New-York tribune., 1922-02-08
Aoed ManRouts
Two Thugs in
CroceryHoldup
Son Chascs Negroes i'll
Taxicab and Captures
Them: Shirt Maker j.
Robbed of 5000 Pay Roll
Auto Bandits Get 1.24O
Furricr Tied to Chair as
Store l. Looted: Other
Thcfts Mark DAY of Crime

Fred Bohdo. a seventy ycar-old grocer.
rlo has a store at 500 Madison Avenue,
= fashionable residential district.
,-oved last night that. despite his age
and fraii physique. he is able TO dc
tsnd himself and his establishment
Two powerful negroes who entered
.be store with drawn rcvolvers at
o'clock and attempted TO terrifv the
l;.te man. got shock when he showed
arht and Knocked a revolver from the
hands Of ono of them. The negroes
fed and were caught. after az exciting
chase that ended at Sixty-ninth street
and Lexington Avenue.
Bohde and his son. William, were
a,one in the store when the negroes
entered. The son was concealed in the
bookkeepers cage at the rear, and the
,,.nders thought they had only the
sged proprietor to contend with The
PROPRIETOR proved to be quite enough.
i0wever.
One Of the men aimed revolver n,
I'M. Hands up. and hands up quick
ne negro Yelled.
Aged Man ROuts Bandit
Bohde had other uses for his hands.
He looked the gunman in the eye and
his right fist shot up. striking the
light arm Of the negro and causing
the revolver to be pointed inward.
The negro. enraged. fired. and the
bullet plowed through the ceiling ana
into the apartment Of Mir. and Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt Pcll. which is Just
above the grocery store Mrs Pell
narrowly escaped being struck.
As the shot Was fred William
Bohde sprang from the hookkecper's
cage and started toward the othcr
negro. The two men fed. The re-
volver which had been held by the
sent spinning to the floor when Bohde
struck and the negroes made no at
tempt TO pick II up.
Young Bohdc gave chase. He was
Joined by Petro Agromanti OF ( East
Sixty eighth Street, and they fol-
lowed the negroes through Sixty
eighth Street to Park Avenue in Park
Avenue they climbed aboard q taxi and
chased the fugltlveS to Sixty ninth
Street and Lexington Avenue. where
they were caught. TIE negroes gave
their names as Harry Francis, twenty
four. Of los West 139th Street, and
Charles Wheeler. Of the same address,
Francis has served term in Sing
Sing. according to the police. They
were locked up at the East Sixty
seventh Street station on a charge Of
assault
5000 Payroll Stolen
When Joseph Horowt7. president Of
the shit manufacturing firm of Joseph
HOrowi,z { Sons, started yesterday
from the main office at So White Street
for the branch factory at 142 Stock
helm Street. Brooklyn. with Il 5000
payroll. he carefully tucked the cur
'ency into memorandum look con-
tanning the names of the factorv en-
plcyees. and wrapped the BOOK in a
tswspa per.
HIS precaution availed him nothing
hcw..er Three ganmen who presun
ably had learned that Tuesday was TIC
day for the payroll to be brought &c
tie brooklyn factory, were waiting for
him When he arrived at the branch.
The factory is in a loft building
There is no elevator AS Mr.. Horo-
w..z entered, two thick-set men with
drawn levolvers sprang in front %
him. One Of them snatched the
money. tho other took 81 900 diamond
rirg and valuable diamond stick
pin.
As Mr.. Horowtz turned and starte d
out the door q third bandit appeared,
and the trio drove the shirt manufac-
turer up stairway. and then ran from
the building. They escaped in an
automobile
John Tilson. of 3l5 East Fifty second
Street, collector for the Great Atlantic
aid Pacific lea Company, was robbed
Of $3.50 at noon Monday. 1t was
learned yesterday.
Tison was riding IN his automobile
At Neck Road and Ocean Parkway.
Sheepshead Bay, when another car drew
alongside of his machine and two men
lcaped out and sprang to his running
board. One Of them leveled revolver
a. him and directed him to drive
through Gravesend Avenue to East
third Street and Avenue X. There the
TWO men took the Sl,240, representing
collections from four stores.
Furricr Tied to Chair
Bound hand and foot to chair, the
muzzlc OF revolver pointed at his
mead Louis SWartz. a cutter employed
oy Arnold Roth. furricr at 1866 West
forty-slXth Street. sat motionless yes
terday while two robbers made their
escape with furs valued at $4,000
Swsrtz, who is thirty years old and
VINO llves Al $50 Beck Street. the Bronx