The New York herald., 1922-05-23
$4,000 GEM THEFT
REVEALED IN ARREST
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Switchboard Man Returns
Jewelry He Stole From
Horace De Lisser.
THEATER SAFE BLOWN
Newark Robbers Take
$500 in Bills and Leave
$500 in Coin.
HELD UP,STABBED, ROBBED
Bronx Contractor Identifies
One Prisoner as an
Assailant.
HELD UP,STABBED, ROBBED

Frank Devito OF 37h Morton street,
in the apartment house in 200 West
Fifty-seventh street, was arrested yes
terday afternoon and locked up in
Headquarters charged with the theft
April IL of $4,000 in jewelry from tie
apartment of Horace De Lisser, an
official of the Ajax Tire Company.
According to the police Devito took
them to his home, where the missing
jewelry was found.
Detectives Cooney, McAuliffe and
Cordes, who trailed Devito more than
a month, said that on the night of
the robbery Mr.. and Mrs. De Lisser
went to the theater and gave their
maid the night off. Devito saw the
family leaving and entered the apart
ment by means Of a pass key. He
took nothing but TIE jewelry, which
consisted OF a diamond ring valued at
$4,000, a pearl scarf pin worth S3500,
a brooch set with rubies, emeralds
and diamonds, and a gold watch set
with diamonds.
Employees OF the Strand Theater in
Newark discovered yesterday that the
safe in the theater office had been blown
open and $500 in bills taken. Scattered
on the floor was $500 in coins.
Carlo Marino, a contractor OF 239
Lorillard place, The Bronx, was held up
early yesterday morning by two men
who asked him for work and then
stabbed him and robbed him of $50 He
was not seriously hurt. Patrolman John
J. I.oughran of the Bronx Park station
arrested Vincenzo Delicate OF 7O6 East
214th street, who was identified by Ma
rino as one of his assailants.
"Certihed" to Shoot.
Victorio Feruzzo of $50 Madison
street when arraigned yesterday before
Magistrate Oberwager in Essex Market
Court for shooting at Isadore Gotthelf
of 361 Madison street last Saturday.
produced certificate OF membership in
the League of Rights, sol Pulitzer
Building. This certificate. Feruzzo said,
gave him immunity from arrest and the
privilege OF using revolver as he saw
fit. He was held in $4,000 for felonious
assault and carrying a deadly weapon.
The League of Rights is an organization
formed to fight the prohibition amend
ment, and Harry /. Kohn. counsel for
the league, said the certificate of men,
bership did not pretent to give the holder
any such rights as claimed by Feruzzo.
Mrs. NJ. +. Schoen OF 535 West 155th
street awakened last Sunday night in
the home of Mrs z. T. Schnuck in
Greenburg. n. Y, to find a masked and
armed man bending over her. He got
away with her watch. overlooking a
pocketbook containing 500 and jewelry.
Leaps From window.
julius Pollack OF 90 Bartlett street.
Brooklyn, was arrested yesterday by De-
tective Wolter of the Clymer street sta
tion. although he had jumped from a
second story window when he heard the
detective coming. Pollack is wanted in
Philadelphia for the robbery of Nathan
Suntag Of New Brunswick. N. j.
Detectives Harrington. Mccormack and
Boyer of the Gates avenue station in
Brooklyn recovered three stolen automo-
biles yesterday after they had arrested
Willard Ostrander. II. and his brother.
Alfred, 23, of 621 Quincy street, Brook
lyn. According to the detectives, the
Ostranders admitted stealing seven auto
mobiles. Three were found in a garage
in Lexington avenue. They belonged TO
Thomas E. Menten OF 317 Cation avenue.
Brooklyn: Henry G. Bush of 3S Shipley
street, Richmond Hill, Queens, and John
III. Basin OF s43 South Eighteenth
street, Newark.