New Britain herald., 1923-12-04
CRIME WAVE ROLLS
 OVER GOTHAM AGAIN
Today's Hold-UpS Net Two Rich
 HaulS, One Arrest

New York, Dec. f. - Holdup men tan. Two jobs netted rich hauls but a third, attempted by an amateur, re- suited in his capture.
 Six patrons and the proprietor of a Division street restaurant were lined faces against the wall and their pockets emptied by three masked men. The loot in money and jewels amounted to several thousand dollars
 Feigning illness. white-faced youth entered an all-night drug store uptown, and while the druggist and his assistant ministered to him he kicked them to the floor, bound and gagged them. took their iewelry and emptied the cash register.
 Captured By Taxi Man
 Ludlow Schirmer lost at cards, he told the police. then dreamed that he would get lots of money by holding mp somebody. He tried taxicab driver and pointed a gun in his face. As the chauffeur raised his hands he knocked the gun down, dumped Schirmer into the cab and drove to police station.
 Crooks Tn New Drive
 News York's crime wave, which has ebbed and flowed for a month, yes terday assumed more menacing pro- portions soon after the police an nouncement that criminal activities had subsided to such an extent that there was no longer need of extra ordinary precautions.
 Today's activities included four safe robberies an attempted lynching, a daylight holdup, street shooting, the suicide of an aged man weary of life, the frustrated suicide of an elderly man who had lost all his money in bad investments, the arrest of three gBngsters charged with the theft of S 5000 worth of whskey and the seizure of 5000 cases of Canadian beer, consigned to a Broadway hotel.
 Meanwhile, two judges appealed to new grand iuries to cooperate with courts and the police in the speedy administration in criminal cases.
 Two Daring Robberies
 Two of four safe robberies which paid the yeggmen something over S2d,0oo were particularly daring One of the city's busiest spots. the Penn sylvania railroad terminal. thronged throughout the day and night was the scene of one. Thieves ripped off 8 safe door in the office Of the Union News company and made off with ss,s0o
 Equally daring was safe robbery on n busy Bronx corner Three un- masked armed men walked into the apartment of Max kraysler, a ieweler, bound and gagged n maid, drilled the safe and made off with ss.0oo in cur rency and several hundred dollars in gold.
 sf0.000 Jewelry Raid
 Jewelry worth more than sio,0oo was taken in a raid on the safe of R. R. fogel, lower Broadway ieweler. The safe crackers entered the place by cutting hole in the floor above.
 Early today cracksmen opened the safe Of the William Bauman depart nent store in the Bronx and took | S5.000 in Saturdays receipts.
 X mob of 900 attempted to lynch | Edward Edmond. negro street clean IF when 2 policeman captured him on | ! Brooklyn street after he had struck | Town a fellow street cleaner, Philip | German. who later died. The police nan kept the menscing crowd from | his prisoner with a drawn gun. A police riot squad effected the rescue. '
 Falls six Stories
 Isaac Black, 65, in ill health. walk sd off the roof Of his Brooklyn apart ncnt and was killed in the six floor 'all. George W. Cochran, also of Brooklyn, was half dead or gas as-