New-York tribune., 1896-01-09
POSTOFFICETHIEVES ca UGHT'
CARSON AND YENNIE LODGED AT POLICE
HEADQUARTERS BY CAPTAIN O'BRIEN.
THEY ARE WANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES-THEIR LONG
LIST OF CRIMES.

LIST OF CRIMES.
Acting Captain O'Bren. OF the Detective Bureau.
and Detective Sergeant McCauley have earned
$1,000 reward offered by the Postoffice authorizes
for the arrest OF George Carson, alas Little
George. ard Sidney yennie alias stephen J. Rob
erts, two clever postofce burglars who are wanted
by the United states authorities for postofiice
robberrs all the country. The two crooks
locked up at Police Headquarters.
Acting Captain O'Brien. with the assistance OF
Defective McCauley. personally arrested them
Carson AMI Yenn.e are associates OF Charley Al
len. Joe Killoran and Harry Russell. the post
office burglars who escaped from Ludlow Street
jail on the Fourth OF July last year They were
known as the "P.g Five" They robbed postofces
all over the country. When Allen. Kiiloran and
Russell were arrested last June. Carson and Yen
ME the whom the detectives were
still after
On July 10 Chief postonice Inspector Wheeler
al Washington. issued circular offering NO"
reward for the and convection OF Carson ana
Yenne. The circulars giving descriptions OF the
men and their photographs were sent broad
cast throughout the country. Several DAYS ago
Acting Captain OErien received Information that
the two had been seen in this city.
on Monday night. about II O'Clock. he arrested
Carson One-hundred-and-t twenty y-hfth-st ana
Riverside Drive and brought him to the Central
Olice. on Tuesday Carson was renianded AT rs
sex Market Cour; until to-day HIS Identity was
kept secret Captain O'Brien was anxious 10
effect Yennies arrest. lie succeeded in catching
the latter at a late hour Tuesday night at one
hundred-an nd-t wenty-hfih-st. and Madison-ave
Detective McCauley with him when they
caught sight OF their man They pounced upon
him before he suspected anything and lodged nm
IN cell at Headquarters. Yesterday mor"ihs
Yenn.e was arra.gn.d before Magistrate Hn1ms
a; Essex Market; and ne was also remandei unul
to-day Carson when arrested gave mis- name as
k. FlrfN- =. :
old clerk anj claimed TO i've in Brooklyn
Yena.e is th.rty-two years old. lie said he was
salesman and l!veI at Boston.
The specific charge against them is the robbery
OF the postofice at Pachosue, Long Island on June
l. 1894 The postoiiice broken into ana SD"
worth OF stamps stolen. Carson and fehn e.
Matt Kennedy. another postofice burglar. anu
Charley Allen. who escaped from I.rdlow Street
Jail were In the job. Kennedy was subsequently
arrested by New-Yori detectives. uiod ana con
victed. Charley Alien Was also caught but broke
II is understood that the United States authorities
want Carson and Yennie for iai2r numDYY, 11l
postofice rObberes. George Carson a.ias inV,e
George." ohas John Clsrlson, alias G'otsr 10y
wood is clever hauh sreak AMI srn'ii uil'l
Sidney Ycnnle. alias Sidney Manning. ana Stephen
j. Roberts j. a pickpockct ana general thief
Carson associated WIN such men as Huie Min'r
Horace Hov,n. alias Little Horace, JohnhE az
roll AMI other hrsi-class men. lie vas arr s.el ~
Petersburg. Va. IN March. lsN with Rn'e Mn'r'
Little Horace and charlotte i'ouph"rN Tor the 'ai
oeny Of $1,000 bonds ani sesur,iies TneS .S,- Sr
!oneel to i. II. Young, o. No ~ Nas'a-st.. ,niT
city All were brought beck here. bur Subsequently
o,scasrscd on November H.. 1851. Carson was AZ
rested ror robb.ug the Mlidietown Bank IN con
u-cticuf Of $500 ~ cash and bonds amounting I'D
$1,000 bur proved au alibi an secured hi- i"ieasr
Carson has been concerned IN nearly every arg
rohho,V and arrested N almost every hrgs c'is
IN The United states AMI canada His pc'ur" :
tive Rogue ',ni'rN. "ahicT ih'l d.
greph i SO 2. ia ~" K gu'-' GALLERY lie - -"
T., ro,ne from = fn- southern family lis iEh'
,arra said 10 br tlb-f' sidney BfaureSAfl J 'i.-
nj. IN 1915 he was employ cd hs clerk N t"
,.rcnllcai atOnai Bank. D: ri. city
Whon carson arI /, nulc were ari"sl'i b'lN N'i'
,xnansfyalv drce4, Carson had on u -" ga"
brown c,iiaHay sli new ~ - AMI brown friofh
bef N.nu.- also rev SUI ~ ifth N' - "a
Xfh creased trouse's ard aiskin cap ti'h
c.rri-i a goa watch AMI chain. NenIie h"s sI' " =
Mn y,hiskefs since ms picture wa- lasf ;dktn bY
me police Thcy iooke1 Tx piosreiod- 'n-.n-S'
''r rh .y.o noted croogs viii D. srrasneI e. Essex
Market court thi- morning. and 10 - uh,lt. 'na'
,h.y VIII then be turned over - 'nr I hi''' 9.''''
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