New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
Burglars Comb
9 Offices: Get
$4,000 Jewels
Also Open Three Safes in
Systematic Raid on Build
ing in 3ish Street; Find
Only Business Papers
Other Yesgs Miss $4,000
Pass Lille Safe for $50 in
Bic One; Hunt Thugs,
Not y omen, Says Judge

D4tnStAkirc burglars WFO made q
systematic descent through the Office
hals.n- q. 251 and 25S West Thirty
fourth Street between midnight and
dav. Yesterday went about their work
with .hc ide1 Of cleaning out the place.
- the process they entered nine Offices,
-,prea open three safes. ransacked
ns.v dcsas and overturned waste
baskets. All they got was sack Of
,sr.s.r. novelties valued 1t $500, sew
er.l bills q lat.ng, several handbags
ana telescope case.
WiAam Oliver, superintendent Of
the building. was eDprlsed OF what had
hanncncG when nlne tenants opened
tbesr o.tces around 9 o'clock yesterday
morning. The police were then mott
Tie burglars who did the Job found
lite that appealed to them. The sack
a. ievslrv novelties was obtained IN
tho otaces of TIE s. & b Manufacture
ing Company on the top floor. The
novelties consisted Of pins. brooches
rinr, .n6 earrings. Abraham Slotnick
an3 = l.. Brandt. members Of the firm,
sal the s,utf was worth $500, but the
rol.ca were inclined to think that the
..aire If tie sack had been overesti-
mated. Three handbags and tele-
scone case we're taken from an office
adioin.ug the manufacturing companys
suite.
Bonds Previously Removed
From The top floor the burglars de-
sctraea % the Offices shared by the
Wolf & Navno Construction Company
an Meyer Singer ( Co. They con
.uued .helt l.0sacA!ng process and
went so "a as 10 open the office safe,
hu' got nothing more tnan several bills
O.. ladins Some Liberty bonds had
beer removed from the safe short
time uvev.OuS r..
The safe in the Offices Of l. \. With
ington & Co. also was opened. and the
there's found therein L heap OF Office
papers nothing more. This company,
Il was SAID, had been robbed before,
an slnce the last robbery had used
tt- sa. only rs . piece OF o.tlce turnl-
,ure Desk drawers II The Offices OF.
Meyer { Goldstein and G.. Tuoti & Co.
slowed 'gns OF having been rausacked
bv practiced hands. In the Offices Of
t. Metal Tile Construction Company
Ii in-ruders found nothing OF value.
YeEgmen vho entered the Offices Of
the Italian Cioak ana Suit Makers
Union. 23l Hast Fourteenth Street,
ear.- yesterday morning were likewise
singular. unfortunate. They ripped
orea a safe of imposing appearance
ard Found tls.t { Welded only $50.
They departed without opening a
smaller safe tha. contained 5000 in
cas- .al currency
Judge Advises Detectives
County Judge Mcmahon in Brooklyn
sasEes-et yesterday that tho police and
detectives OF New York concern them
selves more with tne activities of yegg-
ne AMI not so much with the reforma
Il ~ of unfortunate women. He sus-
pended sentence ii the case d Miss
9'arr @ Eell. fortg-siX years old, OF
Pres pee. Place, Brooklyn who had been
lrr7iered with Arthur Pitts, forty
seven years old. Of 81 Prospect Street,
brooklyn. Both pleaded guilty. Pitts
vas sentenced TO the city prison Tor
thru months.
II women are 70 be reformed,7 said
juice NcNahon, ~ certainly will not
be done through the arres. hv able
bodied detectives whose one idea is TO
sem ,eem to prison. Let the detec-
tFes interest Themselves more in
ritclr- tae city OF robbers who are
spreading terror in our midst The
"omea attached 20 tire police depart
men can handle cases that involTe a
7o-r ar S oorals.'
solomon Wisch. OF 81 Tapscott Street,
B-oos fn. was sec upon by three foot
pacs within ..ht of his home last
ncat, choked INTO Inconsistencies
robbed o. 500 in cash, several checks
az $3.50 worth OF iewelry, and then
arng into = vacan. lot lie reported
t. 49, az the Brownsville police