The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-17
Description of Bandits.

Description of Bandits.
! The police also have excellent descrip-
tons OF the three men given by Mulligan
Mertz and Provenzano, because at no
time did any of the men wear masks ~.
make any attempt whatever to conceal
their faces The man who seemed TO be
the leadr of the gang was about IS
years old, about five feet eight and a
| half inches tall, and weighed in the
neiShborhood of IT'S pounds. He was
smooth shaven. with dark eyes and Fair
and wore black derby hat and dark
clothes
! One Of the others was between 25 ana
30 years old, five feet six inches tall
and weighed about 40 pounds He was
! smooth shaver and had a dark complex
Ion. but he had many pimples on his
! face. The third man was about the same
age as the second. but taller and heavier
! In build. He wore cap and dark clothes
| and weighed about $50 pounds 1t is
| believed the men were foreigners
| The police have been able to fax the
| time of the entrance of the men into the
| building fairly accurately. AS was his
| custom. Andrews went to lunch first
1 leaving his partner, Arthur Winston, to
attend to the business. He returned
| about 80, and ten minutes later ex-
| actly Winston closed the door behind
! MN ana went uOWIl III ITe elevator. Line
! bandits entered the place between that
time and about 2 o'clock, as Mulligan
entered the room either exactly at 2 or
only few minutes after. he does not
recall which. According to Miss Min
ME Corey Of 1913 East 161st street, the
elevator operator 1t was about 10
o'clock when Mertz and Provenzano ar
rived, almost at the same time. They
| went up I'm the car together.
/ Miss ha he vta,,
she stopped the car on the eighth floor
she heard no sound from the Andrews
| & Winston offices, and that at no time
1 during the day had she seen any one
answering to the description of the rob-
4 bers as given to the police by the two
statesmen and the old messenger. Nor
were they seen by the operator of the
! freight elevator at the rear of the build
ing on Forty-fifth street. But there
are two stairways, and the police are
certain that the bandits used one of
them This is one OF the few things
definitely established.
Used Dum-Dum Bullet.
George j. Rivers, superintendent Of
the building. told the police he had foun-l
i that a section OF concrete COMMIT, which
| had been used to brace the door leading
to the roof of the building. had been
moved and broken as though the door
had been forced open. The police. how
ever. do not attach much Importance to
| this as there is no way by which n
person could get from the roof of the
! Marcus building to that Of any other
| building in the vicinity. The police also
| questioned every one who had been in
nearby offices during the holdup. but
found no one who had heard or seen
anything unusual. The jewelry house
had quarters in the corner of the build
ing. the windows facing Fifth avenue
and Forty-ffth street. NJ. j. Lorne. an
importer OF silks and woollens occupies
the office on the left. and Rothkrug
Brothers are in the offices fronting on
the avenue.
The body OF Andrews was left lying
on the rug in his office until the arrival
of DR.. Charles Norris. Chief Medical
Examiner. who officially pronounced the
jeweler dead. DR.. Norris said that
Andrews had been killed by the bullet
which had entered the stomach and
ranged downward into the abdomen and
that the blows ON the head could have
been caused by a fall. An empty brass
! cartridge about an inch and a half long
was wound on the floor near the body,
and the bullet which Or. Norris ex-
tracted from the dead mans body was
fired fromseither .32 or .3S calibre re-
1 VolVer IL nau been blunted ana ap-
parently "dum-dummed." and 1t had
spread so much that its exact calibre
was difficult 20 determine.
The entire police machinery of New
York was set in motion last night to
run down the slayers of Andrews. The
police are particularly anxious to solve
4 the crime because II occurred not only
In the busiest section of the city and
the section presumed TO have the best
protection, but the section also In when
the chief inspector recently assigned a
| large number of extra detectives to pre-
vent just such crimes as this. Every
policeman In New York last night had
orders TO have every criminal with
whom he came In contact give n salts
factory account OF his movements dur
ing the day. and Il is expected that the
lineup at Headquarters this morning
will be larger than has been the case
in many years. The police Of cities in
New York, New Jersey and Connect
cut have also been asked to be on the
lookout for the robbers, and descrip-
tons OF the three men have been scat
tered broadcast all over the East.