New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-17

A,BAD PAIR LODGED IN JAIL.
TWO BURGLARS WITH LONG RECORDS
CAUGHT BY BROOKLYN DETECTIVES.

THEY ARE FRANK SUTTON AND CHARLES JOHN
soN-BI-RGIARs' TOOLS FOUND IN THEIR
POCKETS AND AT THEIR HOMES.
Inspector Mackelars Central Office detectives
made an important capture of two notorious
"cracksmen" in Brooklyn yesterday and the
crooks" Frank Sutton alias Big Frank Nor
ton. alias Fred" Brady, and Charles Johnson
are now safely Gagged in Raymond street Jail
The arrest Is considered : important the
running down Of the Porter-Irving gang on
Patchen-ave. several years ago The two men
wanted in a score Of cities. and towns In the
United States for safe-breaking and robbing
Lostonices. They looked and dressed like
prosperous business men. Sutton lived at No -
st. Johns Place. while Johnsons house was at
No &c Sterling Place The rears of the two lots
joined and the pair could signal each other
from the back rooms Of their houses. They pro-
fessed great Indignation when they were ar
rested
The brooklyn police have been working on the
case about three months in conjunction with
the United States Secret Service detectives who
had been tracing postOfce burglaries, and WHO
learned that sutton and Johnson were in New
York or Brooklyn. Inspecto~ MackeIar. Deiec-
tive Sorgeants Daly. lche ana others, repif-
sentng the Brooklyn police. have worked win
the Federal authorities. or LATE burGlaIies nave
b.cr frequent in Brooklyn About two weeks
ago 81 POO WAS stolen frcri ~ American Ea"IhS
Company in Fifth-ave. and on Friday night the
safe in Pepers oil store, ~. fl' )"haIp-"'e'
was opened and $50 taken.
Yesterday morning. Inspector Mach"llar. after
having had sutton and Johnson under sunei-
lance for two or three we-ks. decided to tap
them.
,nfe Iail an
Suttou's house. and Detectives DalH Reynolds
and Roche wers posted in front Of Johnsons s.
Abou; II o'clpcl; the burglars left their houses
Sutton walked leisuroly down 10 Fifth-ave, ana
on the corner Detective-Sergcants Ran and Con
nors stepped up and arrested him lie Wds lh '''-
nant The officers stood him up In nearby door
way and went through MS ciotnfs. HIdinE III ni'
no, kets a packet VI small steel wedges. used oy
burglars I'm forcing safe doors About the sam"
time johnson walked into the arms II Detectives
DAILY. Roche and Reynolds ON him 'hey i'uhu
number of highly tempered steel saws. an ai-
Unstable franz and trlangriHr-shap"d ''''
usel by cracksmen 10 drag our sal" k"oos
The men were taken 10 Polio" Headquhr''rS
where they were recorded a. Frank Sutton. alia'
big Frank Norton. aged thirty-scven. Of ~. 3,
ST. Johns Place, bJokmakrr married ant
Charles Johnson. thirty-two wears Old NJ -
Sterling Place. b1okmaker. married
Later ir the day careful search was madr "i
The TWO houses o-cuW"d by the burglars. Moi'
burglars tools were found. including Il nra' "h j
bIt "a huge -iodgc-hammer. delicate steel run. arf
files appliances for blowing gunp into sai,-
. and five loaded rcvolvcrs. some II the booty - t
recent postonlce robbery. it T. claimed. was found
In Su,to1's house Inspector Jacobs. - th' f'si
0fii.e Seorc, Service. assisted IN" dit"cilN'" ln
their scar. 90.
one Il Plnxertoa'a detectives visited Br1ok'fn
ami took q look at Tho prisoners li' shlI h'.n
wee wanted ilr a burglary recently ,Imnit )
W the state sutton under tho alias - Fred
Era lv about ten years ago was one 4 gang
that broke into the Lawrence Mass National
Bank He was sentenced 10 ten years iuprs'n-
m"nt for that and has been ont II prison a com
paratiyely short time.
sutton and johnson have lately been ~ m"
habit 4 visiting Frederick Robinson. who con-
ducts a bOokmakinR establishment IN Willough-
hv-st P1stofiicr inspc Ja obs says that three
months ago sutton ana Johnson ri0ri a post
office safe in Tc<as and g'' q large amount ~
money.
Commissioner Wcllcs c,ngr,uitod Inspector
Mackcllsr on the captur" of fho men