MYSTERY OF ROBBERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 24, 13 September 1911, Page 5

MYSTERY OF ROBBERY.

WOMEN AS MURDERER’S DECOYS. fCV ;-’5 ;-v The police have discovered two important clues to the party of motorists who, in a. crowded district of New York at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, murdered Mr Adolph Stern, the son of a jeweller, and succeeded in taking away £IOOO worth of jewels from the shop window. The robbery is one of the boldest in the history of New York crime. Mr Stern was shot dead as lie rushed into the street after some men who had smashed the shop window with a brick and snatched a quantity of valuable gems. The men jumped into a motor car and drove away at lightning speed. At the time the murder was committed the attention of the policeman on the beat was attracted by a disturbance created by a ghastly old woman in rags, who was surrounded by a crowd of mocking children. The woman is now supposed to have been a disguised accomplice of the murderers. She was taken to the night police court on a. charge of being disorderly and after paying a fine of Ss disappeared. Mr Stern, sen., at the time of the murder was occupied in an inside room in fitting a respectably dressed old lady for a pair of spectacles. Aftc-i the shot was fired the lady, who is believed to be a second female accomplice of the murderers, hurried away after murmuring expressions of sympathy.

The entire detective force of Nev. York is engaged in the seemingly vain task of tracking the criminals.