The evening world., 1894-01-09
ROUNDUP OF CROOKS.
Thirteen Men and Boys Arraigned
in Yorkville This Morning.
Bicycle Thieves, Burglars and
Pocketbook Snatchers.
One Gang Chloroformed the Occur
pants Of a clearinghouse.

Detectives Michaels, Dale, Delaney and
Conner, of the West Forty-seventh street
SQUAD, produced thirteen alleged thieves
before Justice Voorhis In the Yorkville
Police Court to-day.
Eight were charged with burglary,
three with highway robbery, one with
being a receiver of stolen goods and the
last with the theft of a bag of iour.
The prisoners were Stephen Burns.
thirty-three years old. of 1926 West Fifty
ninth street; Martin Muller, thirty-four.
of 1S5 Monroe street; his brother James.
aged twenty-nine, of AL West Fifty
sixth street; Charles H. French, thirty
four years old, Of 443 West Fifty-sixth
street; Robert Johnson, alias John
Robins, thirty-nine, same address;
Joseph w. Pheiffer. twenty-siX; Joseph
Schneider, twenty-eight;; William
Schneider. alias Schmitt, thirty-two;
william Eckis. twenty-seven, all living
in a clearinghouse at ~ Bowery; Thomas
Atkins, twenty-five, 754 Seventh avenue,
and three colored boys, Arthur Ray, fif-
teen years old, of One Hundred and
Forty-sixth street and Eighth avenue;
August Stephens, fourteen. of 26 West
Sixty-second street, and George Pleasant,
eighteen, of the same address.
The first five mentioned were charged
with the theft of a 500 bicycle from John
j. Henry, of 1926 West Fifty-ninth street.
of which house Burns was the, janitor.
The bicycle disappeared out of the wood
house on Sunday night.
AS Detectives Dale n Michaels were
walking up Ninth avenue yesterday al
ternoon, they saw French and the two
Muller brothers in close conversation at
the southeast corner of Fifty-sixth street
snd Ninth emu n u they
then kept their eyes on them and finally
saw French and Martin Muller enter
Newman's pawn-office, on Ninth avenue,
them, F and 7 isff his street side part BsIe ou aGsIGst to
watch Martins brother. James.
on entering he heard n men ASK
the ~pawnbroker II he wanted to ouy a
sponded: Eyes; is it yours to sell?' On
their reply in the affirmative the pawn
broker asked to be shown the receipt
them, and with a 'Good-by; We'll see
you later they left, still shadowed by
sthe detective.
They approached tho third man, whom
they had left outside, and after a brief
o~pversation parted. French proceeded
Aown Fifty-slxth street, followed by pc
tective Mlchaels, while Detective Dale
Swallowed The two Muller brothers to the
flat at 500 West Fifty-ninth street, where
they entered the basement, in which
Janitor Burns lived.
Dale then summoned two pollcemen,
and when the Miller brothers reappeared
on the street they were taken INTO Gus
tody.
He said that the janitor stole the bicycle
from one of the tenants in the house the
night before. and that the janitor had
saken 1t to him and he mad put hunt, ID II M III
with johnson at 443 West Fifty-siXth
The detectives then threw out their
BURNS. French and Johnson also In Gus
tody. James Muller and Janitor Rtrns
were held for trial. The three others
After they were disposed OF Justice
yoorhis called Up four of the other de
PENDANTS, Pfeiher, Schneider Schmit'
Pfeiffer. with the aid of the three
others, chloroformed his friend, Valen,
tine L.awx, and some boarders llving IN a
clearinghouse at 800 Eleventh avenue
new overcoats and about $3.50 in money
Pfeiffer and his pals are recent ar.
rivals from Germany; Pfeliter ana tne
complainant are Natives in OF tbi t"e country sar
three or four months ago, Pfeiiter va m
aided by L.awx, who paid his board oil
for a weel; or two: Beng y pour nha A.
must look out for himself. Their friend
Pfeiffer drifted down to the BowerI
lodging houses, where he fell IN with twt
gangs of thieves. and ne plahheo INC
idea of robhlns his benetactor al .h,
Late on Saturday night, after an tn'
boarders at 300 Eleventh avenue were
fast asleep. the four German burglars
scaled a ladder at the rear or the hous'
and clambered into the first story win
dow. None OF the boarders was aroused
and when they awoke in the morning
some of them remarked the scent o
chloroform and felt heavy.
Lawx was the principal loser. Ill
overcoat and n suit of clothes and {
once suspected Pfeiffer of the burglary
and set Detectives Dale and Michaeli
on the case. They located Pfeiffer II
a Bowery lodglnG-house, and on hi
confession arrested the others. They
were remanded until tomorrow.
Stephens and Pleasant. on Saturday
night they snatched a. pocketbook con
taining SO 90 and a pair or gloves iron
Miss Ellen Mackin. of Is West Fifty
eighth street, and escaped.
Miss Mackin was standlns ar nc cor
avenue, when she was seized by tn
boys. Ray forced the property out o
her hands and the boys. then scattered
Detectives Delaney and tonnors, tron
n tip they received; arrested stephen
yesterday, and N his confession cap
tured the two others. They were re
mandei.
Thomas Atkins, tho last on the list
was held for trial for stealing a bag o
hour from Buffers grocery store, a
Forty-elghth street and Ninth avenue
last night. He was captured after
lively chase OF several blocks.
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