Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-16
uleuwAYmAN AND sUrcoEH.

| G Capture made by She Pos i lice Saturday NiahI-KmmanuelS So- i raes Held Up an Italian on Brown { street at the Point Sf . Loaded Revolver-He Is the Man who Has Been BuncO1n4 Italians in This City-Has Been Identified by Many victims.
 An important capture was made early evening by the police in the per son of tho man who for the past nine months has besn buncoing the Italian resi- dents of the oity 70 successfully. The capture was made by oaacer Higgins, act' ing under instructions from Sergeant James Cook.
 About z o'clock Saturday evening An tonic sssss, a longshoreman residing at S3 I Chestnut street was confronted and held | up by an armed highwayman on Brown l street, near Wooster street. Sessa hal l been engaged iu unloading vessel near Tomlinson bridge and was returning to his home with his weeks wsges in his pocket when he was held up.
 On Brown street, near Wooster street, well-drsssed man confronted him with a drawn revolver and demanded his money or his life. There was no one else on the street at the time to whom Sessa could look for assistance, and accordingly in fear and trembling handed over to the highway man all his hard-earned wages, amounting to $S 05. The dssperado then turned his victim around and administering to him . kick told him in Italian to make himself scarce and not to dare to turn around or ,,k &<f f1I1 hf,,nN he lat 1or light through him. Sessa gladly followed this advice and hastsned away as fast ss possible. When he had gone short dis ! tance, however, he turned around, but by ! this time the desperado was nowhere in sight.
 Sessa thereupon immediately repaired | to police hesdqusrters and told his story to Sergeant Cook, giving an accurate descrip- l tion of his assailant. Sergeant Cook i'm mediately notified the other stations, the officers at headquarters end those at the depot and steamboat. As result of these efforts of tho sergeant the man was subse- quently captured by Officer Higgins and taken to the Grand avenue precinct. There he gave his name as Emmanuel Sorses, and said that he was Portuguese. He stoutly maintained his innocence even when con- fronted by Sesss, but the latter emphsticsl- ly declared that he was the man that had | rOOoe0 nm on bfOWn 6tfeee.
 Yesterday morning Soraes was brought to police head q uarters and locked in a cell
 Hardly had he been looked up when an ! Italian, who gave his name as Tripp Gem
 bull and his residence ss 20 Factory street,
 entered police headquarters and stated to Captain Wrinn that be had been buncoed
 out of $l9 by Portugess or an Italian.
 He had been victimiked by the old scheme
 of Dote, which was worked 80 success Il f- k-A- A-I
 been met on Orange street Saturday by s
 stranger, who gave him an alleged checl for $37, which he desired to have him taks
 to John Walsh, wine merchant, at 48( State street, and get 1t cashed. For this
 he was to receive $1.
 AS Gembull was about to start away th,
 stranger called him back and succeeded 1T
 getting him to leave $19 with him ss se
 curity. Of course Gembull was 6 willin.
 victim and started off on his errand. It
 needless to say that there is no "Johl
 Walsh. wine merchant," at 4s0 State stree
 and that GembuD did not see the strange
 upon his return. When Gembull had tolt
 this story at headquarters he was take1 into the lookup, where Sorses was con fined with the other prisoners, and irnme
 diately picked him out and identified hin
 as the man who had worked the scheme ol
 him.
 Sessa also told the authorities that Sorae
 had met him aoout 8:3O o'clock and wante
 to have him take @ note to 24 Brown street
 for which he was to receive $1. This hous
 is located near where he was subsequentl
 held up. In confirmation of his story b
 produced crumpled envelope on whic
 was written "Franklyn Smith, 24 Brow
 street" When this was opened 1t WE
 found to contain nothing but a lot ( Is brown paper.
 st Saturday number of Italians lodge
 complaints at police headquarters to th d effect that they had been victimizsd in ' similar manner. One of these stated thu he had been buncoed out of $5 by snoths ss Italian or Portuguese who had worked tf ic security game on him near No. 2's eDgir p house on Artizan stseet. He also ident al fled Soraes ss the man who had defraude
 him.
 y Late yesterday afternoon Carnind le Jsdonni of 16 Rose street reported at p' lg lice headquarters that he had been victin a, ized out of $16 last December by 6 simil, r. scheme. Shortly sfterward Antonio Ssv v- rino of 90 Dow street reported that Ia
 August he had been similarly buncosd o, ], of $10 in Italian money. Both these me d positively identified Soraes as tho man vi G. had buncosd them. A number of oth, at Italians slso reported losses to the poli ct yesterday and Saturday.
 O. At first Soraes denied all knowledge
 any crime, but later in the day, after
 had been confronted by 8 number of b
 victims, he began to "squeal" and kel r. asking Sergeant Cook how much time 'n would have to spend in jail and whether n. not he would be tried on one or more COT
 plaints. From the nature of these que 10 10 tions 1t Is believed that this is not Sorae et ot first experience in captivity. He will N ~ arraigned in the city court this mornir charged with highway robbery and obtai ls ing money under false pretenees.