New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-24
8 Girl Bandits
Ill Chic Attire
Aid Inn 2 S|,Jobs' y
"Gun MolIs'' Are Lookouts
for Trio Of Silk Shirt
Auto Thugs in Hold-Up
al Ninth Avenue Store
Cover Five With Pistols
Third Female Crook Helps
Two Men Rob Butcher
Shop; Put Victims i'm Box

Detectives still are searching to-day
for three alert girl bandits, described
rs good looking, youthful and modishly
dressed. who assisted their male COM
rades in two daring hold-ups early yes
terday morning. The girls gave every
indication of being hardened to their
work by experience and careful train
ing. Two of them worked with three
men on one hold-up and single girl
worked with two men on the other.
Both hold-ups were of stores, and went
through without hitch Several hum
dred dollars and some jewelry com
prised the loot.
The girl crooks, who are styled "gun
molls' in underworld lingo, were used
as stalls or lookouts for the men who
committed the crimes. The men are
described as being as fastidious in their
attire as were the girls. Expensive
touring cars were used in both rob-
oerles aa means of etfecting the "get-
away"
Three youthful male bandits wearing
straw mats, silk shirts and well-talored
suits allghted from an automobile yes
terday morning in front of the Re
liable Dry Goods Shop, els Ninth Ave
nue.. Two pretty girls who were riding
with the men remained near the car at
the curb, as it developed later, to main
tam a Lookout and give a signal in case
the police appeared.
julius Stotsky, who owns the store
and lives in an apartment on the floor
above, was just preparing to close
after busy Saturday night. In the
store with him was Mrs. Bessie Stot-
sky. his wife; Oscar Stotsky. his
brother, and Hyman Cohen, EMPLOYED
as clerks, and Henry Friedman, a Jew
eiry salesman and friend of the
Stotskys.
Mrs. Stotsky was at the cash register
counting the days receipts when the
men from the automobile, a big, seven
passenger touring car, entered. One
thrust revolver against Mrs. Stotsky's
side and told her to throw up her
hands. Stotsky and his friends rushed
forward, but encountered guns in the
b. nds of the other two highwaymen
who ordered them to put UP their
hands. They complied
The robbers first rihed the cash reg
lister of 5000 and then took like sum
from Friedman, together with a watch
ard chain. From Oscar Stotsky and
Lyman Cohen the robbers took $40
each. Julius Stotsky succeeded in saw
ing diamond ring valued at 81 800 by
slipping it from his finger and drop
ping it between the leaves of an ac-
ccupt book.
The hghwaymen then walked from
the store, Joined their girl confeder-
ates in the car, drove south in Ninth
Avenue to Forty-third Street and van
ished in the traffic of Tenth Avenue.
AS the car sped away the victims of
l,o alI ,ol 49,
crying an alarm and soon score oil
police whistles were blowing. Detec-
tives from the West Forty seventh
Street station were hurried to the
store and given q description of the
robbers.
The second hold-up was at the meat
market of James Matorsano, at 225
Hudson Street, where he was counting
the days receipts shortly before mid
night. With Matorsano was Frank
Turco, an employee, and Mrs. Mator-
sano, the owners wife.
Two men and girl, all we'll dressed,
entered the store from an automobile
which was left purring at the curb
The girl stationed herself at the street
entrance as a lookout and the men
held up the three in the market, back
ing them to an icebox,
AIleE DelnS searched Lney were
pushed into the refrigerator and the
door was closed hut not locked. The
robbers took S177 from the cash regis
ter and escaped.
Mrs. Matorsano began screaming as
she ran from the icebox with her hus-
band and Turco. Detectives from the
Beach Street station handled the case.
Five detectives of the Fifth Avenue
station in Brooklyn were working yes
terday on the case Of Policeman Arthur
Loewe. of the Fifth Avenue station,
Brooklyn, who was killed by John
Walsh, known as "Liverpool Jack" and
three other safe robbers. They re-
ported yesterday that "Liverpool
Jack" had contided nothing to his sis
ter, Mrs. Rose Ryan, of AZ Carlton
Avenue, in whose home be took refuge
and from where he was taken uncon-
scious to the Methodist Episcopal HISS
pital to die.
The detectives have been unable to
get any information, they say, that
would assist them in identifying the
three companions of liverpool Jack"
who had criminal record dating over
forty years in England and America.
The detectives have two .33-calber re-
vnvers dropped by the loft robbers and
a set of burglars tools, consisting of
a Jimmy" or crowbar, q steel punch
and a "single Jack" or heavy hammer.