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and she was almost unconscious. When
the bonds were removed she fell to
the floor. He kicked her and told her
to keep quiet. With a final warning
to stay where she was and make no
noise he picked up the two valiscs
and left.
Child Pursued Him
As soon as she heard the door close
Martha ran after him. She tried to
scream, but her mouth was dry and
no sound would come from it. She
followed the burglar east on 17Sth
Street to ST. Nicholas Avenue and saw
him meet woman there. Before she
could find policeman the pair had
gone.
Martha met her mother at 1s1st
Street at 4:30. They went to the West
l77th Street police station and told
their story.
Two men stood at the door of Julius
Scheider's butcher shop, at 561 West
l79th Street, last night. and called to
him to wrap up pound of bacon. He
told them he would if they would come
N. They accepted his invitation, the
first to enter levelling a revolver at
him and requesting him to open the
safe and then step into the icebox.
the door on him. They took s299 in
bills, $500 in Liberty bonds, $500 in
gold which Scheider intended to dis
tribute among his children, and 10000
German marks. They would have taken
$50 more except that just before they
entered a customer had asked Schneider
to send around his clerk with a chicken
and change for $50. The butcher
thought it almost an unreasonable de-
,nand at the time
The clerk returned soon after the
hold-up men departed. He released
Scheider.
Two negroes held up Herman Face
nau in an Andrew Davey grocery store
at 22G7 Seventh Avenue about the same
time, but were so flustered by the re-
sixty years that they grabbed only SIS
from the cash register, which contained
more than sl0o An ambulance surgeon
had to patch up cuts on Facenau's head.
Detectives of the Ralph Avenue,
Brooklyn, police station yesterday ar
rested an alleged matinee burglar, Z,
buttonhook expert, who, they believe.
is responsible for number of apart
ment robberies which have been re-
porto, lately. The prisoner described
himself as Joseph Huler, Of 14l Van
Buren Street, Brooklyn. He is said to
have confessed to one robbery.
According to Detective Joseph Cava~
nagh, who arrested him. Huler's method
was to stand in theater lobbies while
women purchased tickets. He would
then follow them to their homes to
find out where they lived and on the
afternoon that they went TO the the
alter he would rob the apartment His
pet implement. according TO Cavanagh.
was buttonhook, with which he was
proficient in opening locks.
Some u iewelry was found on Huler
when he was searched. He admitted it
was loot but said he could not remem-
Der where he got it. He was ar
raioned in Gates Avenue Court on
chare. Of burglary and was held with
out bail.
Robbery Is Explained
The robbery on March in the off ce
Of Joseph Riskin, jeweler, on the
fourth floor of the Guaranty Trust
Building at 122 Fifth Avenue, was ex-
thirty-two years old, 166 East 1O5th
Street, an alleged ex-convict, is said
TO nave confessed to the police.
AT the time of the robbery Dam o
was an electrician in the building. He
left directly after the robbery. He was
arrested last Friday night in the home
of a relative at "a Fourth Street, where
he had been hiding. having been named
as an accomplice by John Raggione, in
whose fat in West Seventy eighth
Street, some of the stolen jewelry was
s. id to have been found in a violin
case.
IN his alleged confession Damio said
he let Raggione into the Office with a
master key. After ripping open the
safe and taking $4,000 worth of jew
elry they went to Damio's repair shop
on the top of the building. Waiting
there until the guards went away at
o'clock next morning, Raggione left the
building unmolested with the jewels in
a brief case and his tools in the violin
ease.