The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-18


The case closed. James Clark and Harrigan
were held in $1,000 bail each for a further hear
ing, and Smith was held to await the result OF
Turne rig Injuries.
HEARING IN THE CASE OF Two OLD
OFFENDERs-A THOROUGH SIFTING.-George s.
Roberts, alias Johnson and John Mason, who
were arrested in New York on Monday last by
Detectives George II. Smith, Taggart and
LamoD of this city, and Captain Jordan, of New
York. had final hearing at the Central Station
yesterday afternoon, upon the charge of having
been implicated in the Hess, Rogers g. Cham
bers, Henry NJ. Day, George b. Atkinson, and
A. b. Ballard robberies, which occurred during
the months of March and April last. James
Boys also had hearing, charged with being au
accessory to the robbery of Hess, Rogers &
Chambers store. The burglarious implements
captured by the detectives from defendants are
said TO be the most complete yet made in any
country, being English manufacture. An ar.
rangement for opening tire-proof safes without
the aid of gunpowder Is certainly an ingenious
piece OF mechanism; it is the first, and believed
TO be the only one ever brought to this country.
False KEYS, jimmies of the most approved
kind, drills, augers, screws, and dark lanterns
were also captured among the implements.
Roberts and Mason are considered the most
expert English burglars that ever crossed the
Atlantic. The former is SAID to be a ticket-of
leave man, having been banished to Van Die
mans Land, from which he made his escape to
this country. The following testimony was
eliclted:-
William S. Hess sworn-I am one of the firm
of Hess, Rogers d Ch mbers, No. All Market
street; our store was entered on the night of
March z, 1866, by boring through the back
window; the vault door was opened by the
means of false. keys, and $500 In bank notes,
STA in gold coin, gold watch, several deeds,
and about t$5O0 worth of merchandise were
taken; the books of the firm were mutilated,
the pages containing the accounts for eighteen
months back from that time were cut out and
destroyed. watch shown.) That is the one
taken from the vault; it was left with me to be
repaired by the owner, Ephraim Manning, of
Gold Hill, n. c.; know Boys; he has been at
our store score of times; he visited the book
keeper, William r. Mitchell, who was arrested
some time ago for burglary and embeZZlement.
Cross.examined-Saw Boys ut our store few
days after lMitchell was arrested; he asked me
about the mutation OF the books of the firm;
| asked him where Mitchell was; he replied that
he did not know then.
G. b. Atkinson sworn--I am engaged in the
shirt business at No. l0l Appletree alley; am
one of the firm OF l.. Atkinson q Co.; our place
was entered through the front door last winter;
about $4,000 worth Of muslin shirts and linens
were stolen, also pair OF pantaloons and vest
(shirt, pants, and vest shown; they belong
TO me.
Henry NJ. Day sworn--I am engaged in the
lace business in the third story of No. 1926 Ches-
nut street; my place was entered some months
since; the lower door was opened by false keys,
and the door leading to my room was forced
open with jimmy lace goods and wells to the
value OF $2700 or $2800 we're carried Off. (Some
of the goods recovered were shown and identI
fied.) Witness continued-I have received
$l7S5 worth of the stolen goods which were re-
covered; have seen Roberts before; he and
lady came into my store few weeks before the
robbery, and asked if kept Honiton lace wells;
| told her no, that / Kept the Nottingham
goods; she then inquired about other fine
grades OF goods, and having received a descrip.
ton OF the kinds and qualities | had for sale,
they left
A. B. Ballard sworn-I am shoe dealer, at
No. 81 N. Eighth street; my place was en-
tered through the front door, about four
months ago, and robbed of 500 worth of shoes.
Two tpairs of the stolen property which were
recovered by the detectives were identified by
the witness.
Detective George H. Smith, sworn-Oflicer
Taggart and myself recovered the shoes and lace
belonging to Messrs. Ballard & Day, at house
on Thirty-second street, between First aud
Second avenue, New York. Captain Jordan, of
the New York detective force, Taggart and l,
arrested Mason and Roberts at No. 268 e. Tenth
street, New York, ON last Monday afternoon; a
caTpet-bag containing i-mmies, dark lantern,
brace, bit, and auger, false keys, and other bur
glariOus tools were found IN Mason's room; Mason
was in the house at the time; Roberts was taken
into custody with the other tools, lot of new
jimmies, etc.. on his shoulder, Just as he was
coming in the front door; the large iron wrench
was found under the bed in Mason's room; the
goods stolen from Mr.. Atkinson's store were re-
covered at the Harndens Express. Company's
office, in New York.
John Haslarn sworn-I live in New York;
know the 0etenuanLS; know hODerJS Dy lne
name of johnson; saw James Boys on Friday
last, in his office, S. Third street; know of the
Hess, Rogers q Chambers robbery; got from
Boys the impression OF the keys in wax before
the robbery took place; he told me, when he
gave me the impression, that the place was in
Market street that was to be entered and
robbed; Mason and Johnson otherwise Ro-
berts) laid Boys share out after the robbery
took place; it amounted TO SAB; 1t was in
counterfeit and Southern money; / was to give
it to him: the store was to be burned down after
the robbery had been accomplished; Mason told
me that the books were to be destroyed by
order OF Boys; got the watch from johnson
(ROberts); had an interview with Boys some
time after the robbery, when / came on from
New York; it occurred in his office; he asked
me ii / had brought on his share of money;
told him no, that they had laid out counterfeit
money for him; know that there were som(
shoes brought to my house by another man
named Bill; the shirts we're brought by de
PENDANTS, Mason aud johnson; the laces which
were found in my house were also bronght b.
them.
Cross-eYamined-It was Hess, Rogers
Chambers store No. All Market street, tina
BOYS spoke about robbing; he said that he kne
where there was S3l 900 in geld and bonds (thl
was before the robbery, and asked me if i knev
any one who could get it; told him that did
gave the impression of the key, handed to m
by Boys to Mason on the same day it was place
in my possession; Ii was made of wax (impre
sion shown; that is not the one, although IL
similar; the impression was given to me in
small alley in the rear OF the Continental in Marc
last; Boys told me at the interview that he wi
10 have One-fourth of the proceeds arising fro