New-York tribune., 1920-12-04
Master Mind in
100000 Bond
Hold-Up Sought
Barber Held as Witness. as
the Police Admit Clews
in Their Possession May
Lead to Important Arrests
Masked Men Rob Cashier
$4,000 in Pay Envelopes Is
Stolen; Burglars in Hotel;
Murder and Other Grimes

information concerning the hold-up
men who stole S466,O0O in Liberty
bonds from messengers in front of Igoe
Brothers factory on Metropolitan Ave
nue., Brooklyn, Tuesday. was held as a
material witness yesterday.
The police retained their confidence
that the robbers would be caught and
admitted possession Of clews to their
identity. which hitherto had been kept
secret. Il was learned that the police
had three caps and pair of gloves
which were found in the motor car
used by the hold-up men
The police are inclined TO believe that
some one with wider acquaintance in
financial circles than the youths who
gathered in Pietro's barber shop was
concerned in tn robbery. as otherwise
the thieves would find it difficult to dis
pose Of their booty.
The police found a photocranh IN
Barbacco's barber shop which they be-
lieve to be that of the leader of the
hold-up men. 1t corresponds. they saw.
to the description of him even bv
Antonio De Gregario and has been
found to be a likeness of q man re-
Gently released from Sing Sing, whose
picture is in the Rogues' Gallery. De-
tectiVes are watching the places he is
said to frequent.
1t was said that Kean, Taylor & Co.,
the firm which sent the bonds to Igoe
Brothers, was protected against theft
to the extent of 100000. but that it
was stated in the insurance policy
that an armed guard must accompany
the bond messenger.
Another Desperate Hold-up
A robbery almost as desperate
though far less remunerative. was
staged yesterday afternoon at the office
Of the New York Roofing Company
599 East Nineteenth Street. Just be-
Gore the employees were to be paid off
two masked men, each with a revolver
IN his hand, entered. They lined up
Mary Cartin, the cashier, and Max
Power and Alvin Anderson, who were
with her. faces to the wall and hands
above their heads, dumped sixty paw
envelopes containing $4,000 into a small
bag end departed, remarking: Lets
bea. it,
Two men. one of whom had re-
volYer and the other a blackja held
up Dennis Sexton, bartender in a
saloon at 1855 Third Avenue. emptiod
The contents Of the cash register into
their pockets and ran out. Sexton fol-
lowed them despite their threats that
they would shoot him ii he moved.
HIS ye-S brought Patrolman Cotter
CT the East l04th Street police sta
Non who arrested two men whom he
saw running. They said they were
John Seannen, Of 1244 Park Avenue
and William Abbey, Of 124 East 120th
Street. In Harlem police court they
were held IN $1,000 bail each for the
grand jury.
woman staying at the Hotel Grand
inlrty-nrst Street and Broadway woke
up early yesterday morning and saw two
men III Aer room. She screamed. They
ran out. Sne followed them into the
corrcor, stlll screaming. Others in the
noe! ran cL- OF their rooms and Leon
keI.an and be.mondc Costila, who had
rooms on the fourth floor, were de.
tanned after the woman had identified
theM as the two men who were in her
room
Patrolman Wergn, of the West
InlTuetA Street police station. who
placed them under arrest, said they
rad several skeleton keys, a $500 stick
pln' three watches and $62 in currency
accorc.nE 10 the police records, PRO
Guced wnen they were arraigned in
jefferson Market police court, the pair
were released from the pentientiary
oriy few days ago. Three rooms or
the fourth floor OF the hotel had been
roDoeu, and Magistrate Schwab held the
prisoners in S25,0 600 each for the grand
jury
Murder in Brooklyn
Tony Nenni. Of 1922 Fulton Street,
broo1.yn was snot and killed before
ca@n stcrday al Gunther Place and
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Seven or
elgn- shots were fired and Patrolman
harcaet, Of The Brownsville police
station. running toward the sound, met
l"o mon, whom he arrested.
1ney said they we're Tony Tarciello
an fasquale Iny.tto Of 115 Huh Street
bfoos-yn and that they knew nothing
aoou, any shooting. AS Tarcicllo had
a bullet wound in his thigh, however
lhe pa'ro.man decided 20 arrest them
he G 10 arrested Rocco Matellano, OF
z335 faciAc Street, Brooklyn, who, he
49, 80 |rl4A.iE C'tG iLc DODy %
Nean. when lie reached the scene of
the shooting
Army and Navy Store Robbed
For 'ne af.h tine in year bur
gar broke into Benjamin Harris's
afmy and Navy store at 318 Fifth
T['ef-e, Brooklyn, Wednesday, and
nan decided yesterday tnat the
p'-tee policy of secrecy Vas Of no great
1ss.s'ance. lie bought bull dog which
"e y ENDS 20 leave IN his store nights
"r. Harris SAID that he had invested
IL se*ef1! patent locks which ne placed
VI n's door, but that the burglars who
s'A.1eG n'Fn Wednesday night had the
-S1rn on the locHsmithe. They got
"Do4- 500 worth Of goous
.'iie automobile tnefts. which had
Dssn concealed by the police. were re
's~.en Jesteraay when detectives ar
red Patrick J. Mallcy, Who is SAID
~. " ha's nad the cars N his garage at
80, AaYerstr@w, =. Y Among those
"Hore cars are said TO have been re-
IIsgFefed ~ Naiiey's garage. are Dr.
te,f'm"n Icttesncy, Of 1888 Dca
,rs.'tet' Efco>lyn; Hector McGovern
Sc~ffsn, brooKlyn attorney; Sol
@pifa, III Wcet fzlSt Street. Man
~, and Nathan L. Berg, 907 St.
1'@'Ns Avenue, Hroohlyn.
~ aHrnt II the Automobile Insur-
arr arr company rho bas been invcs.i-
es~1Ay automobile thcfts in Flnhurst,
<1'eNs g saId 10 have remarked tha,