The New York herald., 1921-12-28
Destruction of $4,000 in
Plate Glass Blamed on
Young Burglar.
$4,000 THIEVES RAPID
Fur Garments Stolen in Four
Minutes Between Alarm and
Arrival of Police.

Bernard Kelly. IL, of 676 Ninth ave-
nue., sought in the quest for the youth
whose heel has cost merchants be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 in broken
plate glass windows and $4,000 to
$4,000 in loot stolen from forty shops,
was arrested early yesterday after
window had been broken in a store of
Brill Brothers. clothiers, at Broadway
and Forty-ninth street. Two fur coats
valued at s640 were saved from being
stolen
Patrolman John Moore saw young
man put his heel against lower cor
ner of Brill Brothers window and give
twisting push. Part of the glass
fell in. but the main part Of the win
dow was intact. Into the aperture
jumped the youth and another who
was with him. Moore was almost on
them when they emerged. At sight
of him they dropped the fur coats and
ran west in Forty-ninth street. Kelly
was arrested after a pursuit that led
over tenement house roofs at Ninth
avenue and Forty ninth street.
Accused In Many Cases.
Later Joseph Pellario. II. of 416 West
Forty-ninth street, was apprehended.
Both were accused in a previous attempt
at robbery at a Brill Brothers store and
thefts at the Knickerbocker Haberdash-
cry, 147 West Forty-second street Cir
Gle Mems Shop, Columbus Circle
Gaiety Shirt Shop. Broadway and Forty
sixth street: Johnston & Siegel, PA
West Fiftieth street a millinery shop
in the Hotel Astor, from which bird OF
paradise feathers were stolen, and a
millinery shop at LAG West Forty-fourth
street.
Since December Is the number of shop
window robberies has kept the police on
edge. Detectives say an expert burglar
can break part of a big plate glass
window, making a hole big enough to
enter. but not shattering the glass TO
attract attention, by using peculiar
body swing as he pushes.
Kelly was held in $4,000 bail in West
Side Court by Magistrate Douras. Pei
lario has not yet been arraigned.
Burglars stole furs valued at $4,000
in four minutes on Christmas morning
from the wholesale salesrooms of G.. l..
Fuerth & Co, Isl West Twenty-sixth
street, It was learned yesterday. Only
four minutes elapsed between the sound
ing of burglar alarm. which they set
off. and the arrival of the police The
furs were mostly Alaskan seals. Four
hundred of them were lifted from racks
in the rear of the salesrooms, tied into
bundles and dragged to the street. where
they We're put into an automobile.
The robbery was at A. NJ. watch
man and policeman from the West
1h.rteth street station saw an auto
mobile believed to have been carrying
the bandits turning into Sixth avenue
at high speed.
The robber gang, the police say. is
the same which has been operating in
the district for three months. A negro
ashcart driver. who was captured by the
bandits, and held in a doorway while
the furs were being removed, gave q
good description of the thieves.
Furs stolen from Clerk.
Three armed men entered the fur
shop of Gerber & Silverberg, 1t3 West
Twenty ninth street. at 9 o'clock yes
terday morning. tied and gagged David
Weinberg, clerk, and stole furs val
ued at 5000. Weinberg was released
by a messenger boy, who entered a
half hour later. Weinberg told the po-
lice the men tied up the furs in
leisurely manner and walked out to an
automobile.
The department store of RI. Levy. at
765 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn. was
robbed Of cash amounting 10 $4,000
which represented Saturday nights re-
oeipts. The safe was on the second floor.
Bars had been spread on a rear first floor
window. The safe had beer opened by
experts, according to the police. The
burglars left the tools and rubber gloves.