New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-06
Woman Figures
InAutOHOld-Up
OF Cigar Store
Remains in Car While Male
Bandit RObs Customer;
Gang of Five Is Put to
Flight by Police Whistle
Arsenal Found in Motor
Machine Stopped ON Drive
Contains Seven Revolvers.
Blackjacks and Masks

PAtrolman Joseph Rueschle. of the
West l77th Street police station, on the
alert for motorists, one of them a
woman, who had held up a cigar store,
stopped car at nth Street and
Riverside Drive early yesterday morn
ing, which contained Ave men, and. it
Is alleged, seven loaded revolvers, four
occupants of the car denied knowing
anything about the articles alleged TO
have been found in 1t.
They said they were Henry Gar
fnkel, of 2oes West Twenty-third
Street, Coney Island; Abraham Meek
Ter, of 226 East Eighteenth Street; Ed
ward Lewis of 90 Monroe Street;
Joseph Curry, of 142 Norfolk Street,
and Samuel Block. of SO Avenue A.
Arrests made about the same time by
another patrolman and the fact that
there was no woman in the car occu-
pied by the five men led to the belief
that they might not have been con-
cerned in the cigar store hold-up.
The police intend to have them
looked over by the victims of the rob-
berry, however, and also want to ques-
ton them concerning tho hold-up of .
craps game on Allen Street Sunday
afternoon, in which robbers got more
than $4,000. All FIVE were held by
Magistrate rockingham for examina-
tion tomorrow.
Woman Waits in Car
The cigar store robbery was at 1873
Sherman Avenue. car drew up AZ
The curb and q man got out and en-
tered the shop. which is conducted by
Warr;s Schultz. Three other men and
Young woman could be seen waiting
IN the car. Max Wo1fgton, q customer,
found himself confronting revolver
which the newcomer presented nom
Wolfston's hands went up Of their
own accord, and the robber TOOK ms
watch and $21. While he was dong ~
schultz blew an accompaniment on
police whistle, and the hold-up man de-
parted hastily without waiting TO SEQ
Half an hour after the hold-up Pa
frojman Green found an automobile
wrecked at 221st Street and Vermllye
Avenue. Antonio Zaffarsno. OF 695
East cloth Street, and Anna Farrone, OF
1924 Lexington Avenue, were lying
near the car. The young woman ap-
peared to be suffering from an injury
TO her spine and she was taken 20
Fordham Hospital
Her escort was locked up on sus-
n;cion of being connected with the
eirar store hold-up, and she was placed
nnder arrest in the hospital. They told
Size notice they knew nothing of the
obbery. Their car had become I'M
manageable, they said, and had upset
in climbing the curb. According to the
police. The hold-up victims have identi-
fed Zaffarano.
Shot on Subway Train
Andrus Andersen, whose address has
not been learned, was shot and per-
haps mortally wounded early yester-
day morning by passenger on west
End train who had drawn revolver
to emphasize his objection to the
Guards instructions to leave by the
center door. Phillipo Caretti, of 177e
Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island, is under
arrest at the Coney Island police sta
ton, charged with completely in the
Garrett and two Of his friends and
Andersen and 8 friend Of his we
ON the same car Of the West End
train. When it stopped at the Bay
parkway station Garrett and his
friends started to get out by an end
door. The door was not working, and
the guard told them to use the center
door. A dispute followed, and the
guard knocked one Of the three down.
One of the men, said to have
been Garrett, is alleged to have drawn
a revolver Andersen sprans to the
guards assistance and was shot. One