The New York herald., 1922-02-28
WOMEN ARE SPARED
in 3 STORE HOLDUPS
Tall and Short Bandits Beat
Employees When They
Get Only $40.
COLLECTORS LOSE 5000
Sheffield Farms Men Robbed
in Henry Street by Three
Motor Gunmen.
COLLECTORS LOSE $4,000

Three bandits with the traditional
physical dimensions-two short ones
and tall one--entered the grocery
store of H. c. Bohack & Co. in 3005
Fulton street, Brooklyn. last night at
$3.50 o'clock and fiourished revolvers
at the fifteen women customers, two
men customers and managers and
clerks.
The tall bandit was the polite one
Of the three. and when soprc of tho
women oegan to scream he reasaursal
them.
Don't holler. madams," he said
1--WE will not bother YOU"
He then took up his post in the door
way while the short bandits. who wore
caps and light overcoats. advanced fur
ther into the store. They pointed pistols
at the two managers, William Mel
wohner of 40 Evergreen avenue. and
Henry Helm OF 1927 Catalpa avenue. both
of Brooklyn, and ordered them to stand
against the wall with their hands In the
air. This they did. as did the two men
customers and three clerks.
Then the bandits opened the cash reg
lister and stuffed into. their pockets all
the bills and coins II contained. an
amount estimated by Newcomer as be-
tween $500 and $500. No effort was
made to rob customers or managers OF
their personal belongings After robbing
the register the bandits backed out
bowing. and escaped in an automobile
a y.fe 49, of
Linwood street.
Robbers Overlook $1,000.
Five minutes after Albert J. Alcock.
manager of the Thomas H. Roulston
store at 359 Broadway. Brooklyn. had
opened the doors yesterday morning two
men held him up. They stole s2s6 from
Alcocks pocket, but failed TO find 81 900
beneath counter. Alcock was then
pushed sbehind an ice box and told to
stay there until the bandits had es-
capped. which he did.
About the same time the Roulston
store was being robbed three thieves.
one tall and two short. entered the At
lantic and Pacific store in 33s Ninth
avenue and forced the manager and a
clerk, Peter O'Bierne of 26 Schurz ave-
nue.. Long Island City. and EIary Price
Of 121 Eighth avenue to march to the
rear of the store. Two of the bandits
kept them there with pistols while the
third, the tall one. went behind the
counter and waited on early customers,
several of them women. O'Bierne told
the police he heard the bandit calling
the customers "girlie" and "dearie"
The bandits took $40 from the pockets
OF the manager and the clerk. but found
nothing in the cash register. Disap-
pointed. they struck O'Bierne and kicked
Price. and then went their way.
Collectors Are Help Up.
George Baxter and Charles Kramer,
district collectors for the Sheffield
Farms Company. Inc. were held UP yes
tcrday morning about 10 80 O'Clock i'm
front of "a Henry street and robbed OF
envelopes containing between $4,000 and
$4,000. collections from twelve or fif-
teen dairy stores.
Baxter told the police three men APP
preached as he climbed onto his wagon
after collecting from the Henry street
store and pointed revovers at him and
at Kramer Two of the men kept them
covered while the third took the money
from Baxters inside pocket. Then the
bandits escaped In an AUTOMOBILES.
Late In the afternoon the police found
n car, abandoned. In Columbia street.
near Broome street which In believed
TO have been the one used by the rob-
bers.
David Il. Raidman of s31 stone ave-
nue. went downstairs to open his tobacco
store early yesterday morning and saw
n rnan walking up and down In front
Of be place with a pushcsrt. He called
ti5e police Tho arrested the man and
found irsi ie store another man, who
gave a!s ie as Charles Leonard of
4lt0 Ne 'echt avenue Brooklyn. The
uNfhc4t said he was Reuben Lip
fky 9f Sheffield avenue. Brooklyn.
rh poh said they. had 5000 worth of
tobacco g. ed ready TO haul away.
1Su.G CD BOARDING A nus.