The New York herald., 1922-03-20
lunch Room Cashier Re-
FUSED to Open Register; As
4 sailant Flees in Subway.
h OTHER HOLDUPs IN DAY
.Blackjacking and Stabbing
/ Resorted To-Nine Loiter-
| ers Arrested in Village.

street, taxicab chauffeur, entered the
Morrisania police station last night
and told detectives there that he had
5ust been held up and robbed of his
cab and $1i in cash by young
woman who pointed a revolver at Kim
and threatened TO kill him if he made
ANY noss
woman, he said, and she had a man
with her. but he took no part in the
robbery save to stand by with gun
and watch with an approving type the
work or his companion.
Trainer said that his cab was hailed
On the Wins avenue bridge in The
Bronx by the man and the woman. They
got in. he said and told him to drive to
Walton avenue and 164th street, The
Bronx. which is lonely and compara-
lively deserted section. He went there
ard the man hnd woman got out of the
cab Trance said when he turned 10
look at the >aetcr to see the fare he
heard tie wt5aan tell him to hold UP his
hands.
II thought she was joking. he said.
'Tbut soon found out she wasn't when
saw she had a gun. ] saw the man
had gun also. so I raised my hands
and the woman went through my
pockets, taking $11 from me. Then she
told me to beat 1t, and beat it quick"
Gould you describe herr" detective
asked.
Sure, eaid Trainer "Shc was a
beauty
The woman and her companion went
away in the taxicab.
Eight Other HoIdups.
Tho early hours yesterday produced a
series of eight holdups. in one OF which
a man was shot because he refused to
surrender the contents of a restaurant
cash register Two men were black
lacked one was stabbed, two were held
up hut not robbed because the robbers
we've frightened and two were robbed
WITHOUT suffering anything more than
eh< loss OF money.
Detectives enlivened the hours near
dawn in Greenwich Village by searching
streets and alleys for providers. Nine
were arrested and held for this morn
ing's lineup at Headquarters.
William Roettigcr. 81. Of 621 Ninth
avenue, asher in the Commodore
Lunchroom at 14S East Forty-second
street. had congratulated himself on the
dmprobability OF being held up in. that
storo because of its location in the heart
OF the hotel district. He saw a young
customer early yesterday served with
coffee. He looked UP a moment later to
find the muzzlc OF pistol sticking
through the opening in his cage.
Give me all the money YOU got
There" the gun carrier demanded.
Roettiger refused and was about to
call the waiter when the robber fired at
him. The bullet entered Roettiger's alb
domen.
Escapes In Subway.
while Roettiger was dragging himself
along the floor to the door and the
waiter was looking for a club the rob-
her ran down a subway entrance 100
1eet away and disappeared. Detectives
and patrolmen searched for him In the
maze OF underground passages. For
more than an hour every entrance and
exit In the vicinity was under guard
Trains In the shuttle service and on the
Lexington avenue line were searched
hut Roettiger's assailsnt was not found
Roettiger was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital 1t was said last night that his
condition was still critical.
Bandits waylaid Thomas Donohue. 81
a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital as he
descended the stairs from the Second
avenue IL" station at the southwest
corner Of Twenty-third street Wit
nesses saw Donohue attacked by two
men. who beat him with blackjacks and
then emptied his pockets taking s55.
Harry Green, 20, Of 1916 Seventieth
street, Brooklyn, was held without bail
for examination Wednesday when he
was arraigned in Yorkvile Court yester-
day on a charge of assaulting and rob-
bing Harry Groves of 327 East Thirty
fifth street Groves n taxicab chauf-
feur. said Green and two other men
hired his cab at Tenth avenue and Sec.
ond street and had him take them TO
Avenue A and Nineteenth street. There
he was robbed of S47
While returning home from a marty
early In the morning George Bauer. 22.
OF 516 West 1ssth street. was stabbed
In tho abdomen and left lying on the
Broadway subway station at i25th
street. The man was taken to Knicker-
booker Hospital.
Held for Police Attack.
-Four men alleged to have taken part
IN The attempt TO hold up Patrolman
Henry J. Seibei of the West sixty
eighth street police station in Central
IArh SATURDAY night were held In
$4,000 bail each yesterday when ar
raigned in West Side Court. They de-
scribed themselves as John Macdonald
~. Of 241 West Twenty-eccond street !:
John Kelly, 20. or 1918 First avenue !;
John Gremer 81. OF 1904 Third avenue.
and David Goldberg. 20. OF 393 uewos
street. Brooklyn. A fifth man, Newton
sutton. -. Of 1855 Third avenue who
was shot by Seibel. was in serioue con-
dition last night in Roosevelt Hospital
Ten thousand dollars bail was de-
manded In West Side Court yesterday
for the release OF Fred Fredericis. 25
of sos West Forty-ninth street, who was
arrested charged with holding up Aaolph
Towser chauffeur of 1857 st. Marks
avenue. Brooklyn. Yowser said he was
robbed of SIS at Eighth avenue and
Forty-nnth street just before daylight.
Edward Perlmutter of 307 East
Sovcnty-seventh street. was beaten and
robbed just before dawn In front Of his
home. lie lost $40. John Dunn. 20. OF
s2c East Torticth street, and John Ger
man, a. Of 422 West Forteth street.
were locked IN charged with the rob
berry.