New-York tribune., 1921-12-12
Silk Shirt a Day
Leads Police to
$500 in Loot
Sarlorial Display by Youth
of q Causes His Arrest
With 5 Others, Despite
His Story Of Rich Uncle
3 Bedroom Thieves Taken
Detectives Catch Four Boys
With Burglars Tools
Trying TO Enter Loft

Irving Fisher, twenty-five ycnrs old,
of 115 ESSEX Street, wore new silk
shirt every day for week. the police
say, acquiring the nickname of "Silk
Shirt Fisher" Detectives McDonough
and Greece, of the Brownsville police
station, assigned to silk robbery cases,
heard of Fishers silk shirt obsession
and questioned him. Fisher said he
had been left ten dozen silk shirts by
rich uncle who had been in the silk
business. The detectives trailcd Fisher
to q room in Norfolk Street. where
they seized silks shirts valued at $3,
500 and other silk goods valued at
$4,000 stolen week ago from store
in Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn.
Fisher and five others were placed
under arrest yesterday. The other
prisoners are Frank Avnett, twenty
two, l6 Allen Street; Samuel Graft,
twenty-five, 23i Seventh Street; Morris
Haberman, twenty-five, 234 East Thir-
teeth Street; Mamie Perlstein, twenty
one, 11s Suffolk Street, and Max Taul
ber, nineteen, 1874 East Third Street
All work silk shirts. The men were
taken to Brooklyn for arragnment.
Confess, Police Say
Taulber, who gave his occupation IS
that of a chauffeur, said he had been
engaged at $50 night to drive the
others to and from places they robbed.
All confessed the Brooklyn robbery, ac
cording TO the police.
Detectives of the West Thirtieth
Street police station yesterday arrested
four boys with bit of burglars tools
trying to break into the rear of loft
building at 203 West Thirty third
Street. Patrolman Lutz, of tho West
Thirtieth Street station, found the
youngsters on the roof of the structure
loaded down with cigarettes and cigars
stolen from a restaurant in the build
ing
The prisoners are: John Lynch,
seventeen years old, BAL West Forty
437 West Thirtieth Street; Joseph
Motto, seventeen, 391 Seventh Avenue,
and Solomon Hockberg, fourteen, POI
West Twenty y-Seventh Street. The first
three were charged with burglary and
Hockberg with Juvenile delinquency
The boys charged with burglary were
held in bail of $500 each by Magis-
trate McGeehan in Jefferson Market
Court.
Bedroom Burglars Caught
Three bedroom burglars were ar
rested during the day when surprised
at their work. Matthew Hiro, of 3O7
East Seventy Street, found q
man hiding under his bed early yester-
day morning. He dragged the man out
and turned him over to Patrolman
Crusie of the East Twenty second
Street station. The prisoner said he
was JOSEPH Salay, thirty-five years old,
o. 317 East Fifty-sixth Street. He was
held in $4,000 bail by Magistrate Simp-
son in Yorkville Court.
Joseph Passano, sixteen years DID,
of 400 West Thirty-ninth Street. was
arrested on complaint of Ernest Barra-
gard who found him under the bed in
his room at 2O1 West Forty-first
Street. Barregard told Magistrate
Mcclellan Passano had all the cloth
ing in the room packed into a grip
when he was discovered. The prisoner
was held in $4,000 bail for examination
to-day.
William Flynn, sixty-one years old,
living in a lodging house at Houston
Street and the Bowery, was held in
$4,000 bail by Magistrate Simpson in
Yorkville Court after J ohm j. Haggerty,
Of 345 East Nineteenth Street, found
him under bed in his home. Haggerty
turned the prisoner over to Detective
Wilson of the East Twenty second
Street station. A companion of Flynn,
said by the police to have been under
the bed with him, escaped while Hag-
gerty struggled with his captive.