New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Three Confess
1oOrgganiizingg g
Burglar g Firm
Seven Clevcrly Planned and
Executed Hold Ups III
the City Since July We're
Made Oh Business Lines
Two Are Ex-Service Men
One of Trio Handled Gun.
Another Was Lookout and
Third Was Advance Agent

Crime as business, with every de-
rartment thereof we'll organized and
each member of the firm" knowing
just what was expected Of him and
what his share of the proceeds was
to be, was outlined yesterday, accord
ing to the police, by three prisoners
who were arraigned in the Harlem
court on charge of robbery, and who
are accused of having taken part in
seven ingeniously planned and executed
hold-ups since last July.
The men who were arrested gave
their names as. Joseph Cohen, twenty
eight years old, of 43 West Hath
Street; Morris Bernstein, twenty-e eight
years old, a clerk. living at II West
ll2th Street, and Louis Henig, twenty
nine years old, Of % Saratoga Avenue
the Bronx. Cohen and Henig say they
are ex-service men.
Duties Were Divided
In the division of duties of this
firm, according to the police, Cohen
used the revolver to hold up the vic
TINS, Henig kept watch on the door
Of the place being robbed and Bern
stem was tne advance agent who sought
out profitable places to ROB and after
ward aided Cohen in collecting the loot
Detectives spent good part of yes
terday listening to recital Of the
details Of the muitifarious business af
fairs Of this trm. according TO state
ments given cut by the authorities last
night.
One of the interesting features
evolved from the alleged confessions
Of the men was the fact that several
of the robberies which the trio claim
to have brought about were never re-
ported by the police.
The arrests were made yesterday af-
ternoon by Detectives Edward Cooper
Charles Newman and Cornelius Browne
Of the bomb squad, who followed the
trio through Manhattan and Brooklyn
The detectives say the men were stand.
ing before a jewelry store in Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, last night shortly
after midnight, but claim they left
when patrolmap approached. Then
they went to jewelry store in Manhat-
tan, at 125th Street and Seventh Ave
nue., the detectives say, where the same
performance was repeated. A third
jewelry store vas visited at Stanton
and Attorney streets, where they were
arrested on suspicion and were taken
TO Police Headquarters, where, accord
ing to the police, full confessions were
made.
Accused of Jewel Robbery
The three members of the hold-ur
firm we're charged yesterday with the
robbery Of Abraham Davidow, a jew.
elcr at 1744 Madison Avenue, where it
is claimed $4,000 was secured Dccem-
ber Ia. 1t is charged that they held up
the restaurant Of Richard Mendoza, at
III Lenox Avenue, October a; the fur
shop Of Max Rosenberg, at 1T Lcnox
Avenue. October 8; the Madison Re
publican Club on November %, where
.hey secured money and jewclry from
mem bcrs; robbed a Ninth Avenue sur
face car at Bank and Washington
streets. December 5; robbed the drug
store Of Abraham Weinstein, at 1876
st. Nicholas Avenue, on December 13
and assaulted Nathan Ncss. proprietor
Of restaurant ut 6 West Twenty rst
Street, when nc resisted their order 10
throw up his hands, on the same night
of the Weingtcin bOld-up.