New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-22
Gunner Taken
I'm Race After
Twin Hold-Ups
Patrol IN a II i'm Comman-
/, deered Car Re vers
Pay Roll Seized by 4 Men
Near Police Headquarters
Box Man Robbed i'm Door
Stunned by Blow and $552
Taken; 3 Bandits Escape
in Flight Over Roofs

The police expressed confidence last
night that information given them by
two of the four men who robbed Jacob
Laux of $5,170 at Broome Street and
Columbia Avenue yesterday would lead
to the early apprehension of their COM
panions. The two prisoners, in Jail in
Long Island City, were arrested within
half an hour after the hold-up.
Laux was robbed in the first of the
two holdups within a few blocks Of
police headquarters yesterday. In the
second Nathan Sakolsky, president of
the World Paper Box Company, was
robbed of $552.S0 in the doorway Of 1872
Grand Street. The three men who held
up Sakolsky made their escape and had
not been caught last night.
Show Guns and Crowbar
Laux, who is vice-presdent of the
Stutz company, which makes cigar
boxes at 285 Monroe Street, went to
the Corn Exchange Bank branch at
tenth Avenue and Avenue B at 2
o'clock and drew the money for his
weekly pay roll. Returning, four men
accosted him at Columbia Avenue and
Broome Street. Three of them showed
him revolvers and the fourth bran
dlshed crowbar. Laux handed over
the bag without a struggle, and the
four ran to big automobile which stood
at the curb and made a speedy get
away.
!, Laux wasted no time in reporting
the robbery at Clinton Street police
station. He was able to give a fair
description of the men and the number
and description Of the car in which
they escaped A general alarm was
sent out by Captain Hynes from the
police. telegraph bureau, and the call
mad just, reached Patroman Michael
New, Of the Greensboro Bridge station
Who was on post at tho Long Island
City end Of the bridge, when a car an
s"ering the description appeared
headed for Long Island City at ton
speed New Communicated a car be-
longing to George Asher, Of 241 Java
Street, Brooklyn, and with Asher driv-
ing, gave chase. Two detectives at
tached to the District Attorneys office
joined in.
Bandits Car Upsets
The chase was hot one, and shots
were exchanged, but without any
I damage being done. The bandit car
turned down Crescent Street, Long ISL
and City. At tho corner Of Mott Ave
nue. the first automobile struck a sewer
pipe ana was overturned.
The four gunner, uninjured, con-
tinued their fight on foot, carrying
the money bag, and New and Asher ran
their men to earth, while the other
two managed to get away. The money
was intact
AT the Hunters Point police station
the men said they were Harry Cohen,
twenty-seven years old, of 342 East
Seventy-fourth Street, Manhattan, and
Harry Walker, twenty-five years old,
who said he had no permanent address.
but that his mother lived at 1877 Ross
street, Brooklyn. They confessed to
their share Of the hold-up, and the
police of Queens began a general search
for the other two
Sakolsky, the victim of the second
hold-up, had drawn S562.90 from the
Chatham & Phenix Bank branch mt
H ora Street and the Bowery. Near
l82 Grand Street man STONED him
and asked him for a match. Az
Sakolsky halted, he was grabbed from
behind by two others, who hustled him
INTO the doorway and snatched his bag.
one OF the trio hit him on the head.
ana he was temporarily stunned, but
recovered in time to see his asaiiants
making their escape by way of the
stairs. He gave chase, but lost his
quarry on the roof, the three MAKING
their escape by wa Of a building on
Mulberry Street.