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C3 DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1970 na nzn fl nloflflo mm h. a -r a mum wmmmw is I I Lit I By FRANK FASO and HENRY LEE In a daring grab for more than $1 million in gems, two gun-toting stickup men disguised as telephone repairmen raided a fourth-floor jewelry firm yesterday on diamond row, W. 48th St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves. They were foiled when the 72-year-old jeweler managed to sound an alarm, though he was pistol-whipped to the floor, and when cops who responded shot over the prostrate bodies of the jeweler, his son and a dozen employes to capture the heisters.

The drama was played out in the offices of J. Solow Son shortly after Jack Solow and his son, George, 47, opened their offices about 9:15 a.m. NEWS photo by Gene Kappock Philip Epstein, shot four times, is put into ambulance after robbery attempt of jewelry firm on W. 48th St. yesterday.

nils Tim Sullivan, and took his eyes off me for a split second." Havekost was then able to draw his revolver, he said, and he pegged six shots at the gunman over the figures on the floor. The hood, later identified as Philip Epstein, 38, w.s hit in the neck and left shoulder, and twice in the chest, and did not fire back. But he was still standing after being shot. His companion, identified a3 Joseph Prezziotti, 28, tried to make a dash for the door, but the two patrolmen jumped him. According to the cops, he was wearing a false mustache and beard which he was trying to rip off as he ran.

Epstein, whose home was said to be in the Bronx, was taken to the French and Polyclinic Medical School and Health Center, 345 W. 50th St. Prezziotti, his condition reported as serious, was in St. Clare's Hospital. His address was given as 2470 W.

First Brooklyn. The two Solows wei-e bandaged By ALFRED MIELE The State Offtrack Pari-Mutuel Betting Commission threw a roadblock in front of the City's Jan. 11 target date for opening betting parlors yesterday. Chairman Kent Brown disclosed that all bets were off until the city gives him "specific plans" for tying in the offtrack system with the betting machines used at local race tracks. Before their employes had ar rived, two men in khaki work clothes wearing tool belts called through a thick wire mesh protective door to the Solows: We're telephone- repairmen.

Something's wrong with your line. We have to come in to check it." The Solows pressed a buzzer to admit them. Immediately, the two men pulled out guns, and clubbed both father and son to the floor. As he fell, however, the elder Solow managed to jab an alarm button next to his desk. A private guard company, which received the alert, called police.

Lots of Jewelry in Stock Before the police got there, the dozen employes reported to worit and were admitted by the stickup men, who made them lie on the fl-or. The robbers were just forc ing the younger Solow to open two large safes and jewel boxes crammed with diamond rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches in preparation for the Christmas rush when the police arrived. Throueh the wire mesh. Patrol men John Havekost and Timothy Sullivan saw that there was a robbery going on. The door swung open and, Havekost said, one of the gunmen "spun around and pointed a 45 automatic at me." Some of the Victims Bleeding "There were between 10 and 15 people lying on the floor," he said.

"I saw two or three who were bleeding from the head, as though they had been struck. "As I walked in front of him, the gunman reached out to push up at the scene, out aecimea to be taken to hospitals. Patrolman Havekost was treated at the station house for slight injuries of the hand. Havekost already has three citations, including one for killing a burglar. Woman Arrested In Bank Robbery A 22-year-old woman bank obber suspect, who asserted! had been photographed while pulling three earlier jobs, was arrested yesterday afternoon after an abortive attempt to pull a Leaks in wder I rim 1m AM However, in announcing what he called "conditional approval" of the city's over-all plan.

Brown said he foresaw "no problem" if the additional details are pro vided before the January date. Brown's commission is charged with overseeing all offtrack nln-ns in the state. Brown said the city must also "confine bets" to in-state tracks until snecifie details are forth coming as to how separate betting pools for wagers on out-of-state races would be computed and the method for determining odds on such bets. The state commission also re fused to approve "specialty" bets such as parlays. "We don't know enough about them, other than a proposed $1 minimum bet, Brown said.

He asked further clarification in this area also. A spokesman for Howard Samuels, head ffthe city's Off- track Betting said the city is still aiming for the Jan. 11 start at up to five bet parlors, Additional details will be given to the state agency shortly, the spokeman said. The Jan. 11 opening has been threatened in addition by the failure of the city corporation and officials of Yonkers Raceway to reach agreement on tie-in arrangements.

Brown said he would sit in on these negotia tions next week to "see what we can do." If an agreement is not reached with Yonkers, the offtrack parlors would in effect be prevented from opening, because the raceway would be the only track in Dperation in the state at that time. 8-Story Fall Kills Two Two electrical workers were killed late yesterday when they fell from the eighth floor to the bottom of an airshaft in a building under construction at 9 W. 57th near Fifth Ave. Police said the men apparently were employes of the Forest Electrical Co. of 33 Seventh Ave.

Cops withheld identification until their families were notified. i i NEWS photo by Gene Kappock Patrolman Jack Haverkost holds gun he took from robber. fourth robbery, according to police. The woman, identified as Hilda Santillana of 41 W. 110th became frightened when a teller lit an alarm in the Bankers Trust branch at 550 Seventh at 39th police said.

As she ran out of the bank, the police said, she was grabbe-' by two detectives of the safe an loft squad. Ave. between 112th and 113t'-Sts. Bonapart said that he and Clayton were good friends. Bonapart said Clayton told him also that, he knew the district attorney's office was having difficulty locating witnesse and that he knew Bonapart was going to be called as a witness.

Two eyewitnesses have testified that Clayton was the assailant. Yesterday, John Keenan, the chief of Hogan's homicide bureau, met for several hours with Police Internal Affairs Chief Joseph McGovern for what insiders described-as "a friendly exchange of information." Spokesmen for both the district attorney's office and the police confirmed that investigations were being made, but neither would discuss the matter. One of the questions being raised was where Clayton might have obtained the bail money or the $1,000 a day he was allegedly paying for the confidential I Pmbei By WILLIAM FEDERICI Separate investigations into reports that confidential information was being leaked to a defendant on trial for murder have been begun by Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan and the Police Department's Internal Affairs Division. Howard Samuels Still aiming for Jan.

11 "TCent Brown Civet "conditional OK" 11 1 Tf WLJ The investigations were started after a witness testified this week that the murder defendant, Philip Clavton. 27. had bragged that he "was paying $1,000 a day for information concerning the prosecution's case." Source Is Being Hunted Whether the information was being leaked by police or members of the district attorney's office has become the focal point of the investigations. "One thing is positive," an authoritative source said. "Someone was feeding the defendant information about the case prior to the trial." Clayton was arrested on Sept.

20, 1969, and charged with the murder on July 16, 1968, of William Ford, 31, of 935 E. 163d Bronx. Testimony From a Friend Clayton, who described him-salf as a laborer, remained out on $75,000 bail until the trial 3tarted earlier this month. Donald Bonapart, 28, the witness whose testimony in Su-prsme Court touched off the investigations, testified also that 1 T5 I Vx. I John Keenan DA'm man top thoo-fly Clayton told him he had killed Ford when he caught him breaking into his car on St.

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