New-York tribune., 1922-04-03
5 Men Thrust Mr.. and Mrs.
A. r. Shattuck and Eight
Servants Into Wine Gel
lar; Two Hours at Work
One Caught inChase
With $4,000 Gems
Police Say 2 Are Probably
Paris Apaches; One Calls
Himself French Veteran

The entire household of Albert r.
Shattuck was imprisoned by masked
burglars yesterday in his big brown
stone house at 19 Washington Square
North. The victims-Mr. and Mrs.
Shattuck, the cook, four maids, the
butler, the second man and the
doorman-were locked in the wine
cellar while the house was pillaged
Of jewelry valued at $4,000.
The burglars, a. least two of
whom are believed to have been
Paris Apaches, went out the front
door into sunlit Washington Square
just as Charles Zaung, The butter.
burst the lock on the cellar door and
raced toward the basement entrance,
with Victor Terossi, second man,
close behind him.
SO prompt was the rcsponse of tho
police of the Mercer Street station
10 the message zaung telephoned
them that one Of the burglars still
was sprinting through Washington
Square with a crowd drpmmed up by
Tsrossi at his heels, when the police
arrived. He was caught after chase
Of several blocks and jewelry valued
ut $4,000 was found in an overco2t
he had thrown away.
Probably Had Key 20 House
Tho p,icrCa- h.
Daiset, of 32l West Tweuty-first Street.
He gave his age as twenty-seven years.
He said he had served in the French
navy and was q sailor by occupation.
After being booked at the Mercer
Street police station he 49, sSnt TO
Headqu5rters
Daiset and his four companions arc
thought to have entered the house with
"a pass key before daylight, or at any
rate before any one was abroad in that
sedate and aristocratic neighborhooa
or any member Of the Shattuck house
hold was awake. Every door and win
dow was examined by the police and
nowhere was the imprint Of a jiu.1sAf
found.
More than four years ago n French
man known as Henri Boilet, employed
by the Shattucks as second man, left
.he house in haste, and it was dis
covered after he had gone that $4,000
worth of jewelry was missing. The
police Eave not learned whether all
the locks were changed after this in
cident.
1t was evident from the condition OF
the house that the gang who robbed
il yesterday spent much more time ac
their task than the hour or more tha.
the family and servants were I'M
n nrlcOOp0 tbe ,t-i,,a eot1o,-
room had been searched wall safe
had been forced open and silver had
been piled on the dining room table,
only to be abandoned as too bulky.
Eight Servants Held Up First
The police believe that the men
were thoroughly familiar with the
habits oF the household and went from
room to room on the upper floors as
fast as the servants finished with them,
making prisoners of tbs t-en ne,.c..- -
q tbG-. ough search was impossible
otherwise.
The servants had assembled in the
dining hall at noon. Catherine BAN
non, the cook, had put the roast on
the table ana zaun., the butler, Ter
ossi, the second man. and Joseph Man
telli, the doorman. had seated Mrs. Ban
non and the four maids and had just
settled themselves in their chairs,
when the door leading to the stairs
opened silently.
A man with revolver leyelled in
his right hand entered, followed by two
more similarly armed.
Hands up" ordered the leader in
quiet tones, "and make no noise about
it,"
The only noise was the clatter Of
knives and forks and spoons as the
hands which had been grasping them
shot ceilingward The leader kept his
revolver steadily menacing the FIVE
women and three men about the table,
all of whom were paralvzed bv the
sheer incredibility Of what confronted
them.
All Forced Into Cellar
Two of the banaits pocketed their
weapons and produced lengths of cord
with which they lashed the hands ~
their three male prisoners behind their
backs with deft security which led
Zaung to suspect that Daiset was nor
the only sailor among them. The eight
prisoners we're then driven bach
through a hallway and down few
steps to the wine cellar, into which they
We're thrust.
The key was turned in the lock and
the leaders voice announced that an
armed man would remain or guard and
would shoot through the door at ths
first sound.
Not sound had penetrated to tho
second floor, where Mrs. Shattuck SAT
IN the library before the FIRE reading.
Her first intimation that the Sabbath
peace of the house had been disturbed
was when swarthy man entered the
room, pressed revolver against her
side and ordered her to put up her
hands.
She screamed involuntarily, and this
brought her husband from the adioin-
ing room. He is sixty nine years old
As he rushed into the room apparently
intent upon Wrestling the revolver from
the man who stood motionless at Mrs.
Shattuck's side. another gunman stepped
from behind portiere snd doubled Mr,
Shattuck up by thrusting a revolver
sharply against the third button of bis
waistcoat.
"Stop that damn yeiling.r The mar.
WIN stood hv Mrs Shatt.,cL sj,,;ras =