The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Two Friendly Card Games of
Cloak and Suit Merchants
Raided by Masked Men.
FINE COATS FOOL POLICE
Most Daring Robbery so Far i'm
Downtown Fur and Cloth
District Nets Little.

Six bandits, masked and provided
with two automatic pistols each, held
up twenty men in the office of NJ.
Goldwasser 6 Sons, cloak and suit
fifth street, late yesterday afternoon.
The robbers escaped with between
81 500 and $4,000 worth of jewelry. At
least one of the victims. Louis Plom-
was beaten.
The holdup was one of the most
daring yet reported from the cloak
and fur district. Special watchmen
patrolled the block on which the loft
building where it occurred is situated
and at the moment when the robbery
was bein., executed two patrolmen
from the West Thirtieth street police
FIVE feet from the entrance of the
building.
None OF the watchmen or the patrol
men gave attention to the bandits for
ing elevator and concealed their pis-
tolls One of the men who was robbed
said the thieves had the appearance of
prosperous business men.
There was a friendly game of cards
going on in the Goldwasser office at
o'clock, and among the twenty men
there. Il was said, were several MEM
bers OF the firm. their foremen and
members of other cloak and suit firms
in the same building.
Two Friendly Games Going.
Finally there were eonuGh present to
start a second game. Louis Plomsky.
who has charge of the cutters employed
by Albert Klaussner & Bros, with
loft in the same building. was the last
man 10 enter. He stood near the door
watching the players
Plomsky heard a scuffling sound in
the hail at the elevator shaft door and
turned to peer out as the elevator
operator, whose name could not be
learned, was thrown bodily into the
office
In an instant the card players were
springing up from the tables and rush.
ing toward the door. They were met
by the six bandits. each OF whom lev
eled two pistols and ordered the men
back.
NO noise and no chin music. said
one OF the robbers Shell out the
money and jewelry and face the wall
and you won't be hurt
Plomsky started TO protest. but he
was silenced by a blow over the head.
The butt of one of the pistols gouged
his scalp badly and he fell to the floor.
AS Plomsky lay on the floor. he said
lest night he saw the robbers back his
friends against the wall and heard them
order everyone to put his hands up. He
saw Samuel Frank, furrer. Of 1898
Washington avenue start on a dash for
the door.
clubs Man with Pistol.
One OF the bandits raised his gun as
II TO fire and. thinking better of II.
raced after Frank and whaclIed him on
the forehead Frank dropped uncon-
scious and the business Of stripping the
twenty men OF their valua bles went on
All this time. Il was said. n seventh
man presumed TO be a chauffeur. sat
at tho wheel Of n big touring car at the
northeast corner of Seventh avenue and
Twenty-flfth street. It was in this au-
tomobilc. according 20 watchmen. that
the escape was made.
While three of the men searched tho
pockets of the card players, the other
three stood Off with their guns ready FOR
action. One OF the latter occasionally
went TO tho window and cautiously
looked out toward Seventh avenue. and
IL was believed last night that he was
keeping watch on the automobile and
making certain there was no intcrfer-
Cncc from tho police.
All the jcwclry and money--much of
tho latter snatched up from the center
OF the tables at which the games had
been progrcssine--wa thrown into
small canvas bags which the men con-
coalcd in their pockets. plomsky
watched this stage of the robbery with
scme degree of satisfaction having
been knocked TO the floor for pro-
testing and then apparently forgotten.
But the roboer who hit him remem-
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