The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-30
TWODESPERATE CRIMINALS
A FRUITLESS APPEAL TO A CROWD
FROM A CAR WINDOW.

FROM A CAR WINDOW.
Claiming that Two Detectives whs
were taking them 20 Toledo ver
kidnapping Them-Their Crime
sHello there Hello Y telephoned
pittifogging lawyer to Chief OF Polio
Murphy, of this city, FROM Hoboken, yes
terday. ssCanAt yon STOP two New Yorl
officers who are kidnapping two men, whel
they reach the Pennsylvania depot in Jer
sey City ?"
That depends, Chief Murphy shouted
back. Are they criminals 7"
eyes"
"Have the police got them lawfully il
custody 2"
eyes"
Hare they got requisition papers"
Papers all regular ?"
ssYes."
Where's the kidnapping then ?"
"Where? oh yes, where? ahem but
then they've got lot of money in thsil
pockets.
The two prisoners to whom this colloquy
referred were about as desperate brace OF
criminals as ever got into this city. They
pass under the names of Frank Elwood
and ssJoe Wilson. They had been
arrested in New York some days ago on
suspicion of being burglars. Tkey were
quickly identified as men who had forced
their way into the residence of a Mr..
Baumgartner in Toledo, Ohio, and shot a
policeman who attempted to pursue them.
They made rich haul from the house and
started at once for New York. Mr.. Baum
gartner came to this section, and identified
some of the property found in their rooms
as part of that which had been taken from
his house. Yesterday morning they were
arraigned in tho Jefferson Market Police
Court, and their extradition to Ohio
was asked. The officers had armed them
selves with all the necessary extradition
papers, and the Police Justice delivered
them up to be taken back to Toledo. They
were handcuffed, and given into the
custody of two New York detectives. It
was known that they were to so West by
the Pennsylvania route and to escape the
friends of the criminals, and a possible
attempt at rescue, the officers brought
them to the, depot in this city by way of
Hoboken. Some confederates who had
followed them to the ferry sent for the Hobo
ken pettifogger as soon as they touched
the size of their Doodle than about the law,
and his telephone to the police of this city,
asking them to prevent their kidnapping,
was the result. The sslawyer" intended,
doubtless, to bleed them, while sueing out
writs of habeos corpus, and then, when the
courts had dismissed the writ, to let them
go, wiser and poorer than when they first
employed him. The detectives paid no
heed to the clustering of the attorney, but,
after reaching Hoboken, kept straight on
their journey to this city, and finally
reached the Pennsylvania Railroad depot,
at the foot of Exchange Place. The train
that was to take them to the West lay at
the platform, with the locomotive painting
for the start, at its head. They lost hope
In the lawyer after they had been forced
into the smoking car, and began to appeal
to the crowd
We are In the clutches of two villains, !"
exclaimed Elwood. " they are kidnapping
Us. They are taking US into regions we
kaow nothing about, for purposes that we
cannot divine. If there's q man among
you, stand out and protect usr' The crowd
became denser and denser but the appeal
fell on deaf ears. The multitude was
amused. and that was all.
g The idea, continued Wilson, 60 of two
decent, respectable men being snaked
out Of their homes and away from their
wives and children, and carried away under
the eyes of crowd like this and no man
raising a hand to defend them"
Chief Murphy who had meantime arrived,
put an end to the harangue. He called on
the detectives to snow their papers. They
We're all in regular form. ALI the formalities
of the law had been complied with
IS Vrusra not hoir,r L;dnonpoI o.tho Ghiaf
explained to the handcuffed couple ssThese
men are armed with authority to take you
to Toledo, and nothing but writ from a
United States Court can interfere with
them"
"That's all right the men exclaimed in
unison, "but we're are innocent! We have
done nothingl'
That returned the Chief, :" is ques-
ton that will be settled in Ohio"
The train moved out, with. the men still
appealing from the window to the crowd.
Mr.. Baumgartner, who was with the
officers and the prisoners, told the story of
the burglary. He said that on the morn
ing of August IA, his servsnt girl was
awakened by masksd burglar, who, by
threatening to kill her, made her show him
the way to her masters sleeping room.
There he made her rap on the door and say
she was sick. Mr.. Baumgartner occupied
the room with his wife and child. Beliey-
ing the girl to be in pain he at once opened
the door when Elwood marched into the
room and made him give up all his valu-
ables then in sight. As the burglar held
q murderous looking pistol in each hand he
could only do his bidding and permit him TO
escape. As Elwood was leaving with
his booty in bag, an officer stopped him
and asked him him what he had in the bag.
g Come to the lamp-light and will show
you, EIwood replied, but as soon as the
gaslight was reached the burglar pulled a
revolver and shot the officer in the thigh,
lnhicting dangerous wound. This was
followed by two more shots, which further
incapacitated the officer from giving chase,
and the burglar escaped.
Their Bugs Worn for Ornaments.
LONG BRANCH, Aug. 29.-The SUNDAY