu]c mail boxes. IF any one asked
her what she was doing wandering
about the halls OF the place. she would
say that she WAS looking for so and So.
She would try the apartment doors
until she found one unlocked and then
take Whatever came to hand. II capt
ured. as she was several times. she told
q heart rendering story about her sick
mother and was promptly released.
The complainant against her yester-
day was Herman Friedman, OF 927
Kelly Street, The Bronx. He charged
that, on September IL. the girl en-
tered his apartment and stole from
the dresser a pocket-book containing
a diamond ring and $40 in cash.
Molly Rosen's case was perhaps the
most picturesque in a day that had its
/ full share of other crimes.
Two Seized in Chase
Following chase and fight Jacob
T. Fatclas. of 1871 Orchard Stscct. and
isidcrc Mandonicl, Of 2s5 Brocme
Street. were taken TO tho East Twcn-
charge Of having robbed the en-
brodcry factory Of George Mendcl &
i Son, 26 East Twenty Street, of
silk thread valued at $25,O0O
The police yesterday reported the
recovery of truckload of silk shir1-
ing valued at $4,000, stolen Septcm.
ber a. The alleged loot was found in
the cellar of Max Deitchman, 2725
Third Avenue, the police said Dcitch-
man was taken into custody.
Leon Levy, twcnty-seNcn years old
CT 245 West 116th Street. employed al
Hcaly's restaurant, 145th Street anc
Broadway, as a check boy, is in thC
Knickerbocker Hospital suffering from
decorations of the scalp and burn:
about the scalp and face, received whel
resisting the efforts of two hold-uE
men to rob him and two friends while
in an automobile at 134th Street ant
st. Nicholas Avenue. Levy was strucl
over the head with the butt end Of
revolver, and when he continued to re
sist shot was fired which went wild
The hold-up men escaped.
Apartment Robbed Third Time
For the third time within montl
the apartment house at 55i West lS4tl
Street has been robbed. Burglars en-
tered the apartment of Henry l.. Sick
lass yesterday and stole Liberty bond
and jewelry valued at 1000.
The apartment of Komey Barbc LA
1863 Park Avenue. Brooklyn. within
block and half Of the Flushing Ave
nue. police station, has been ransacke
and robbed four times within ten days
, Harbela's rooms yesterday, after tn
fourth visit Of the burglars. resemble
a place hit by tornado. Chairs an
other furniture werc smashed and scat
tered about the rooms and drawer
! with their contents strewn over tn
floors testified to the haste with whc
the burglars worked. The burglar
made their first visit on September II
and followed it up with others OH tn
two days following.