The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 3

ICK CANFIELD'S x DRUGGIST SLAIN OLD DOORS BLOCK | IN A MYSTERIOUS “WAY OF FIREMEN Barriers in Former Gambling House Battered Down to Reach Blaze, , NO ONE IN BUILDING. } t Blaze Starting in Basement Had Reached Roof When Discovered. The four-story brownstone building formerly occupied by Richard Can- field at No. 5 East 44th Street, two doors from Detmonico's, was wrecked by fire at 5.30 A. M. to-day. Charies MANNER I HOE Israel Turk Is\ Shot in the Abdomen on Entering the Bathroom. DIES IN THE HOSPITAL. His Screams Awaken Wife and Three Children— Assailant Escapes. Israel Turk, thirty-two years old, owner of a drug store at No. %59 East Broadway, was shot to death by a man he encountered in his bathroom On arriving at his apart- ment at No. 271 East Broadway E. Brickley, the former football star,! early to-day. His slayer escaped. who had recently taken over the first Detectives said fey learned that two floors for his fashionable citents, |TUrk had an engagement with a lost aM the rich mahogany and other office furnishings he had installed, a Chartes E. Brickley & Co, members | yp his store. et the New York Stock Hxchange. | bath brother-in-law to go to a Turkish WAst night but changed his mind and went home after closing The slayer, who it is | believed, may have known of the en- The flames apparently started in| sagement, hid in the bathroom when the basement and were stopped by |TUrk arrived unexpectedly. firemen at the third floor. But be- cause No, 5 and No, 7 formerly had | a dual heating system an old flue st!!! extended from the first floor of the two buildings, and ‘the fire worked ite way tailoring establishment into Iverson & Heneage's in No % Turk undressed and as he stepped into the bathroom he was shot. It is believed the slayer went through the bathroom window and escaped by the 's wife, Clara, told the police she prepared and left a late meal | for Turk, and then retired with their three children and a niece. The last where it destroyed about $5,000 worth | sho saw of Turk, she declared, he was of newly made suits. The damage in | the former Canfield stronghold estimated at $50,000. Tt was ruined by axe and water, originally costing veral hundred thousand dollars. | When the firemen under Deputy | Chiet George Ross arrived they were barred by the brass-reinforced door that the then| District Attorney Jerome found years was ago. The department “battering| ram,” operated by five men, was in- effec and the firemen had to break the lock. Going up the marble stairs, they were stopped by a similar door on | screaming | three shots. sitting in his underwear, reading. Mrs, Turk said she was awakened about 2 o'clock by her husband Neighbors heard two or Policeman O'Brien ran ig the apartment and found Turk ly- ing on a couch, wounded in the ab- massive mahogany, | domen Turk told the policeman he did not know who shot him nor why, He said his assailant appeared to be be- tween twenty-five and thirty years old, w small and stocky and wore a derby hat Turk was in too great pain to be questioned further. He was treated the second floor, which they also had| by Dr. Paul Tower, who lives in the to wreak. Except for the movable is said the interior was as .Canfield| left it. The mahogany walls and } carved ceilings, intnid with mother-of- pearl and bristling with beautiful andeliers, were destroyed. One of the ceilings is said to have cost Ca Lield $100,000. One of the smailer rooms was dec- erated in bird’s-cye métple, and al the stairs except marble fight) furniture, It | rame house, and was later sent to Gouverneur Hospital, where he died 3 o'clock. One report was that Turk's wallét had ben stelen, but the police also considefed a theory that he had been at | Filled for revenge or another motive than robbery. ays in the searched, but ‘The yards and hall- neighborhood were without result, One | puzzling feature was that Mrs, Turk told the police that she gid not hear 1s, though they were heard were mahogany. The second floor ; the aa alinost us ornate as the @rst.| >y neighbors and by Policeman "The third and fourth floors also were | O n . elaborately furnished and were being} Mrs. Mollie Gluckman of, No. 257 converted into apartments, There | Henry Street, the yard of which ten- was a large quantity of stuff stored |ement adjoins that of the building in the ghat appeared to haye been an old! usement, and firemen found | where Turk was slain, told the police awakened shortly after 2 velit in the basement Wall, or it may | o'clock by the movements of a man have been « wine cellar, For nin up the closed. ye rs after Canfield gave | gambling palace it remained nishings that could be removed, were A rest but a hoodoo seemed to et to the building and it did not suc ceed, The Brickley firm had been | n its offices only a week or two, There was no one in the building sold. there last night. A Jarge crowd from Fifth) B Avenue and cross streets gathered to watch the fire. Guests at the Ilus- trators'-ball at Delmonico’s missed a final thrill to their festivities, as the last had just goue when Policeman Kerrigan saw smoke coming from the fourth-story windows and gent in an alarm, JUG OF MYSTERY HAS MANY KICKS May Hold Anything From Ink to Liquid Blue, but Its Owner Is Arrested. brave ered to allon jug 8 and thirsty sample the sized by Although have s of a ten many vonte poticeman in the custody of Herman jonas yestemiay, the identity of snid contents mains dark mystery. Jonas was held in bail ‘by United tates Commilesioner Hitchcock to-day. Thus far Jonas has said that the jug contains ink, grape juice, root cider, kerosene, heir oll, water from the River Jordan, paint, liquid air, soda water, ginger ale, dyed milk, prune Juic# wasling comMund, shoe polish, “giv and kickless wine. He was taking the Jug and its contents to his home at No. Intervale Avenue, the Bronx, | a taxicab when a policeman stopped ®im and arrested him at Bighty-sixth Street and First Avenue ye ternoon, 5055 > beer, | erday af-| His paintings, and other fur- | deserip | Str | puny to lien |details of the much-discussed ‘$269,000 \PAY TIME ON PASTOR'S CASH.| Now Broke, . Mal- Malden, Ma Conteanes Archie B. Youth Forgery. Holmes, nin don, Masa., who pined tos York, forged the name of the Rey. Henry Grane, Baptist minister of Malden. a $250 check on Jan. 18, cashed it, ca here, and for ten days had the tin his life of ow to S 'This morning he walked Into the Haat Phiat Street Station waed the for gery. said he wa nd ready to ‘take his medicin Iden authori tie satd over tho phone that Holmes Waa wanted there and Magistrate Mut Tee held him without bail until Tues- gay, pending extradition, a EEE cnc = in the hallway outside her door, The man fled, she said, when she opened the door. He d the meagre given by Turk of his Gluckman said he re- man who has been seen wer Me urant was then opened | sembled a slayer prowling about the neighborhood, It ig believed that after killing Turk he xd by going through the Henry pt house, aca —<s ETHLEHEM CO. ACCEPTS NEW AUDIT Grace Says Plan Proposed by Per- ley Morse Is Agreeable—Ben- son Also * Willing. The offer of Perley Morse & Com- dit the books of the Beth- im Shipbuilding Corporation to get Sehwab voucher” was declared go-day to be acceptable both to E. “Gd. Nirge president of Bethlehem, and to Admiral W. S. Benson, Chairman of the United States Shipping Board. Mr, Grace said the Bethtehem books always had been open tb accountants of the Shipping Board or to any other ac- countants whom the Board might de sire to employ. Regarding the item» in the company's bills against the Ship- E EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1971.” asily Defies Power of Five Men to Lift, Her Till Miss Abbott’s Own Committee Shows Them How, and Challenge to Further Tests Is Declined. By Grace Nicholas. Miss Annie Abbott, the “Georgia Magnet,” whose occult gymnastic powers were challenged by. Leon Lansberg, “expert on witchcraft and the black arts,” met her challenger in The Evening World office last night, to perform rival demonstra- tions, ' \ The demonstrations were given by Miss Abbott in person and by me as Mr. Lansberg’s subject. Mr, Lans- berg's explanation of the “Magnet’s” penfdrmance, given in my previous article, was attacked as hot scien tifle in a letter from Miss Abibott’s manager, John J, Collins, “skeptics who have witnessed tests of this marvellous human phe- nomenon are convinced that those tests form one of the most remark- able and inexplicable sabjects ever delved in by the, scientific world,” wrote Mr. Collins, requesting that Miss Abbott be allowed to stage a demonstration of feats which any. subject chosen by Mr. Lansberg would fail to duplicate, Miss Abbott appeared accompanied by Mr, Collins, Frederic Melville and Arthur Willi alone. TEST ae 44 DUPLICATED ON ST TRIAL, Miss Abbott, who gave her weight as 112 pounds—and who has urine more muscular than might be expect~ ed for so petite a person—announced she would resist the combined eitorts of five men to lift her. Five men were selected. Threegof them put their hands under her el- bows. ‘The other two men, standing in front of her, each put one hand under the nearest elbow and with the free hand grasped Miss Abbott's hand on the,corresponding side, 4) don't step on my fee pleaded Miss Abbott, as the five men tried to lift her. Miss Abbott's elbows began to wob- ble. Gradually the elbows began to swing outward and upward. Mean- while, the "human phenomen6h" kept Up a running fire of rapid talk. “Keep, your arms down—you can't lift—you must hold your arms down—get down as low as you can.” By main strength the men might have raised her elbows until they met above her head, but they could not have lifted her.’ They did not go #0 far, however, but only satisfied them- selves that she could not be lifted by that method. Mr. Lansberg then directed me to perform a similar test, The same five men tried to lift me, with the same result, ‘Oncé more the hard working five men tried to lift “the Magnet," while I watched her limbs to make sure she did not move them, Again they failed to lift her, for the same reason they failed before. ELBOWS PINIONED TO SIDES, LIFTING WAS EASY. “1 think my committee should be allowed to try to lift you—I do not know who these men are, Miss Abbot said, and | agreed Mr. Collins and the other two men accompanying he Magne ‘by two volunteers, te ‘Two of her committee’ selves in front of me, Mr. Collins and Mr. WIIM took the position in which each would hold one of my bands. Mr. Melville stood Mr. Lansberg came | The TRICK as PERFORMED by Miss ABBOTT. SSS Physical Phenomena of ‘‘Georgia Magnet”’ Evening World Woman Writer Duplicates + ti FEAT OUPLICATED Miss NICHOLAS REFUSEO by off Di delectable portions, were in the Federal Court before Judge A. N. select audienge. Puceii and Vincent Rose, Caruso and Al Jolson, violin, trumpet, pian and phonograph—two phoigraphs say nothing of snatches from arias of fourteenth century meister- century lawyers, were brought Hlay to help the Judge whether there 1s much, if any, differ- into “La Tosca” and Rose's “Avalon” from “Sinbad.” And Judge Hand, who said he h permit the Remick Company to pu Ap $25,000 pending the trutl of a dam marred somewhat by a seeming di Grand opera and jazz, both served in 1 rict Hand and a 10 the | singers and the oratorios of twentieth determine ence to sing of, so to speak, between Puccini's E Lucevaue La Stelle from a) Pu PHOTAS. by EVENING WORLDL GTAP? emarEnTIDOES jthat gone his way ba with Then p and ter t a looki anyt chan the | Heir Signor Phonograph while Signor J Graphophon wh ‘em uted in. major keys and minor keys and violin, the trumpet 1 the piano, all the while the au- dience patting its feet and the spirits of the Judges In the gilt framed boxes Judge who had never heard Judge cout James Duane, ms MESTEROAY.. name, probably and Caruso sang Signora ‘Rize rmine the had in three-qu empo on the Ng intensely hing like it up to appreciatively Signor Laskle ted that ‘uecini score, in ¥ that jazz (x grand. to British ONE IS OPERA, OTHER JAZZ, BUT TO THE COURT “AVALON” AND “LA TOSCA” SOUND ALIKE So Judge Enjoins Remicks From Issuing Song} Al Jolson Sings and Then Ties String to Injunction to Get Another Concert. in r place that hasn't that w intere: 1 hi ht ni had no copyright becaus Throne Canada he was ith Sig ‘olson s0 » fo t's wh both four-qui smi 8 ven if Rose had taken he dent only his own honest opinion and his | fortissimocd, the thome of his song! justice Ford own ears to go by, decided he couldn’t| had been taken from an old melster- a tell the gitference singer of the fourteenth century, So] The Papers also awe that processes Therefore, he issued an injunction | the ebullition of the old meintersinger| Pe Issued compelling tho attendance nt restraining Joseph H. Remick & Co.| was played, and then the Judge de-| the ‘new trial of Supreme Court Justice from publishing, distributing, singing | clded he'd call a concert of opinion,| O'Malley, Judge McIntyre of General vr causing to be sung the song “Ava-| which he did, detlaring he had to put ona, Assiotant Dintrict At : jon” for money, which, it aime) his judgment above that of experts several detectives and anown presently, the petitioners, G.| ana grant the injunction because he| /Mportant witnesses. Bait waa ici) Ricord & Co, owners of ‘the | thought the two “tremendously siml-| i Nevomier, 1816 and Cohen was ¢ eeagea copyright, of Milan and lor.” picid Ot S SE SERS ork, will soon be seeking. However.) And, though nobody will claim that Judge Hand followed his decision | grand’ opera is Jazz, a lov of people| RAIL WORKERS COMBINE. with the announcement that he would PRINCE OF WALES age sult and allew it to proceed with Men Form Atlantic District. the publication and sale of the sung. |" "4 : An amalgamation was effected to- It waa quite the most enjoyable} “JESTER” OF COURT |aay, at a meeting at the Hotel Al afternoon the Federal Buyding has | Sax cazar, of the w England and Mid for many @ day, thongh it was die Atlantic Districts of the United oratorio Startles by FIREBUG OF 1 PLEADS GUILTY GETS 5 YEAR Fires Set In and Near Union- town, Pa., Caused $750,- 000 Damage. UNIONTOWN, P Smith, the nineteen- wealthy real estate owner of Fair- hope, Pa. to-day pleaded guilty in Criminal Court here to thirteen charges of arson, and was sentenced to serve not less than forty-two or more than eighty-five years in the Western Penitentiary at Pittsburgh, Smith was arrested several weeks ago after the entire country side had been aroused by series &f incendiary \fires which cause damage estimated at no less than three-quarters of a | million dollars, It was stated by the authorities that he had made a com- plete confession and sobn afterward (that the confession had been repudi- {ated to-day. However, he appeared lin court and entered the pleas. of guilty, six of them being to charges of felonious arson. The incendiar’ which con tinued over a period of three months, not only destroyed farm property and houses in a number of villages, but so valuable schoolhouses. Not all of the fires were charged to Smith. > MOVE TO SAVE BAFF SLAYER. New Trial Plea Miled by Joneph Cohen's Counsel, Jeon J. Goldstyin, attorney for Joseph Cohen, who 1s in the Sing Sing th house wwaiting execution for the murder of Barnet Baff, the poultry merchant, filed in the Supreme Court to-day an order to show cause why a new trial should not be granted .o Cohen. The order tx signed by Supreme Court Justice Waservogel, and will be argued Monday before Supreme Court J n, 29.—Albert ar-old son of a fires, or on nor ang the hat. re- are led ed, he Maintainance of Way and Shop| e e r trotherhood of Maintenance of Way ping Board, Mr. Grace said the Bourd| penind me. Retecmant herween tie oraibrid wpe : none Broth ; had at all times maintained a force of] Mr, Collins placed the palm of his a Palace With Magician’s ‘Art, and Railroad Shop Laborers r auditors at all the principal Bethiehem| right hand under my left elbow and |""Signor Nathan Burkan, tenor, and Savs ‘Tourist combined districts hereafter will b offices, and these items had been sv-|srasped my loft, band with’ his Net) signor Leon Laskie, baritone. both [ ( . Known aa the Atlantic District, Ite lected by the Board auditors them- fame si He narply thrust my elbow ltrained in the Blackstone conversa-| award Prince of Wales, is ater| membership numbers 175,000 of the | selves eee he pushed my hand backwards |‘0rY of song, seemed to be at odds}, ry shion, the jester of Buckingham | 100,000 bere of the Bropasrhood. | ‘i ime Mt ¥ over the rendition of the scores, de eile ¥ Milleran, of the Admiral Benson, in a statement inland away from my body, making the |Over the rendilion of the, de} palace, according to Frank Van|Middie Ailantlc District, and Presi Washington, said the audit would bow a pivot. Mr. Willi, on the right | PF Seen git Sis [iooves, vaudeville magician, whofient William Parker, of the N sreeable to a wanted by the|hand side, followed Mr, Collins's ex- : oe i . ivie? England District signed and a agreeable to him if it is wanted by » th int ies Watch Committee and Mr, Schwab, Mr. |ample uie oe ean and Signor | arrived to-day on the White Star] president of the amalgamated district h has been entirely cleared by elbows were pinned to my sides, | Laskle, | following with — the Iner Gedric, He sald the Prince in| ill be elected to-day Schwab has é 4 core, Were at vuriance in a conten There. Will be & convention of the committee in the matter of the| With the, greatest ease Collins, Willi i . i t aottaat vouchers. a Melville were able to swing me |'0n of the former that ten notes of /the best mitgician in England. therhoud delvgates to-morrow at |GHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. |teiped, but they nocd not have done ine La Stellé, also becuine the Jonas q room in Buckingham Palace | Cauinell will bw formed | 80. ver, 1 »|ior, playing his @ricks, but he dbes ——— \ Miss Abbott declared she had made However, th remainder of the . Army Salesman and Tes Jobbers| goa i asked her tq try it once [Performance was presented creditably | not contine them to it, In fact, every-| gy A HOODOO FOR BOY OF 9, Arrested Im Alleged Deal. more, She declined. f asked her to ane poll fk al : Mist perio bY | body about the palace hi at one pale ¢ of the othe tkable | Sign iiam Graeb of the Palace + Joseph Nullet, Isadore Amster ang] show JeOr OF Te le at ales Theatre Orchestte on the viohne {fme or another been the victim of] Lives at ® Hur at % Ambulance Goorge W. Baltes have been arrosted| feats T would be unadis to tuple (Signor Caffarelll, formerly, of the [one of his pranks in migie; und the akes Him te Ward on a charge of conspiring to defraud the| Goyjing yald tt could not be done, | Metropolitan under Toscanini, on the {Sing And i ue a i ays oe tate Some people say there's luck in nines. | Government. Nullet is chief salesman, were late for an engagement as|trumpet; Herman Paley, the com-|KUATd against bis pullin & mbit OF) parrelt Smith of Trocklyn doesn't Kay | Sustenanee Department, Surplus Pro-| it was, he explained. ‘They had to | poser, On the plano; ap enor V ace oe ag on Hr clowns) fo. He ls yenra old. He lives » Division, Br right over to Union Hill for a|tor Phonograph and Signore F » er, auth ‘Abra-| at 9 West Str At 9 o'slock panty, Division, Brooklyn Amster and) 0 Tent i — this “witha. wicked |lumbia, Graphophone plotn, Drinkwater, author of “Abra | 42% Wout Mn tee ‘let, it Js charged, suggested that|look at Mr. Lansberg—"“before some | L La Stoll which | RRM See Te nas ond pecans eer Sina a) adorn rw “a { Baines put,in one bid for 64000 pounds | real doctors. F y p uudie with the pog- | Ser on th Hy dale flog il ‘ i Bane At 3% cents and another under | he Magnet” and her “committec’ ex¢ n of the Judge and ‘the | completion of two other historical and Henry Stroet git tg a fictitious name at 3 cents. Amster| qeparted, When I was able to explain spirits of the former Judges, who had | Pl ot 1 “Mary Bt to b in the «pok ¢ th ar waned was told to bid 4% cents, it is said.| mat had happened to me when Twas boxes all along the walls, thought | payed J Opp und James Ky I been whiiled about Thus, the law requiring, three bidders | tied, H, Winfleld Socour, Associate wos the name of some old! fain of | Hackett and "Oliver ¢ 1" of ‘ aa on ts now selling for about 15 cents a itor of Science tion: Joe | Pugcin devloped, was ; fthe » he worker pound H. Kraus, t of the ter's way of en the St ‘ : et lives at No. 187 West gard publication, und Mr I Are Shir ! r . : Street: Aniter at No. 10. W 1dthl easily swung me up. Th i AV giytlieked by J 1 on i iy Street, and Baines at No, Wesy| peated by the five mon who at first to Rose's im while Al was pre oo i thirteen of bul pity nr ewuimab) 1) Was Listh Stee Manhattan, were unable to lift me, tending be bud @ Min) iD @ low of wo valued at #139000, putin Ward & CLEAR KROHNBERG TWO HOLDUP MIEN FROM CHARGE OF CHEATING AT CARDS Court Grders Indictment Dis- missed on Grounds of Im- proper Evidence. The Indictment againat Louls Krohnberg, President of the Bijou Waist Company, of No, 302 Fifth Avenue, changing him with cheating his friends by using marked cards in stud poker games in which $360,- 000 changed hands, was dismissed to-day by Judge McIntyre in General Sessions on the motion of Attorney Max BE. Steuer. Judge Molntyre'a decision covered thirty-six typewritten pages and held that iMegal and immaterial evidence was submitted to the Grand Jury ip & way prejudical to Krohnberg’ rights He concluded by saying no proper evidence was. murbmitted Krohnberg knew the canis with which he played were marked and “it is no crime to play with marked cards if one does not know they were marked and had no intent to heat,” ‘The District Attorney has permis- sion to resulymit the case to the Grand Jury. When holding Krohnberg for trial after a protracted series of John Doe p> hearings, Justice Kernochan of Spe- clal Sessions pointed out one witness charged he had seized some sus- pested cards after a kame in which Krohnberg played and had then gone with Krohnbeng to a Turkish bath, While they were ut the bath, the Witness stated, other cards were sub- stituted for those he had sefsed. There was no other evidence, Justice Kernochan said, supporting the charge Krohnbeng knew the carda were marked and no direct evidence, except that of “exclusive opportunity” that the alleged gubstitution was made by the defend&int, Commissioner of Welfare Coler said to-day the dismissal of the in- dictment would have no effect on the suit’he has brought to recover from Krohnberg five times the amount of his alleged winnings for the poor of the city. $250,000 FORGERY TRIAL GOES TO JURY ‘Three Defendants Oharged With ‘Obtaining Money on, Falsified Bills of Lading. Trial of what Federal attorneys says is the longest forgery case ever conducted before the United States Courts here waa finished to-day, and arrangements have been made to keep the jury out all night if neces- sary, The case involves about $250, 000 and has been on trial since Jan, 4 The defendants are Pteriotia, an exporter, the Hotel Brouzos, Street, Drit Street George D. feraiety of Commodore; George grocer, No. 282 Fulton Hrooklyn, and Attorney J. law olerk, No, 116 Nassau The three were charged with defrauding banks in Greece through forged bills of lading. ‘They arg al- leged to have operated under the name of the American Company of Commerce, No. 79 Wall Street It was charged that after the Greek banks had established letters of credit here and ordered sugar in large quantities, a small ame@nt of rice and coffee was shipped and the ‘bills of lading forged to represent big sugar shipments, Then, it was charged, collections were made here through the-Guaranty Trust Co,, the Irving National Bank, the Mechanics and Metals Bank and the Aanerican Express Co. — DESERTED AVIATRIX GETS ‘FAKE’ WIRE Jane Herveux, Whose Fiance Failed to Appear, Oauses Arrest in Answer to Advertisement. Jane Heryeux, “French >. 530 Weat 11ath Street Filllpo Catalino, strangely disappeared the other day and indefinitely post- voned the prospective wedding, had an- ther chapter added to her trials to- day by the arrest of Thomas McCarthy, No, 65 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, on the charge of attempted extortion through 4, telegram to which Cutalino's name was signed Mile Herveux advertised In one of the ng papers yesterday for \nformu tion about the missing Fillipo, Ww later she got a whioh read "Dear J&ne aviatrix, of whoxe flance, mor hours telegram Wire some money and a| 3 ON BROADWAY GE $8,001N WATCHES Second Robbery in Same Building in a Year—Police Have No Clues. While Richard Enright, who is et Police Commissioner of New York, is putting in most of his time making speeches, hold-up men continue their ralds. Their latest robbery to be re ported was that of the Geiger Wateh Case Corporation, No. 1368 Broadway, in which they obtained $8,000 worth of high grade platinum watches. ‘The automobile of Charlotte Green- wood, the actress, was stolen from in front of the Crescent Theatre, Brook- lyn, and half an hour later Glenn Brewer and Mrs. Harold Thomsen of Hollis, Queens, were helt up and robbed. Capt, Wohlfarth of the Jamaica station and four detectives searched for the bandits, They found them in Hillside Avenue, Hollis, and opened fire on them. Police and bandits exchanged shots in a half- mile chase, but the fugitives escaped. Miss Greenwood's car later was found abandoned at the Long Island Rajlroad Station at Jamaica. Two men with revolvers entered the United Cigar Store at No, 440 Amsterdam Avenue late last night, bound and gagged G. D, Garabidian, the clerk, and rifled the safe and cash register of $260. They escaped. Joachim Geiger, head of the con- cern, and Leon Rommel, an em- ployee, were alone when two men entered the store. The leader en- gaged Geiger in a pleasant conver- sation, saying he remembered Geiger when the latter first started busi- ness, and asked him to show some high grade platinum watches Mr. Geiger produced the tray and the leader of the robbers ordered him to put wp his hands. The sec- 1 robber covered Romm After a half hour in which the leader—described as a Beau-Brum- mel type of man, either French or Italian and thirty-five years old— carefully selected choice pieces trom Geiger’s stock, put them in a hand- bag, he called to his partner, “We've got It all; let's go.” ‘Their haul ts valued at $8,000, Saying they would linger in the hall ten minutes, so they could kill Geiger or Rommel if either made an outery, the two smilingly and leis- urely ambled away. Geiger tiptoed to a window and when he saw they had passed down the hall to Broad- ‘way yelled for the police. Fifteen minutes later, he sald to-day, a pay trolman showed up. It was the second hold-up in the building in ten months, the other be- ing that of the Schwartz Brothers’ jewelry store on the ground floor when gems worth thousands were stolen, ‘A few minutes before the robbery the bandits are believed to have vis- ited the office of Samuel Palatntk, in the same building. They wanted to have a oatch fixed on the mesh hand- bag in which they earried off cheir loot. Dotectives say Geiger did not call them until an hour after the robbery. This is denied by Geiger. —o— NOISE OF BURGLAR KEPT ’EM AWAKE Sleepless Neighbors Called Cop Who Restores Peace With His Nightstick. Michael Brannigan, No, 409 Rast 74th Street, with night stick bruise on his head, was held in $5,000 bail in the Yorkville Court to-day on a charge of burglary. People who Hive in the neighborhood of Joseph Potlers stattonery and candy store, No. 1181 Second Avanue, com- plained to the police that they could not sleep because a burglar in the store was making too much noise, clattering things about and smashing jgiass and one thing and another, So Patrolman Henry Krahn went there and found the door jimmied. In- vide, he says, he found Brannigan atuffing bis pockets with candy. He pointed a revolver at him and toll him to put his hands up. Brannigan didn't Instead he advised the police- m to be careful, “Better put that gun away or you'll burt yourself,” sald Brannigan, ad- vancing toward the policeman, And since he would mot put up his hands the policeman bit him on the head and sat him down, Then he took him to the station. im miei aa eee lately in care of Western Union inci, No. 345 Flatbuan Avenue, urok-| M'WHINNEY EXPLAINS. yn, Sincerely, Fillipo Catalino = But Mile Herveux got In touch with| Sesemblyman I he police and Detective Downs of the | Hergen Street Station, ingitiring at the} Assemblymea Thomas A. AfoWain- egraph office for Billipo. said Me-| ney of the First District of Nasean Carthy responded with a “Here 1 am"| County issued to-day @ statement In the Flatbush Avenue Court Me-|his change of front regarding the rea- arthy. testified he had sent the tele-| olution of the Legislature to broaden yram fo get money fo bring ab infant) and strengthen the powers of the from Philadelphia. He. Herveux ap = poared affected by the man's story, but|l@ckwood Committee on Housing, tided not to Withdraw. her compiaint.| which he, as vice chairman of the He was held i $1,000 bail by Maxis! comnittes introduced in Its original trate Bteers rm in the Assembly, only to change — « vote later for the modified resolu- ° f Family, ee ee ean tenaninee limiting the powers of the com- miter MR apie: "was advised, and still bellewe, : this amended resolution ives ; committee the broadest kind of believed they we J. ant he wa to Join Uh as he had had no wor from them for ax tignto banks, insur- les, rust companies, and vancul and other corporations tn- » thelr agtions in any Tagyse housingsor mortgage situa ene oe” 1 ” ae ‘ons wot ecasre wn i A