New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-17
LONG CAREERS OF CRIME.
FIVE DESPERATE BURGLARS CAUGHT.
ACCUSED or WHOLESALE RoBBER1Es IN THIS
CITY AND BROoKLYN-THE LIVES or
"sHEENEY" MIKE AND CHARLES WOODS
FILLED WITH WILD ADVENTURES.

CITY AND BRooKLYN-.THE LIVES OF
"sHEENEY'' MIKE AND CHARLES WOODS
FILLED WITH WILD ADVENTURES
INSPECTOR McIaughln's detectives have landed in
central Office cells within the laet two days five
notorious hurga-s Each of them has a record that
would fiji a book The prisoners are Michael kurtz,
alias Mike" Sine, alias 'Sheeney Nike iory-nhe
years old OF No. 1c2 Seventh-st. NO. L." IN IN"
Rogues Gallery; George Wilson. alias Jack Ma
honey alias Jack" Sheppard forty-four years DID,
No N2 In the Rogues Gallery Charles Woods alias
Fauber alias Wright. fory-six years OLD. OF Phila-
de,nhia photograph No. l049 George A. Miller alias
Willard hfty-thres years old. OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
seventeenth-st- and Eghth-ave., a specuiator' NO
665 in the gallery: Michael Wagner saiesnan-
thiry.two years old OF No s74 Third-aVe'' hep"e"
OF "Sheeney" Mike. .
,r, mon q re wanted for a series OF robberes that
boyo teIv been perpetrated in this city and Brook-
lvn SUSPICION was directed TO 'Sheeney Mike as
being the leader, because the entrances ihaue "
the places that robbed were enecteu III eaO"
instance after a fashion entirely his own. ms was
70 force an entrance from adjoining house The
prisoners were arraigned in the Jefferson Market
Police Court Yesterday and were remanded Tor eA-
animation The following some OF the robperles
for which the men are wanted On APrH : INC
wholesale liquor store OF T. Altschut q Io' u
No co College Place. broken into; the sale was
blown open. and s.. and valuable papers were
goods establishment at No. 10 Easr Fifth-st was
entered jewelry and cash to the amount OF SSVo
were taken from the safe. On May S Brill Brothers
furnishing store at No 21l Sixth-ave.. was robbed
of cash and stock amounting to $500: the safe was
also blown open on May q the drygoods store OF
T L. F. Newman. at Westinghouse. near john
son-st brooklyn was visited. The burglars tried
TO 'crack" the safe but their tools broke. They
took away some silk on January Clark Wilson 4
millinery store at No. 81 Myrtle-ave.. BROOKLYN
received attention. The burglars tried to get H.
but the alarm went off and they took a quick De
parture, leaving some Of their tools behind On
January 10 the drygoods store OF Goerke Brothers Mt
Bedford-ave. and South Eighth st, was robbed OF
silk worth s1.0oD on April ~ OGrady u 90. =
drygoods store. at No. 9iS Third-ave.. was entered
and silk worth $500 taken away Entrance TO the
place was made through hole in the floor The
housekeeper of the building identified Wagner as
he was a meter Inspector. He visited the cellar
and is supposed TO have then laid plans for robbing
the store. -
Woods and "sheeney" Mike have remarkable
criminal records On February is, 1874 they were
convicted of burglary. and sent TO State Prison FOR
four years and six months. on May T. 1870 they
conceived and carried out desperate plan at
escape. aided by other criminals. The men fash
Toned blocks OF wood resemble revolvers. and
then made their way out OF their cells and boarded
a passing locomotive The wooden revOvers were
pointed az the heads of the engineer and fireman
and they surrendered the locomotive. which was
down several miles from the prison. where the
took the woods. Woods had many other
exciting adventures. He released from the
Michigan Penitentiary last August 'Sheeney MiSe
had equally startling record OF crime In this
country and Europe