The New York herald., 1921-11-09
2 SEIZED IN SEARCH
FOR $J,OOOBANDIT
Chauffeur and Another Held
in Holdup Of Bronx Res
taurant by Four Men.
CLOTHING STORE ROBBED
Fifty Coats and Vests Stolen,
but Trousers Are Left
Behind by Thieves.

So Detectives Kidney and Meyer of the
Simpson street station, investigating the
robbery Of the restaurant Of Otto Young.
yesterday arrested Max Schweit. a.. OF
ais East 102d street. and Anthony Can
celano. II. of 220 East Eightieth, street.
schweit. chauffeur. Is alleged to
have driven the machine In which rode
four men who held up. and robbed; the
restaurant patrons OF $4,000 He was
held In $500 ball by Magistrate Nc
Geehan for further examination to-
morrow. Soon afterward Cancclano was
arrested at Second avenue and Eighty
sixth street, where he has bean en-
ployed In a shoe repairing shop.
Fifty coats and vests, ten mackinaws
and several dozen pairs Of overcoats and
trousers. all valued at $4,000. were stolen
early Sunday morning from the tailor
shop Of Isadore Rosenberg at 233 Mon
tauk avenue. Brooklyn. It became known
yesterday. Trousers matching the fifty
coats and vests were left behind, They
had been taken to the shop by customers
who wanted them pressed.
When Henry Lubitz Of 429 East 147th
street. The Bronx. taxicab driver.
drove two men to their homes In Brook
lyn early yesterday they asked him to
60 inside and meet their wives He said
he was not interested In meeting their
wives but wanted his taxi fare. He fol-
lowed the men into a dark hallway at
Isl South Ninth street. he said. and the
men tried to rob him. A fight followed.
The police arrested Thomas O'Brien. 271
Bainbridge street Brooklyn. and Joseph
.O'Toole Of 73 Division avenue. Brooklyn.
They were arraigned In Bridge Plaza
Court on charges OF assault and at
tempted robbery.
James Piunty. chauffeur. OF 548 West
Forty-eighth street. was arrested by De-
.tectives Herman and Lawless Of the
West Sixty-eighth street station on
suspicion Of robbery OF John Gross. Also
a chauffeur, of EOS East Forty-fourth
street. The robbery. according to Gross,
occurred on the morning Of Oct. 81.
The police Of Weehawken. N. j.. made
two arres-s in their Investigation OF the
robbery OF Mrs. Elizabeth Nieninger. ",
OF 70 West Eighteenth street. Vice.
hawken The robbers broke in through
a window, beat Mrs. Nieninger with a
poker and got away with 800. The men
arrested were Thomas Reilly. $40 Clinton
street. Hoboken. and James OBrien. no
address. They were arraigned hefore
Recorder Wynn In the Weehawken police
station and held. for further examination
Reilly. the police said. has cash on one
of his forcarms which might have oecn
made by glass.
Harry A.. Clintsman, a sailor. living at
Mills Hotel. appeared before Magis.
trate Nolan in the Essex Market court
yesterday as complainant against three
men he accuses OF having beaten and
robbed him Of $31 In ar employment
agency at 2i3 Sullivan street Monday.
The prisoners william p. Smith, said to
be the proprietor Of the estao ishment
James b. King of 100 Bieecker street,
and Dominfck Barone OF los Barnett
street, The Bronx. were each held FOR
the Grand Jury In $4,000 bonds.
Clintsman says Barone and King met
him on the street and asked him II he
wanted a Job. When he told them he
did, ne says they led him 70 tn. Sullivan
street address. where the assault and
iobbery took place.
\ Some one threw paving block through
the display window Of the Rockwell
Clothing Company's store at 1925 Broad
way, between Twenty-ninth and Thir-
tieth streets, carly yesterday and stole
two overcoats. When H. c. Metzler
president of the company. arrived for
business and saw what had happened he
placed sign In the window which read
'~The crook who stole the coats out OF
this window will kindly call and we Will
give him suit to match" 1t took two
policemen to keep the crowds moving.
Joseph Scales. negro living at III
West 18th street. was arrested yester-
day by Detectives Allies and Boyle OF
the West Thirtieth street station on a
charge of robbing mall boxes. About
500 letters bearing various, Harlem ad-
dresses were found In the prisoners
home. According to the police he ad-
mitted having riied letter boxes of
apartInent houses I'm Harlem.