New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
RObberies for
Last 2 Months
Exceed l9l9's
Thefts Include Only Those
Recorded by Insurance
Companies; Police Admit
400 Steal in Bakery

This promises to be a bad year for
any one in the burglary insurance bust
ness. 1t already is so much worse
than last year that in two and half
months the total of recorded burglaries $
III 1919 has been surpassed, and burg
lars. unintentionally perhaps, keep
much Of their work from peing brought
to the attention Of burglar insurance
companies by robbing persons who are
not insured
3. The police admitted yesterday a
baking company at 4es Cherry Street
had been the scene of hold-up March
H., when two suspects were arraigned
before Magistra Thomas j. Nolan in
Essex Market Court
Detective Thomas Kemp, of the First
Branch Detective Bureau, said about
$50 O'Clock Thursday evening five men
entered the bakery with drawn re-
volvers and confronted Herman Fisher,
the cashier and three clerks, relieving
them of the pay roll. about $5,4o0, and
backing out the door The whole
transaction took only a minute and
would be hardly worth mentioning were
it not for the fact that Frank Schla-
fni, of 12 Delaney Street, and Leo
Joseph, of 2e Hester Street, were ar
rested Saturday night on suspicion
and were held in $4,000 bail each for
examination on Tuesday.
A pool and billiard room, at 4235
Third Avenue, the Bronx. owned by
Isaac Barman, netted four masked men
$500 and jewelry yesterday. Three of
the men escaped. The fourth, accord
ing to the police, was captured by
Patrolman Mortimer Nolan, of the
fremont Avenue station, after chase.
He was locked up on charge of rob-
berry and gave his name as Samuel
Trecargo, of 1O7 Sullivan Street.
Barman identified diamond pin
which was found on the prisoner and
claimed S65. Trecargo was caught in a
hallway with loaded revolver. He is
held in $4,000 bail and will be ex-
amined to-day.
A week ago yesterday Nathan
Seidenberg, who has fur shop at
1903 Broadway, received broom that
cost him $4,000. He has given the
broom to his wife. since the fur coat
she wanted is gone. and he feels sure
the person who left the broom took
the fur coat.
1t was Hudson seal coat and it
stood alone in the shop window Evi-
X
one about, some one got broom and
poked a hole in the window large
enough for him to enter. He took the
ccat. and Mr.. Seidenberg says he IS
sure the person would have gone away
Immediately if there had not been
rack of furs near by.
Once more grasping Tie broom, the
intruder passed it gently under the
hanging furs and took them in his
arms. There were four pieces of sill
skins.
J. Peyton Clarke lives in an apart
ment house at All West Hath Street.
While he and his wife were out of
town in thf latter days of February
him rooms we're broken into and about
$1,000 worth Of silverware taken.
A girl was employed at the tele-
phone switchboard about month be-
fore the robbery. She is said to have
worked under one name and talked to
her friends under another. She was
discharged and young man hired in
her place. He arrived two hours be-
fore his scheduled time on the last
day of the girls engagement and rode
up and down in the elevator with her
Then he left and did not come back
until the next night. He worked five
nights and then departed. At just
about that time a tailor missed suit
worth S125.
The tailor recognized the next young
man who took the job in the apartment
as one who had been with the man
who disappeared with the suit of
clothes. This second young man