The sun., 1894-12-16

ALBERT ALBERTs. ALIAS JOHN DOE.
When questioned by tho Sergeant before be-
ing locked up the prisoner refused to tell his
name. An inventory OF the plunder included
two ovsrcoats, q full-dress coat. clock, q she'll
box, q gilt belt, q lace chain, q pair of fruit
tongs, three silver spoons, and q small gold ring.
Besides these the man had kit Of burglars
tools, . silver watch and chain and about 81. so
in money.
He was arrested at 4:a0 o'clock. When
arraigned in the Harlem Polico Court at It's
opening under the name of John Doe he was
committed by Justice Burke TO the Tombs in
default of s., 500 bail. Later In the day he was
indicted. and on Friday he was arraigned before
Justice Fitzgerald in General Sessions. He
pleaded guilty to the indictment, and was re-
manded until next Friday for sentence.
Before John Does" arrest q number of
burgaries had been committed in Harlem. and
Detective Price was detailed to discover the
perpetrators. Besides the, burglary in which
he was actually caught, John Doe confessed to
the detective to entering the house Of Joseph +.
Fisher at 449 East 10th street. Detective
Price says that he Is positive that he can trace
two other burglaries to the same man.
While these housebreakings were going on in
Harlem, man was missed from his home In
Jersey City. One day the missing mans wife
went to the Jersey City Police Headquarters.
and telling Chief Murphy that she was Mrs.
sistance of the police In finding her husband.
p Tiss
the house of Elmer Hill Of 12o Union avenue.
and arose TO fisht the Sss she h had a1 hsrdiS
reached the foot OF the bed when q man grabbed
her by the throat, whispering hoarsely as he did
" "Yep and you Is q dead woman"
Mrs. Hin very promptly screamed, and the
encounter her husband lay still. In explana-
tion afterward he said he must have been drug
Fiji fought n tGS Sursar !. q bsss she cSSiS until
faint with the loss Of blood. she lost conscious
Previous to this there had 'it already been over
thirty burElaries In that section Of Jersey City.
ing the psrpstrator Of this last crime than they
bad bad been in sny Of the Others On Sept 20 Mrs.
@ % @smss ;sS s'' sd@lre you su,
he Sa n
you'd not haze cut you I did not want 20 harm You.
ss NJ SyS :Ss,i
e ess' SSs
20 more Here Here Z T. & paper it may uS b va. ys.Ip.els
The % SILVER but we p.wnsd AZ q Il .sid You Where !.
. o. s r. TC% Sa saa q
a % IT, hS% %s s.ss ne f'S 4 sSs
sysEysnf we took eTcsRs S0 ySST hsssSp 20 b:P PSn
naL soEkr, sUr Coon FRrESD.
The letter wss sh9WP I to Chief M Murphy and
personal in local paper:
SoRRY. BUT GOOD FRiEND.-Am yet too III TO
symp.thy. Prs.enis taken more prl,eS than money
suggest
& On .oS os TSng sse M SGor
the following:
Mas HnA: read your advertisement and viii try
sst = $ss. he tr$aSis ySSE honest now. ! would
&c ssSd 1a yon but Sssd sos money now and so Il
you vii pay Si5 you may have them; IN return ths
woman % DO whatI want you 10 do, but you have
As soon as you get this take your money and come
sons Have A. no one to follow you , 20 conduct yGn
the left side Of Forest Bergen avenue just
ssrrS san sGn S%as e 'fp S the hsGs na
path runs Gef3ss TO Virginia avenue stop at that
carry .hs enysIoPs n your hand, 50 / can see II;
sscry .isP yod Take q you S..s@et trs1chsTy Siii
You can depsnd on me being ali right boh't wssts
time but come right away THIS Is your lass chance
iGSdds iTisads. you arc " 'Sn" AN your 'o''' 'O' S'0'
Under the direction of Chief Murphy. Mrs
.rs S the
q BY number q EoiiiefmsP Mrs HIN n.g5 and
Tor when she arrived at the place no one was
nothing more was heard from the burglar, but
stolen in Jersey City, began to fnd many srtf-
cles he mad taken in the different places where
IL had been pawned. In one Of the shops the
proprietor told thS detective that he thought
the man who had pawned the property had been
arrested in Harlem. Smith looked into the
matter, and found that the man mentioned WAS
" John Doe"
smith conferred with Detective Price, and the
latter succeeded in getting the Harlem burglar
20 write letter 10 friend CT his named Hausser
u jcrsey ttty, asking him 10 come 10 see him.
That lvtter revealed the fact that John Doe was
Albcrt Alherts, the long lost husband. Alberts's
writing Mas compared with that OF the comnuni-
Cat Ons Mr.. HUI received The Jersey City AuthOFi-
ties say that Haussers letter and the one sent
TO Mrs Hile were alike In every particular Hut
not satisfied with that evidence AlbeFt's house
was searched And ia addition to finding silver
ware and articles In securely fastened coal
bin In the cellar OF the house a pad OF DaDer
was found which cOTTesponded exactly with
that on which the letters sent TO Mrs. Hin had
been written
Further than that. the messenger boy who
carried Rne of the notes 20 Airs. Hill Mas with |
some difficulty, found, and he vas brought 10
the TUmhs for tbs purpose, IL ,iblp Of denti-
fying Alberts The boy Mas put into the pen |
viii about forty prisoners, among whom was
AlbrTts.
Tne 10y uickcd nut man who resrmhIed
AIbcrts. The striking rr-rnhliats between |
Al rerts and the man thr lny pirt el out is 50
Chez Murphy thinks. good eNidsnre that he has
Ths thirty -ad more burslaFiss which caused |
sueb e0asternztion In Jersey City ssFe AL eom-