New-York tribune., 1922-02-21

ton of the bandit, because he had his
cap pulled low over his eyes.
Charles Z. Whyard, vice president of
the Greenwich Bank and manager of
the Thirty-hfth Street branch, said
that Russell had been in the employ
of the bank for ten or twelve years.
He earns SIG week. Mr.. Whyard said
that he was above suspicion, as was
Brown, who has been with the bank
for four years
MIR. Whyard said that the loss was
covered by insurance.
Cigar Store Robbed
Strictly up to date methods were
used by yeggmen who robbed the
United Cigar Store at 788 Columbus
Avenue early yesterday. The men after
gaining access to the store removed an
electric light bulb and inserted a plug
which provided current to drill,
which was used to make a hole for the
insertion OF ntro-glycern The door
of the safe was blown and the bur
glars took $500 in cash and coupons
with a cash value of $1OO. They over
looked $40 which was in a cash regis
ter and within easy access.
Steel filings and wood chips were the
only clews. Detectives assigned to the
case are confident that nitro glycerine
was used The hole was bored in the
top Of the safe door. None of the
,oD \ hNr
Entrance was gained by way of an open
door of an adjoining tenement. The
burglars made their way to the base
ment where they broke a lock on a
room directly under the store Two
barrels with boards across the tops
showed that the men stood on these
and cut q hole large enough to permit
them to squeeze through.
The safe was pushed to one side
away from sight Of any one looking
through the windows. The robbery
was discovered when clerks reported
for work.
Four Locked in Ice Box
Four armed men robbed butcher
shop at Washington Avenue and Pacific
Street, Rxooklyn, Of $7OO Saturday
night, locking five Of the seven men
in the place in the ice box, it was
learned yesterday.
Joseph Schaap is proprietor of the
place. The hold-up took place about
1920 p. m. Schaap, who was in the
of the robbers. Three of his employees
and Frank Fusco, of 81 Herkimer
Street, Brooklyn. and Charles Panis-
bacher, Of 272 Albany Avenue, Brook
lyn, were imprisoned in the ice box.
The robbers escaped III an automobile
Schaap released the men in the cooler
and notified policemen who happened
to be passing in an automobile. The
robbers car was still in sight, but the
policemen were unable to overtake it..
Burglars carried off the safe in the
Avenue, Bayside, Sunday night 1t con-
tanned the receipts of Saturdays bust
ness, but the manager of the store de-
cined to divulge the amount
Magistrate Frothingham, in West
Side Court yesterday. held Thomas
Scarne, twenty-one years old, Of ia
Grand Street, Maspeth, Queens, in
$4,000 bail for examination Thursday
on short affidavit charging suspicion
of grand larceny. The police charge
that Scarne had made a practice re-
Gently Of renting furnished rooms in
houses on the upper West Side as a
means of getting into rooms Of other
tenants and stealing their jewelry and
clothing
Two of the thefts Scarne is alleged
to have committed are that of $1,000
worth Of jewelry and clothing from the
rooms Of Henry Dress at II West
Ninety-frst Street, and that of $500
worth of jewelry from the rooms of
John Adams Davis, a lieutenant com
mander of the United States Navy, at
235 West Eighty y-seventh Street. Twelve
Jobs of this sort have been committed
in the last month