The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-16
E WASA TOOL, NOT ATHIEF.
~ ,ooUIT1IYo BECK DOES TIE JUax
CONDEMN CARRoLLs

r,,eo,er's Defence or the Charge 81
,.,s,,s his Employer was 10 Accuse His
r.,,oyer's son-Hs Haa Pleaded Guilty
>. . Police Court. ana, the Detectives
Cav, Had Confessed the Crime 70 Ths-.
rail Rock. aged %. Of 1877 Hester street was
-, IN trial yesterday In the General Sessions.
s.,ore Judge Fitzgerald. upon an indictment
.s,,aInr him with stealing endorsing dies
9Th about $500 from the Joseph W. Carroll
,uhnernphipg Company. at CT and 60 Spring
..,.,. Joseph W. Carroll. Secretary and
Trsssurer OF the company. testified that his
,.,h,r who lives In Rochester. Is tho President
a,,he company. For eight years prior to May
= nock was in tho employ OF his father and OF
The company.
doy or two before May Beck left, and
.tout TINT time Carroll found that about $780,
nm worth OF dos and plates was missing. He
tr,ecd about $4,000 worth to Paterson. Then
y. mnde injuries In this city and learned
Nm, aftcr nighttall wagons drove up to the
.ompany's office and went away loaded. He
,omplained to Inspector Byrnes James W.
williams. the delivery clerk. disappeared after
,hc Nrst visit Of Detectives Grady and Bowling
~ the company's office. Carroll caused the
,rest OF John Gleason. q junk dealer. and OF
another junkman named Madigan. but both
x.re discharged In the police court. On May
l5Reck was arrested.
When taken to Police Headquartors Carroll
aid Beck confessed that he had stolen dies.
nd snid he had sold them to Gleason. He
made this confession In the presence OF Dctec-
i've Grady. In tho Jefferson Market Police
Court EecK plelded guilty and was remandod
to await the action Of the Grand Jury. Detec-
tives Grady and Bowling corroborated Mr..
Carroll ms to the confession.
For the defence Lawyer W. E. Morris said
that about April Is Raymond L. Carroll.
younger brother Of the complainant. directed
Beck to take rail key containing old brass
from tho comrarys cellar and sell 1t to Glea-
son. Beck sold the key to Gleason for 81,
which he took to young Carroll. and Carroll
gavo him 81. He made no confession. either
to Joseph ". Carroll or tho detectives. Tho
truth OF tho whole story was that the ]. ".
Carroll Company missed about $4,000 worth
Of dies. and determined to punish somebody.
Tie real culrrit. in Lawyer sIorris's opinion.
was Raymond J.. Carroll who had gone to
Rochest where his father lives, to keep out
Of harmsw y Beck. his innocent tool. had
been left to face the punishment which he did
In his, wn behalf Deck testified that when
he was locked UP at Police Headquarters 10:
eenl W. Carro!! came 10 MIN ana SAIL tnnt IL
leased on bail. and should not he punished.
10 cross;;examination by Assistant District
Attorney MACEDONIA. Beck testified that after he
Be- vent on the road with company known as
tho Far Down on the Farm" Company. The
company gave a three act performance. and
Eel Tss the the quartet and also
cSnss The companv "bur,ted" a. a. dga IL DO
and be lad to walk back to town. i'q H. PSad
travelled before with the, company moro sue.
when he got we'll. he reentered the en- pi0y OF
the Joseph W. Carroll Company. Beck said he
was church member and constant attend
!Is At ting mission IL Chrystie street main
Der Of Gen. Towards Bible class.
Several witnesses testified to Beck's pre-
p III stoI ming SsoB 6e the . .s9 H.,
Rutation against young Carroll was Infamous.
81 tho police court showed that he had volun-
Sarily pleaded guilty.
she{ returned to the court room. acquitting
Beck. Mr. MACEDONIA was surprised by the YER
oict and after the Jury had been discharged
s s.tished even L pers9n charged With theft
nItt + that he had stolen them. aN -"
That Is pretty pointed remark. Mr.. Dis
pry. We all know how they do things in
h!nHs in tho police courts"
Beck was discharged. and he went away
he other witnesses who had testified to his
God character.