The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-10
Willy LITTLE BURGLARS
Planning for Their Share
of the Swag After
Their Arrest.
MANY ROBBERIES TRACED.
Practiced Boy Criminals Linked
with the Community of New
York Thieves.

The arrest of Daniel McQuinlan, Charles
Munkel and Charles Jones by Policeman
Kelly on Wednesday night proves to be
more important capture than at first ap-
peared. The three young men were ar
rested as suspicious characters and upon
them were found several articles which
had been stolen from Garrison & Coles
hardware store on Newark avenue. Sew
eral small robberies have been perpe-
trated in that neighborhood and it oc-
CURED to Chief Murphy that these boys
might be the thieves. He kept them apart
and by a judicious course of examination
secured a confession from Jones and Nc
Quinlan. In all their statements they
seemed anxious to exonerate Munkel,
which seemed rather peculiar to the Chief,
as MunkePs reputation was none of the
best.
ONE HOUSE ROBBED TWICE.
Yesterday further information was
ELECTED from the boys which to some ex-
tent explained their anxiety to clear
Munkel They confessed that on July 80
and 81 they broke into the house of Monta-
que Redgrave, No. 56s Pavonia avenue,
and stole ladys gold watch, seal skin
sacque, a locket set with diamonds, val
uable Knight Templar's sword, several
rings and other property valued in all at
several hundred dollars.
Mr.. Redgrave's family were in the
country at the time and did not learn of
the robbery until August l. They were
| not aware then that the house had been
entered more than once.
Detective Smith recovered the watch
| from q YQv IN hrolrdr with 40
| pledged at two o'clock of the day before
| the house was supposed to have been
| entered. This somewhat mystified the
Chief and he spoke to the boys about it.
''Oh, that's plain enough" they said.
| "We took the watch the night before"
THE FENCE FOR THE GANG.
The property which the boys took from
Mr.. Redgrave's house they gave to Oscar
| Munkel, brother of Charles. Oscar
had a room, or pretended to have, at
| No. 5115 Thompson street, New York, a
building inhabited entirely by thieves and
customed to visit this house each day and
buy from the thieves the product Of the
| labors of the night before. His morning
salutation, according to the police, is:-
we'll, vot did you get lasht nichtf'
| This Hebrew then sells the goods to a
| professional fences, and it is often diff
| cult thing to trace the property which has
| passed through his hands. To this fence
| it is said Oscar Munkel sold the proceeds
| of the boys robheries. Policemen Kelly
! and McWally, however, went to New
| York yesterday and succeeded In recover
| ing the greater portion of the property
| stolen from Mr.. Redgrave.
/ A K. T. SWORD IN MATTRESS.
The Knight Templar sword was found
4 between the mattresses on the bed in the
| room of Kitty Cook, young woman
4 friend of Oscar Munkel's, who lived in the
| Thompson street house.
| Detective Dalton yesterday afternoon
| arrested Oscar on Hudson street and he
4 was committed for trial as an accessory.
/ He is employed as helper on one of the
| wagons of the New Jersey Ice Company.
The police say that the reason the boys
4 wanted to shield Munkel was that they
| might keep the Redgrave robbery quiet
| and receive their share of the proceeds
In addition to these robberies the boys
confessed that they robbed Auchmutty' s
| confectionery store, near Garrison &
| Commissioner Kelly, at Newark avenue
and Grove street.
The boy who gave his name as Jones
is said to have given false name and to
be the son of wealthy parents. He was
carefully brought up and educated at
Seton Hall College. He, however, evinced
dispositionto seek disreputable company,
and, in spite of all his friends could do,
became a criminal on a small scale.
He seems to feel his position more
keenly than the other boys, and is looked
upon by them as the one who gave the
police the most information. The boys
| were formally committed for trial this
| morning by Justice StilSing.