New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-14
storeke'eper
Shoots Bandit
HIRING Hold-Up
ooklyn Candy Store Pro-
hrieior Answers Robbers
demand for SO With Bull
le,s; lin Serious Condition

Ioha Wilson, thirtyfour years old,
i rs Chauncey Street, Brooklyn,
s,lted into the candy shop of Samuel
CARBON, sS1 Berry Street, Brooklyn. at
! .'elock yesterday afternoon and de.
Carbon gazea a. him calmly and said
&No'. Thereupon Wilson mounted the
..anter, jerked out revolver and
s,sndished it. "You turn over all the
,.sssy you got" he yelled. leveling the
,ssolyer at Gordon. cor I'll take your
nfsl'
..ye as if to open the cash drawer,
III instead reached beneath the coun-
- seized his own revolver and fired
sr;ee At the intruder. One of the bull
,sts PASSED through Wilson's neck,
Ssryine itself in the wall. He toppled
a The counter, unconscious. He was
,nshed to the Williamsburg Hospital,
rAeye it was said his condition is
critical.
Carbon was arrested on a technical
,h1rre of felonious assault, but was
,sIsssed when it was learned he has a
s.rrnit to carry pistol. He was in
ssrpeted to report to the Bedford Ave-
Ne police station if Wilson died. A
sSsrre Of felonious assault ard at
hmpted robbery was entered against
wilson.
last Friday night from a safe in the
hbcratory of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
+ WAS learned yesterday.
The laboratory building is located
near the center of the yard. A big hole
vas burned in the door of the safe
With an oxyacetylene burner. The
thieves experienced no trouble in in
,erting their hands through this hole
and lifting out the platinum.
Detectives have aided the naval au-
thcrities in an investigation OF the
robbery, but so far, it was stated, no
eIevs have been obtained. The theft
vas discovered by workers at the lab
orstory and it was Immediately re-
ptrted to Rear Admiral John D. Nc
Donald, commandment of the yard, who
started an investigation. All labora-
TN workers were questioned. The
belief was expressed by detectives yes
terday that it might possibly have been
N inside job.
Since the robbery was discovered an
armed guard has been stationed day
snd night at the paymaster's Office.
Silk shirts valued at $4,000 and
numerous bolts OF silk were stolen from
the Breslin Shirt Company. 684 Broad
way, when the company's storerooms
we're entered last Friday night. De-
,sils Of the robbery became known
yesterday.
Thieves entered the building at 6s4
Broadway from the roof. They first
nnsacked the Offices of R. Goldberg, on
the top floor, and carried off dollar
in small change and a chewing gum
machine. They reached the storeroom
Of the shirt company by cutting their
way through the ceiling.
When they had selected the choicest
pieces from the compaAy's ample stock
the thieves bundled up their loot,
climbed through the hole in the ceiling
and left the building through rear
entrance on the ninth floor
II was learned yesterday that the
burglars who looted the shop of Morris
Rossngardt, at 122 Blocker Street,
Saturday night, and carried off $4,000
IN WOODEN goods, used tools stolen from
the bakery shop of Joseph Steenbeke,
Of S2l West Twenty-frst Street.
The WOODEN goods were later found
in the yard of the Blocker Street
Lumber Company under pile of can
vas wagon covers.