New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-05
Forty Robbed of
$1,000 in Craps
Game Hold Up
Five Masked and Armed
Men Get $I,5OO in Cash
and Strip Victims of VAL
uables as Scores Look On
Suspect Caught in Chase
Residents of Flats Wit
ness Daylight Robbery
in Yard in Allen Street

Five bandits, masked, and armed
with revolver, held up craps game in
the rear yard at 40 Allen Street late
yesterday afternoon and while scores
of tenants of surrounding buildings
looked on. robbed forty men partici-
pating in the game of 81 500 in cash,
besides stripping them of watches, rings,
stickpins and other valuables. The &C.
tual loss is said to have been $4,000.
The robbers fled, two going through
an areaway into Eldridge Street, while
the other three ran through the build
ing into Allen Street, pursued by B
number of the victims. The thorough
fare was lined with people at the time,
but every one seemed too startled to
intercept the fleeing men. Patrolman
Stadtmuller, of the 18th Precinct.
heard the cry raised by the pursuers
and captured a man, who was identified
bysJacob Bloom, of $50 Monroe Street,
as one of the bandits.
Stickpin on Prisoner Identified
The prisoner said he was Frank Ross,
Q laborer, thirty years old, living at
the Bayard Hotel. He denied all
knowledge of the robbery, but a stickpin
found upon him was identified by
Bloom as being one stolen from him.
Ross, according to the police, has a
criminal record. He was locked up in
the Clinton Street police station, and
will be arraigned in the Third District
Court tomorrow.
The craps game had been in progress
several hours when it was abruptly in
terrupted. The players were all we'll
supplied with money, and play had
risen to high stakes. The attention
of persons living in the surrounding
tenements had become conferred on it,
and every window was lined with on
lockers.
Joined by Confederates
Women seated in front of the Allen
Street address saw three men enter
the tunnel leading to the rear yard.
The robbers apparently put on their
masks while going through the tunnel,
as they wore none as they left the
street. At the same time two confed-
crates approached the game through
an Eidridge Street house. All five APP
pearad suddenly in the areaway and
surrounded the players.
While the gamblers held their hands
high in the air, the bandits scooped
up all the money on the ground. and
searched each man. The job was done
so quickly and skillfully that eye
witnesses were not given time to re-
cover from tHeiI DEW iiuSi iiiSiis, e'iii
summon the police.
Said to Admit Aiding Hold-Up
Ross was questioned by detectives
after his arrest and later by Captain
Joseph Bushy of the Clinton Street
station. Although part of the jewelry
stolen was found on him he persisted
IN deniais Of any connection with the
lcld-up until told that the identity Of
tahI;shed He is then said to have adj
n,itted his guilt. but to have refused
further information.
Ross said he did not know any OF
Che men in the game and was not the
promoter of the hold-up. He declined
to give the name of the ringieader
who victims Of The robbery declare =
have been tall man with a short
stubby red beard and 3 gruff voice
who constantly urged the gang to get
action and reproached some member b
Of his party whose hands trcmbled
when they were searching the line-uN
FOR ''behaving like amateurs