New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
5000 Hold-Up in
SteanshipLine's
9Th Ave. Agency
Clyde Representative and His
Assistant Face Guns and
Are Tied and Gagged With.
in Earshot of Policeman
Bandits Overlook So, 500
boys Possession of Postal
Orders Leads TO Arrest
Of Mother and Father

Two we'll dressed bandits apparently
of Latin nativity robbed the Clyde
Steamship Line agency on the second
Acor of 4ss Fifth Avenue yesterday.
The pair held up +. H. Leonard, city
ticket agent, and Adam Storm, his as
sistant. A cash drawer was robbed of
5000, but the two overlooked $4,000 In
an adjoining pigeonhole.
Leonard and Storm we're bound and
gagged and confined in rear room.
Half an hour after the invasion Of the
agency Leonard managed to free him
self and Storm. Storm notified traffic
patroIman outside the building. A
search was made. without result.
The bandits were seen in the Clyde
Offices on Thursday. They inquired
about transportation to South Amer
lean port. After talking with Leonard
they remarked that they had better
consult their wives and withdrew.
Leonard and Storm Immediately recog-
nized the two when they entered yes
terday One approached the counter
and said he had decided to take tickets.
leonard and Storm turned to obtain
she tickets when they heard the order,
Hands upl" They found themselves
facing four revoivers in the hands Of
the two men.
Too Many Postal Orders
Frank simanhoff. forty-one years old.
in $4,000 bail yesterday in Essex Mar
ket Court by Magistrate Joseph E..
Corrigan. Gillie Dimitriff, on June
last. reported the loss Of $4,000. Siman-
hoff and his wife were arrested Thurs
day night at $50 East 121st Street.
Postal orders for 5000 were found in
possession of a young son Of the
couple. Stanley SimanhofR. The boy
was taken to Children's Court.
Horace Swearer, of 1891 Bronx
Boulevard. driver of delivery wagon
for the General Baking Company, was
robbed of $3.50 yesterday by two
give them all the money he had col
lected during the day. The robbery
took place at Pelham Parkway and
Bronx Boulevard
A man giving his name as Benny
Katz, twenty-five years old, of 246
West Fifty-second Street, was arrested
yesterday charged with violation of
the Sullivan law He is said, to have
declared that he was detective when
he stepped up to Detective Cordes and
displayed police shield. Cordes was
making an arrest.
Coal Wagon Stolen
Leon Lupkin, twenty-six years old,
of 335 Crimmins Avenue, The Bronx,
was held yesterday in $4,000 bail on a
charge of forgery before Magistrate
H. Stanley Renaud. He will be ex-
amined to-day.
Lupkin is alleged to have forged
checks totaling $2,10S. His father is
said to be man of wealth in Europe.
Frank Rosner, twenty-eight years
old, of So Lewis Street, was held in
$4,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate
Corrigan in Essex Market Court on a
charge of grand larceny. He is alleged
to have stolen coal wagon from
Burns Brothers on August 25. Rosner
told the magistrate that Frank
Burns, president of the coal company,
had told him two years ago to take
wagon any time he wanted one.
Alexander Wildenberg, twentyfour
wears old, of 100 East 103d Street, ar
rested at Grand Central Station after
an. attempt was made to steal a pay
envelope from Mrs. Mary Sweig,
dressmaker, was held in $4,000 bail by
Magistrate Doyle in Yorkville Court
yesterday. He will have hearing
September 8.
Magistrate. Norman j. Marsh, in JEFF
ferson Market Court, dismissed a
charge of felonious assault against
Peter Cassidy, of AL West Twenty
fifth Street. Cassidy was arrested af
ter. a fight at a christening. Joseph
McNiff, arrested at the same time, also
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