New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Seizes 100000
In Diamonds
At Bank : Door
Automobile Bandit ssobs
Jewelry Messenger of Two
Strongboxes at 9TH Ave.
and 49.h ST. and Escapes
Police Pursuit Is Futile
Providcnt Co. Clerk Held as
Accomplice in Theft AZ
ter Conflicting Statements

Diamonds valued ut 100000 were
stolen from a messenger of the Provi-
dent Diamond Company yesterday
morning shortly after he left the
Pacific Bank, Seventh Avenue and
Forty-ninth Street, to board street
car for the firms store at 59S Seventh
Avenue. The messenger, David Saylor
thirty-nine years old, was carrying the
gems in two strong boxes. The man
who grabbed them escaped in touring
car bearing license number 1871. .S57
There was one witness TO the hold up,
hat Saylor's story was unsatisfactory
to the police and he was held for fur
Their questioning.
At 9:l0 Saylor received the two
boxes from teller. AS he came out
of the bank, Saylor said that touring
car was standing with motor running
TO the police and he was held charged
with acting in concert in IA robbery.
Protest Brings Blow to Jaw
According to the story Saylor told
the police, he was about to board a
southbound Seventh Avenue car when
some one tapped him on the shoulder.
He turned and recognized one Of the
nen who had been standing by the
touring car. Saylor described the man
as over six feet, of light complexion,
with scar over the lip and wearing a
soft brown souch hat.
Give me them" the bandit de-
manded, pointing to the boxes which
Saylor carried under his arm, and when
the messenger protested, the man
loosened his hold on the boxes. The
bandit grabbed them and threw them
INTO the waiting car. and a moment
lster was speeding up Seventh Avenue.
David Burkin, of tie United Artists
society, 729 Seventh Avenue. who was
standing nearby, saw the hold-up and
attempted to rescue the diamonds. He
jumped to the running board of the
car as 1T started, but was pushed off
~ the man who had seized the Jewels.
Three Policemen Give Chase
Three policemen in the vicinity com
mandeered automobiles and started in
pursuit. Though the car was some
distance ahead by this time they man
aged to trail it up Seventh Avenue to
tiftieth Street, thence through to
Broadway up to Fifty-frst Street
through that street to Ninth Avenue
and Fifty-third Street. where it was
lost in a maize of traffic.
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seventh Street station, where he was
questioned by detectives.
Milton Lubin. president Of the Provi-
dent Diamond Company said that the
diamonds were only insured for 500
900. He told the police that Sa ylo1
had been in his employ for more thar
year, that he was clerk and mes
senger. and that it had been his duty
TO carry jewels to and from the Pacific
Bank for some months
Five masked men obtained $500 a
the Morgan Steam Laundry, at 700 Mot
Avenue, early yesterday morning after
binding three employees with bee
sheets and blowing a six-foot safe will
nitroglycerine. The robbers escaped ir
waiting automobile.
The laundry management said tn,
raid probably had been planned witt
the intention of getting Saturday pay
roll, the laundry employing $50 work
ers. The bandits were foied in this b,
the feet that payday falls on Tuesday