The New York herald., 1921-12-30
THIEVES NEAR PLAZA
ROB HOME OF FURS
House in Central Park
South Entered by 'Insid-
ers,' Police Believe.
5 HELD IN $4,000 THEFT
Tailor Beaten by 3 Bandits
Who Escape in Chase in
Upper Harlem.
MINOR CRIMES CONTINUE
Bronx Has Had Only 5 Muir
ders in Year, Says Assistant
District Attorney.
MINOR CRIMES CONTINUE

on December %. Two robberies, one
in the Central Park district on Christ
mas, were reported for the first time.
Holiday crimes have resulted in the
issuance Of two reports of crime sta
tistics, one in The Bronx and the other
in Kings. Herman Fleiderblum, As
sistant District Attorney OF Bronx
county. said the county last year had
fewer murders than any other in the
city. Only five homicides were COM
mitted there, he, showed.
On the other hand more than 200
criminal cases are on the calendar for
trial on the opening day, Tuesday,
January 8. This is said to be a high
term. In Kings county courts in the
last eleven months 519 of 1,195 crimi-
nails appearing for trial received sus-
pended sentences.
The apartment of Mrs. Paul Langdon,
80 Central Park South, was entered on
the night of December 26. Furs and
jewelry valued at more than 81, 900 were
stolen. The loot, which police think was
obtained by some one inside the apart
ment house, Included gold and jeweled
vanity box, a sable scarf, seal muff
and beaver hat. Detectives Charles
Flaherty and George Mccain were as
signed to the case.
Cash amounting to 1898 was stolen
from the Clarissa drug store 24OO
Seventh avenue. early Christmas morn
ing by three men. who held up the pro-
prietor and manager. James McCann
and Theodore Weinberg. with revolvers
and then emptied the cash register.
Bandits Escape I'm Chase.
Samuel Gorwitz. tailor. at 227 West
14sd street. was blackjacked into insen-
sibility and robbed Of $50 by three men
who entered his shop and asked his
charges for pressing suits. A customer
found him as the bandits were leaving
the shop and led a chase after them
until they gave the pursuing crowd the
slip at Eighth avenue and I43d street.
Gorwitz told police of the West 135th
street station that one of the men had
threatened him with revolver and an
other had struck him with q blackjack
when he had attempted to give fight.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital for
scalp wounds. The bandits were young
and poorly dressed.
In an alteration in front of his home,
223 East 10th street, Frank Ronowsky,
80, 5anitor, was stabbed by an un-
Identified man. Ronowsky was attempt
ing to disperse a gang of boys playing
craps when the stranger told him to
mind his business The janitor struck
him in the face and the man drew a
knife and plunged it into Ronowsky's
left side. At the Harlem Hospital his
condition was said to be critical.
Giaseppi Pappea, stone mason, of 374
Columbia street. Brooklyn. was shot in
the groin and slashed about the right
hand yesterday In fight In grocery
store on the first floor of his dwelling.
Vito Teutonico, proprietor of the store
is being examined by the police on sus-
picion of having caused the injury to
Papea. now in Long Island College Hos
pital In a serious condition. Other men
In the store at the time escaped.
Armed Men Rob Pharmacy.
Two armed men entered the drug
avenue. Brooklyn, at 10 o'clock Wednes-
day night. and after backing Hofmeyer
and his clerk. Albert Hamblin, into a
closet In the prescription room escaped
with $40, which they found IN the cash
register. They also robbed Hamblin of
$40. The holdup was reported to the
Classon avenue police station, but was
not made public until last night. The
bandits are believed TO be the same men
who few hours later tried to force an
entrance into the Pouch mansion a block
away.
Peter Giglio, 16. 21S6 Second avenue
was detected yesterday while crawling
through the fanlight of the barber shop
OF Paul Amato, 1892 Lexington avenue,
and arrested by Patrolman Bauer of the
East 1O4th street station. He was held
under $1,000 bail by Magistrate Will
lam Sweetser in Harlem court on
charge of burglary.
James Zarro. n chauffeur driving
motor car to Newark, was held I'D By
two armed men at night and robbed of a
watch and small amount of money. He
was halted at Graham and Center
streets. Jersey City.
Five men were arrested in an apart
ment In West Forty-seventh street on
suspicion OF being implicated in the theft
OF furs valued at $4,000 from the store
of w. Il. Ball & Co.. 33 West Forty
sixth street. on December 90 All de-
nied the charges. Magistrate Douras In
West Side court held the men under
$1,000 each for further examination
on January 3.
Westling To Take Mental Test.
Alric Westling. -, security salesman,
VINO confessed to the murder last Sat
urday of carr Mollar jeweler. at his
home, 1858 Nelson avenvc, The Bronx.
will be examined to-day bv Or. Menas
5. Gregory, chief OF the psychopathic
ward OF Bellevue Hospital
Capt. John J. McCloskey of the Brook
1yn Detective Bureau said he was con-
vinced that Charles r. Haves, insur-
ance agent. 334 Glenmore avenue. was
not shot and killed Wednesday by a
street bandit. He is searching for a
relative who Is said to have quarreled
with Haves some time ago.
An attack on another man In Brook
lyn near a darkened arc light has led
the police to believe that street lights
are being tampered with by bandits as
an aid to their depredatlons Anthony
ID. Praice reported to the Greenpoint
avenue station that he had been struck
over the head and robbed at Du Pont
street and Manhattan avenue