The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-29
Robbed IN THE CHURCH
Piekpoekets Ply Their Trade
at Father Sehandel's
Funeral.

Few persons in the vast throng that
attended the funeral services of this
late Rev. Father Joseph J. Shandel at
st. Pauls R.. C.. Church, G~reenville, on
Wednesday last were aware that while
Rev. Father Lawrence Carroll was cele-
brating the solemn high mass Of requiem
a pickpocket was robbing one of the
mourners. The occurrence would not be
made known even now could the police
prevent it. The police have e~ndeavored
t., keep the matter quiet for more rea-
sons than one. but mainly because the
guilty party was allowed to escape
through the failure of some one III the
department to do his duty. The unfor-
innate ourner who was robbed was a
well known lady residing in G~reenville,
and whose name is withheld by request.
She occupied a pew at the e a of the
church and was SO interested in the SER
vices that she paid no attention to the
other occupants of the pew. She first
discovered hat she had been robbed
when she left the church. Her pocket
book, which was in a deep pocket of her
skirt, was gone. In the pocketbook were
pawn tickets for two watches, one gold
and one silver, and a number Of gold
rings.
The jewelry had been the property of
her dead husband, and she was compelled
to pawn it owing to Strengthened circum-
stances She was almost distracted upop
discovering hat the pocketbook had been
stolen, and in an excited manner report
ed her loss to Policeman Donnelly, who
was present. The policeman Immediately
notified one of his superior officers, just
who cannot be learned, but instead of
notifying headquarters Immediately the
bright official postponed the duty for a
number of hours. The 3ewelry had been
pawned at Meyers p~awnshop on Warren
street. near York. and when a detective
from Headquarters called there, after re-
e cinct ot aStlse from pa d the tarayg Filth FIJI pre- Pre-
minutes before. The clerk said that a
seven inches tail, with a black mustaeRe
and a Jewish cast Of countenance, had
presented the stolen tickets and had re-
the Charges. eT Thisy de epaa tns P2a aRiesn Wits Hs
the man who pawned the articles taken
the police believs that Greenville's bur
glar and the pickpocket are one and the
same. The police have hopes that this
lar. but Unless more consistent ll EFFORTS
are. made. BY the Fifth precinct police
least. their hopes Will never be realiz-
ed. While the residents Of. the district
realize that they are dealing with q
them in the ursnccessful efforts
of the police to land the burglar behind
the The force which goes on the
lasting from midnight until seven
o'clock a been increased with extra
men until It Is nearly doubled. but In spite
of this Mr.. Burglar is still reaping a
harvest. I,anforti. Linden and Win
fell avenues where all the burglaries
coats after midnight, and citizens arriv,
ing home late are sure to be stopped
with a request for an explanation as to
business. The burglar is about the
only one who has not been forced to run
this gauntlet.
Ing, policeman Dunnigan attired in citt-
when he noticed a man acting in a sus,,
picfous manner. He stopped him and
asked him the usual questions. The man
gave as his name Louis Reese, n said
that he was employed as a h~orseshoer
and resided on Thirty-frst street., Bay
~explanation n told Reese to get home
said he would, n hsa led for Bayonne.
Half an hour later Detective Egan met
him on Danforth avenue and arrested
him. Reese will have to explain mat
tiers to Justive Douglass.
Detective Colyille Smith on Friday re-,
the siiverware stolen from Mr.: Maertens'
residence on Linden avenue Wednesday
night. This is the second lot Of silver
ware which has been recovered, but as
vet none Of the overcoats stolen from the
twelve different places have been found.