New-York tribune., 1920-12-23

were all discharged. The arrests were
made at 232 East Forty-tifth Street, 42S
East Seventieth Street, and 1876 East
Twenty-seventh Street.
Magistrate Koenig promptly dis
charged the boisterous carl players
when they were arraigned before him:
The Harlem safe crackers eluded
the Enright Rifles.
One Of the places robbed was the
jewelry store OF Abraham Senanke. at
50 West 125th Street. The burglars
gained access to the shop, which is on
the second floor, by climbing q ladder,
entering window and jimmying a
door from the hallway
Safe Rifed of Jewelry
They ripped the door of the safe
with a "can opener" and secured 400
watches, valued at $4,000, which had
safe Of Emanuel Backer, another
jeweler, in the same shop, had been
tinkered with. Nicholas Rodicc, janitor
of the building, discovered the robbery
when he came to work yesterday
morning.
Maurice Horowitz, druggist, Of 2297
Second Avenue, was the other victim.
The cracksmen got into the store
through a rear window, dragged his
safe to the prescription room, over
turned it and blew off the door. They
of about $500. Nitroglycerine was
used to blow the safe, after hole had
been made in the door with an electric
drill.
There were no signs that the rob-
ters had considered it necessary to
use any device to muffle the sound Of the
explosion. The assumption is they
timed it to coincide with the passing
of an train or a police automobile
rife squad in order to drown the noise.
Horowitz, reaching the store at 3
a. M, found the prescription room
looking as though it had been shelled
phernalia strewed the store. There
were evidences the shop had been
thoroughly and leisurely ransacked for
narcotics.
The druggist telephoned to the East
l26th Street police station.
at was two hours later before the
detectives got here" he said, "and ct
once warned me to say nothing to re-
porters about the robbery, as the police
were in bad enough as it was"
Horowitz said he was painfully i'm
pressed with the disintercsted, almost
nonchalant, manner of the sleuths in
surveying Inc scene OIL rum. tie
thought they might be young, mex
rerienced detectives, ignorant Of what
to do in case like that and came for
ward with the helpful suggestion that
they look around for tingerprints.
"Oh, no. he quotes one Of them as
remarking, these birds were regular
yeggs, and regular yeggs always wear
Gloves
Horowitz asserts he notified the
police the other day that the locality
of his store has long been infested with
suspicious characters. He feared he
might be robbed and asked for protec-
tion. The police came right back, he
said, with a warning that he had better
place good. strong locks on his doors
so burglars couldn't get in. He took
the advice and bought some new locks,
he added. but the cracksmen went in
by window.
Commissioner Enright's curfew rcgu-
lation may have had its effect on the
burglars who broke into Frank Kue's
, chor suey restaurant at 2130 Seventh
Avenue. At any rate, they waited until
10 o'clock yesterday morning to go to
WORK. The place opens for business
at noon. The intruders jimmied the
front door The canny Celestial hadn't
taken any chances and had left moth
ing IN has register, upon which the
burglars playfully rang up $3.50 with
out, however, putting the cash in the
drawer. They got away with some
cigars and cigarettes.
Mrs. W. B. Dickerman, Of 998 Fifth
avenue, yesterday offered q reward Of
81 ,oUo for the recovery Of furs valued
at soo'oUU she says were stolen from
ner automobile on November 27 last
"hile standing in that thorouehfare
Inactivity Of the police, who have never
made public the theft, led Mrs. Dicker-
man to offer the reward and tell the
newspapers tho story
Chauffeur Watched xunafic
she said on the day in question she
had taken from storage her husband'f
hussian sable coat worth $4,000 and 6
nutria lap robe. She put them in the
car, told the chauffeur to watch then
ana went into store TO do SONS
shopping
At this juncture the chaufeur's at.
yentloh was attracted by q supposed
lunatlc, who cut queer capers on the
slae"alk. During the performance ths
sable coat and nutria robe worn nh
stracted from the auto. The motor
man Oh bua saw a man take the furs
out by the time he stopped his vehicl,
ana called traffic policeman the THE.
had disappeared. In the exciteme1
the "lunatic" also got away.
One woman was in the police line-u,
yesterday morning among the allere,
Sullivan law violators. She Va
Edith Calvo, thirty-three years old. O.
l3 West Sixty-fourth Street. Detectiv,
Maroney, of Headquarters, arrested he
and James Wilson, ffty-one wears old
of 20 Piatzek Street, Brooklyn, as the,
stepped from taxicab at Eighth Ave
nue. and Twenty-third Street. lie sal,
he heard Wilson ask his companion u
give him his gun, whereupon h
searched her and found revolver wit
four chambers loaded She was held b
Magistrate Levine in $4,000 bail fo
trial in General Sessions.
Dry Agent Gun Toter
Another alleged gun toter proved /
be Federal prohibition enforcement
agent, and was discharged in court. Fl
was Frederick Frazier, of 225 Fift
Avenue.
Detectives Shields and Murphy foun
shotgun, .4b-calibcr army pistol an,
three .38-caliber revolvers in the hous
OF Karl Arena, 304 East I17th Street
Jhcy also found 100 cartridges, som,
electrical supplies, eight pair Of WON
en's shoes, and forty-one pairs Of .nedi
cal scissors. Magistrate Ten Eyck re
manded him without bail until to-day.
The arrest Of three men in q prin
Shop at 3l5 East Twenty-second Stree
yesterday is claimed by the police t
have solved robbery committed
earlier in the day and to have thwartct
Il 5000 pay roll hoid-up.