The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-12
ONE KILLED IN CRIME
WAVEIN 8 BOROUGHS
Cafe Manager Shot - $40
Missing From Cash
Register.

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! weeks was marked yesterday by hold
| ups in three boroughs, in one OF which
! the manager of IA restaurant was
/ wounded so severely that he died soon
afterward in a hospital Automobiles
! were used by the bandits in two in
! stances as the means of getting TO and
away from the scene of the crime. One
! of the machines. which the police sue
/ ceeded in capturing. contained four re-
volvers with collapsible dirks. the blades
| of which were eight inches long and n
| razor Ten men were arrested in con-
nection with the days pistol operations
and were held in heavy bail for exami-
| nation.
Walter Jackowiski OF 2042 Richmond
| Terrace. Mariners Harbor. S. l.. was the
victim of the bandits. So far as Is
! known by the police or the District At
! torney of Richmond. no person witnessed
! the hold up in which Jackowish was
shot. Some person heard a loud report
and notified Policeman Smith of the
| Richmond station. Smith began an in
VeStigatfon and came upon Jackowiski
unconscious in a restaurant at 2sS6
i Richmond Terrace. of which he was
| manager. The cash register was open
| and checking up of accounts showed
| $40 was missing.
! District Attorney Maloy is inclined to
+, believe that the bandits who killed
| Jackowiski were the same as held up
| Andrew lombard. peddler. of 10 Jew
EFT avenue. New Brighton in Richmond
! Terrace not very far from the restau-
rant. lombard was driving his wagon
| when four men jumped out Of an auto
mobile, levelled pistols at his head and
| demanded that he throw UP his hands.
! One of the thieves went through the
/ peddler's pockets and stole S174.
Six Bandits Get S1O..
| Nicola Loddoto Of 15S Hull street.
| Brooklyn, was held up by six men
! shortly after midnight at the corner OF
| Fanchon place and Jamaica avenue.
! Loddoto had been visiting a friend who
lives in that section and had just left
| the house when the bandits set upon
! him. All of them, according to Lodi
doto. were armed with pistols. a gold
watch and sl07 were stolen from LODI
] doto, whose yells as the men started TO
| flee attracted three policemen of the
| Miller avenue station.
| The policemen arrested six men. They
| described themselves as Casper Scapeto,
&c. of % Rivington street. Manhattan
Muzio Signorello. %. of 219 Scholes
street; Francesca Farranto. %. of 81
Bushwick avenue; William Bolo. %, OF
! 1sS Stagg street; Fortune Palmeri. a. OF
203 Ten Eyck street. and Edward Prado,
| y. of 35S Grand street. all OF Brooklyn.
| According to the police four revolvers.
with the dirks attached, were found In
an automobile occupied by three OF the
! prisoners.
Instead of arraignrlg the men in a
| magistrates court. as is the custom,
they were rushed to the Office of Harry
Z. Lewis. District Attorney Of Brooklyn,
IL H..
nesses were examined by Thomas +.
Peters, Assistant District Attorney. and
taken Immediately before the Grand
Jury, which was sitting. The Grand
jury found indictments for robbery,
grand larceny and assault against five
OF the men. Prado. who was the chauf-
fcur of the automobile, was held as a
material witness
Indicted Ina Record Time.
The prisoners were arraigned before
Judge Dyke in the County Court pleaded
aot guilty and were held for trial next
Monday in $4,000 bail each. The bail
| of Prado was fixed at $4,000, as well
! as Loddoto, the complainant. who also
was held as a material witness. The
speedy Indictment arralgnment for
pleading and setting Of the date for
| trial OF tho five IL said 70 have estab-
shed a record for Kings county
Albert Elsberg OF 1854 Bryant avenue.
! The Bronx was held up at Amsterdam
avenue and Seventeen street, just two
short blocks from the West Sixty-eighth
street station. His loss consisted OF p
watch and chain and S35 in cash. De-
tectives later arrested Edward sullivan
! 10. OF III West Sixty-fourth street :;
Harry White. 20. of 446 West Twenty
seventh street; Nicholas Bossak' ~ OF
| % Clinton street. and Emil ALE. 20, or
| 257 West Slxty-ninth street. The Tour
were held in $500 bail each by Magis-
trate Joseph $. Schwab I'm West Side
! Court.
Thomas Clarke. 80. of 1875 West Slxtv-
! eighth street. was arrested and locked
/ up I'm the West Forty seventh street
station on suspicion OF larceny after no
had applied at Roosevelt Hospital for
treatment for a pistol shot wound.
Clarke, according TO the police. refused
to explain how he received his wound.
Policeman Berger, Of the West Forty T.
seventh street station. interrupted sew.
eral men Sunday afternoon In an attempt
10 break into dry goods store at s51
Tenth avenue.
Abraham Shulman, AZ, proprietor OF a
grocery store at II West l3Sth street,
who was shot by two negro bandits sun
day morning when he refused TO drop
carving knife as they demanded died
yesterday in Harlem Hospital.
Burglars ransacked the offices OF the
British American Tobacco Company. III
Fifth avenue. some time between Satur-
day night and early yesterday morning.
When the offices were opened for DUST
ness II was found that an unsuccessful
attempt had been made 20 force open Two
safes on the twelfth floor ~ Che building
and the knobs and combinations had
been knocked OF four others In amateur
lsh fashion. a small amount " cash
was missing, about 5000 In postage
stamps and a quantity OF clothing from
the employees lockers DIT. iohn a.
Harriss. special deputy police commits
sioner has an Office in the building.
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