The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-03-18
ROBBER SUSPECT
IS IDENTIFIED IN
BANK HOLD-UP HERE
Teller Says Wallace Partici.
pIted in WillilmSbridge Rob
berry in September, 1910.

/ stewart $ Wallace. under arrest
here iu connection with the hOrGup
and robbery OF the Peoples Trust
Company OF Wyomissing Pa, on Feb.
(. vts to-day positively ldrnrDtcd by
Grorgc Burkhurdt, paying teller ot the
| WuuHur,brldgc Bank, as one ~ the
~, IL who robbed that o., pu at
/ tI, point ur e pistul uu '>,. Nh.
Inspector Couguuu sand Du ,- ulsp
mad notwithstanding to show that
! Wallace, called the muster MIND" in
"a a'i'irs ~ holdups .und rObocrI"s. was
concerned IN The attempted robbery
! ~ two former policemen. David Ryan
and Henry Bolru messengers TOR the
! Colonial Bank. who wUrr attacked on
the elevated stairs at Slst Street and
| Columbus Avenue ia June, 1919. II
Is believed that Wallace also ntd "a
hand IA the coDbrry or the Husrllv
lauk no NnN Jersey.
! DlatrIy. attorney A. robert May
vi BcrI,s county, PA, aud chef OF
! Police Harry Strubcl and Detective
| Harry Huber or the Heading force,
are m New YORK arranging for the
rNtr,tditIun Of the four men and
! thre, women held ~ connection with
the robbery OF the Wyomissins bank,
Mr. May praised the New York Po-
lice Department FOR It's cleanup OF
| the case which resulted IN the re-
| cOvery OF almost half Of the loot OF
1888, 900 taken from the Pennsylvania
bank
incidentally, tho police say, IN max
ing the arrests they rescued "A pretty
country girl, who had been virtually
n prisoner in flat at No. So Morn
ingside Avenue, and also caught Il
man with a long record as II Dad
man" The girl described herself as
I.ottie Johnson of Green Camp, four
miles from Marion, o. she said her
| family knew President Harding very
well. She was employed IN the Dear
born Hotel, Chicago. when she met
one OF the men. The police may de-
eide to- day to send her home.
The first arrest was that Of Harry
Bernstein at the Hotel Ansoniil, made
by Dctc, i've Sergt. James J. Gegan
OF the Bomb Squad II was said later
Bernstein had on b m Sos, 900 in secuti-
ties, which we're identified by. their
serial numbers as part OF SlSS,O0o in
cash and securities obtained by six
men at the point OF revolvers from
the Wyomissing Peoples Trust Com
pany Feb. 4.
Bernstein is said TO have been iden-
tifieG by Rose Shanahan OF Reading,
as having lived at her house from
Jan 81 until Feb. 5. the day after the
hold-up. One OF the directors OF the
bank is also said to have identified
n picture OF Bernstein as that of the
man who backed him into the bank
vault at the point OF revolver.
with Bernstein was arrested Solo
mon Girsch Of No. 1886 Crimmins Az
enue, Bronx, who the police say is
implicated in a recent bond robbery
in this city.
Later Detective Sergeant GOgan led
raid on AN apartment At No. 81
Morningside Avenue. There Stewart
$. Wallace and Charles Starke were
arrested with Miss johnson, VINO Is
twenty-one, and Mrs. Charles Stark,
twenty-five. A Mrs, Jake Cohen also
was arrested. The women are held
as material witnesses.
Wallace, the police said, was one of
|
I hended In this city. He has served
} two terms for burglary and WIS ar
, rested other times, according to police
records. II was said he was fully
=. armed when captured and that a
3 loaded revolver was found in the bed
. of his apartment,
The securities found on Bernstein
? are the only part of the loot from
the bank that has been recovered
| Sergt, Gegan suid. More than $27,00(
}. worth, II is said, was destroyed. Cash
a amounting 70 900 was taken. bu
> none OF II has been found.
In the arrest OF the men, the polio
q had the aid OF the William J. Burn
Detective Agency with which tn
police have worked ever since tn
u robbery.
It Taking part IN the raid were De
, Elective Sergent Gegan, Detective
j. Cornelius Brown, George MUCartS
y George Gilbert Charles f. RObt
Walter =. Whitman and Danny MUr
~ rift, the latter three being OF tn
" Burns Agency.
Bernstein. the police said, WIS iden
~ tified by an of11cer OF the WyOmissin
u, Bank ns one OF the men who held
~ revul,. when clerks and officers {
w the bank were huddled into vau
!" while the robbers looted the bankin
rNE1ma.
Stark, IKE wallace and Bernstein
III, police say, has a long prise
3 | rrrurd Wallace, II ~ said, face
arrest In Chicago, where a warruI
A., awaits him on the charge OF violatin
the Mann act In bringing the JohI
son girl TO this city. She Is GOO
y looking, well dressed and aTp8rentI
m. well educated.