The New York herald., 1922-09-26
EMPTY MAIL TRUCK
HELD UP BY THREE
Armed Men i'm Taxicab Found
Nothing but a Pile
of Sacks.

An empty mail truck being driven
from the Grand Central Station to the
City Hall Post Office by Robert Mccoy
was held up early yesterday morning by
three bandits at Lafayette and Spring
streets few blocks from Police Head
quarters. The would-be robbers got
away.
Spring street yellow taxicab drove past
and slowed up to a stop directly in
front. Three men thought to be young
Italians, jumped out and approaching
Mccoy covered him with revolvers. He
was told not to make an outcry on
penalty of death. The chauffeur sat at
the wheel of the taxicab with the engine
running
While two Of the men pointed their
guns at the driver the third went to the
rear of the mail truck and looked
through the grating. He saw a pile OF
empty sacks in the truck. which had
made the trip to the Grand Central Sta
tion filled with valuable mail
The three holdup men then held a
hurried conversation on the curb while
Mccoy and the chauffeur Of the taxicab
waited in their seats. The three then
entered the taxicab. which turned and
drove rapidly up Lafayette street. Nc
Coy drove direct to the City Hall sta
ton, where Inspector John Gibney i'm
mediately notified the police to send out
a general alarm. Mccoy gave a good
the chauffeur.
This attempted holdup recalls the
mail truck robbery at Broadway and
Leonard street on October "a last, when
$2000.000 worth of valuable mail was
stolen by automobile bandits. Two of
the robbers were sentenced to twenty
years each In prison, and others are be-
ing held pending trial. Will Hays,
former Postmaster-General, came to
New York in connection with the case,
with the result that marines with rifles
were placed on every post office vehicle
carrying mall through the streets here.
These emergency measures were re-,
Gently relaxed somewhat and the reward
for the capture and conviction of a mail
robbery was cut from $4,000 to $4,000.
CnarleS FISnDacK, Janltor or the Har-
lem Grand Moving Picture Theatre at
1l9 East 125th street, near Park ave-
nue.. opened the place early yesterday
morning and found that burglars had
blown the safe and stolen between ST.
900 and $1,000. the receipts of Satur-
day night and Sunday.
Detectives who investigated found
that the burglars had taken the safe
from the office In the front part of the
theater to a small room In the rear
of the auditorium, where they had bored
holes around the combination knob and
blown the door off with nitroglycerin.
They entered the theater by saving
through the bars of the lavatory
window.
George Knipping of 16i Fifth street
and Paul Kinnert of $40 Bloomfield
street, both of Hoboken and organizers
for the I. w. W.. were shot and slightly
wounded yesterday morning during a
fight on the Holland-America Line
piers at Hoboken with Michael Lewis
of 80 jackson street and John Dolan OF
for the International Longshoremen's
Union.
Knippng and Kinnert, charged by
Lewis and Dolan with attempted as
sault and battery. were sent to St.
Marys Hospital. where 1t was said they
had not been seriously hurt. They also
made charges of assault and battery
against Lewis and Dolan. who were re-
leased on $1,000 bail each for a hearing
on Thursday