The New York herald., 1922-06-25
Man With Bills Sewed In
side Wakes to Find Pair
Busy With Scissors.
A WATCHMAN CONFESSES
Broke Into Houses Merely to
Show 1t Pays to Hire a
Watchman.

Five youths, none of whom seemed
to be more than 81, walked into the
Offices of the Robert Wick Lumber
Company, $50 West Fifty-second
street, yesterday just after noon and
helped themselves to the payroll of
$4,000. All of them wore handker-
chiefs over the lower portion of their
faces. All brandished revolvers. The
one who appeared to be the leader
pointed his revolver at John Wu1ling,
the cashier, who was sorting over the
pay envelopes, and warned him to
make no resistance.
Mr.. Wick was in the planning mill,
adjoining the Office. The moment the
quintet left the office the cashier and
his assistants made loud outcry and
the bandits almost fell down the steep
stairs TO the street. En- route they
came upon three or four returning
employees, but they scared these into
inaction with their revolvers.
Wick, Wulling and ten employees
chased the hve youths into Eleventh
avenue. Although they were in full
view Of the fleeing bandits and a
large crowd had Joined the chase the
robbers Gid not fire any shots. On
the contrary they began dropping
their loot. They lost about ten en-
velopes, containing about 1926, and
finally took to several tenement
l,o,.oc I>;ftx fret cfraat Tbaro
they were lost.
Joseph Rescigno. with no less than
s1S5 sewed to various sections of his
underwear, went into William w.
-Ettiechta's soft drink parlor, 25S Til
larry street, Brooklyn. yesterday to re-
fresh himself Joseph is an automobile
mechanic and lives at 427 Clinton street.
Having drunk, Rescigno fell into &
doze. He awoke TO discover he says,
Ettiechta and two other men undress-
ing him. Realizing that his sewed-in
Sl35 was endangered Rescigno uttered
loud scream. i'm answer to which,
he says he was struck upon the head
with a bottle
His scream was heard by Patrolman
Grigo of the Classon avenue station.
who caught Ettiechta leaving by way
= OF rear door. Ettiechta was arrested,
charged with assault and attempted
robbery. Rescgno had his scalp sewed
up by an ambulance surgeon and went
home with his money intact
Three alleged automobile thieves in
a taxicab and six detectives in a con-
scripted motor car gave Washington
Heights its daily thrill Early yester-
day morning the taXicab and its trio
was seen speeding down Broadway
from l60th street. Behind 1t came the
police. For two miles the chase con-
tinued. with the police leaning out. but
not daring to shoot. At 134th street
automobiles blocked the taxicab ane
1t was captured
The trio said they were John Dorrey
26i West 122d street: Fred O'Hara, IS
West End avenue, and George Tobin
1i3 West End avenue Detectives Sulli
van, Mccoy and Cosgrove said thai
they had seen O'Hara and Tobin un
strapping a tire from the back of q
motor car owned by Mrs. Morris An
derson, 400 University avenue, the
Bronx.
Leroy Leclair Freeman OF Ill Penn
sylvania avenue, Newark. a private
night watchman in the Clinton Hill Sec
ton of that city, confessed to Capt
Harris OF the Newark police yesterday
that he had forced entrance to tha
homes of certain clients just to let then
know that he was on the job and that
Il paid them to employ a watchman
He was arraigne ed before Judge Con
nelly in the Sixth precinct police cour'
'on charges of malicious mischief and
breaking and entering and was held IL
$500 bail for the Grand Jury