The New York herald., 1922-02-12
City Bureau Has No Way of
Investigating Record
s. of Applicants.
TOO MANY THUGS ESCAPE
Story in Big Hauls. Generally
the Shareholders Flee
60 in Automobiles.

The need for supervision by the
Police Department over the licensing
of-all taxicab and public chauffeurs is
driven home strikingly by the increas-
ing number of instances in the metro
politan area in the last few months
where bandits have escaped in auto
mobiles which stand a few yards from
the scene of robberies.
The Bureau of Licenses is at pres
papers to public chauffeurs, but it
lacks the facilities for investigating
the records Of the applicants. Many
OF them have served in Sing Sing
and other prisons. If they were
required to apply to the police for a
license to operate a motor vehicle it
would be possible to exercise a check
on men with criminal records which
IS impossible under the present sys-
tenn.
In scores OF instances holdup men
have robbed with impunity leaped into
waiting motor cars and disappeared. 1t
Is admitted by the police that the part
played by automobile chauffeurs in
modern highwaymanship has vastly in
creased the difficulties OF coping with
the situation.
Automobiles Always Near.
Here is list of some OF the more
daring robberies hereabouts in the last
few months in which the perpetra tors
ned hacquga aIIfOmOhila with a
chauffeur at the wheel was waiting to
aid their escape:
February 6--Louis Schwartz OF the
Arnold Roth Company, manufacturing
furriers at 106 West Forty-sixth street.
was tied to chair by two men with re-
volvers. who took $4,000 worth OF furs.
The thieves escaped in an automobile.
Januar 27--A chauffeur and armed
guard on a motor truck carrying $4,000
worth OF silk en- route to Philadelphia
were attacked by two bandits in Wash
ington street as they were approaching
the Desbrosses street ferry. The chauf-
four and guard were wounded by re-
volver bullets.
ssTbe thieves escaped In an automobile
January 26--Three men with revolvers
attempted to rob Anthony Schaeffer. coll
lector for the Shubert theaters. OF ST., 900
in front of Jolsons Fifty-ninth Street
Theater Seventh avenue and Fifty-nlnth
street They were frighteed by the ring
ing OF an alarm gong.
The thieves escaped in an automobile.
January 15-Seven masked men held
up a dozen patrons in Patrick De
Saute's restaurant. 81 East 1i5th
street. and beat Miss Lillian Yost of
1856 Tiffany place, The Bronx, over the
head with revolver butt when she
failed to throw up her hands. They got
$500.
The thieves escaped In an automobile
January 13-Three bandits with re-
yolvers held up three employees of the
dyeing firm of Eees G. Rees in front
of its main office, at 232 East Fortieth
street, and stole a bag containing the
weekly payroll OF $4,000.
Tho thieves escaped in an automobile.
Il 100000 Theft in Brooklyn.
i January 10--Burglars entered the
home OF Mrs. Regina Tarrab, 6S14 Bay
Parkway, Brooklyn, during her absence.
chlproforned her rsixteen-year-old daugh-
ter Adele and took Jewelry and furni-
ture valued by Mrs. Tarrab at $4,000.
The thieves escaped in an automobile.
December 81, 1921-The restaurant OF
Samuel Roth, 240 Washington avenue,
Brooklyn, and the stationery store OF
w
avcnue. a mile and a half away. were
robbed by three armed men who got
$4,000.
The thieves escaped In an automobile.
December 23. 1921--Two bandits en-
tered United Cigar Store at $50 East
fremont avenue. The Bronx. and got
$500. They shot Detectives Randell Nc
Carthy and Tlmonthy Connell, who
killed ont OF the holdup men.
The other thief escaped in an auto
mobile.
H December %, 1o21-Two holdup men
killed Leon Sottile In his soft drink sa-
loon at 2SS East 1921 street The Bronx
y Tho thieves escaped in an automobile
Y December %, io21-Abraham Alderman
tvas held up and robbed of his watch
and 800 by three men in his drug store
ht&1s5 Webster avenue. The Bronx.
Il Tho thieves escaped IN an automobile
X December y. 192i-SiX men robbed
negro tenement house at 2i3 West Sixty
third street. one OF them being killed
by Charles David a negro watchman
Tho thieves escaped in an automobile
December 20, i92l-Horn & Hardart's
nutomat at Broadway and Forty-first
street was held up by three men who
rot S@. but missed 5000 Just locked in
tho safe.
The thieves escaped in an automobile.
Capitol Thcntcr Robbed OF $4,000
December H. 192i-Three masked ban
dts held up and robbed Louis Faulkner.
auditor OF tho Capitol Theater. Of
10000
The thieves escaped in an automobile.
December 10. 1o2l--Two messengers
from the Greenpoint National Bank. 40
Greenpoint avenue, Brooklyn, were held
up by four men IN sight OF the Green
point avenue police station and robbed
OF H7.6I6 weekly payroll belonging to
the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
I The thieves escaped IN an automobile
December II. 192i-The National Wet
Wash Company. OF 147i wilkins avenue.
Tho Bronx. was robbed OF 5000 by four
armed men.
The thieves escaped IN an automobile.
December O. i92i-Wiliam Nash, audit
tor OF the Turner Construction Conn
pany. OF PA Madison avenue. was held
up and robbed OF 5000 Mt Liberty
avenue and l02d street, Ozone Park,
: Queens. by three men.
The thieves escaped In an automobile.
December ?. 1g2i--The cafe of Richard
Trothers. io East 156th street. The
Bronx. was entered by five bandits.
who iinel up nine patrons and robbed