The New York herald., 1922-03-18
4 in FAST HOLDUP
GET $1;4OO PAYROLL
Quartet in Tinware Office
Dazed and Money Is
Scooped From Safe.
ALL HANDS QUICKLY UP
Businesslike Bandits Issue
Threat as They Swiftly
Motor Away.
PAYMASTER WINS FIGHT
Saves $1,000 After Being
Felled in Singer Plant in
Elizabeth, n. ].
PAYMASTER WINS FIGHT

Four armed men rushed into the
office of the Enterprise Tinware Com
pany. 430 East Ninety-first street,
early last night and demanded what
they apparently knew had just been
put into the safe-a s1,400 payroll.
They got it and escaped.
The money was brought from a
bank late in the afternoon and Will
lam Holstein, cashier of the firm,
waited in the Office to put 1t into en-
Nelopes in preparation for to-day.
With him were Morris Pfeiffer. vice
president of the firm, ard two other
employees, Meyer Levine and Abe
Goldstein The envelopes had been
placed in q box in the vault, but the
outer door had not been locked when
Holstein's attention was distracted
from the money by the roaring of an
automobiles exhaust.
Looking through a window he saw
touring motor come to sudden stop in
front of the building. -Four young men
Jumped out and walked quickly to the
door of the tinware companys office
The leader drew revolver as he en-
tered.
Police on n Poor Trail.
He ordered hands UP, scooped the
money into his pockets and withdrew
with the others, threatening death II an
alarm should be raised. The police were
notified later and detectives OF the East
lG4th street police station began
search for the gunmen's automobile
hoping 90 trace the thieves in that way.
Charles Ready, aged AZ, paymaster at
the Singer Manufacturing Company's
place at Elizabeth, n. j., was attacked
by a robber yesterday as he entered the
firms office with a steel box containing
$1,000. He was half way UP a stair
way when the effort was made to rob
him. He beat off his assailant. Ready
told the police the man disappeared into
one of the workrooms of the building, and
an investigation was begun on the
theory that the fellow worked there.
Ready was hit on the head with a
piece of pipe. AS he staggered the box
was snatched from him He said the
robber tried to open 1t. and. failing, was
about to run away when he grabbed at
him. The man let go of the box without
renewing his attack.
No bail for Casey the Cowboy.
Kassell Ivanoff, known to the police as
Casey the Cowboy. was arraigned yes
terday before Magistrate Reynolds In
the Jersey Avenue Court in Brooklyn,
charged with completely in the murder
of Patrolman John II. McMail of the
Liberty avenue station, who was shot
and killed on Wednesday by Anthony
Rabasovich. The Magistrate held Ivan
off withrout bail for further examination
next Wednesday. The complaint was
made by Detective Beck.
Ivanoff was questioned for several
hours yesterday before and after his ar
raignment in court by Assistant District
Attorney Hurley nd Capt. Gallagher OF
the Police Department. He told the
police that he was with Rabasovich when
the attack was made on an old woman
Just before the shooting of the police
man. and that they ran away together.
But after going a few feet they sepa-
rated, Ivanoff said. He asserted that he
saw Rabasovich shoot the policeman,
and that he then mingled with the crowd
and saw Rabasovich fight his losing pis-
tol duel with Samuel Cohen, the special
policeman, who shot the gunman in the
neck.