The New York herald., 1922-06-11
ring OF 100 POLICE
SEEKS TWOBANDITS
in ALL night Vigil
Thieves Get $615 in Holdup,
Dive Into River at Dead
Horse Dock.
SEARCHLIGHTS IN USE
Any Suspect Who Fails to
Halt When Ordered Is
to Be Shot.
WOMEN FIGHT THIEVES
One Aided by Police Saves
$1,4OO; Another Locks
Man in House.
WOMEN FIGHT THIEVES

One hundred policemen were hunting
early this morning through the piers,
dilapidated buildings and holes in the
ground about the foot of West Thirty
ninth street, known in tie Heh's
Kitchen district as Dead Horse Dock,
for two bandits. who few minutes
before o'clock held up and robbed
the proprietors Of the West Shore
Live Poultry Market at 61S West
Thirty-ninth street. Tie search be-
gan at 6 and was carried on until
morning, while the police, because
Of the battling and tortuous nature
of the territory. were not sure whether
TIE bandits had escaped or were still
cooped up somewhere within their
lines.
Dominick Henry. Acting Chief Inspec-
tor in command of Police Headquarters.
last night, left his office to direct the
squad when he heard that the police
had drawn lines about Dead Horse
Dock"
He was assisted by Capt. Archibald
II. Mcneil of the West Thirtieth street
station. The police boat John F. Hylan.
as darkness came on. played search
lights over the piers for three blocks
along the river. while other launches
each carrying policemen with revolvers
and searchlights covering the scene,
went back and forth along the water
front.
Until darkness came a dozen police
men, stripped to their underclothing.
swan through the foul water under the
piers. climbed along tho tiSnbers and
sewer pipes. and held their guns ready
for an encounter with the bandits, both
Of whom they knew to be armed. The
tide began to rise. and a few minutes
before o'clock the police under the
piers. fearing that their means of exit
would be cutt off. climbed out of the
water. Then they got a dozen rowboats
and went in and out among the floats
and refuse barges on the chance that
the bandits might also be driven out
by the rising tide. After time the
police could do nothing but keep guard
over the scene and wait for the tide to
ebb.
The bandits, both of whom were de-
scribed as young men, walked into the
poultry store at $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. One. about s feet 5 inches
tall. pushed gun in front of Hyman
Zaskin. who was counting the money
from the days sales The other. sew
era1 inches taller. covered Benjamin
Diamond who was at the telephone.
Zaskin thought somebody was joking
with him.
Get away, shrimp he said to the
little bandit. I'm counting my money"
7 The little bandit then showed his gun
.tx..t .aIrf f,.fe - Oc.I<s -
handed over all he had in his pockets
about s65. and also $500 from the cash
drawer. Diamonds pockets yielded $50
Robbers Walk Away.
The robbers then bowed their way out
of the market and walked toward Dead
Horse Dock. Neither wore q mask.
Zaskn and Diamond said they would
recognize them IL they saw them again.
AS soon as they had walked out OF the
market Zaskin telephoned to the West
Thirtieth street station. One Of the new
high powered police automobiles was
standing outside and six detectives
jumped in.
Directed by Zaskin, the detectives
drove rapidly down West Thirty-ninth
street until they came to the pier. One
Hundred and fifty feet out. on the end
of the pier, stood two men, apparently
counting money.
There they arel'' said Zaskin.
Tho men put the money back into
their pockets, twiddled their thumbs at
the detectives and dived off. That was
the last seen of them. More detectives
were called. then the reserves and then
Inspector Henry came. They surrounded
the place and began the search. At 10
o'clock last night a dozen large search
lights. part of them from the Fire De-
partment and the rest furnished by tho
New York Edison Company, were-< ay-
ing over the piers.
The police got a mysterious tell hone
message at 9:30 from man who said
there was a secret passage leading
from the end OF a sewer that empties
at Thirty-ninth street to n point about
half a block east of the police lines.
This man said II was possible to crawl
along the top Of the sewer pipe from
under the pier and escape well out Of
danger of being seen by the police on