The New York herald., 1922-05-17
15O POLICEMEN GET
BURGLAR KITIN TRAP
Surround Fifth Ave- Broad
way-E. 19th-E. goth
Street Block.

A hundred and fifty patrolmen and
| detectives were rushed from police sta.
| tions last night at 10 o'clock to surround
the block bounded by Broadway and
Fifth avenue and by East Nineteenth
and EastsTwentieth streets, after a pa
| trolman had chased three men into the
| tive-story building at 901 Broadway. oc
cupied by the wholesale wooden and sill
| firm Of Daum Rogers and Spritzer. own.
| ers of the Darlington Mills at Barring
! ton, Mass.
| . An hour later the detectives discov-
cred that hole had been dug in the
wall of the. building on the East Twen-
! tieth street side. through which the
owners Of the burglar tools evidently ex-
pected either to get in or out OF the
structure. 1t is believed that they in
tended the hole as a way of escape
should they be caught or surprised. In
side the offices of the woolen and silk
company is a safe. but the police said
| they had not learned whether it con-
tained anything valuable. Capt John
). Stapleton. in command Of the Safe
and Loft Squad from headquarters, said
at 1 o'clock this morning that he would
keep his detectives at work searching
the block until daybreak. as he thought
! there was a. chance the three men had
not got away.
| While the uniformed men surrounded
the block the detectives went through
the building and through all other build
ings in the block, but failed to find any
trace Of the trio On the fourth foo,
Of the building at 901. however, the,
| discovered in the hallway a set o
burglar tools. complete to the bottle o
nitro-glycerin and the smallest jimmy.
The police would not admit that the,
had received Information that rob
| berry was to be attempted in the woolei
and silk companys offices. They declar,
that the policemen had seen the thre,
men going into the building and hat
chased them, and when they could no
find them called for help. 1t is believed
that the three men escaped over the
roof. The presence of so many police
men caused a crowd to collect, but the
police kept everybody moving.
Albert Madden of 951 Ninety-thirc
street. Brooklyn. collector for the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com
pany, went into the companys branch
store at 1886 Eastern Parkway. Brook
lyn, yesterday afternoon carrying briei
case with $1,S69 in checks and cash ir
| 1t, which he had collected from fifteer
4, different stores In the district. He go
| SIS from Samuel Leventhal, manager
| of the Eastern Parkway store. and ther
| started out to his automobile. But hi
had not reached the door when three
| men walked in.
| Each had gun in his hand. The
one in front pointed his weapon al
Madden and commanded the collector
to give up Madden handed him the
s75 he had just got from Ieventhal
and said that was all he had. but the
bandit snatched the brief case from
| his hand. Then the three men wen
| further into the store, pointed theii
! woman customer standing by coun.
| ter. and forced them with Madden to &c
into the back room.
I, With the woman and three men
| herded into the room the bandits
| slammed the door and ran. They prob
| ably thought they had locked tile door
but the snap did not catch. and in a
moment Madden and Leventhal had pur-
sued the robbers into the street The
| three men, however. jumped into an au-
| tomobile and escaped before the police
| could reach the store or before Madden
and Leventhal could catch them..
| Three young men walked into the
| novelty store Of Adolph Cook at 1925
Third avenue yesterday afternoon. held
! up Mrs. Cook. who was alone, and
! escaped with $1o7 which they took from
| the cash register. Mrs. Cook told tho
! police that one of the men pointed a gun
| at her and made her hide behind n
trunk in the rear of the store while the
others robbed the cash register.