New-York tribune., 1920-12-13
Silencer Gang
Robs Z i'm Raid
On Jersey Club
'Witching Hour of Midnight
Selected by Bandits for
Ninth Crime in a Week;
All Five We're Masked
Flee in. Auto With Loot
But They Abandon Machine
on Palisades and Police
Now Hold 1t as q CIew

The N0Nn CLOCK In the village OF
Peetzburg, N. j., had just tolled tho
midnight hour Saturday when Jerseys
Maxim sisencer bandits descended upon
the Palisades Township Community
Club for business purposes. They went
about their work with accustomed
neatness and precision, robbed every
member and everything in sight and
vanished with the cock-crow.
It ID we'll that only seven Of Peetz-
hurg's citizenry Of $50 (atest gazetteer
estimate) were making merry at the
club at the midnight hour. These seven
were robbed of all the silver and gold
about them. One of. them provoked
the fury Of q masked man by offering
y nickel watch. The loot carried away
by the intruders was valued at several
hundred dollars.
ali armed. Four Of them arc believed
to be the same highwaymen who re-
Gently committed FIVE burglariee In a
single night, and who have proved the
most elusive brigands with which the
good folk of Bergen County, N. j., ever
had to deal.
Nine Crimes So Far
To date the gang is responsible for
no less than nine crimes, if the word
Of sheriff, constable and patrolmen can
be accepted as final authority Expect
ing to find the Palisades Township
Community Club ablaze with Saturday
night merriment, the daring four in
creased heir number by two. Five
entered the clubhouse. One remained
in the car outside.
1t so happened that the majority Of
the club members had gone to the ar
mory to attend husking bee. Behind
were left the unlucky. seven.Arthu-
Gus Porah and Thomas Madden.
Arthur, Amander, William, Arthur,
William, Gus and Thomas were swap
ping tales and lounging against cush-
ions when the front door of the club
house burst open and IN walked the
masked five, eyes cleaning through
Sits in their masks and blue steel re-
voivers, silencer equipped, cleaning in
their hands. The shelling-out process
proceeded, and the seven, with their
faces to the wall, allowed the newcom-
ers to ransack pockets, both hip and
side.
Spurned o Nickel Watch
One OF the seven produced an mex
pensive watch and handed it over to
the bandit chief. He was rewarded
Nth contemptuoue grunt.
TO hell with that kind Of stuff, -
said the bandit.
The bandits were plainly piqued at
the small number Of club members
within the confines of the clubhouse
and asked to be shown greater consid-
Grafton on future visits. After making
sure that they had removed all that
could be considered of intrinsic value
departed after locking the 'luckless
seven in q room They rode away
n a car strong of engine and robust of
frame-the same car, the constable
cay, that was used by the highway
rnea in sweeping through Bergen
County on the previous Saturday
night.
By some strange twist of i'll fortune
the bandits were forced early yester.
day morning to abandon their vehicle
1t was found beside tavern on the
Palisades near Edgewater. Close in.
specsion convinced the most skeptica
that it xas the machine used by the
Maxim silencer highwaymen a week
before.
In the car was found one instrument
OF destrucsion-a blackjack with
knife blade attached, weapon whicr
had been shaken before the nose o
one OF the terrified seven at tn,
Palisades Township Community Club