New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
1uctioneer Victim of Raid
on Shop in 42d Street;
Owner Shot Five Times ;
Another Felled by Pistol
Bandits i'm Taxi
Flee Without Loot
Four JInmasked Robbers,
With Revolvers Drawn,
1 Keep Shoppers in Fear

s.rour men carrying revolvers filed
Rto The auction shop of Harry Young
q es7 East Fprty- Street at $3.50
o'clock last night, shot and killed one
r,n seriously wounded another,
inocked third to the floor with
f1ov on the head and escaped in a
E4;cab The machine had borne them
d the scene Of the shooting and .was
Ming driven slowly past the door when
hey rashed from the shop. They
wune onto the running board and sped
way.
Emanuel Shields. fifty-four years
ia. Of As ST. Nicholas Terrace, was
killed. He was shot just below>~the
teart Harry Young. shot five times.
vas removed to Flower Hospital in
serious condition. Three bullets PEN
stYSted his abdomen, one struck him
behind the left ear and another in tie
aens le.. William Abrams, OF 324 East
Rora Street, was sent reeling against
sse wall by blow across the head
from revolver muzZle.
Four Offer Resistance
{, Four other men in the shop at the
time the gunner entered-The odore
Jacobs, of 800 West 165d Street; Harry
Howard, Of 429 East Fifty-Iirst Street;
James Henderson, of 1868 Avenue A,
| ana Peter Henderson, ,~his brother, of
[i29 East Fifty-hrst Strcet-were un-
Ihurt 1t was their show OF resistance
That caused the four armed men to
blaze away.
] Iae auction shop yesterday did big
Business. 1h .usaads OF dollars worth
q. goods were disposed Of at the day's
sale, and late in the afternoon a large
mount Of currency was removed from
So shop. The our bandits evidently
lsx of the brisk business that the
sap2 had enjoyed and thought they
sqsse make Big haul, being under the
mpfsss,on that the proceeds of the
r4usOn sale would bo accessible to
sss@i as late as 6:30 o'clock.
Enter With Revolvcss Drawn
i8ihe sacp IS just two doors from Sec
|lsa ssycn Q. The corner Of Second
rataue anu Forty second Street was
9aeed with shoppers when the taxi
Lien tlc fgar bandits were riding
s9Y up al thc curb in front OF Nc.
-. The gunner elbowed their way
kbrnugh the sidewalk crowd and en-
Ee:ea lbc shop. They had their re-
floycrs drawn ard tried to shield their
fEes With tFe:1 lett arms t. avoid pos
sbla recognition.
foungNnd Shields we're at the front
b t.ie Shop #nea the deer swung open.
~ i've other men were clustered
iteand table aa the rear playing
Sonny ante.
FAN right, gents. hands up" cried
!, As gunman leading the other three.
Shields and Young, somewhat bewil-
dered. we're reluctant 10 obey the COM
saznd. At the rear of the shop the five
card players had risen from their seats.
Hands uD, hell" said one of them.
TIE five grabbed chairs, raised them
yer their heads and prepared to rush
te ntruders.
Before they could advance, however,
ine ganmen began firing. Their shots
sma IN rapid succession. Shields and
oung, directly in the line of fire,
smpped 70 the floor. Shields fell first.
esng did not fall until after the fifth
saGeE had entered his body.
Twenty Shots Fired by Gunmen
4 After, firing at least twenty shots
sao with the shop rapidly filing with
aese, the gunner rushed out, board
Me taxicab and disappeared. Forty
sona Street shoppers began swarm
rs INTO the shop. The first policeman
enter vas Patrolman Butler. OF the
sss. fnty-first Street station. At the
aonl near the door lay Shields and
lung. Several feet away lay Abrams,
sao nad been dazed By a blow struck
one Of the bandits during the fusil-
sas .pl SHOTS. Chairs and tables were
.'urned- At the back Of the shop
s Jacobs, Howard and James and
sstes Henderson.
.xo boys. George Barrett, eight
s. sssfs osd, Of 3i5 East Fortieth Street,
s. sw soseph Zebrowski, ten years old, of
q sass Forty-s xth Street, told the
G. G. = tney mad seen the men get out of
Ak and enter the auction room.
- onver Of the machine, they said,
as'nsd at the wheel and kept the
~. running. The boys said that q
minutes later they heard number
saoss and saw the men get into the
sgaan and speed westward in Forty
eeeond Street.