New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Police Capture
2 Bandits i'm
Street Fight
con,inucd frpm paas cn'


station. The robbers went uptown for
their iewel,y.
The fur establishment of c. j.
Fuerth & Co.. ut l5l163 West Twenty
sixth Street was broken into on
Christmas morning and robbed OF
$4,000 worth Of Alaskan pieces. The
smashed the electrically protected
door and got away with their loot
before the police arrived.
Eatwcen Friday night and Tuesday
morning thieves entered the display
rooms Of NJ. Rosenbatt & Sons, fur
riers. OF 1875 West Twenty sixth Street,
bv way Of window. The hooters are
believed to have slid down rope from
the roof. They got away with forty
sealskin coats and an assortment OF
other furs valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The shop OF Shoht & Press at las
West Twcnty-sixth Street, WAS robbed
of scalskin coats and wraps worth
$500.
Jewclry Shop Robbed
Thieves broke into the house Of
Kasarsky Bros. g. Fink, furriers, at lao
West Twenty ninth Street, behind the
and absconded with $4,000 worth OF
raccoon and muskrat coats.
Three young men armed With guns
held up and robbed Samuel GorSvitE
thirty years old, in his tailoring shop
al 227 West tSd Street last night
They beat the tailor into insensibiiity
and took $50 from his cash register
Gorwitz was taken 10 Harlem Hos
pital. and later to his home. He told
the police he thought the three men
who had attacked him had been patrons
OF his shop for some time. He was able
to give a good description of the trio
A customer of Gorwitz was entering
just as the bandits emerged. He pur-
sued them and a crowd Of several hum
dred persons joined the chase, but they
escaped.
On Saturday night, just as the Good
man brothers, Charles and Herman,
were closing their jewelry shop at 912
Amsterdam Avenue, we'll dressed man
entered and asked to be shown some
articles. Five minutes after he had
gone two men entered with revolvers
held up the brothers and made OFF with
$1,000 worth Of rings and watches. The
bandits escaped in an automobile be-
fore the proprietors of the SHOP could
summon help. They thought they rec
ognized AS the director of the work Of
the robbers the shopper of a few mo-
ments before.
Three young men, with pinchback
coats and expensive caps filled with
paper to keep them in shape, inter
rupted yesterday the early morning
repast of some ten customers in Horn
4 Hartarts automat restaurant at
broadway and Forty-firs. Street. just
long enough to hold up ;:,e cashier and
leave with about S14 in small change
There were about $4,000 locked in the
restaurant safe, but the bandits made
no effort to get it. No- did they try to
rob the customers. They merely sug-
gested that all in the place elevate
their hands and took what wealth was
contained in the cashiers desk.
Policeman Uses Pistol
Then there followed a chase j,
which Patrolman Philip Lutz, Of tn
west Thirtieth Street police station
hred five shots al the fugitives as the,
sped west on Fortieth Street. He pus
sued them in another taxicab until the,
were lost to sight on Seventh Avenue
Captain John J. McCloskey, of tn,
Brooklyn detective bureau. abandonc,
yesterday the theory first held by tt
police that Charles Haves, of 394 Glen
more Avenue, Brooklyn, who was sho
Wednesday morning near his home
came tc his death at the hands o
hold-up men.
The fact that his wallet, which con
tanned $50, was intact and that no at
tempt had been made to wrest a yaiu