Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-06
Z SHOT AS THIEVES
GET $4,000 IN NIGHT.
Waterman Shoots Straight in
Battle With Alleged Robbers.
Safe Blowing Nets 5000
AUTO BANDITS ESCAPE

Two alleged automobile thieves were
shot while trying to steal truck, out
safe blowers. auto bandits. auto tneNeS
and other criminals were succeSstui III
another series Of raids during the last
twenty four hours.
Loot obtained hv the thieves totaled
more than 10000, in one, case an auto
bandit. who pretended to be Ill ana sot
n Gift" from a mOtOrCar owner. roODlnS
his Good Samaritan" of Sl3N" in, cash
and icwpfy. In another r0hoerv
thieves got cloth valued at S""W,
William Henderson, Negro watcn
man in garage near twenty ,secnhI ii
and Arch streets. shot two men he SAID
ne detected in the act Of stealing an au-
tomobi'c truck from the garage.
One Man Is Dying
Ono of thc men. William German,
nineteen Years old. 4337 Reno street.
was shot in the chest. lie is in the
Medico Chirurgical Hospital and is not
expected to recover. EdMaru i"tstI'
twenty nine years old. l6t" N"rth . HlA
tieth street the other alIege" out'a"'
was shot through the leg
Henderson. who was arrested, SaId ne
was working in the basement OF the
garage late yesterday afternoon; wn'h
10 heard noise upstairs and d"tect"d
the two men irving to steal the truck
of n Ransn lie argued with the men.
he said, and finally put them out OF the
building. .,,,,.o. aud
Later. he said. he got a reyo 'ver. ana
when he saw them OUTSIDE lh' Enius,
ordered them away. and thCn lol'"Wtu owe,
them to find patroIman an" nave ''e'''
arrested.
Good Samaritan Loses
Under the railroad tunnel at Twenty
second and Filbert streets, hphd'rSoh
told the police. the men turned on MN
anJ ha vas forced to shoot them to
avoid possible serious injury. hehuer-
CON viii be given a hearing today
Samuel ]. Kravitz, 1929 wyoming
avenue was the good samaritan who
was robbed by the pseudo sick man:
Erayitz was stopped by a stranger at
tbn Roosevelt boulevard and Bustleton
nike The man told him his automo-
bile was stalled and that he was ILL.,
He asked Kravtz for lift.
Kravitz agreed. They had rode but
a short distance when the sick man
pressed a revolver against hraVltz
side and ordered him to turn the car
around and drive north on the boue-
ward. Kravitz did. turning off, at com
mand. at Faust street. The stranger
made Kravitz stop by an unIighted
roadster and then he and two men IN
the car robbed KravitZ of sob in
money and $11O0 in jcw"Iry.
Expert cracksmen blew open safe
In n five and ten cent store at 1922
Lancaster avenue early yesterday and
escaped with 5000 in cash. The robbery
was within one block of the Thirty
ninth street and Lancaster avenue
police station.
Entrance was gained to the store by
prying loose iron bars which covered
the cellar windows. The small safe,
which was in plain view of passcrsby
In the front of the store. was pushed
TO the rear and after building n screen
out of packing boxes so that they would
not be seen the Crarksmen drilled and
blew open the strongboX.
The police noticed the window open
and summoned Ernest r. Palmer. of
BIS North FOrtiPth street. A complete
set of cafe cracking tools was found be-
side the safe.
Bandits Watch Trollcys
While waiting for a trolley car at
Twenty fifth street and Lchigh avenue
at $3.50 O'Clock yesterday morning,
Arthur TschOpp, thirty Sycars old of
1919 West Lehigh avenue, was held up
and robbed by three automobile high .
waymcn. They stole SOS in cash and a
necktic pin. valued at $15.
As he was waiting for a trolley car
an automobile, containing three men
pulled up alongside Of the curb. and
on" Of them asked Tschopp II he had a
match. Tschopp walked toward the
automobiI" with match in his hand
and found himself looking into tLe
mu2z lo Of pistol Two Of the men
searched his pockets. while the third
Kept, him covered with III" pistol. The
bandits after taking the money climbed
back into the marhiuc and noI
A masked man hold up the saloon
OF James Torpoy, Ridge avenue and
FRANCIS street. lat" Saturday night and
Torpcy, the son. who was CLOSING tbc
saloon, to hand over $500 the Iav's
receipts. Tn" bandit escaped.