New-York tribune., 1922-04-01
Macy Employee
Shot i'm Bronx
BranchHold-Up
Charles De Lorne, Manager
of Westcllester Distribut-
ing Headquarters, Too
Slow i'll Raising Hands
Bandits Leave $4,000
Accounting Department Of
Tribune Robbed and Two
Men Are Severely Beaten

H'SH1 Helo up TOUR empi oyceS OF Il. ri.
Macy & Co. in the Westchester County
distributing headquarters of the firm,
2d0th Street and Westchester Avenue,
the Bronx. Charles DeLorme, forty-fiye
years old, manager of the station, was
shot in resisting the bandits and Sc
verely wounded. He was removed to
Fordham Hospital. The robbers became
alarmed after shooting DeLorme and
fed leaving $4,000, the days receipts,
untouched.
Three hours later trio of bandits
entered the accounting department of
The New York Tribune on the third
floor of The Tribune Building at 1874
Nassau Street, beat and painfully in
lured two employees and escaped with
considerable sum Of money, part of
the mechanical department pay roll.
Hold-up in Garage Office
DeLorme was in the garage office
when confronted by the men, who or
dered him to put his hands UP. When
be hestated about obeying the order
one of them opened fire, shooting him
IN the neck and right arm. He ran to
the door and fell at the entrance of
the garage, just outside the distribute
ing offices. Six employees ran in
when the firing began and these were
covered with revolvers while the bap-
dts backed out of the station to q
touring car in which they escaped.
William Nichols, Of Riverview Place.
Yonkers. clerk; William Hughes, of
Mayf1ower Avenue, New Rochelle, a
chauffeur, and four others were in the
rear of the distributing station when
the robbers entered. DeLorme told the
police he believed the bandits were
Italians.
Too Slow in Raising Hands
Nichols entered the garage as the
robber car drew up. One Of the men In
it said he needed gas for his machine.
He entered, smoking C gar, and Mich
OILS told him to threw it away. The
bandit and his companions then COW
cred Nichols with revolvers. They kept
him covered until Delorme and Hughes
entered. They also were told to put up
their hands. De Lorme was not fast
enough in obeying the order and the
firing began.
Detectives from Wakefield police sta
tion were summoned and began a
search for the car, but without result.
1t was said late last night the number
of the car had been taken by one of the
garage employees, and the police be-
lieve they will be able to Identify it.
A clerk and a watchman who were
in The Tribune accounting Office at the
time of the robbery there were beaten
and painfully injured. The watchman,
Charles Lee, pursued the bandits
through the corridor, but they escaped.
On call from the accounting de-
partment Lee left his post in the
hnI ,
went to the Office of the department to
assist in paying off the men The only
person in the Office when he entered
was Bob Toole, of Gil Flatbush Ave
nue., Brooklyn, a paying clerk.
The door had hardly closed on the
Watchman when three men, wearing
gray caps and nondescript clothing, en-,
tered.
Throw up yer hands," one of them
SAID to Lee and Toole.
Clerk Struck BY Bandit
The clerk, caught off his guard. and
his revolver three feet eway in thu
drawer of desk, CON I'd at once.
The watchman also put up his hands.
The bandits ordered Toole to open
the safe, and when he hesitated one
of them struck him in the face. After
opening the safe Toole was ordered to
stand beside Lee, who was being
guarded in one corner of the room.
After taking the money the men tried
to open the drawers in several of the
desks: They were in no apparent hurry,
and looked twice in the safe. Then
tney searched young Toole, turning all
OF his pockets inside out. Ane took his
watch, looked at it and returned it to
him. Another took his wallet and
opened it.
Don't take his money" said the
bandit who had returned Toole's watch
At this juncture the third man took
the wallet and returned it to Toole.
Blackjacked ID Helpless Men
Then they searched Lee, taking from
him his blackjack. With the weapon.
which Lee as watchman is entitled
to carry, one of the men struck Toole
a oioW across the back of the head.
The bandits then turned on Lee and
struck him twice over the head. Both
Of the blows were glancing, but in
flicted deep scalp wounds.
The three men fed down a hall to a
fire scape. Lee, who had only been
stunned, but bleeding profusely from
his wound, rushed out of the Office as
they disappeared. An elevator was de-
scending at the moment and he called
to the operator, who stopped.
When Lee emerged from the ele-
vator, on the ground floor, the men
were nowhere to be seen. Patrolmen in
City Hall Square were on the scene in
few minutes after the hold-up oc-
Cured, but no trace OF the men could
be found.
An ambulance was summoned from
Volunteer Hospital. The surgeon, after
treating Toole, removed Lee to his
home.