The New York herald., 1922-06-21
BANDIT KNOCKS OUT
WOMAN IN A FIGHT.
Cuts Her With Screw
Driver as She Battles
With Her Fists.
NEIGHBOR is ROBBED
Two Apartments Entered
by Burglars in Sher-
man Avenue.
$4,000 NEWARK HOLDUP
Cigar Plant Payroll Gone
Burglars Find Mans Ring
Too Tight to Take.
$4,000 NEWARK HOLDUP

Miss Ethel Plain, 30, a proofreader
for several publishers, who has an
apartment on the fifth floor Of 164
Sherman avenue, was yesterday re-
covering from a fight she had Monday
afternoon with burglar who climbed
through her living room window and
attacked her with what she described
as large screwdriver.
Miss Plain told the police she was
reading proofs when at 2 o'clock she
saw a youth about IS. dark, well
dressed and good looking. climbing
upon the window sill. She leaped from
her chair, ran to the window and tried
to push him back, but he had got one
foot inside and fought her back.
He ordered her to put up her hands,
but instead she fought him. beating his
face with her fists and kicking his
shins. She screamed. but neighbors
thought it was child crying and paid
no attention. They fought back and.
forth across the room, overturning and
breaking furniture. and at last the bur-
his pocket and began hitting her over
the head with it. He struck her several
times, but she continued to fight and
scream, and II was not until he had
struck her seven or eight times, and
left as many deep cuts in her scalp.
that she stopped fighting and sank to
the floor.
The elevator operator said afterward
that he had seen a man walk down
t,1tA ~, l.,
paid no attention to him.
Either the burglar who attacked Miss
Plain or another one robbed the apart
ment of Frederick Hahn. next door at
los Sherman avenue, of a diamond ring.
q diamond stickpin and 5000 German
marks.
Newark Plant Looted.
Five armed bandits held up I. L. Dimn
paymaster of the l. Lewis Cigar Manu-
featuring Company of Newark. yester-
5>ofris avenue. and robbed him of pay
roll amounting to $4,000. Dimn was
armed but the robbers had the drop on
him. Two members of the firm, Harry
and Donald Lewis, also witnessed the
robbery, but. like Dimn, they capitulated
IN the face of battery of firearms
The bandits had a large brown colored
tDuIlIlB CAR WHICH SlooQ at the CuTD with
engine running and one man at the
wheel while the other four walked into
the hallway 1t is believed by the po-
lice that the robbers We're awaiting the
arrival of Dimn for some time. as eight
bullets were found lying on the floor in
dicating that they had loaded their pis-
tolls before the paymaster arrived.
Mrs. Mary Schweitzer of 159 Morris
avenue a few doors away recalled hav-
Inc -ir 1at1tv al .,t1f l.
standing outside the plant week ago
John Sylvester of 56 Huntendon street
also saw the machine and was certain II
was the one he had seen a week pre-.
vious.
The robbers fed back to their machine
Jumped into IL and the car darted down
Huntendon street to South Orange ave
nue., where it became lost in the traffic
Ring Too Tight.
Three masked robbers entered the pho
Biography shop of Charles Simmons al
z210 Third avenue Monday night. IL be-
came known yesterday, and robbed Mr.
Simmons and Thomas Dour, an EN-.
ployee. of $40. The bandits also tried
70 steal a diamond ring Mr. Simmons
wore on his finger but found it At toe
tight and were frightened off before they
could remove 1t. Thirty camera mer
are employed in the shop and most oi
them had been paid off earlier in the
night. Mr.. Simmons believes the rob.
bers knew II was pay night and that
they were after the payroll Detectives
Of the 12sth street station have begun
an investigation.
Mrs. Josephine MaliszalSi of 800 Grand
street. Jersey CITY. ran from her house
yesterday and said her husband had
struck her with a pitcher. policeman
arrested him, but n crowd took the ar
rested man by force. For few min
utes there was talk of lynching. but no
lice reserves took Maliaszaki to the sta