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:.>lLl) 100 AT BAY
AS RUMIS STOLEN
20 Robbers Get $4,000 Worth
Of Booze in PhiIadeIp phia.
aEIGABORHOOD TERRORIzEO
Twelve White Men Point Guns at Peo-
pie, While Eight Negroes Roll Out
Barrels.

Barrels.
Philadelphia, July 2J.-H0lding at
iea>I 100 persons at bay with re-
waivers. 20 men early yesterday morn
~ staged one of the hoideSt and most
Spectacular hooZe rohberie> ever
known here. when they carried off i'll
! r.n Trucks and TWO automobiles at
! |. ;t>r $4,000 worth of alcoholic goods
! ft-ata The warehouse Of Morris Shift.
| -! To 1861 Minor street. Frankford.
Driving up to the place at t.30 \. NJ.
! fi.e 20 men. L. of whom were white
! as.d eighl negroes. first stationed their
! II lrkS. then broke down hle door, over
| p..Nprinc lhree men who were about
! +. = building and quickly loaded their
vrntrIe> with The precious stuff. While
| t!e eight negroes rolled out the bar
rt.ls and carried out the cases the T.
! { hi,e men stood guard with guns u
| t'.eir hands Bakers and milkmen who
| dove along the street We're held up
! o. 4 driven off Nei@hhor> who p0ked
I their heads out of windows were drtv-
"A back At last. when their trucks
were filed, the men climbed aboard
AID sped away. During the whole pro-
:,yeding no policeman was in sight
1nd rhe police were not informed of
| lie Had until a half hour later
| Some hours later. after Shift. who
| had been summoned from tie sea-
shore. went over his looted warehouse
lie reported the following liquor as
missing:
twenty-five cases of assorted whis-
kes.
Ten cases of high grade wine.
Three barrels of Port wine and mus
ca1el.
Ten cases of Virginia Dare wine.
Five barrels of grain alcohol.
Twenty-Five barrels of Mt. Vernon
whisky.
Two barrels of gin.
! The only man who witnessed the
robbery from first to last was Stanley
| Kempa. baker. who rents the cellar
| Of the last house used by Shift as a
warehouse. He was standing at the
door of his bakehouSe when he saw a
tlltitS Ltli Illl1S lilt' -'AllIlOI
First came big touring car contain
| ing six men, followed by two trucks
carrying the eight negroes. while an
other touring car with six more WhAs
men brought up the rear. One touring
gar stopped at one end of the street.
while the other proceeded to the next
corner The two trucks halted in front
i,f Ip door E'jvh
out of each touring car and stationed
themselves along the street. leaving
one man at the wheel of each car.
Several of the men approached Kem
pa and pointed guns at him They
called his assistant out of the cellar
and kept both of them standing AT the
doorway throughout the robbery, al
ways with guns at their heads.
Meanwhile, a man known as Mike
the Polack. who is employed by Shift
as Waterman in a building operation
ut the end of the street, approached to
see what was going on. {le was held
up and taken inside the building, where
he was locked in a room, from which
he was not released until after The
robbers had left.
Having disposed of the men about
the place the robbers took a big beam
out of one of the trucks and broke
down the warehouse door This arouS
ed a number of people in the neigh
horhood. which is inhabited by Poles
Scores of them raised their windows
to see what was the matter. The men
on the street pointed their guns at
them and ordered them to lower the
windows and keep inside their houses.
All of them Obeyed, although practic-
ally the entire street watched the rob-
berry from behind closed shutters.
afraid to make move because they
feared fusilade of shots.
The robbers at once got busy re-
moving the barrels and cases. 1t was
noticed that the negroes did all the
work. while the white men stood guard
walking up and down the street with
their guns in their hands. Several
milkmen and bakers, on their early
morning rounds, either passed the end
| of the street or tried to drive along it,
bur they were driven off. Some Of
them thought a government raid was in
| progress.