Show t 0 a ahen a a J p O MIS J Q dG m hen the take a aA A few minutes after the apartment 1 g t 2 taxicab to go home the carious house elevator boy has tamed the t 9 I I man follows with two well he is w RII dressed anions in closed car r tom p a three masked men is evening clothes Threatening him with guns y a j order him them to the apartment i q e ople jl k i c cs s p a Ul Uj r l r j While a late supper at a Broad r t pet v vS S l U Ur Ur and her I Q tI I r re y 1 l Richman II i husband way restaurant notice the Mrs curious a well j I h jr t r dressed young man shows in her rich II yr IX Bold Thieves in Faultless Evenin g ir Dress Who Choose Their Victims r I Ir IG r G r rm m Fashionable Restaurants and Follow Them Home in a Luxurious Closed Car I T WAS 4 o'clock in the morning IT Mrs lolls Louis Louts Richman sat in the dm- dm din dining ing log room of her handsome apart apartment ment at 1902 Seventh Avenue Now New NewYork NewYork York York eating an apple She had just removed her evening gown and placed it carefully in m its box had wrapped her stockings and sIlver slippers in m black paper to prevent theIr tarnishing and DO now late as I it was clothed only m in hermane her mane mauve step step-in she sho was completing her usual nightly rout routine me meby by eating an aD apple before retiring The Tho nine carat diamond about as largo large as a ten-cent ten piece which she had worn daily for many years gleamed on her rIght hand haDd A smaller diamond a m six carat carat stone held her wedding rIng m in place and three diamond brace brace- bracelets bracelets lets glistened on her arms She had however removed her saut ue brooch end and earrings placing them on top of her gold mesh bag which together with m In bills lay by on top of her expensive new Dew broadtail wrap WI with h its collar of chin chinchilla chilla J In the bedroom beyond she could hear bear Mr RIchman Eichman preparing tot for bed They had bad attended a meeting at the tho Hotel Astor of a business mens men's association tion bOD of which Mr Richman the presIdent president dent of a prosperous manufacturing com corn company company pany is a member On their way home they had stopped at a smart Broadway restaurant for a bit of supper While they were eating Mrs Richman had been chaffed by her husband about the good looking good looking young man at the next table who had in a discreet and gentlemanly say ay centered his attention on her and the rich j jewels she wore It had been a pleasant and musing amusing evening but Mrs Richman her apple thought she would not mind get get- get getting ting to sleep It was not usual for tor her bel herto herto to be awake awake awake-at at 4 a a m The bell at the front door rang Cross Cross- CrossIng Crossing ing the foyer into which the dining room opens directly Mrs Richman asked W os o's there Its me me Mrs Richman me William the elevator man You dropped something in the hall ball Open thedoor the thedoor thedoor door and Ill I'll hand it to you In telling the story of her adventure Mrs Richman says she does not know why she obeyed She felt sure mire e she had lost nothing but she unlocked and opened the door putting her bel hand through the aperture to take whatever the boy had to give her The door was shoved open and the trembling elevator operator was pushed m In by hy three masked men Except for far the looking WIcked looking guns CUDS they held and the effort to hide their theU faces they looked in their tall taIl hats bats and faultless evening clothes like any prosperous law abiding town law town men While the frightened elevator boy cowered helplessly in a corner the three men backed Mrs Mn Richman against the tho wall beside a massive w table and pro pro- proceeded proceeded proceeded to strip the tha jewels from fram her hands With the cold black muzzle of that gun pressed against her breast Mrs Richman had the courage to ask that she be allowed to keep her wedding ring It It wont won't mean anything to you abe said aId and it means everything to me mo Mr 1111 Richman heard voi voices vois s in the tho foyer yer to his great surprise and came camo out to find t out what was going on Tut Put up your hands bands med coed one of the bandits and keep quiet you can take whatever Ive I've got boys said Bald Richman it rf you yon will wm stop that hat revolver at my wife It It I L might go off The robbers stripped a large dIamond f rw Richman's ns n's fm finger grabbed to Rob Robat at atthe atthe the Point of Their Guns from his trousers pocket and drove hIm back into the bedroom Then they pro proceeded noon none too gently to remove the bracelets from Mrs Irs Richman's arms As one of the bandits turned awny away apparently apparently ready to lead the escape his mask slIpped from his face Mrs Richman screamed Louis LoUl that man She recognized the man she had seen eyeing her so intently in m the restaurant a few hours before The shock of the recognition roused her modesty to the realization that she was little better than naked Let me roe get a kimono she begged hysterically and breaking away from the hand band that held her she dashed across the dining room and into her bedroom There Mr Richman sat afraid to open the window and shout for tor help l lest st hIS wife be shot i hot One of the bandits followed her bel as asfar asfar astar far as the dining ro room room m There he caught eight of the jewels bag and money on the serving table and paused to stuff them in his pockets No one knows whether he be did not realize the value of the broad broadtail tail tatI wrap or whether he be did not want to tobe tobe tobe be burdened with it when he made hIS escape At any rate this was saved to Mrs Richman His pause in the dining room allowed Mrs Richman to fling a kimono about her trembling body fling open the win wm- window dow overlooking Seventh Avenue A and scream so loudly that sleeping families a block away were aroused A man in m the apartment above blew a police pollee whistle Doors opened footsteps were heard The bandits cut short fur further ther thor search for tor jewels They pushed the elevator man out of the tho apartment ahead of them threatened with theIr guns the few ten ten- tenants tenants ten tenants ants hardy enough 1 to stick their heads f out of their doors and went down inthe in lD the elevator They were seen leaping into a big closed car that stood f WIth its engine run running vz a afling fling ning just jost out outside sid 0 the apartment house v The car shot away 1 l like a rocket and was was out of s sight i g h t many minutes before the police reached r i the tho scene acetic The RICh Rich mans mans mans worth of jewels and their bank bank- bankroll bank roU roll were perhaps gone gone perhaps for forever ever As Aa the police learned learned the masked bandits bad entered the tho apart apart- apartment apartment ment meat house lobby within a few minutes after William Hunter the elevator op- op operator operator op operator had taken the tho to theIr apartment Take us to the apartment of the tho peo pee people people pie who just came in they commanded prodding the frightened young man WIth their guns When the elevator boy had run his un- un unwelcome un unwelcome welcome passengers up to the tho floor Goor on which the live he agamas again agam nas as threatened with death eath unless he repeat repeat- repeated repeated repeated ed to Mrs Richman Bichman or whoever should IJ Arrived Arrived atthe at i ati the door of the Richman apartment the bandits make the terrified elevator boy ring the bell belland belland belland and call to Mrs Richman when she answers the ring a message which deceives her into thinking it is all right to open the door J J 4 t 4 i O II r- r vrr Aisi it r ra a t 4 3 rte r Mf ir w 4 e w e A w i cols r 4 rC i r di s sr say w ay ayt K r y a r ell t o t ye s sr sam am I w r r r a 1 s 5 A r k A Aview view of the alluring b bright ht lights 1 01 o New Yorks York's leadin restaurant and theater district and above Mrs Louis Richman one one of the many recent victims of the desperate and ingenious robbers robbert who form fonn the newest peril of Broadway night life answer the bell tho the words the they whIspered over and over In in his car There Thero seemed mcd nothing for William Hunter to do but obey Mrs Richman foolishly opened the door and tho thi lh rob robbers bers hers quickly y gathered up n nearly is in loot The detectives were sere ere greatly Interested In 4 Mrs mlton co of one of the bandits as the young man who bad stared at at her in the Broadway rant a few hours before This strength strength- strengthened ened their belief that this was one of many robberies recently committed recently committed o d by t I Ir r It a t r 11 I er 7 1 The The bandits force their way into the foyer t cover the trembling 5 iQs nearly undressed woman with their gun gum and strip her of her bel value valuable able bracelets and rings While they are doing this the mask from one of their faces and Mrs Richman the recognizes young man she die saw at her in the restaurant that very night the new gentleman bandits who ho lurk lull amid the bright lights of Broadway and mark their victims as they dine and dance late at night in some sonic fashionable hotel or restaurant It is an en eJ simple and ana et very successful method of crime uch they have devised Within the last few seeks it 15 Delie ed to have netted them more than and and without theIr ever coming at ail an close to arrest Dress Dressed d like lia millionaires m millionaires in evening clothes of perfect fit they arrive e at tt one OUO or 01 another of the leading restaurants In Ina inn ina n a closed dosed car of expensive e ma e about the time the theat theaters rs are arc letting out They look so prosperous and well bred that the head waiter watter readily gIves them one of his hii most desirable tables table k From this vantage pom point B they study at theIr leisure e the guests ts aE atthe rt the surrounding ta tae ta tables y a bles bles- weighing carer care care- carefully care i r fully the tho value of tr each womans woman's nS n'S jewels x and watching td see man dIsplays the fattest bankroll 1 When rr r the lambs e ethe for f rt t he h evenings evening's r A o v r A fc 11 I- I I a Y e cruel fleecing finally f are chosen it lt is sim SIm- SImply simply i ply a 11 matter of wart wait for tor them to fin fin fin- finish r rish ng f I ish h their eating caling and dancing dancing- As the tb unsuspecting start for home tho gentleman bandits 1 follow 0 11 0 w tr trailing a i g close behind in theIr luxurious smooth run ning car If It the apartment house lobby at that earl early hour in the morning happens to be deserted the robbers step right in and stage their robbery there If It not they Uley WillI wart as they did with the untIl th their lr victims think themselves safe safe- safely safely ly locked up for the night Tight Two days before Mr and Mrs Rich RIch- RIchman Richman man suffered their heavy loss David Palter and his wife who occupy an apartment on the fifth floor ot of o the largo large apartment house at West Seventy Seventy- Seventy ninth ninth Street were sere awakened the tho morning Their The r negro neilO maul maid at the tho point points s of a pistol showed into the bedroom two masked men men-in men in full evening dress The Palters had retired la late after coming iome home from a gay restaurant party part Mrs Palter had placed her Jewels valued at and aid nearly 1000 in cash beneath her pillow The bandits in this case walked up up- upstairs stallS stairs selected their victims rooms with wIth- wIthout without out waste of time and demanded admit admittance tance at the kitchen door claiming to ho bo boIce hoice boice Ice men When the negro maid mald opened the door they forced their way in m and made her take them to the bedroom Mr Palter who is a broker was threat threatened ened with death if he did not give up the jewels and money Palter slipped his hand and b beneath neath his wife's pillow and pro pro- produced produced produced her plat platinum mum wrist watch four bracelets two solitaire rings and the tho money money After pocketing these the rob robbers bers bels backed out of the tho apartment and apparently made their escape by means menns of f the rear staircase It is believed that these men had seen the Palters during the evening e before ud follo them home homo and marked theIr apartment These robberies followed allowed shortly after atter an attack on Mrs EssIe Essic Simmons in the of 2 1 West seventh Ninety seventh Ninety Street Mrs Simmons and her husband returned home about 1 IL a m in and she went into the lobby to wait walt for him to drive their tar car to the garage in the next street Five masked and armed bandits In evening dress s entered the lobby and di- di di divided vided their attention I between tween Mrs Sun Sim Simmons mons and the two hall haIl boys Warren and nivin Elvin They ordered Mrs Simmons to put put up rip p her hands She Sha put up tip a vigorous fight instead and durm daring the struggle one of the men bit the dia dla- diamond mond mend out of a ring she was wearing Mrs Simmons managed to tuck a val val- valuable valuable val valuable diamond bracelet into her bodice Before her assailants could get this or any of her other jewelry one of ot the hall hail boys tore himself free and ran into tho street yelling for help Tho The bandits fled fied I ThIS Thia new Dew peril of Broadway Bro dw night night lire li h is a source of much worry only to the tho public and the police but to tho ho hotel 1 dand and restaurant proprietor The Tho latter f ar that unless the old bold old rob rob- robberies robberies berles of the gentleman bandits can ean be b stopped their patronage at night after the theater will show ow a f falling great ua r |