New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-21
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
,,SprCrrn or RrING RANK ROBBERS.

rtroo nr;soners who had been arrested sus-
picion that they were the burglars wno ronI op1n
in rho Stats Zitung Building on July 10 were ar
rajgned al The Jefferson Market Police Court yester
dov nv detectives of the Police Central Once. lhey
were IicLael Kurtz. alias Sheehan, alias Z" Sheeny
Mike n notorious Hebrew burglar; John Love, an
ex-convict who has been accused OF committing
robbery in Boston recently and Patrick j. logan
the son of an ex-polceman. The informa-
ton upon which the arrests were MADE
was furnished by Joseph BashtOrd and samuel n:
Hornidge. two unfortunate men who were strOHiiig
about the City Hall Park on the night when lhe
robbery was committed. About two hours aItel
midnight, they say they were LOOKING iU mpoS the
steps of the building in which the Court OF ueneia
Sessions is held. As they approached ihe s'9 VIE
they saw "a man standing close to the bulldlng' no
appeared to be watching for the arrival OF some
one When they seated themselves upon .no 9''P'
he approached them and asked them TO go away
for q place ta sleep. and that they could not
find better one. The man put IS Ianu nv o,;n',
pocket and drew out some Small cnah nam ,ody;ynas
Here is enough to get you urinho """ 's3
Rashf9rd and Hornidge took the money and
went away AS they king out OF the PARK
thew saw two other men standing near the build
ing One of them had satchel IN his hand. when men
they heard of the robbery IN the StdGtS ZetGn9
Building Bashford and Hornidge went TO the oulld
ing and told clerk what they had Witnessed
They were sent 10 Police Headquarters ana upon
looking through the Rogues Gallery they pouea Eat
the pictures of Kurtz and Love lhey salu lna'
kurIz was the man who had gwen them money ~, ~
leave the pirk and that Love was the man VINO
had carried the satchel. kurtz was arrested on
"Wednesday morning on his return from 1nIl"uei
phla where he had gone on brief VISIT ~ Mao
taken TO the pOhce court and renahueu u ,d 80
ter,lay One OF the detectives VINO arIes'tu nidii
SAID that he had made confession aiteI nc W..
locked M At a late hour on Wednesday Iis.'
Lave was arrested ut his home III ta1lnOihlI NCs.
chester County, several policemen OF the tnt NM
fouIth Precinct giving assistance 10 thc U0UNN'tI
who was sent to capture hun. Logan Was a. CIV,
in front of "a gambling house IN Lne a., ~
on W edncsday night, but the poilce IeAuSou 10 "
Yesterday why they suspected MN. . 7 ,-o lint
Tine two witnesses identified hurtZ anu LoNo, puV
they could not recognize Logan. NO part Oh INC nc
S6 500 so stolen from the sale was found III Ihe
possession OF either prisoner ,, ~ ...;
Police Justice Smith yesterday heard the lesIl,
nony of BashfoId ami H0Tnsdge. lie alteINdIu
discharged Logan as there appeared 10 DC no CYL
drnce Ilainst hun. kuriz and Love were COM
nitted in default OF $1,000 ball each lOI eAaniha-
fiou ON Monday. Loves sls.ef was III court pIe-
pared 10 offer bail, but she was t0lu lDat II Hei
brother was united To BAH he would he redrrested
al once on requsitl0n signed by me Governor oI
Massachusetts. The police expect 70 Plo-
eure Iurtner evidence against tHe pilS'
ouers before Monday, ana also 10 capture another
man whose name they will no, dlvulge.
kurty. who is believed TO be the originator OF lhe
robbery las been III prison much of the time 1Or
lie last twenty years. Ills latest term oil lDpTs-
onment c Aded in October, 1885, when he was dls-
charged from q Massachusetts, PRISON on account o1
ill-hcaIil Whenever he has been AT IdI gc III lnls
CIV he has associated with the smartest pToIoS'
sioai thieves known TO the police, ana ne mas peen
suspected Oh aldlng III many IoDUerles Whlcn nave
not been cleared up IL mas Decn uhe pldc'lce VI
tbe detectives TO arrest him oil suspicion frequently
nm the nope chat he would betray ms associates III
crime. BY giving information against olneIS' he
has escaped convection several times.