The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-08-23
BANDITS IN COURT
GET HEAVY TERMS
10 to 20 Years for One Who
With Companions Got
S37 in Holdup.
MULQUEEN 'MERCILESS'
3 in $4,000 Silk Robbery
Sentenced to From Five
to Ten Years Each.
$4,000 ROBBERY is EASY
Crowd Looks On Without a
Move as Messenger Is
Beaten by Thieves.
MULQUEEN 'MERCILESS'
$4,000 ROBBERY is EASY

Long sentences were iuipoScu ySSsSA
day on highway robbers. County Judge
Tiernan, in The Bronx, sentenced three
daylight holdup men to Sing Sing for
five to ten years. Judge Mulqueen in
General Sessions, Manhattan, sent
convicted robber away for ten to
twenty years.
"Highwaymen and other robbers can
expect no mercy in this court said
Judge Mulqueen. There is no room
for bandits in this city,"
The man who got the long sentence
was Leon Eccleston of 435 Ninth ave-
nue. On July Eccleston and two COM
panlons held up Verno Venee. an actor.
OF 100 West Forty-seventh street, and
robbed him of 81 in cash and gold
watch worth $40. Eccleston refused TO
name his accomplices.
The Bronx highwaymen were Bene-
dict Regensburg of $40 West Thirty
fourth street: his brother, Ernest, of Az
West Thirtieth street, and Edward j.
Murray OF $50 West Twenty-fourth
street on July 80 they bound three men
who were on a truck containing $4,000
worth Of silk and drove the truck away.
They were overtaken by the police.
would Discourage others.
The people simply won't stand for
these daylight holdups." said Judge
Herman. by giving long prison terms
/ hope to discourage others who have
done as you have done. This is the only
way in which these crimes can be
stopped"
Salvatore Dietro of 1040 121st street.
Richmond Hill. was before Judge Mac
Mahon in Brooklyn after conviction on
4 charge OF snatching package con-
tanning $3.50 from young woman on
June 2S last. The young woman was
in Washington Park, Brooklyn. on her
way 10 bank for her employer. The
package was recovered. Dietro was
sent to Sing Sing for three years.
Judge May in Brooklyn sent Segundo
Escridero of 173 East Tooth street, Man
haitian, to Sing Sing for two and half
Years for stealing suit case from an
automobile.
Patrick Hoyland, messenger for the
Mark Cross stores, was robbed OF nearly
$4,000 IN crowd in Thlrty-fourth street
on Friday, 1t was learned. The crowd
thought apparently it was merely an
alteration between three men. and did
rot interfere even when one OF the rob-
hers struck Hoyland with a blackjack.
Hoyland was carrying the pay roll for
one of the stores. One OF the robbers
wrested it from him and made Off
Burglars entered the City Hall Tea
Garden on the top floor Of 10 Nassau
street and got more than $500 in cash,
besides cigars and cigarettes
Ticket Agent Saves Self.
Four men attempted to hold up the
ticket agent Of the marlborough tunnel
station at Jackson avenue and Fourth
street. Queens. NJ . 80 o'clock last night.
When a revolver was pointed at William
Price. the agent, he dropped to the floor
and grabbed a telephone The robbers
ran out. There was a street celebration
nearby and a large crowd, and there
were also a hundred passengers on the
platform below, but the robbers were
Tot caught.
Two men grappled with William Poger.
a plumber. of 81 Bradhurst avenue, as
he was passing a billiard hall at 260
West 145th street on his way home
last night. They dragged him inside
shot him twice in the back and stabbed
him over an eye, and then ran away.
u was all done so quickly that George
Booker, proprietor of the billiard room.
could not get to the front door in time
70 interfere. Poger was taken to Har-
lem Hospital in a serious condition, and
probably will die. His friends told the
police that two weeks ago he had been
IN street fifSit when two men jostled
young woman with whom he was
walking. and he had beaten one of his
opponents severely.
Five men tried to hold up two saloons
IN First avenue. without success, but
shot Salvatore Garoci OF $50 East
Thirty-third street. a porter in the cafe
of Alexandra Sciubba. $50 First avenue.
Sciubba fired at them without effect.
Before that Joseph Ria had driven them
nut of his cafe at $40 First avenue. with
q revolver. Robert Byrnes. Of 351 East
Thirtieth street, was arrested while run
7ing away from the scene.