New-York tribune., 1920-02-12
Boys Involve
Merchant in
Big Bond Theft
Bronx Resident Is Charged
With Receiving $4,000
Worth of Securities.
Part of $l4O,OOO Loot

information received from the five
boys arrested Tuesday in an alleged
plot to steal $5,o0O,o0o worth of Lib
erty bonds and other securities from
Wall Street brokers resulted in the
arrest last night of Harry Wolf. thirty
two, merchant, of 910 Prospect Ave
nue., the Bronx. He was taken to Po-
lice Headquarters, charged with re-
ceiving $4,000 worth of securities, part
of a $4,000 lot stolen from the firm of
Warren G. Crane, "a Broadway, on No
vember 15
Wolf was taken into the office of
Second Deputy Commissioner William
}. LaheT where he was questioned for
several hours. He continued to insist
he was innocent. According to the po-
lice Herbert Bunora, one of the boys
arrested earlier, is said to have impli-
Gated Wolf.
Earlier in the day the five boys were
arragned before Magistrate Harris in
the Tombs court and held in 100000
bail each. An hour before the arraign-
ment four of them made a complets
confession to Assistant District Attor-
ney Richard Murphy.
Stole $2,O00,000, They Say
The youths held are Edward Furey,
twenty-five years old, of 151 West
Forty seventh Street; Irving Gluck,
nineteen years old, and his brother,
Joseph, twenty-three years old, both of
659 South Seventh Avenue, Mount YER
non; Herbert Bunora, nineteen years
Bronx, and his brother, Rudolph,
twenty two years old, of 927 East Ire,
mont Avenue, the Bronx. They were
specifically charged with suspicion of
the larceny of $107,70O worth of Lib
erty bonds and securities. They will
be further examined next Tuesday.
According to Assistant District At
torney Murphy, who is handling the
case, the Gluck and Bunora boys say
they took about $1,0O0,000 worth Of
bonds while employed as messengers
in Wall Street during July and August
of last year, and that they got away
since October. They say they dis
posed of these securities through David
A. Sullivan, broker, of 10 Wall Street,
who is now out on $4,000 bail on the
charge of negotiating loans on false Sc
curities. Despite the great value of
the securities taken by them, they said
the cash they got amounted to only
$20,000
How They Operated
Their method of operating, said Mr..
Murphy, was to have Irving Gluck and
Herbert Bunora meet brokers' mes
sengers in elevators and scan the de-
livery sheets for the destination of the
bonds and securities. They would then
volunteer to deliver the securities, say
ing they were going to the same place.
In most cases, they told Mr.. Murphy,
the bonds would be turned over to
them, as it has long been a custom
among messenger boys to assist each
other in making such deliveries.
The Bunora boys were arrested early
yesterday by Detectives August Mayer
and Grover Brown on information given
them by the Gluck boys, who had been
taken into custody the day before
After listening to the stories of the
two sets of brothers at Police Head
quarters, Bernard j. McGinn, of the
American Surety Company, and William
j. Griffin, of the National Surety Com
pany, said the plans for the gigantic
haul had been carefully laid and that
the youths would have gotten away
with $5,000,000 worth of securities if
they had not been thwarted by the
police.
The police say Furey, who refuses
to make any statement and Joseph