The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-04
|GUNMEN ARE
 STILL AT LARGE
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(Continued From Page One.) | English, of Fedele Papini, a son of the proprietor, whether they could secure board and rooms with the fam fly As the boy started to answer, the trio whipped out revo1vers and called out in Italian:
 Hands up! Everybody stand stillI" The boarders were quick to heed the command, and one of them said to | the leader of the robbers. Don't do anything to the kids and women.'' II don't care anything about that; | give me your money" replied the man with the gun.
 Andrew Bordone of Sasko Hills, Fairfield. a friend of Papinis, was the | first in line, and one of the robbers
 searched his clothes. The bandit took S156 and a watch from his victim, but the robbers were then thrown into | confusion by the sound of a volley | of shots from the adjoining building. | Hey, Mike, come on!'' shouted the leader, and the three men took to i their heels.
 Simultaneously with the entry of the three robbers into the smaller | house, five bandits crashed into the | larger building and shouted "hands | up" to the 33 men who were sitting
 quintet were armed with dangerous
 looing automatics and the other two
 carried short handled axes.
 Every man in the room elevated | | bandits, but one occupant threw a | pocketbook containing a roll of
 money under the stove as he did so.
 Hey, Lorenz" yelled one of the | tie store in one corner of the room
 Lorenz took one look, and promptly
 slammed the door and locked it. | The shout seemed to disconcert the | robbers, who had apparently been l sent into the house to intimidate the
 boarders while their three compan-
 way. Immediately they opened fire with their revolvers, and told the
 boarders to ''dance." It was the
 sound of these shots. which frighten-
 ter firing about 20 shots at random. the robbers fled from the house and
 separated, each going a different 6i- l rection.
 In the fusilade of shots, three of
 the boarders were slightly wounded. Joseph Simon received a bullet in the left thigh, and John Alarcon was
 wounded in the left. A bullet burn-
 Simon and Alarcon were sent to the
 Bridgeport hospital after receiving
 treatment from Dr. J. A. Maxwell
 of the Emergency hospital staff, but
 martino returned to his home. Police from the Second Precinct Station were summoned immediately
 after the hold-up. and Acting Captain
 Joseph A. Hazel and Sergeant Dennis kehoe started on search for the
 bandits. A knife Of the stiletto type
 was found in Vessels avenue, where
 one of the fleeing robbers, but no
 other trace of the men could be dis covered. The police worked all night ] i on the case, and searched practically every Spanish boarding house in the East Side, but were unable to locate . the bandits. Two boys of the Papini family failed to recognize any of ti1e . boarding house inmates as the rob . berS.
 Bordone, who lost s156 and his watch, is the proprietor of a Fair
 field boarding house, and was only
 visiting at Papini's home at the time l gang left him S1 after taking his , roll. Martino, one of the wounded. arrived in this country from Spain only few days ago.
 Had the men who entered the large building not become rattIed it is . probable that the robbers would have
 made off with a haul of considerable
 proportions. All of the boarders had
 money in their clothes, and others
 mad cash and jewelry concealed in their hunks. Owing to the location of the houses. it appears that the E time without fear of discovery. As ii was. none of the neishbors heard the sounds of any shots. Only few saw any of the men running away.
 Although one of the robbers werS
 masked, not a man was recognized,
 according to stories told the police.
 The eight had their coat collars turn ' ed up when they entered the building,
 but these did not hide their faces.
 The boarders said today, that all of 5 the men appeared to be about 20 years old.
 From the manner in which the scheme was worked, it appears that , the robbers were familiar with the territory in which they were working. , Detective SergeantS Gerrity and Voc- cola were assigned to the case today
 but were unable to secure any tracs of the bandits this morning. Two of the bullets fired by the hold-up men were found on the ce- ment floor of the larger building to- day In a wooden stair railing was
 the mark of a bullet which had
 crashed through it. None of the
 other bullets could be found