The New York herald., 1921-08-27

seventh street station shortly before
o'clock yesterday afternoon and told
the police that a holdup had been com
mitted In the Palace Rotisserie and
Restaurant at 145 West Forty-fifth
street, owned by Ben Salvin, brother
of the Paul Salvin who is interested
In a number OF Broadway cabarets.
II saw It, said the man on the tele-
phone, Il saw FIVE men hold up
crowd OF men sitting at table in the
restaurant and then they went away
in an automobile"
Detective Flaherty went TO the res
taurant. which he found was closed
for the summer. The door was open
and he went in. He found five men
inside seated at a table, who said they
were Ben SaIvin, 400 Riverside Drive;
Buddy Green, 10 West Sixty-sixth
street: Joe Cohen Of the Hotel Mon
terey. Jake Grossman, 145 West Forty
nth street. and Joe Fogler, bicycle
rider, OF 5S Stuyvesant avenue. Brook
lyn.
FOR some time the five men denied
that a robbery had taken place or that
there had been any trouble In the "es-
taurant but finally. under Flaherty's
questioning, they admitted. the police
say. that they had been held up. Flah-
erty said they told him that they, with
four other men, had been sitting at
table talking when Ave men entered the
place. Three of them mad guns and the
h. al ffagt hn rryl
Salvin told Flanerty that he was robbed
of n gold watch and some money, and
the others said they had lost money end
1ewelry None OF them, however, could
recall how much they had lost but they
told Flaherty that they thought $4,000
would cover the lot.
Foglcr told the detective he had not
been robbed because he knocked pistol
from the hand OF one OF the robbers
and after that they let him alone.
Flaherty also said that no two OF the
men told the same story regarding the
loldup, and the police intend to make
further investigation Of the affair.
Two Payroll Robberies.
Payroll bandits committed two hold
ups yesterday, stealing S1.176.60 from
fhe office OF NJ. f. Donovan & Sons on
Pier 80 Hudson River, al West For
rieth street, and $1,000 from two EN-
ployees OF the Auto-Strop Razor Com
pany. In the latter crime an elevator
operator who tried TO prevent the rob-
berry was shot In the side but not seri-
ously wounded The employees robbed
were Otto Waite OF % Eighty-fifth
street, Woodlawn, n. j.. and William
Marron, 227 East Ninety-ninth street.
Both Waite and Marion are book
keepers for the razor company ard
shortly before noon they went to a bank
and drew the money for the regular
Friday payroll When they returned
and entered the elevator three men fol-
lowed them, drew revolvers and shot
Michael Moran, the operator, after he
attacked them. The two bookkeepers
were beaten and the satchel containing
tho money was taken from them. Then
the bandits ran TO the street and escaped
In an automobile. Late last night the
police arrested George Sands a cub.
sttute letter carrier, Of 343 East Thirty
first street, and locked him up. charged
with being implicated III the robbery.
The detectives said that Sands was
identified BY a Western Union messenger
boy as one or three men he had seea
jump into the taxicab after the theft.
William y O'Toole. 305 Academy
street. Jersey City reported the theft
OF the payroll of the Donovan company.
He said he was in the office OF the
company on Pier 50. ready to pay the
longshoremen, and that the men had
already begun to line up at the window
y brtof case containing the payroll OF
si,ii6.0 was on the desk IN front OF
him. when the back door opened anu
threc men walked In. pointed revolvers
at him. grabbed the brief case and ran
away.
other Robberies Reported.
Three masked bandits held up Thomas
Doyle, q produce merchant. yesterday
afternoon as he was walking in Second
avenue near Fifty-first street Brooklyn.
and took s43l from his pockets. They
then started TO bind him with ropes.
but a lookout gave the signal for ap-
preaching trouble and they ran. They
fired three shots ut a boatman who
refused TO take them aboard at the
end Of the street. and then separated.
Later the police arrested William Mar
en- OF lA Butler street, In the elevator
SAaft OF Building 81 Of tho Bush Ter
nilnal. and James Moran Of 4l6 Warren
street. near tho water front Accord
ing to the District Attorneys office.
Martin confessed that he and Moran
were concerned in the holdup.
n became known yesterday that last
Monday morning thieves carried away
clothing valued at $1,000 from the store
or Rock 4 Weinsteln on the second
floor OF 1852 Broadway. Two bundles
of clothing valued at 5000 were left