Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-12-24
MURRAY HILL HOTEL
SCENE OF HOLD-UP
New York Gets Shock by Boldness
of Burglar on Fashionable
Park Avenue

nv Asrocisted Press 70 Every Evening
New York, Dec a. The hope that
New Yorks crime wave had begun 70
reoede or gendered by AZ apparent lull m
aerio,n u'ltlawry during the iasf two days
eas dashed this morning when ho)dlITs
vac staged IN the Murray Hill Hotel ~
Park avenue
A man about five leet. four inches gith
a scar across his face. entered p suite on
the fourth fnor occupied By Robert J.
Ireland. who grappled with The intruder
Aroused from dttrnber Mr. Ireland was
ordered by the intruder ~ get ont - bed
and throw up his hands Ignoring The
second command the guest tossed ~ he
sheets. zrrar NJ and made hyir tackle
The rt,bber shook himself looae and p
brief struggle followed Then the in
trudnr fed and Mr. Ireland gave the alarm
Srnarfing under the taunt - another
hotel break. following On The heels n
aan sasioTlnl hoIdup ~ the Hotel Asfor lHsf
week. the police arrived m he double
quick and were posted al around the
hotel in the hope If catching he rphber
who 4 yya- thought might have concealed
himself IN the hsulfiirg
The burglar erfered the Ireland Tll'e
~,natirne before ; a. r. m for ~ that
{ AFNtHE1
her husband. who saw the intruder On tho
floor fryirg n pry open jewel box With
srxr-v driver
According IN the police. hr Ireland
who once was er gagged IN btiriresa IN
Cleveland with Mark Hanna seIzed re-
volver While strrlgghrg with The burglar,
bat the latter hit him with a chair and
knocked the weapon from his hand Nr
/ Ireland had directed his wife ~ telephone
for aRsAefarce but the intruder selzed her
and placed her before him "a shield.
/ Return IL 70 the fray with piece ot the
/ broken char Mr.. Ireland landed several
/ blows before the rohber fed The guest
/ followed him in his 10 Jamas down through
/ the corridors and down four flights %
+ stairs. losiT q him when tho roDhsr made .
I dive into the basement.
Mr.. and Mrs Ireland had been guests ~
! the hotel, located about a block from tne
Grand Ger trail Station for about three
years. Before bis retirement from busl-
I ess. Mr. Ireland, who Is "A years old, was
/ c0r.r erted with Mark A. Hanna q
/ Company II Cleveland, and associated
I with Dan Hanna in u~vr ershIp of Cleve-
lard newspaper properties.
/ During the struggle Mr. Ireland tried
several times to Use MS pistol nut y missed
fir
! IL was learned today that three months
ago burglars entered the Ireland suite and
stole $50
Montreal, Dee "a Burglars TO-DAY en-
tered the business establishment Of Adler
man Louis Rubensteln, former figure sSat-
ing champion Of the world, dynamited 2
( safe and stole S., 600
, Menlo Park, y j. Dec "A John VI.
/ Cornell, 20 year old restaurant proprietor,
I today MAS beaten unconscious when he
awoke TO find a man gong through hls
pockets II fleeing after rlfIng the cash
register the robber dropped MS cap
Another 20 year old man, Thomas J
Mcconnell. vas beaten up at hls garags
near here tofay when man drove up IN 9
motor truck, seized an automobile too
and hit the aged garage keeper on the head
Mcconnell yelled and the robber fed with
out taking anything He also dropped nls
hat On it was a button reading Original
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