New-York tribune., 1922-04-23
Safe Looted
Next Door to
Police Station
Hat Frame Company's Head
Thought His Cash Secure
Close to Guardians of
Peace, but Thieves Got II
Criminal Courts Speed Up
18 To Be Sentenced Wednes-
day as Result of Justice
Martins 3 Days Work

III the thieves who robbed the Apollo
Hat Frame Company. at 126 and 100
Clinton Street, early yesterday morn
ing had been less well acquainted with
the district they might have broken
into the Clinton Street police station
which adjoins the premisss Of thu hat
frame company.
Benjamin Zuckman had fslt s,r,o.+
s' SAFE from predatory influences n. -
ne were IN charge OF the police station
instead Of president Of the hat COM
pAhy Therefore. when he walked into
H's once yesterday morning he was
surprised and panied to fnd that soms
one had ripped open the front 90 ~.
sac ana removed $3.50 in cash. II wa.
not tho robbery SO much aa IL was ths
Pf'ndAple Of the thing. II businesE,
hsn sa1e next to a police atstlon--
INK Luckman complained to tho no
nce' VINO investigated. 1t was estab-
!isheo that the thieves scaled rear
1ence with ladder taken from a
building In Broome Street, climbed tho
nrs escape and entered by window.
Aools with which the safe was opened
were found in the yard
Arrests Running Men
TIVE men describing themselves a.
Gerald Cronin. twenty-four years old
or So8 Last SeVenty-ei ighth Street. and
u mes Judge, twenty-four years old. Of
812 West Forty ninth Street. wers ar.
rested yesterday morning at Forty
nIrh street and Ninth Avenue. Patrol
man CorneIlus Foley arrested them be-
cause they were running and he had
Just heard women scream.
Taxing the two men with him. Folev
went IN the direction Of the noise and
found an unidentified man lying uncon-
scious with his head on the curb in
front of 32e West Forty-hrst Street,
John Farrell and his wife, who live at
the hotel Flanders, near by, and Fran
ces Gold'n, Of %02 West Forty-sixth
Street, told the patrolmsn that thew
had seen the unconscious man attacked
by two others, who ran toward Ninth
Avenue
The unidentified man was taken to
Bellevue Hospital suffering from
fractured skull. Cronin and Judge said
they were on their way homo when the
man, who was walking with them and
whom they did not know, began argu-
ng and attempted 70 strike them. They
SAID he slipped and fell.
Three other young men IN search of
money tried to hold up Jacob Levin
son, taxi driver, after they had en-
gagged him at Forty-seventh Street and
broadway to drive them to the Bronx
At 197th Street and Valentine Avenue
hey got out and threatened him with
revolver. When he cried out they
nit him and ran.
One of the trio, who described him
elf as Nathan Cohen, 1880 Fifth Ave
nue. caught by Patrolman John
Buter after struggle. police auto
mobile with Detectives Nylan. Corso,
3onnio and Mancani, pursued the other
-wo, but they escaped.
Record for Criminal Courts
A record for the disposition Of felony
cases WAS established yesterday by
Jusdce Francis Martin. who has been
sltting for the last three days on his
first Assignment In criminal term of
the court AS the result OF the three
days work, according to figures given
out by Chief Clerk Carl II. Smith,
eighteen offenders will be sentenced
next Wednesday. Thirteen pleas Of
guilty were received. two bail bonds