New-York tribune., 1922-02-04
Girl Saves Cash
In Tugg-of-War
With Footpads
Daylight Attempt to Hold Up
Bookkccpcr Carrying Pay
Roll i'm Crowd at eth Ave.
and 39th Street Fails
Suspect Taken in Chase
Film T..cater Proprietor,
Shooting Through Pocket.
Routs Brooklyn Bandits

In A crowd Of hundreds at Seventh
Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street, back
Of The Metropolitan Opera House. yes
rerday Afternoon. Laura latin. Of 65
zion Of how twenty year old girl can
successfully cope with two despe rate
bandits. Miss Latin not only saved
her company's payroll but succeeded
through her cries in bringing Detective
DAME, Burns TO tho scene, and he.
after a chase through thc theatrical
district, captured ono Of the girls al
leged assai lauts.
Miss Latin, in accordance with her
usual custom. yesterday afternoon wen.
- the Hudson Trust Company, at l4ll
Broadway, and received $795.63, the
pay roll Of Rabom & NeidorH, lithoc
raphers at 225 West Thirty-ninth
Street, which she carried in heavy
paper bag. The girl walked west
through Thirty-ninth Street. and when
she came abreast OF 223 West Thirty
ninth Street. where an old orphanagc
is being razed. she was accosted by d
youth who stepped out from the debris
near the Sidewalk.
The young man, with cap drawn over
his eyes, threw his arms about the girl
and held her arms close to her side.
From the rear another assailant pulled
violently at the carrier which contained
the money. The moro force employed
by the bandits the louder Miss Latin
screamed and the tighter she held on
% the bag
Frightened Bandits Flee
Finally the carrier broke and bills
and coins scattered over the sidewalk
and street. he bandits, frightened by
'hc crowd that had collected. dessted
from their attack and fed. One dashed
vest toward Eighth Avenue and the
other set out at top speed toward
Broadway
Near the Seventh Avenue corner Of
Tnirty-ninth Street Detective Daniel
Burns, Of the West Thirticth Street
station, who had been attracted by the
girls cries, took up the chase after one
of the fugitives. Near the Sixth Ave
nuc corner a uniformed policeman
stepped out into the street and Dctec-
tive Burns captured the youth, who
gave MS name as John Mills. seventeen
years old, Of 51S West Thirty-ninth
Street. AZ the West Thirtieth Street
Mills as one of her assalantz
At the Office of Rabom &, Neidorol,
where Miss Latin was employed as
bookkcepcr and messenger it was an
nounccd that there was $50 missing
from the pay roll after the bills and
coins which had been scattered over
the street had been picked up. At least
2 dozen people had assisted in picking
up the currency. During the attack
Miss Latin's coat and hat were badly
damaged.
Robbers Wait in Ambush
Three young men. one OF whom was
armed concealed themselves early yes
tcrday morning on the edge of va
cant lot on Fifty-seventh Street. be
tween Seventh and Eighth Avenues
Bay RIDGE; They we're lying in wait
for Leopold Weinberg. forty years old,
of So4 Fifty-seventy Street They in
tended to rob him.
They had studied Mr.. Weinberg
and thought that they knew him well
enough to hold him up, probably with
out trouble. Mr.. Weinberg was the
proprietor of motion picture theater
a. seventh Avenue ana flttN-elg tn
Street They knew that he always car
riod the day. receipts home with him,
and they knew that he always passed
thc vacant lot and about what time
nc did 50.
What they did not know what that
Mr.. Weinberg had spent considerable
tlrc wondering why he had not been
held up, ard that in anticipation Of the
event he had bought himself q small
but serviccable revolver and d box a
cartridges. Nor were they aware that
ried The revolver. loaded, IN his over
coat pocket.
It was with some assurance, there
tore, that the three young men greeted
Mr. Weinberg and that one of the ban.
dts pointed a revolver at him and
ordered him to Stick EN- up!"
hat. followed was entirely out OF
order; because NJ. Weinberg, instead
OF putting up his hands began pulling
the trigger Of his revolver without
ever bothering to take is out of his
pocket.
Pistol Routs Assa;ants
The man who had suggested the hand
raising exercise to Mr. Weinberg sud
oenly dropped his weapon so that he
might the more easily carcss 2 bullet
Wound IN his side. Then all three
bandits ran.
Patrolman Pasquale de Martini a
rookie attached to the Fourth Avenue
station, heard the shots and saw man
running across q lot. He ran after
ann; fired two shots at him and caught
him.
The prisoner described himself as
lanes Bopp, seventeen years old, of
Ss7 Fifty-eight Street He was ar
raigned IN fifth Avenue Court on a
charge Of robbery He pleaded guilty
and was held without bail for the
grand jury.
At the time Of the attempted hold
up Weinberg had $500 in his pocket
and wore about S400 worth of jewelry.