New-York tribune., 1920-12-06
81 Robberies, 3 Murders, 10 Hold Ups,
? Shootings, City's Record Lost Week

There wer. 325 hold-ups. burglaries,
etc, and more than 100 unsolved muir
ders shown in the first of The Tribune S
stories on police conditions printed last
Monday.
The record for the week, from Sun
lav. November 2S, TO Saturday, Deem
ser i, inclusive, shows thirtyfour bur
glaries or thefts; ten hold-ups, three
unsolved murders and two mysterious
shootings, in which no arrests have
been made.
These figures are rar from complete
The record is complied from the in
formation reaching the newspapers and
N no manner from the police reports,
and thereby from the public.
The outstanding crime of the week
vas the hold-up last Tuesday of two
of Kean, Taylor & Co.'S messengers in
front of factory in Metropolitan
Avenue. Brooklyn. The holdup men
obtained S466.G COO in bonds, almost all
ef which were negotiable.
News Leaked Out
The crime was brazenly staged The
hold-up took place within stones
throw Of the Bedford Avenue police
station. Several shots were fired and,
despite the heroism OF one Of the mes
sengers. who, defying the thugs
volver fire. ran after them, the thieves
escaped in an automobile.
The police gave out no information
f the no o'd-u9. It leaked out through
he calling of an ambulance to treat
one OF the messengers, who had been
blackjacked and slightly wounded by q
revolver shot. The police warned all
concerned to say nothing 70 reporters.
The amount of the loss and the char
@cter of the bonds were obtained from
he insurance company, which had is
sued policy to the bankers against
hold-up.
The day after the hold-up the police
arrested the head messenger Of kean,
Taylor & Co. and announced that he
had confessed TO having planned the
crime The head messenger, the police
said, had implicated his brother and
four others.
The others nave not been arrested.
The bonds have not been recovered.
Faced with d so per cent increase in
losses the Automobile Theft Under
writers Association announced Satur-
day that il had appropriated SO 900 to
increase its force Of Investigators. Be-
tween seventy and scventy-fve cars
a. being stolen daily in New York,
the underwriters announced.
Weeks Crime Record
The weeks crime record follows:
Nov 28-Two burglars discovered break
ing into an apartment at o2I
Riverside Drive.
Nov 29-Eight robberies, withheld by
the police disclosed in the ar
rest Of two boys, the Oldest
zen years old.
Man found murdered in hall
AOT HerrV
Brooklyn.
iold-up in fur shop Of Vel
land & Catland, 2039 Seventh
Avenue; Ralph Welland. Of
the firm, shot by the thugs
Joseph Steele, sixteen-year-
Old burglar, shot while break
ing into Forty-secord Street
Store.
Hold-up in Flatbush Avenue
restaurant; G. Roy patter-
son. wealthy piano manufac-
turer beaten by robbers.
Mix wagon driver held up in
railway at 1888 Arthur Ave
nue., the Bronx
Two autos stolen from garage
at 27l4 Newkirk Avenue,
Brooklyn
Tailor shop at 10 Riverside
Drive robbed
Nov. 3o-Kean, Taylor & Co. messen-
gera held up in Brooklyn and
robbed Of sAsG 900 N bonds.
Mrs. Elsie Daniels beaten and
robbed By hold-up men in
Fifteenth Street.
Dry goods store At 259 Riv-
lng.on Street robbed
Zee. Safe Of Sheffield Farms MIX
Company IL Office at lG8
DyckmAn Street blown open
Dy .y men who oyerDovyer 4
vatchman.
Dec. 2-Frank Ross beaten and robbed
Ia ais home, 222 East 1C6th
Street.
lone Of Mra. william r.
Marsh, 543 Eastern Parkway,
robbed.
safe Of Liberty Pen Company
go Canal Street, blown opcu.
iesle II. Tyler, y. 7. L. stu
dcnt neld up and robbed.
Eome II hsscnblysnan Leo =
DDherfy az 81. Jonn's Place.
Hfcoklyn, robDed
Home oi August Bader, 2795
Bedford Avenue, BrooAlyn.
robbed.
seofc at 100 North Elliot
Place. Brooklyn, robbcd.
Home II Jack Quinn, 280 st.
Johns Place, Brooklyn, robbed.
ms is the second robbery
there In month.
DEC S--~Tony Venni, of 2222 Fulton
street, snot and Killed on At.
lantic Avenue.
Z Three employees Of ths New
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