New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
Silent Robbers
Rifle Home of
Justice kapper
Work So Stealthily While
Family Sleeps That Loss
of Silverware Is Not
Discovered Until Day
Pay Roll Bandits Get Little
Masked Men Find Only $50
After Elaborate Hold-Up
of Stone Webster Man

Burglars got into the home of Justice
Isaac Kapper, of the Supreme Court, at
657 First Street, Brooklyn, before dawn
yesterday. They stole several pieces Of
siiverware, conducting the enterprise
with such stealth that the fact the
house had been robbed was not discov-
cred until its occupants got up for
breakfast. According to the police, the
job bears the earmarks of gang which
has been operating in the ncighbor-
hood.
TIVE masked men, armed with auto
matte revolvers, who held UP the pay
master of the Stone g. Webster Con-
tracing Company, Of 100 Broadway, in
shack at East Fifty-ninth Street and
the East River, got less than $50
George Wentworth, the thirty-one-
year-old paymastcr. was accosted by
the bandits, who had left an a,ftomohile
a few feet from the entrance to the
shack, with demand that he put up
his hands. He complied. Then they
asked for the key to q strong box which
usually contains the pay roll. The pay
roll was not there. Wentworth, in an
effort to delay the men, had given them
the wrong key. Angered bv this the
bandits threatened to kill him If he
did not produce the right key, and
wentworth produced.
Loot Disappointingly Small
when the bandits finally got the box
open they found that it contained loss
tnan 500 used for petty cash by the New
York Steam Works. in whose plant the
contractors &C, are placing new boilers.
Inc ponce have been furnished with a
description of the men.
Patrolman Francis Sweeney of ,he
fourth Avenue station. BROOKLYN. fred
several shots yesterday morning at an
auto IN which were two men he had
seen carry clothing away from tbe
nome OF James Marino, at 9S3 Fifty
second Street. The robbers got away
put Sweeney later arrested Martin
Mecormlck, OF 265 Twelfth Avenue.
Long Island City. on suspicion he was
one OF them. Mccormick, the police
sa' saia' mas been out Of Sing Sing But
five months
1t was learned yesterday that three
armed men. who did not trouble to.
wear masks. walked into jewelry
store at 2742 Broadway last Wednes
DAY afternoon at 4 o'clock and com
PEELED Joseph Harvath. the manager
and Max Phillips, clerk, to stand
with their faces to a wall while thev
rlHed show case of 81 800 worth OF
!eweiry. They cautioned the men in
the store to make no outcry and then
quietly left through the main door
Burglaries Laid to Bows
Boys are blamed by the police for
the robbery of four business places
on st. Nicholas Avenue. between l71tb
and l75th streets, last Wednesday
night. The four places are the Beacon
Light Wet Wash Laundry. at 1888 St.
currency and an overcoat was taken:
L. Oppenheimers meat and grocery
market at 1885 st. Nicholas Avenue.
s12 in pennies; the Palace Annex Mo
tion Picture Theater, at 1882 St
Nicholas Avenue, So in pennies taken
from the drinking cup machines. and
the Rateco Candy Store, at 1880 St.
Nicholas Avenue, $75 in currency, two
boxes of candy and several glasses Of
soda water.
Man and Wife Seized
Harry Blake, fifty-six years old, and
his wife, Grace. thirty-two. were ar
rested yesterday at 419 West 123d
Street and locked up at the East 126tA
Street police station. charged with IL
legal possession of revolvers and burg
lars tools.
According to Detectives Geery,
Courtney. Shields and Cassidy, who
made the arrests, there were four
loaded revolvers in the Blakes' room
and burglars complete kit, even to
caps and nitroglycerin for safes.
The detectives went to the house on
a tip to seek four men who held up
Robert McNab, manager Of the West
End Theater, 306 West 125th Street
November 6, taking $1,000 from him
iney called McNab to look at Blake
but the theater manager was unable
to identify him as one of the highway.
men.