The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
$4,000 LOOT IN
DAYS H0LDUPS
Jewelry Clerk Held After Con-
flicting Stories of $780,
600 Robbery.
MAN IS SHOT IN SHOP
Bandits Tie Two Men and Boy
Before Blowing Safe in
Laundry.
MAN IS SHOT IN SHOP

Holdup men obtained cash and
daring robberies in Manhattan and
The Bronx yesterday and last night.
Isidor Geringer was held up and shot
in his workshop at 129 Crosby street.
He was taken to New York Hospital
and probably will die.
David Sayloy, 80 years old. clerk
for the Provident Diamond Company,
sos Seventh avenue. was the victim
of $4,000 robbery of jewelry. He
was locked up last night in the West
Forty seventh street station on a
charge of grand larceny.
In a robbery of the Morgan Steam
Laundry, 700 Mott avenue. The Bronx.
two men and boy were bound hand
door off a large safe and got away
with $500 in cash.
Sayloy was detained by the police be-
cause OF conflicting stories he Is said to
have told. His first story the police
say. was that he was attacked by four
men as he emerged from the Pacific
Bank. Seventh avenue and Forty-ninth
street. Later. they say. he said he was
attacked by one man. who grabbed tw }
boxes containing the jewelry as he was
waiting for n street car on the west side
of Seventh avenue.
Following Sayloy's outcry four police
men in automobiles took up the chase Of
taxicab which sped north to Fiftieth
To 70
first street and again west to ninth
avenue 1t was lost In a traffic jam at
Ninth avenue and Fifty-third street
Sayloy was taken to the police station
and questioned for several hours and
finally detained.
The holdup of the laundry in The
Bronx took place a few minutes after .
o'clock yesterday morning. Five masked
men overpowered Charles Corrio. the
night watchman his son Frank. 13 years
old. and Frank Fisher, % years old, a
cleaner. The three were bound hand
and foot with wet sheets and laid beside
one another on the ironing table. while
the bandits cracked the safe. Holes
we're drilled near the hinges and nitro
glycerin was poured into them. The
detonation was terrific and wrecked the
safe
Six men without masks held up and
robbed Aaron Simon last night at his
meat market at 510 Van Ness avenue.
The Bronx Samuel Lipson, a clerk In
the market, and an unknown customer
also were robbed. The total loot
amounted to more than $500. The ban
dts drove UP in taxi. Simon told the
police Of the Westchester precinct, and
two remained in the car while the four
others attended 10 the robbery.
Three masked men drove ND at s 80
o'clock last night TO the loft building at
162 Greene street and went to the second
floor. They held up a card game, lined
the players against the wall and stripped
them OF their cash and valuables. The
loft was occupied by Benjamin Barg.
who was robbed of $40 and his gold
watch and chain.
The other victims were George Bar
shie, 747 Brook avenue. The Bronx. $50
Simon Rampert, 924 East 1Sist street,
800: Benjamin Rampcrt, So West ii6th
street, s65 Henry Barshis, 741 Brook
avenue, $3.50. Henry Hanover, 236 Henry
street, pockets empty. end Edward Zim-
norman. 2O2 Henry street, $50
At o'clock three men wearing
masks and long raincoat5 entered the
shop OF Gerirger Brothers, manufacture
ers of gas and lamp shades. IsidDr Ger
niger was shot because he was nervous.
according TO the story Of two of his
employees who were working with him.
Geringer was holding his hands above
his head and one OF the men was taking
sig from L1uis Lobeil when one of Ger
myers hands dropped TO his side.
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