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Show ROBBERS TAKE IK0T STONES Diamond Finisher and His Assistant Felled In Shop NEW YORK, Oct. 11 Four sets of thieves each employing a different mode of operation took loot estimated at $70,U0O In four "Jobs" Tuesday. Aaron Trnvltssky, diamond cutter. I whistled contentedly as he opened hls Tearl street shop and carried a tray; of uncut gems nluod at $50,000 to I his work bench. The whistling was cut short by a blow from a gun butt TravlUsky's assistant. Qaler, attempted tq aid him and he. too, was felled Both were bound With rope, and gagged with towels. Two men. roughly clad, took the diamonds and fled. A negro visited the fashionable Flat-bush Flat-bush home of Edward Greene, merchant, mer-chant, imprisoned a negro maid In a clothes closet, took $7 000 In Jewelry and 160 in Cash, ate lunch and left. Mi mbera of the family returned several sev-eral hours later and released be maid. Answering cries for aid. a policeman found Seymour Ely, lK)und on the sidewalk in Waverly place Ely. who registered at a local hotel from Detroit De-troit four weeks :igo. declared he h id gone to the village, to h'o his flam ee. in tho hall of the home, he said, he-was he-was set upon by two men, Who bound him took $1,300 from his pockots and Hirer, him Into an empty room He di 1 l.ir.vi he had managed to roll from the house to tho street. Just before dawn a huge plate glav window In the bookshop of Brentanos lr. Fifth avenue, was shattered Two Spanish shawls, handed down through three i enturles and valued at 9 1 0 . 'J . wars taken from tho window. The thieves escapod. |