The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-03-31
THE GANG CAUGHT
Desperate Fight With Rail-
road Thieves.
ONE MAN SHOT BY DETECTIVES.
Two Thousand Dollars Worth of Goods
Thrown from Freight Car
ONE MAN SHOT BY DETECTIVES.

A Tailor who Was Negotiating with the
Crooks for the Purchase of the Goods
Also Arrested. Three of the Robbers
aud the Tailor Taken to the County
Jail in Hackensack and Locked Up
One of the Gang Escaped.
HAcKENsAcK, N. j., March 31-A des-
perate fight marked an arrest made yes
terday at Warren Point, near Hacken-
sack. Three enterprising car-thieves
were taken into custody. One of them
was shot before the gang would submit.
They had broken open car of the Erie
Railway and stolen drygoods worth sew
eral hundred dollars.
Bernard Kahn, a Jewish tailor, having
a store in New York, was visited about
10 o'clock Tuesday morning by four
strangers, They asked him if he wanted
to purchase quantity of first class dry
goods "at bed rock prices" He said that
he did, and the men asked him to accom-
pany them. Kahn hired wagon, the
party drove to Warren Point, by way of
Hoboken Ferry and the Hackensack
plank road
They reached the Warren Point depot
by midnight. The horse was tied near
the depot, and the four men took the
goods which they wished to sell from
beneath the railroad platform. Kahn
said the goods were damp from being
exposed to the air and asked why they
were there.
The words were hardly out of his
mouth when four men stepped from hid
ing places and confronted the tailor and
his companions. Their appearance
startled Kahn. especially as they held
revolvers pointed at him and his com
panions. One of them commanded the
five to hold up their hands
The tailor promptly obeyed but his
companions made a dash at the new
comers and lively fight followed. The
others were ge tting the worst of the bat
tie when pistol was fired, and the man
who had conducted the negotiations with
Kahn uttered "a groan, clasped his hands
over his sjoa.l..t and fell heavily to the
ground.
The fight stopped at once and one Of
Kahn's companions took TO his heels and
ran down the railroad track, disappear
ny in the darkness.
The newcomers, who were officers,
snapped handouts on the men and took
them to the jail in Hackensack
Here Kahn learned the truth of the
proceedings which had seemed so strange
to him. The four men were thieves and
had broken into a car on the Erie Rail.
road, near Spring Tank, while the train
of which the car was a part was replen-
ishing it's water supply. They had
dropped about $4,000 worth of Irish
point curtains a roll of imported dress
velvet, roll of Brussels carpet, fifteen
rolls of black dress goods, three rolls of
table linen, a roll of red dress goods and
three boxes of domestic lace curtaining
from the car to the ground. The train
moved OF without the robbery being
discovered, and the thieves had secreted
the goods under the Warren Point depot
platform.
The robbery was discovered when the
train reached Ramapo.
Kahn's companions gave their names
as Peter Lawler, James Smith and James
Collins. Smith was the man who was
wounded. His injuries are not serious
and, after being treated by the Jail ply
sicisn, he was locksd up with the rest.