The New York herald., 1922-09-20
RESTAURANT HOLDUP.
MEN ROB ACTRESS.
Steal $500 Bracelet From
Miss Bessie Flaherty in
East 9th Street.
GET AWAY In MOTOR
Hotel Guest Tells of Queer
Actions of Thieves Who
Pull Gun on Him.
HOMES YIELD $4,000
Furnishings WantOnly De-
strOyed in Two Houses in
East 10Th Street.
HOMES YIELD $4,000

Miss Bessie F'laherty of Manhattan
Beach, an actress, drove up to the
White House Restaurant, on the sec
ond floor os 1874 East Eighty-seventh
street. last night in a seven passenger
automobile. and with another woman
who was i'm the back seat, went up
stairs and into the restaurant. They
seated themselves, but had not had time
TO order anything to eat when the door
opened and two men came in. At that
time there was no one in the place
but the two women, the manager,
Rudolph Schangi a musician, Henry
Margata, who sat at a table playing a
zithcr, and German waiter
The two men, young, and both wear
ing caps drawn down over their eyes,
walked into the room and ordered
everybody in it to hold up their hands.
other went up to Miss Flaherty and
asked her:
Are you the woman who owns that
automohile?"
Thief Scorns Woman's Purse.
| She said that she was, and he ordered
her GO give him her purse which she did.
He looked through ii and gave 1t back
and then took from her arm a bracelet
which she told the police afterward was
set with seventy-five diamonds and was
worth $4,000. From Schang, Margata
and the waiter the thieves took 500 in
cash and watch worth about Sc.
Then they opened the door and ran
down the stairs. going west toward Lex
! ineton avenue and vanishing.
| The women and Schang opened the
windows of the restaurant and shouted
for the police, attracting the attention OF
patrolman on duty at "A polling place.
He ran into the restaurant, but by that
time the bandits had gone. Detectives
were summoned from the East 1O4th
! street police station. under command of
Detective William Quain, and Miss
flaherty Went with them i'm an effort to
find the bapdits.
\ The license number Of the automobile
In which the two women came to the
restaurant is 6774t6 y. ", which the
police say Is listed as belonging to
George Frankel Of 1909 Avenue c,
4 Brooklyn.
Attempted Robbery Denied.
| William Smith, an assistant manager
or the Hotel Commodore. was standing
at the cashiers desk last night when
two men walked close to him. One was
Byron Johnson. who had engaged room
1851 earlier In the day. AS they passed
Johnson reached back and handed Smith
note which read can the police !;
/ robbery 80
Smith immediately summoned House
/ Detective Dunn. who arrested the man
with Johnson. This man said he was
T Charles +. Williams OF Louisville. Ac-
cording TO Johnson's story Williams and
another man Knocked at his door.
pointed pistol at him and demanded
money but agreed to his suggestion that
they go downstairs and talk ii over. On
the way down. he said. he wrote the
note which he handed to Smith
The second man was not with John
son and Williams. and Johnson said he
did not notice what had become of him
Williams told the detectives that he had
known Johnson for more than year
| and had called to borrow some money
from him. He said he made no at
tempt at robbery. lie was kent under
arrest, though, and sent to the Ea st
Fifty-frst street station.
Thieves Are DcstructIve.
Household furnishings and personal
effects worth thousands were destroyed
by thieves who some time last week
entered the home OF leo Nunes a
broker. at 81 East Seventy-ninth street.
and later battered their way through a
brick wall 70 the adjoining home of
Siegfried Seligman an importer. at 50
East Seventy-ninth street. The families
of both were away for the summer.
Clothing. iewelry and silverware worth
/ 100000 were stolen ana the destruction
! In the two houses probably VIII more
than equal tina. amount.
Rare liquors. silverware aud other
valuables were stolen last Saturday or
Sunday from the ground floor apartment
OF Walter S. Reed. vice president of the
ore Reclamation Company. at 429 West
End avenue, II also became known. The
robbery was discovered on Sunday
morning by a hall boy, who found the
| apartment ransacked and In complete
\ disorder.
The Nunes home was ransacked
| throughout It's four floors. the thieves
systematically destroying almost every
thing they could no. carry away. Paint
ings were slashed and left hanging ~
\ their frames. furniture was smashed.
bureau drawers and cabne were
ilmmied. clothing was wadded up and
I thrown into corners or trampled. Over
coats. silks. satins. and furs worth hum
dreds OF dollars are missing along with
every scrap OF ieNelry or silverwate
left in the place.
In the third floor sitting room OF the
Nunes home hole was smashed
through the brick partition into the
Sellgman house. bricks and mortar be.
ing added TO the general debris.
In the Seligman house the destruction
exceeded, Aif anything, that In the Nunes
home. All of the iewelry and silver
plate were missing together with such
laces. lingerie and other valuable cloth
ing al had escaped being torn UP or
trampicd. Cigarette stubs were
scattered about the house IN such
careless way that the police cannot
understand why the building did not
Il take fire.
NIr and Mrs get l hei siS year
old son hnf md avenue
Y i aartnert ~ Glove.
land. havns tet we ~ ity ca'iier
/ u the week ID. W Il -. smmer home