New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Bandits Rob
Shop and Wait
On Customer
Trio of Hold-Up Men Bind
Druggist and Porter and
Get $252; Plea by Victim
Taken as Slur on Skill
Shin Plaster Bank Fails
Pair Accused of Stealing
Sl,728 Off Sailors Leg;
Arrest in Dice Robbery

Arrest in Dice Robbery
While Joseph Stern, proprietor Of
the Audubon Pharmacy. at 1920 Broad
way. and Roy Denegall, porter, were
busy cleaning out the place early yes
terday morning, three business-like
hold-up men happened in and cleaned
out Stern and Denegall, pausing once
to sell some articles to bona fide GUS
toners who interrupted them.
i, The trio went about their work sys-
tematically. One of them gave Stern
a prescription and he retired into the
rear room, out of sight of the street,
to fill it. Another bought package
of cigarettes from Denegall and gave
him. quarter to change. Denegall
followed Stern into the rear room and
the three robbers followed him.
All three produced revelovers and
warned the proprietor and porter not to
resist. Neither did. Both men were
trussed up and their pockets searched.
The bandits found S249 there. Mean
while couple of customers entered
asking for a bath brush. One Of the
robbers found this for them, sold it for
So and pocketed the proceeds.
w Criticism Is Resented
Before they departed Denegall pro-
tested at the tightness of the rope with
which the robbers had pound him, say
ing that it was foolish to make him
suffer unnecessarily. This was re-
sented by the leader Of the hold-up
men. who retorted:
"Shut your face and don't try to tell
me my business. I've been doing this
sor ten years."
called in the police, but the hold-up
men had long since disappeared.
James Kerr, twenty-nine, of 1866
Hilary Street, Brooklyn, said to be
one of three men who held up a craps
game in the home of Louis Sharp, Fifth
Street, near Avenue D, Sunday night
and got $1,000, was arraigned yester-
day before Magistrate Levine in Es-
sex Market Court and held in $4,000
bail for examination Wednesday.
Three men who are accused Of stealing
shellac worth $4,000 from barge at
the foot of Milton Street, Greenpoint.
Plaza Court charged with grand larceny
and held in $1,000 bail each for a hear
ing to-day.
Plaster Bank Robbed
Franc Zic, sailor, who has walked
more comfortably since March 26, but
has been $l,27S poorer since then, told
Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions
yesterday of the robbery of his unique
bank, which he said was committed by
Frank Frator and John De Franza, now
on trial before the judge.
Zic explained that until recently he
had believed that, SO far as safety was
concerned. American porous plasters
we're infinitely superior to American
banks. Accordingly, he said, he pro-
vided himself with several and pasted
his money, all i'm bills of large demon
ination. fast to his legs.
On the night of the 26th he testified,
Frator and De Franza and four or five
house at So Beach Street and robbed
the boarders
They must have been tipped off
about me-" said Zic. "for one Of them
ripped my trousers open with pen
Knife. tore away the plasters and took
all my money"
Herbert Hayes, negro elevator OPP
orator who was shot during the melee
between detectives and holdup men
following raid on a crap game in an
apartment house. on St. Nicholas Ave
nue. Sunday morning, did not die of
his wounds, as the police enormously
reported yesterday. Hayes was still
alive, but in a critical condition last
night in Knickerbocker Hospital
where he was operated upon.
The police have found no trace OF
the bandits.
Patrolman George ]. Braendley, Of
the Clinton Street police station, on the
alert for motor car that might be
carrying hold-up men who had made E
$1,000 haul on the East Side, saw {
taxicab zigzagging through Division
Street early yesterday morning, ane
when its driver ignored his command tt
halt tried to put bullet through it:
rear tire.
His bullet went through the bod,
of the car instead and scored the scalj
Of Martin Wilkinson, a real 4tate maj
who was out for ride with his friend
Earl Devon, an advertising man, O.
1907 Lexington Avenue. The taxical
went on, however.
A few blocks away it was stopped b.
4 patrolman, who jumped to the run
ming board. Harry McGinn, the driver
was locked up, charged with drivin,
while intoxicated. His two fares alstt
were arrested, charged with intoxica
ton. They were discharged in Traffi,
Court, but McGinn was held for Specia
Sessions. Wilkinson said he lived a
the Waldorf A. tor;a uo+o1