The New York herald., 1922-01-04
WOMAN HEADS LIST
IN DAY OF CRIMES
Posing as Maid She Is Charged
With RObbing Department
Stores of $4,000.

Mrs. Margaret E. Allemand, AZ. of $50
East Fifty-eighth street, who, the police
say. has stolen more than 5000 from
department stores since last June by
posing g the maid OF prominent women
who have accounts, was locked UP last
night in the West Forty-seventh street
station. charged with grand larceny.
Eugene Orth, a representative of Stern
Brothers. said that Mrs. Allemand went
to the store yesterday afternoon and
represented herself to be the maid of
Mrs. Frederick Pearson Of East Fifty
seventh street and got some linen and
other goods valued at $65. The suspi-
cions Of the sales girl were aroused and
she notified Mr.. Orth. who investigated
and notified the detectives.
The police said that Mrs. Allemand
had victimized half dozen stores and
that they had been searching for her for
several months. She posed at various
times, according to the police, as the
maid OF Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore. Mrs
e. II. Hartman, Mrs. Roland E. Harri-
man and Mrs. Oliver Iselin.
Three men entered the jewelry store
of John Nichthauser, on the third floor
OF Loew's new theater building, at 231
West Eighty-third street, soon after Z
o'clock last night, held up Nichthauser
and his friend, Jacob Krohl, of 1891 Six
ty-second street. Brooklyn, and escaped
with 500 diamond pin after they had
smashed the showcase.
One Of the men pulled out q revolver
and the other two produced blackjacks.
Krohl nade leap at the man with the
gun and was about to wrest 1t from him
when one Of the others knocked him to
the floor with a blackjack. The jeweler
ran after them and was Joined by a
crowd in Broadway, but the three men
soon disappeared amid the confusion.
Krohl was treated for a cut on the
head.
George Smith, garage owner, OF 373
Putnam avenue Brooklyn. was attacked
on his way to the railroad station in
Hampstead, l.. l.. last night after call
ing on his friend, William T. Hutchin-
son. and robbed of a diamond ring
valued at $2.500, a horseshoe pin with
fifteen diamonds. valued at $500; his
watch and 500 in cash. He was beaten
down with a blackjack and thrown into
the bushes at the roadside. The attack
took place two blocks from the station.
Smith said one of his assailants was a
negro.
A man charged with attempting to
enter the home OF Detective John Keyes
of Butler street station. Brooklyn. at 329
Clinton street was caught last night by
the detective after a chase over the roofs
of four houses He is Anthony Frebola.
10. ESQ President street, Brooklyn.
Keyes said he was at supper when he
heard a noise outside his apartment and
investigation disclosed man trying to
open a siylight He drew his revolver
and mounted to the roof. He fred twice
in the air before the man stopped In the
chase across the housetops. Frebola will
be arraigned to-day In Adams street
court.
The trial of Alric Westling, charged
with the murder of Carl Moller. n jew
eler of 1868 Nelson avenue, The Bronx.
was set for January IT by Justice Rich
ard II. Mitchell Of the Supreme Court
yesterday, In spite of the pleas of his
attorneys for time TO get proofs OF in
sanity In the family OF the defendant
Four armed bandits held up the Col
lege Cafe In Amsterdam avenue. be-
tween 139th and 1i0th streets, late last
night. backing the proprietor. Jacob
Herring. his bartender and two patrons
against a wall and taking $40 from the
cash register. They escaped In an auto
mobile TO broadway. where the police
lost the trail. The cafe is opposite the
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