New-York tribune., 1920-12-13
photographer Finds ) Men
at Work in Barber Shop,
Telephones Station House
aud Then Lines Them Up
Taken After q Battle
Two Grocery Stores Robbed
in Day of Many Grimes;
Negro Slain in Brooklyn


dropped MS bag Of tools. The -photog-
rapher seized y property shotgun,
thrust his feet into slippers and went
10 see what was up.
All was dark as he descended the
stairs until he reached the barber shop
and rheater ticket agency of G. Cramer.
The door into the hall was ajar and
beam OF light extended across the floor.
Moody cautiously applied his eye to
the crack and saw three men, one of
whom held dashlight while the others
examined the safe.
Moody tiptoed upstairs again to his
studio. where he telephoned to the po-
lice, informing them that burglars were
at work in the barber shop. Then he
Der shop, his shotgun Iuenaclng the
three men there.
Burglars Obey His Order
'Just line up against the wall. gen
tIemen,' he said, with your hands
above your heads and your backs to
me"
One glance into the cavernous
uuzzle q the double -barrelled weapon
carried by the photographer and the
burglars obeyed his order. Moody
seated himself regally in s. barber
chair crossed his legs, laid the shot
gun in his lap with its muzzle toward
his prisoners and lighted a cigarette.
HIS impressive figure in pink-striped
paiamas was the first sight that greeted
the eyes OF the patrolmen who arrived
from the West Forty-seventh Street
police station in response to Moody's
telephone call Either the stripes took
the minds Of the police off The burg
lars or the si.rs 81 Inc bluecoats and
brass buttons caused Moody to relax
his vigilance, for as the police entered
the burglars dived down the cellar
stairs.
The police pursued them, firing their
Eevolvers. The sound Of the shots and
the sigh- OF the striped photographer
with his shotgun which could be gained
oy applying 4 keen eye to the edge OF
the window screen. attracted consid-
er2b.e crowd in Broadway for that hour
Of the night and their interest was
wheJted further by the crashes and
other sounds OF combat that came
vaguely TO them from the cellar
Jimmies and Nightsticks
The burglars had attacked the police
with their jimmies, and the police
AFRAID 10 use their revolvers in the
darkness Of the cellar, were laying
about them with their nightsricks
Eventually they dragged three battered
men 10 the street, who. Moody said
were the three whom he made pris-
oner.
ne crowd burst into cheers as the
police emerged with their prisoners
escorted BY the paJama-clad photog-
Iapner. The prisoners said they were
Aa14y Gordon, OF 3A6 East Fourteenth
Street; Harry Keller. OF liz Ludlow
street. ard Antaoay De Leo, OF 33;
E.asr Fourteenth Street. Both they anc
the police required the services OF az
ambulance surgeon
De Leo said ne was an aviator AM
mad $4,000 some place" that ne hat
received as j Legacy. The police sax
ne ras under $500 bail on charg
4 burglary ard that his companion
aad served tine.
Two masked men entered Arnol
De~ners grocery store a. Seventh ave
nue and Fiftyfourth Street at 9:3
a. m yesterday. One Of them, wnos
voice Degner told the police later h
recognized, pressed a revolver agalns
The grocer's side and remarked:
Il YOU make any noise [ Will o
compelled to blow the heart right ou
Of YOU
1ecner made no noise. but observe
p strand Of gray nalr which straggle
rom behind the mask and connrme
-4t1 Garner lGGIL4.iC<-- -t'--A 14-~
nan The other rob5er connned n
attention 10 tne cash register, fror
hich ne took 1858 and check 10
80. Both men escaped.
Grocer Gives Up Wallet
4 negro and white man wake
INTO Louis Gerstein's grocery store q
.;ss West l26-h Street later IN the "a
md without any display ef weapon
requested Gerstein 10 give taeIn n
valet. This he did. II contained slO'
Pay Courtney, Of 323 Eighth Avenu
vas locked up IN the East Eighty ghl
trcet police station last nlgnc, a.
clsed o. trying 70 hold up ne"sOo
Pursued b. Patrolnan Heemsath, wn
azw TIE encounter between the ma
4nd the newsboy, Courtney ran I'M
5e0 East k.ghry-ninth Street
The pztrolman overlook him on IL
foagtn aoor Courtney. he says, levele
rcYolver at him. He knocked Cour
reg CIT with his nightstlck and toe
nm % the police station, wnere ne W.
charged with attempted felonious
sa1lt, attempted robbery and Violate
os *he sullivan law.
he stuck me up with gun, sa
Edward Cgrley, Of 15Z2 First Avenu
pe newsDoy, "and told rne 10 con
across with ny cash. threw n
bundle d papers in mis- face and tot
Il or the run
PEGGY burglars got $4,000 worth
f9rs Saturday night from the Alasl
9r aod Trading Company Al Gre
<eaeg Street, despite the fact that Il
1ora IS y ~d by the Holmes Electr
Protective Company, and Is direct
<sFo@z the street from the quarters
kngins Company 30, one Of the busie
Hfe stations IN tho city and the hea
f.1zstsrs of Chief kenion.
patroimen just Too Late
beealcsx alike of fhe proximity
tne engine house and of the lattl
wbrz ssnirn meant snat signal wob
'esa tie of1ce Of the protect
ronpaDg - soon sssit was tamper
Ea, .s.e burglars parked their car
ne c1rp opposite the front door ~
groeesded ~ cDt away part of t
'Foat ooor and jimmy the lock.
u Tas Ae 1880 that the sign
taeaed Ia the osiee og the Holm
eteetsic Protective Company, at Prin
,rest, snoxl lnz that something W
TsDfx AZ 4 Crest Joues Street II "
llt<l that two painting pasrolm
TIE protective company came
.lsnt ~ ths gaping front door of 1
2saRka Fur ard Trading Compar
nsy vfre Jnst IN time 70 see an AL
7Deiie vanishing in the distance.
shs9ecessfgl eTort ~ break into 4
pp1iaiag through the cellar was fna