New-York tribune., 1921-12-06
Runner Is Held
AS $4,000 i'm
Bonds Vanish
Brokers' Messenger Insists
He Gave Securities to a
Friend to Deliver So He'd
Not Be Late at the Office
Bandits Rob Landlord
Armed Pair Fell Him i'm
Doorway and Escape With
ST, 900 in Street Chase

Benjamin Pullman, nineteen years
old, runner for Thompson & Nc
Kcnna brokers, AZ Broadway, was ar
rested late yesterday at the firms
Offices by Detectives Fitzpatrick, Fay
and Kalbfeisch, of Old Slip police sta
tion, charged with grand larceny, after
negotiable bonds valued at $4,000
placed in his charge for delivery to
William Cohen, 81 Exchange Place, had
been reported missing.
According to members of the firm,
Pullman was dispatched yesterday at
1915 with six packages of bonds to
deliver within radius of two blocks
The young man was absent about an
hour and returned announcing that the
deliveries had been made. A short
ceived from the Cohen Offices saying
their bonds had not been delivered
and inquiring why.
Pullman was questioned and ex
planned that on leaving the office he
had encountered youth with whom he
frequently consorted and was accom-
panied by him on his rounds of the
various Offices. The last delivery he
had to make was to Cohen. On arriv-
ing outside tho Cohen office, Fullmar
said, he noticed the time and realized
that he had been out longer than was
permissible In order to hurry back
to his own office he gave the package
for Cohen, which contained 400 United
Fruit certificates and 400 Midvale Stecl
bonds, to his companion, asking the
~ for tC 10 GOkn 1H
and deliver them. He said he supposed
they had been delivered until informed
to the contrary.
Although questioned by members ot
the firm for several hours Fullmar
stuck to his story, and late in the after
noon police aid was sought. Fullmar
gave detectives the name and address
Of young man to whom he said he
surrendered the missing bonds. The
latter had not been apprchended ct &
late hour last night
Pullman has been in the employ OF
Thompson & McKehna for eighteen
months and is said to have delivered
millions of dollars worth of negotiable
paper. He lives with relatives at 1901
Franklin Avenue. the Bronx.
Louis Levy, forty-fvc years old, OF
$40 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, owner
Of property at 1885 First Avenue, Man
haitian, was knocked down and robbed
By two armed men Of $1,000 in cur
rency and $400 in checks as he emerged
from the doorway of the apartment
house last night. Levy had been col
lecting rents in the building more than
two hours and was on his way home.
Levy's cries for help attracted q
crowd of several hundred men and
women, who pursued his assailants in
First Avenue several blocks. Later a
patrolnran joined in the chase, but the
bandits escaped. Levy was treated by
Dr.. Brodsky Of Flower Hospital, who
ordered him sent to that institution
His skull is believed to be fractured.
Bertig Gwitzman, owner of iewelry
store at 42hs Market Street, Newark
was robbed Of iewelry worth $4,000 and
$500 in cash when two robbers entered
his store soon after noon yesterday
The intruders threatened Gwitzman
with revolvers and compelled him ta
open the safe.
The bandits filled their pockets with
set stones from three trays Of jewelry
and backed out of the place, keeping
Gwitzman covered with their weapons
William A. Goldberg, proprietor of a
shoe store, The Vogue, at II West
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