New-York tribune., 1920-12-05
Plank Bird &c
Used In Theft:
Girls Arrested
Board Extended From Flat
to Building in llOth ST.,
Where Tailor Shop Was
Looted of So, 900 in Goods
Home of Singer Robbed
II,h Street Firm Tells Of
Safe Blowing Last Month:
Ycggmen Got $4,000

When Patrolman Wallick, of the
West 125th Street station, saw a man
and woman talking in the doorway
Of the apartment building at 2S48
Broadway at q o'clock yesterday morn
ing the officers suspicious were
aroused and he summoned Patrolman
Allez.
The policemen tra,led the couple to
the third floor of the building and
there discovered, they said, that q
beard had been laid between the fire
escape outside the apartment Of
Joseph Bernstein, and the roof of
building at 557 West 10th Street. In
vcstigaton disclosed, the police say
that the tailor shop of Mike Lesson,
in the 10th Street address, had been
robbed Of goods valued at $4,000. The
stolen property, it is alleged, was
found in Bernstein's room. The po-
ice found there also Bernstcin, who
is thirty years old; James Sanders,
twenty-five years old; Lottie Kramer,
eighteen years old, and Josephine
Nolan, twenty-five years old. OF 80
West Sixty-foulth Street.
Four Plcad Not Guilty
The four persons pleaded not guilty
t. q robbery charge in the Washington
Heights court and were held in 50 500
bail each for examination December Q.
Jewelry, silver are and clothing,
value at $1,000, were taken by
burglars VIII, b. Ike into the apart
ment Of Mrs. Marie Stetson, a concert
singer, at 339 Lincoln Place, Brook
i,rp ~ l,c = 1 !
for valuables overturned furniture and
wrecked bureau
Joseph Spero, Of the Spcro- Michael
Company, of 10 East Fourteenth
Street. yesterday disclosed a robbery
the news Of which Lad been suppressed
by tie police. Spero said that early
in Novembe the safe in the Office Of
the Snc-o- Michael Company was
blown open by robbers who got $4,000
in ca ana Liberty bonds.
Thieves Loot Warcroom
An 49, france agent yesterday re-
ported that the warorOom of Asphs &
Rottenborg, a clothing firm. 7 East
Seventeenth Street. was robbed sew
cral days ago, and the fact suppressed
by the p lice
Frank s. Loretto, a tailor. of 60 Cen
ter Street, reported yesterday that on
November IS thieves entered his shop
by forcing a window and stole two
coats, valued at $50
District Attorney Lewis Of Broon-
iyn yes, d announced that on neXt
Tues. he would present to the Dc
ccmber gray jury the evidence against
antonio de Gregario. twontv~one years
old, who is held in connection with the
theft Of Liberty bonds in front Of the
leoc Brothers plant, GO METROPOLITAN
Avenle. Hr oklyn, last Tuesday.
Auto Thcfts Gain so Per Cent
Motor car thefts have become so
common and the attendant insurance
losses so Great that insurance men
have decided y spend $3.50 900 wear
in extending the worl, OF the Autolno-
hl e Underwriters Detective Bureau,
WAich va established tarce years AFRO
t cooperate with the police in catch
ING thieves and recovering stolen cars.
The truth Of this report w.s admitted
Yesterday by representatives Of roe
the last two months motor car thefts
have increased almost 80 FER cent
The bureau was ornanizcd THROUGH
thc Eastern and New Lngland Automo-
Bile Underwriters Conference. 1T en-
pioys now about fifteen detectives, ard
has branch Offices in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Buffalo ard Boston, and
also resident investigators in Hart
ford, Conn. and Va, in~toa. y. c.
i IS expected that ,nc fcicc Ct de.c1-
t'ves VIII be Increased tn 40 and that
rr Se1'N ltN of these detectives w