The New York herald., 1922-03-16
CAPTIVE IN CELLAR
OUTWITS BANDITS
Druggist, Locked Under
Trapdoor With Others,
Rushes to Grating.
p.ASSERBY HEARS YELLS
Blows Whistle. Policeman
Responds and One Rob-
Der Is Captured.
ARMED MEN ARE ROBBED
Yield 1900 to Bandits in Pay
roll Holdup at Busy Street
in Edgewater.
ARMED MEN ARE ROBBED

JaIDlH ITeSnWdlQS > drug store at JIt
Eighth avenue, near Fifty-fifth street
shortly before last midnight, heard
some one shouting for help. The cries
seemed to come from under the side
walk, but finally the man determined
that they came from under a grating
Of the drug store cellar. He got down
on his hands and knees and peered
through the grating, and some eight
or ten feet down he saw Greenwalc
gesticulating and heard him shout
ing:
Get a policeman. I'm being
robbed"
The man on the sidewalk looked into
the drug store. He saw man at the
cash register who had something in
his hand that shone and flashed in the
electric light. So the man on the side
walk Strengthened up and blew a police
whistle, while Greenwald, under the
grating urged him to blow again.
Patroman Joseph Hanlon. at Eighth
avenue and Fifty-fifth street. heard the
whistle and turned in time to see two
men run out of the drug store. He
chased them and caught one just as he
turned into Fifty fourth street BY this
lime half dozen police whistles were
Going full blast all around the block
and such a crowd gathered and there
was so much excitement that the other
man got away.
Hanlon yelled down through the graf
ing TO Greenwald that a bandit had
been captured, and the druggist disap-
peared. A few moments later the owner
entered the drug store through the trap
door leading into the cellar. followed by
his brother Morris, and his friends,
James Secular of SOL Whitlock avenue,
The Bronx, and Richard PEBBLES of 1880
Broadway. Greenwald told the police
man that thesbandits had taken S6 in a
roll of bills from his pockets. and when
he had examined the cash register ha
found that they had got 1864 from it.
The prisoner in the. West Forty
seventh street station said his name Was
Joseph Bryan Of S72 Eleventh avenue.
but the police say his name is really
Ryan and that he was released from
Sing Sing Prison fifteen months ago. IN
his pocket they found revolver and
thirty-frSv cents and in his trousers a
roll of tills containing $56. Hc was
locked I.e. charged with burglary and
with viesat ting the Sullivan law.
Greenwald told the police that he and
the throe other men were sitting at his
bandits came in. pointed pistols at them
and ordered them to go to the rear OF
the store They did so. and one bandit
opened the trap door and ordered them
into the cellar. first taking the bills
from Greenwald
But Greenwald knew his own cellar
so he ran along it to the front and
began shouting through the rating.
An automobile containing the pay
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Spencer & Sons. linseed oil manufac-
turers OF Edgewater, n. j.. was held
I'D in the business section OF Edgewater
1T 10 o'clock yesterday morning by
three motor car bandits, who escaped
with $4,000 in cash.
Although the holdup occurred at the
intersection Of George road and River
road one of the busiest corners in the
village, II was done so quickly 1t at
tracted no attention. No shots we're
fred
Joseph G. Kap, paymaster. and G. r.
Mcdlicott manager. were In the rear
seat Frank Douglas, a clerk, was driv-
ing. They were returning from the bank
and were five blocks from the plant
when another car drew alongside. Two
masked men jumped on the running
hoard and demanded the satchel con-
tanning the payroll money. No resistance
was offered.
The bandits jumped into their own
car and sped away Later the Bergen
police believed they found the car aban-
doned in West Hoboken. A general
alarm was sent out and the ferries were
watched.
Edward Ward OF 81 Clinton street.
Newark. and Peter Fay Of South Sixth
street, Orange, N. j., walked into the
Fast Thrty-ffth street police station
early yesterday and told the police that
they had been pulled from a taxicab In
West Thirty-ninth street. beaten and
robbed of sos in cash and a gold watch
by their chauffeur and several other
men. The policemen went TO the garage
with them. and. on their Identification,
arrested Thomas McGrath OF 211 East
Fifty-sixth street. alleged chauffeur OF
the taxicab. Later they arrested Peter
McGrath OF 800 East Eighty-third street
and John Moley of 32s East Thirty
ninth street These men also were
identified by Ward and Fay.
The two McGraths and Moley were
arraigned before Magistrate McAndrews
who held them In $4,000 bail each for
the Grand Jury. Charges or intoxica-
tion were made against Ward and Fay,
but they were dismissed by the Magis-
trate. Ward and Fay told the police
that McGrath had driven them about
town to see the sights, and finally. when
ordered to 20 to the Hudson tube station
nj Thirty-third street. they went into
Thirty-ninth street and stopped In front
OF the garage.