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Show I ROOTS OANDITS IN HARD FIGHT Theatre Treasurer Grapples With Assailant and Saves His $35,000 NEW YORK Jan. 27 A plucky ficht by Arthur Schaeffer. custodian of Shubert theatre receipts. Thursday routed four bandits who held him up in front of the Jolson theatre on the Houth side of Central park and then fled, leaving $35,000 In the possession of their Intended victim Schaeffer arrived at the Jolson tne-atrVln tne-atrVln the "money car." with 20, he had collected from another Shu bert house. As he left the Jolson. vlth $15,000 more, the day's receipts, ono of a quartet of men placed a gun against his ribs and demanded the f money. Three others in an automobile at the curb also leveled pistols ut Schaeffer, who nevertheless began to struggle with the first holdup man Benjamin Mallon. the JoIkoii manager, man-ager, ran to the box office and obtained obtain-ed a gun, but dared not fire for fear of hitting Schaeffer. who fought with I his assailant In the center of a growing grow-ing crowd. The bandit broke away. Jumped Into the car with his companions, and they then drove down Broadway to Forty-second street. Schaeffer and Mallon followed In t romm uvl. -t. d car, but the fugitives outdistanced them. Two victims of holdups died in a hospital Thursday. Th-y were Max I Greene, wholesale tobacco Jobber who was shot by one of three youths In his I store, and Nathan Moresky. s ahec fctore proprietor. whose head was crushed by a holdup man. |