The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Robbers Force Manager of
Bowery Store to Turn :
Over $1,000.
OFFICE is SET ON FIRE
Burglars Frightened WheI
Trying to Blow Safe;
Overturn Lamp.

Burglars broke into TIE Concord
Theater, 1892 Fulton street, Brooklyn,
Sunday night, ripped open a safe and
stole $1.1Oo. representing the Sunday
receipts of three of the chain of film
houses operated by the E. L. B. Thea
ter Corporation. Sidney Smith, por-
ter, discovered the burglary. En-
trance had been made through side
door. which was forced.
The small safe. containing the re-
ceipts of the Concord, Adelphi and
Norwood theaters. was trundled from
the office in the front of the building
to the orchestra pit. where it was
ripped open.
John Costigan, 81. of A. Chestnut
street. Jersey City. son of a policeman
and one of two men who are alleged
TO have held up the saloon of Charles
Wall. S15 Newark avenue. Jersey City.
yesterday. was shot in the thigh when
ne resisted arrest. He is in hospital
and Edward Taylor. q, of 34S Baldwin
avenue. is in Jail.
Policeman shoots Man.
The two men ordered Wall and two
customers, Isaac Drilich or 331 Mont
gomery street and John c. Lambert of
1856 Cottage street, to throw up their
hands and then went through their
pockets. Wall was robbed of $500 in
cash and bonds and his watch; $40 and
two checks were taken from Drilich
and So from Lambert They locked
their victims in a closet and started
to leave. but as they did so Patrolman
John Smith walked in with drawn re-
volver Costigan made lunge at him
and was shot, Taylor did not resist
arrest.
Two bandits late Saturday night held
up the butcher shop of Otto Fischer
and John Finken at 2626 Pitkin avenue,
Brooklyn. and got away with $500 In
cash. The money was taken from the
cash register and from the pockets OF
the partners and one of their en-
ployees George Knoll.
Burglars frightened when preparing
to blow a safe in the office of the En-
pire Iron Company on Tenth street.
Long Island City, early yesterday, over
turned lamp and set fire to the build
ing. The safe was not blown and the
fire caused only slight damage.
Two men attacked John Hanjedcr. a
watchman OF 99S Jamaica avenue. Long
Island City. when he was on his way
home early yesterday and robbed him
of $500.
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pressing a revolver against his chest.
early yesterday forced Abraham Lista.
manager of a Beck-Hazzard shoe store
at 1S6 Bowery, to open the company's
safe. They took it's contents, $1,000.
representing Saturdays sales. and left.
Henry Arkowitz. a poultry dealer.
was robbed i'm the vestibule of his home
in f79 Floyd street. Brooklyn. The
robbers got $1,000 in cash, scarf pin
valued at $1,000 and a ring valued at
500.
Crowd Beats Bandits.
Jacob CARRIER, a barber. was approach
ing his home at 332 New Lots road,
East New York, early yesterday when
three men ordered him to throw UP his
hands. CARRIER ran into a synagogue
where a wedding had just taken place
and cried he had been attacked by rob-
bers Several wedding guests got into
automobiles and went in pursuit of Gar
ber's assailants. A short distance down
the street CARRIER pointed out three men.
One OF them ran and the other two were
handled so roughly they we're removed
TO the prison ward of the Kings County
Hospital where they gave their names
as Nicholas Camel and Salvatore
Camel. brothers. OF 457 Dumont avenue.
Brooklyn.
Patrick Fitzgerald was held up in his
restaurant at GOA Amsterdam avenue
yesterday and robbed OF $50 by two
bandits.
Charles Hecht. manager OF the poul-
try market OF Risneck & Hillman, 22S
North Ninth street, Brooklyn. was
forced by three masked bandits to open
the company's safe. Five hundred dol
lars was taken. Then Hecht and six
employees were robbed OF money and
5ewelry aggregating $500.
David Cohen OF S5 East 18th street,
arrested In the Star Casino Sunday when
n detective suspected him of picking
pockets, was held in $1,000 bail Cor
hearing tomorrow by Magistrate Fran
els X McQuade In Harlem court.
Thomas Barry. who escaped from City
Prison in. Jersey City January TO- has
been arrested in Detroit by "A Jersey City
detective who followed him to that city
Robert Tierney, who escaped at the same
time, Is still at large. The men had
been arrested for attempting to rob a