The New York herald., 1922-01-30
SEIZED FOR HOLDUP
IN MILITARY STYLE
Attention! Cues Down! Hands
Up: Is Order and II Men
in POolroom Obey.

man with a revolver in his hand
walked into the pooiroom at 665 Wash
ington street last might and startled
the proprietor. Limo Marino OF 3s
Catherine street. and ten men who were
playing pool. by yelling Attention." in
brusque, military manner. Every one
turned and looked at him, ard then he
gave this commands
Cues down! Hands up,'
Every one in the place dropped his
cue and elevated his hands.
To the rear! March 20 shouted the
man. and the pool players and Marino
turned and marched to the rear of the
room, where they stopped facing the
wall. Then the man with the gun went
to the cash register. opened 1t and took
IS from the drawer.
Il am going out now," he said, "but
I'll leave man on guard and he will
XIII anybody who tries to follow me. At
rest o.
Several men who had been in the
army understood by this command thai
they could talk but could not move so
they talked. but it was five minutes be-
FORE they started after the man. Thea
they went in body to the Charles
street station. arriving there just as
Patrolmen Waters and Connolly were
bringing in John Murphy of 81 Bedford
street. charged with holding up Lucio
Benedetto. a chauffeur of 242 East
Forty-sixth street. and robbing him
of s12.
Marino and the pool players identified
Murphy as the man who had held up the
poolroom. and another charge Of rob-
berry was made against him. Benedetto
nnf1Oa ha 1xx, ,,x
through Perry street when Murphy
jumped on his running board poxed a
revolver against his stomach and robbed
him Of the s12.
Miss Elsie B. Brown of 115 West
104th street was walking in Broadway
near the Strand Theater last night when
she felt tug at her arm, and looking
down saw that her handbag containing a
gold pencil and $40 was gone. A woman
told the police that two young men
had run toward Forty-eighth street. but
no trace could be found of them.
Vangie Walker, a negro, who said
he had no home and no job, was ar
rested last night after chase through
the concourse of the Hudson Terminal,
and locked up in the Old Slip police sta
tion on a charge of snatching the hand
bag of Miss Ruth NJ. Smalley of 102
Washington avenue, North Dunellen,
N. J. Miss Smalley told the police that
she was just entering the terminal when
the negro snatched her bag. She
screamed and a crowd chased. caught
and held the man until Patrolman Kelly
put him under arrest
Some one from the Century Theater,
at Sixty-first street and Central Park
West, telephoned to the West Forty
seventh street police station last night
that information had been received that
thieves would try to hold up the thea
ter's box office some time during the
night. That was at 7 o'clock. and Ave
patrolmen in plain clothes were sent
at once to the theater. They were still
waiting at midnight for the holdup to
occur, and have not been able TO trace
the source of the rumor. At the Gen.
tury Theater one of the managers de-
MED any knowledge of 1t.
The police OF the Ralph avenue sta
ton last night said that when Detec-
tives Cavanaugh and O'Rourke arrested
Charles J. Kellar Saturday night at
Reid avenue and Halsey street. Brook
Ign, they caught the golden haired
burglar who has committed many rob-
berries recently in the Stuyvesant sec
ton Of Brooklyn. The police have been
searching for some time for a burglar
with golden hair. and arrested Kellar
when they saw him combing his bright
locks in front of n store window. The
detectives say he has confessed to sew
eral burglaries. and had twenty pawn
tickets for stolen jewelry.