New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-12

ARREST OF TWO MEN FOR ROBBING THE
METROPOLITAN.

ONE OF THEM CONFEssEs. AND NEARLY ALI. THE
STOLEN MONEY HAS BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR.
John olden twenty-one years old. of No. 1903
East Sxty-fifth-st. and Michael T. Murphy
twenty-three years old of No. 400 West Fiftieth-
It,. are in custody at Police Headquarters. for
me theft Of $500 from the Metropolitan Cub, al
Fifth-ave. and Sixtieth-st.. on June a. Most OF
.he money has been accounted for, ana one al
the prisoners has confessed The money was car
rled to the clubhouse by John Callaghan. the SUI
perintendent. to pay salaries OF employees anu
other expenses The money was stolen inside Oh
half an hour after it reached the clubhouse
Detective Sergeants Reidy and Reilly have been
Investigating the case. and their suspicious rom
the first rested on Oden. because he ma" oeeh
making inquiries as TO whether money 'ouiu De
identified and he was known to be friendly with
Murphy who had been discharged for stealing
and who had been hanging around the CLUBHOUSE
the day Of the robbery.
On the day following the robbery the detectives
followed Olden and Murphy TO the Bank for Saw
dngs at Fourth-ave and Twenty-second-st. Olden
went into the bank while Murphy waited outside
Detective Fogerty who also went into the BANK,
raw Olden make deposit. The next day the
suspected men went TO the Union Dime Savings
Bank at Broadway and Thirty-second-st.. where
Olden made another deposit. The detectives also
learned that on the day Of the robbery Murphy
had deposited $500 In the Franklin Savings Bank,
at Forty-second-st. and Eighth-ave During the
period of surveillance to which the men were
subjected they visited Gravesend racetrack
and spent two days at Coney Island, where the
detectives kept them constantly in sight
Captain O'Brien decided on Wednesday to ar
rest the men, so the detectives took them into
custody early Wednesday evening. They were
taken 10 the Detective Bureau, where Captain
G. Brien questioned and talked with Olden for
eight hours. 1t was difficult task to get him
to confess but finally at . o'clock yesterday
morning he broke down. He admitted the rob-
berry and implicated Murphy. He said that be-
fore Murphys discharge they had been plotting
the robbery. After he Mr.. Callaghan place
the money in the desk he forced II open ana
took the money from the satchel 1t had been
arranged that after the robbery he was to meet
Murphy outside the club and pass the money 10
him. When he got out on the sidewalk he could
not find Murphy He did not know how to get rid
of the money. and was so frightened al first that
he on the point Of going back 10 the club and
replace the money Ia the satchel. Then he got
afraid that he migh. be caught doing this so he
went across TO the park and hid the money
under some leaves.
him. When he was leaving the park entrance
he Murphy He called the latter and told
him he had stolen the money and where 1t had
been hid. He went into the park and got the
money. which Murphy took charge Of 1t was
then planned that Murphy was to go to the
Aulic Hotel. at Broadway and Thirty-ffth-st,
where he was to wait until Olden got through
work in the evening when he would join him.
They would then make further provision for
dsposing OF the money. They met as agreed
upon and hired room at the hotel for the
night. They placed the money in the drawer OF
washstand, while they went together 10 No
118 East Forty-sixth-st; They hired room
there for two weeks, paying "a for it in advance.
The landlady did not like the idea Of taking in
dodgers who had no baggage. and she said so
Olden said he would send at once for his trunk
He went out and bought a new one. Then the
men returned to the Aulic and got their plumber
They placed the money in the bottom. OF the
trunk and covered 1t with a newspaper. There
was nothing in the trunk except the stolen
money.
When arrested Olden had in his possession q
handbook showing that he had deposited 81 00l
an the Union Dime Savings Bank. He also had
$50 in cash. Murphy had $11 In money, a
pocketbook with some papers and a bunch OF
keys.
sion Captain O'Brien took the keys found upon
Murphy and went to the house at No. JIG East
Forty sixth-st. They let themselves in the front
door with one Of the keys and found that an
other opened the door Of the room which Olden
and Murphy had occupied. small key in the
bunch opened the lid OF the trunk, and there
the detectives found S1.1s5 in cash and bank
book showing Murphy's deposit Of 500 at the
Franklin Savings Bank Figuring UP what the
men had in their possession and what had beer
deposited in the bank, 1t was found that they
had spent about $500 Of the stolen money. Wher
confronted with the evidence against him, Muir
ply still maintained that he knew nothing of the
robbery. He said that the money found In the
his. was the money he had depos
ated In the bank.
The men were remanded In jefferson Market
Court and yesterday the Grand Jury indicted
them.