The evening world., 1921-09-23
TWO P[UCKY YOUNG BOYS
CARRYING $4,000 PAYROLL
FOIL BANDIT PISTOL IN HAND
With Revolver Pointed in His
Face, Bank Messenger Blows
Whistle Until Hold-Up Men
Flee Near Broadway.
Suspect Captured on Roof
After High wa yman IS
Chased Through Building in
University Place.

Two plucky bank messengers. both
of them Young boys and one with the
nerve to blow a police whistle with
hold-up mans revolver thrust IN his
face. at II o'clock to-day saved pay
roll of Slo.7oo which the man sought
10 take from hem on the sixth moor
Of No 81 University Place. Later a
man was arrested on the roof OF the
building. He was identified as hav-
ing fed through one OF the work
shops, and dropped revolver IN his
flight from the scene of the hold-up
Harry NJ. Sommers OF No. SU6 Hart
Avenue. Brooklyn. and Jack stern OF
No Lexington Avenue. Maspetn'
both seventeen years old. have been
employed as messengers by the Ma
t!onal Butchers aud Drovers' Bank,
al Broadway and Third street, for the
last three months. Their main task
has been to carry money for payroHs
from the bank to business establish
ments In the neighborhood. The, set
out this afternoon with $4,000 In
leather receptacle for tho clothing
firm of Pragenson & ReichcE. ut the
University Place address.
There were several persons III the
elevator OF the building when the two
youths entered 1t and man got In
lust behind them. Charles w. Alien
CT No. e22 Girard Avenue. the Bronx.
,s'f
started up. At the sixth moor, where
Pra agerson & Reicheg have tlclr es-
tablishment, ~ messengers were
about to get out when the man VINO
had entered the car last at the ground
loor squeezed past them. The mo-
ment he was outside the car he
whirled about with n drawn revolver
and commanded the messengers to
throw up their hands.
Allen thought shooting was about
to begin and threw his arms before
his face. The hold-up men rewarded
him with blow on the skull with
the butt Of the revolver. Stern
ierksd the money satchel behind him.
flung it into corner uf the car and
stood on It. Sommers, who had only
Yesterday provided himself with a
police whistle. put It to his lps. al
most touching the muLZlo OF the
robbers weapon, and blew blast
that echoed and kept echoiuX
through the building.
This fearlessneSs di-concerted the
would-be thief TO such All extent that
instead OF doing anything With tho re-
volyer he turned and made a dash FOR
the stairway to the lower floor. TWO
men who were waiting Ia the sixth
floor corridor, evidently companions
OF the hod-up man. dartrd after him
/ AS the tugitives darted down Allen
started the elevator down too. with
Sommets and Stern IN It. Sommers
Nil blowing his police whistle.
! The luckless highwayman stopped
his hight down the stairs at the fitth
/ floor and ran through the clothing
woikruoms OF Goldstciu IL Relsen-
berger Brothers, where he dropped
me revolver. Gong out OF II wlndu "
he made up the lire escape 10 the
root
4 By this time the VIII sitting OF SOM
ine.s had brought Patrnltnhn McCar-
ron OF Traihc A, on duty at Fifth
Avenue and Ninth Street, and he. ar-
ter a search OF the building. found II
man on the roof. he said he wns
Frank Golen OF No. 800 south Ninth
Street, Brooklyn. Workmen In the
shop through which tho highwayman
had run identified Golen as the fu-
gitive.
He was taken TO the Mercer strecI
station and atterward for arraign-
ment IN Essex Market Court.