The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Three Thieves Flee With
No Plunder When Raid
Ends in Murder.
POLICE FIND NO CLEWs
Columbia University Girls in
Crowd Aroused by Screams
and Shots to Scare Them.

Samuel Hadas OF S23 East Twenty
first street, Brooklyn. a student at the
New York Dental College and cashier
for the drug store of Charles Friedgen
at 1220-1222 Amsterdam avenue, was
shot and killed last night at O'Clock
by one of three thieves who tried to
hold up tie store.
One of the bandits sent bullet from
.45 caliber automatic pistol crash
Ing through Hadas's chest when the
cashier ran from behind his cage and
tried to fight him. Hadas died almost
instantly and the bandits escaped in
an automobile, which, with a woman
at the wheel, had been parked around
the corner in West 120th street.
Friedgen's drug store is on the
ground floor of Whittier Hall, a dornai-
tory for Barnard College and Column
bia University girls, located on the
northwest corner of 120th street and
Amsterdam avenue. 1t Is large ten
story building, and Friedgen's store
There were at ,east seven or eight
persons in the place. Hadas was be-
hind the cashiers desk, j. p. Muller
the manager. was behind the prescrip-
tion counter and William Carroll and
three other clerks were at various points
in the store. Seated at a table In the
center OF tho store were two young
women, drinking soda water.
IDvnsion Made mt Just o.
The clock had just struck nine when
the door opened and the three men en-
tered. One OF them, with a revolver in
his hand. stood az the door swinging his
gun back and forth, but making no
sound. The three wore soft hats drawn
well down over their eyes so that the ir
features were not distinguishable. A
second bandit walked swiftly across the
floor, drawing gun as he did So and
covered Carroll before he could do any
thing or dodge behind his counter.
The third bandit carrying an auto
matte pistol in his right hand. went
swiftly toward the cashiers cage. Hadas
heard the second bandit order Carroll
10 hold up his hands and he heard the
managers gasp of surprise and fright
He looked up and saw the third bandit
was yet ten or fifteen feet away.
Hadas yelled for help, and then he
lodged down behind the counter. leaped
to one side and plunged through the
small gate OF the cashiers cage. lie
made straight for the bandit who was
approaching him, although he was not
armed.
Keep bac<!' the thief yelled. III
kill you,"
Hadas did not answer him. He swung
his fist and hit the bandit on the Jaw
The man staggered back, but as he did
80 he raised his gun and fired one shot
before Hadas could reach him with
another blow. The bullet struck Hadas
in the chest. went through his body and
came out at his back.
The cashier gasped and slumped to the
floor in a heap. the bandit standing over
him and proddlng him with his foot.
The other two. the man at the door and
the man who had been covering Carroll
with n gun. hurried 70 his aid. but the
man who had killed Hadas said:
WED better beat IT, He's DONE"
Women Flee to Street.
They turned and ran from the store.
followed by Muller. Carroll and the three
other clerks The two women when they
floor had jumped to their feet, abandoned
their soda water and fed into the street,
screaming. pushing past the bandit at
the door, although he grabbed their arms
and tried to prevent them. Their
screams. the shot and the yells OF Car
roll and the other clerks attracted
large crowd in front OF the drug store.
Several men in the crowd pushed for
ward as the three bandits left the
store. but the leao-r poised his gun into
the air and fired three shots. This
alarmed aud frightened the crowd and
the men fell back. Swinging their guns
and bra ndishing them so that everybody
could see, the baodits hurried around
the corner into West 120th street. where
their automobile. black touring car.
awaited them, a woman, according to
reports received by the police, being I
the wheel. Into this car they jumped.
the woman threw the throttle wide orcn
and the automobile shot through Am
stcrdam avenue toward Broadway and
VANISHED. Tt was gone long before the
police arrived.
Detectives from West i20th street
hurried to the drug store. but the ban
dts had left nothing by which they
could be traced. and the descriptions
obtained OF them were meager. DR..
Charles Norris. Medical Examiner. and
DR.. Merriweather of Knickerbocker Hos
pital examined Hadas and said he had
been killed almost instantly.
Hadas was 2S years old single and a
graduate of dental college In Atlanta.
Ca, where his parents live.
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