New-York tribune., 1920-11-23
Safe Looted
OF $4,000
28 Floors Up
Police Are Puzzled by
Robbery in Office of
the Union Sulphur Co..
in Whitehall Building
Pass Key Believed Used
Another Jewel and Many
Other Tlefts Disclosed.
but Details Are Withheld

News got out yesterday that the po-
lice have been working since Sunday
morning to solve a mysterious burg
larry in the Office Of the Union Sulphur
Company. on the twenty eighth floor
of the Whitehall Building, Battery
Place, which yielded the robbers Sc
curities valued at $4,000 The prog
ress made by the police so far AMOUNTS
to the suspicion that the burglar had
a pass key.
When the Office was closed Saturday
room the $4,000 was in the safe and
the safe vas locked. A cleaner dis
covered Sunday morning that the safe
was open. Officers Of the company
were notified and it was found that the
securities had been stolen.
The safe was in an inner Office. It's
combination had been hammered off
and the bolts OF the inner compart-
ment were twisted by the eXertion Of
some tremendous force. Except for
the wrecked safe, the room was in the
same order as when the office force de-
parted Saturday noon.
Pass Key Believed Used
building is a mystery. Strict track is
kept in all downtown Office buildings
of persons entering and leaving the
premises after Office hours They are
usually required to register and state
the nature OF their business as they
enter. Employees of the building had
no knowledge Of the entrance of any
suspicious persons Saturday. The
method used by the burglars to gain
~, <.
rhur Company also is ilknown. None
q the doors had been tan'5e'ea with or
showed any signs of lt tav:ng been
forced.
The fact that the door q the cont
rany's offices was locked b. the burg
.ar5 when they left lelc the police
to thc belief that a pass key was used
end that tAc robbery was an inside
affair.
Another Jewel Robbery
Another jewel robbery Il some i'm
portaNce came to light Yesterday with
he issuing Of Il list CT stolen articlee'
10 pa~nshops by the Office Of TIE
Deputy Police Commissioners Such
lists are only issued on the occasion
CT large robberies. No details could
De obtained. The list was dated No
vanlbcr s.
A number of cther robberics. unan-
lounced by the police, also were dis
closed yesterday by announcements
made by insurance companies. They
ere:
Hendrix Hudson Apartment House Ii
IN street; robbed apartment &c, OF
81 200 worth Of rlothine
n. krohnberG. 1916 Fifth Avenue:
robbed OF ladies' wear valued at $1,000
Italian Discount and Trust Company.
~ the premises OF the Baker Williams
Warehouse, 512 washington Street:
robbed OF So 200 worth Of gloves
Bernard Dinnara. SS5 Eighth Avcnue:
robbed of $4,000 worth OF clothing.
Patrolman Outruns Thief
patrolman Walter Norris last night.
qualified for the next Police Deparb-
ment field meet when he gave Waino
Anderson, q laborcr a start Of a block
and caught him after six-bock chase.
Anderson entered a drug store at A
East 127tn Street shortly after 6
o'clock and fingered before the cash
ier's cage When the cashiers head
through the hole in the wire netting
and grabbed SS7 in cash and currency.
He fed from the store and Patrolman
Norris gaze cha@e. At Fifth Avenue
and 12,th Street Anderson was caught
and the $S7 recovered. He was locked
up at the East 126tA Street station or
d charge Of grand ls{rccny. y
Frank Hill, Of haywood. n. j.. who
entered the drug store with Anderson
and who was in the telephone booth
When the robbery occurred, also was
arrested. He spidi he did not know
A"psfS0n, Two Men tool, ot t5ove,rv valued .,
$1,000 from Henry Fettel, retired
real estate operator, when he answered
the front door bell of his home al 1871
Linden Avenue. Brooklyn, early yester-
day.
Ore of the men was captured by
Patrolnan Edward Lawlor, OF the Flat
bush station, who heard the cries OF
Fettel and servant. The man gave
MS name as Walter Phiney. of Boston.
thirty-three years old. living at l06
West SiXty-frst Street. He was held
without bail for u hearing to-day by
Magistrate Brown in Flatbush court.
The man with the valuables escaped.