The New York herald., 1922-04-20
SHOP Off BROADWAY
LOOTED, SAFE RIPPED
Easter Burglars Dig Their
Way Through Three
Foot Wall.
WORK NEAR WALDORF
$4,000 Is Taken From a
$4,000 Is Taken From a
Strong Box in Brightly
Lighted Store.
THREE HELD FOR JOB
Four Armed Men Caught in
Motor Near Home of Rod
man Wanamaker.

Two more robberies in the heart of
the heavily policed and well lighted
part Of Manhattan took place early
Easter Sunday morning when burglars
broke into store near Broadway and
Forty sixth street and at about the
same hour drilled open a safe on
the street floor of millinery estab-
lshment opposite the Waldorf Astoria
in West Thirty tfirJ street.
/. Miller & Son operate retail shoe
store in 1854 Broadway, one door from
West Forty sixth street. A large cell
lar is used to store surplus stock and
adjoining is room used by a drug
store>for storage and mixing Of syrups.
brick wall three feet thick separates
the building next door on the uptown
eide. which Is 1866 Broadway. The bur-
glars entered the building next door,
which is occupied by offices. and drilled
They got into the drug store cellar
through this hole. ripped up two planks
and entered the storeroom, which was
we'll filled with shoes. The robbers then
jimmied their way into the store. Elec.
trio lights were burning In the win
dows. center and rear of the place. but
the thieves broke open the cash register
and took $500 in cash. The days re-
ceipts had been deposited In a night
tank. Returning to the storeroom they
removed fifty pairs OF shoes through
the broken plank and brick walls.
Stores Now C,uarded
I. Miller & Son own another store at
Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth street.
Both places are novc we'll guarded.
Goodman & Nicholson. milliners at 1e
West Thirty-third street. locked up late
Easter Saturday night and placed the
days receipts. amounting to 5000 in
cash. in a safe at the rear of the store.
Sunday noon Mr.. Goodman discovered
the safe had been drilled and the 5000
taken. Investigation indicated an In
side job. as the front door had been
opened with a pass key. The place was
lighted all night.
According to member OF the firm
three men have been arrested. includ-
the burglars had been caught In Pitts
hurgh. Five were involved in the bur.
gary.
Directly In front Of the home OF Rod.
man Wanamaker at Fifth avenue and
Washington square four men In az
automobile were arrested early yestcr-
day by detectives. They said they
wanted to see Greenwich Village and
three loaded revolvers were found on
them. They said they we're Andrew
Cervasio. Joseph Hamilton. Frank
Ereese and John Palamara, all Of Port
Chester. They were held for violating
the Sullivan Law.
Held I'm S25.OOO Bail.
Fred Lajoie. IS. charged with robbins
the butcher shop of Leopold Treund In
East 134th street yesterday morning,
was held in $4,000 bail by Magistrate
Harris in Morrisania Court. He was
caught. gun in hand. when about to rot
the ticket agent in tho Brook avenue
station of the subway, say policemen
who made the arrest.
Tessie Iichenstein. TO- was beaten by
two negroes who entered her house In
% Lasalle street and demanded money
When she said she lad none they
knocked her down. At the Knicker-
booker Hospital twenty stitches were
taken In her scalp
Three negroes and two white men
were arraigned before Magistrate Ober-
wager in jefferson Market Court yes
terday and held for the Grand Jury in
connection with the robbery of the
Summit Dress Company on April 8.
Police say they committed numerous
robberies.
In Brooklyn the police arrested four
young men in a. motorcar on suspicion
they we're about to commit a crime.
They we're held for carrying weapons