The New York herald., 1921-01-18
ONE VICTIM BEATEN
Armed Men Stun Superin-
tendent of Apartment
House and Get ~, 400.
$1,000 JEWELS STOLEN
Gems Taken From Room of
Hotel Paterson in Absence
qe Owner.

Fur robberieS amounting 10 SSOU,O
a payroll holdup in a Park avenue
apartment house, a $1,000 hotel theft
and numerous other offences were
added yesterday to New Yorl's long
list of crimes.
Fur merchants on the lower West
Side. it was learned. have suffered
from an epidemic of burglaries during
the last two weeks. Information con-
cerning these robberies has been sup
pressed by the police.
The loft building at 146 West Twenty
fifth street was entered Sunday and
three fur dealers were robbed. y. Ra-
binowitz lost 1000 Albert & Dupin lost
$1,000: Charles Biscow lost $4,000. II
is believed the burglars got into the
building through a fire escape IN the
roar week ago there was n $4,000
fur robbery in the loft of William b.
Abrams. $40 Seventh avenue. Many
other losses were reported in the Chelsea
district.
Two young men. well dressed. one
wearing eyeglasses. walked into the
Montana apartments, Park avenue and
Fifty-second street. yesterday morning,
entered the office of the superintendent.
w Irving Davis. and robbed him OF
s2.50O cash at the point of revolvers.
Victim stunned by Blow of Pistol.
Davis had just drawn $4,000 from the
Corn Exchange Bank to make up the
payroll AS he was about TO gather up
the money and turn IL over to the rob-
bers one of the men strurk him on the
forehead with the butt of his pistol. He
fell stunned, and the bandits seized the
money and ran out. AS they fled they
dropped 500 on the floor
Davis recovered quickly and ran after
the men, one of whom turned and fired
a shot at him. In the lobby We're the
porter and two women attendants. The
robbers threatened them with their re-
volvers and the trio did not attempt to
prevent their escape. The last seen OF
the bandits was when they jumped into
!. limousine and rode away
Twenty pieces of jewelry, valued at
$1,000, were stolen last week from Will
lam c. Bates, who lives at the Hotel
Paterson. SIS West Forty-seventh street.
IL became known Mr. Bates was absent
AT the time of the theft and did not dis
cover II until the following morning. De-
tectives from the East Fifty-ilrst street
station are at work on the case, but so
far they havesfound no trace or the
thieves or the jewelry.
Edward wall. So years Old OF 43
Rutgers street. was arrested on suspicion
Of shooting and killing James Sullivan,
fT3 Water street. in front of a Rutgers
street saloon Saturday night. He was
held without bail by Magistrate Sweetser
OF Essex Market cour: for hearing Fri
dav. Detectives who made the arrest
said that Wall had quarrelled with
sullivan shortly before the shooting.
Six months in the workhouse was the
penalty imposed upon William Devanney
in the Essex Market court for carrying
a tin badge and impersonating an officer.
Devanney and Robert Blum called upon
Charles Schzoffsky. J44ia East Twelfth
street to collect some money. When
Devanney said he was a detective
Schzoffsky ran out and got a real police
officer.
"The four years 1 did up the river got
me used to Sing Sing and 1t Is like home
20 me now--I plead guilty" Benjamin
Koch, AZ years old. of 222 Bowery told
Magistrate Sweetser in Essex Market
Court. "I got out last June. j can't
get any work and I want 10 go back
there where there are no automobiles to
dodge and you can see some good movies
at night
II guess ! can accommodate you,'
said the court Koch was arrested on
.fhe charge OF stealing woman's pocket
book.
Five hold-up men and piekpockets re-
ceived an aggregate sentence Of 20 to 9j
years from Justice Cropsey in the Su-
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