New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-11
NEW.JERSEY NEWS.
THE R4WSON TWINS PLE1SED.
THEY ENJOY THEMSELVES in JAIL md
SEEM TO RE PROUD OF THEIR
RECORDS AS HIGHWAyMEN OF
THE EIPST DEGREE.
THE FIRST DEGREE.

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u.ckers,ck Ian 10 1specaD.-Albert and Al
| rheus the Rawson twins. who were arrested h's'
| niphi on charges OF burglary and holding UP the
Erie baggage master and his assistant AZ huRe-
wood had pleasant day OF IL III 'i"che"S''"
! Jau The boys are passionately fond OF caru pray
/ ing and the first thing they did when Justice
Smith committed them 10 jail last night was 10
ask Constable Noble TO get them pack OF cards.
This the accommodating officer not only consented
| 10 do but he removed lot OF papers from JuS'''c
| Smiths desk and joined the lads In game 10
! XIII time til the train comes. continuing vi"
! pleasant nastme on the cars.
! The boys are so familiar with the iiackehsach
Jail that they feel perfectly at home In Sheriff
! Uerring's care. They devoted good portion OF
| the day TO "sevcn-up" stopping play long enough
| to attend divine service. They expressed them
selves as perfectly satisfied with the situation,
and feel that great distinction has overtaken them,
especially in the charge that they were principals
| in the Ridgewood hold up. participation In when
| they neither affirm nor deny.
At Park Ridge it has been busy day. Justice
William T. Smith. who has been working on the
case for several months was rushing legal matters
While his noiehbors were at worship in order that
lie might have clear docket tomorrow when
he to Iiackensack TO stand trial for assault
and battery the Rev. Charles lIelliwen The
Justice showed n small iron safe weighing about
200 pounds. which he said had been stolen by the
twins gang Of burglars from Montvae station last
| October and buried under apple tree mile
distant. The safe belonged to Justice Garret
+. Herring. II forced and rii,d. new so
overcost belonging to Mayor Jacob TerquoII and
other express matter were stolen AT the same time
The twins and their f:c daring comrades are
also charged with stealing several packages from
the Woodch station the same night and robbing
the house Of Mrs I.einsrum at TIillsdale trying
to steal the cornerstones from the churches IN
Mcntvae. Ilillsdale and Pearl River and many
other depredations. Justice Smith took time to
point to large safe in his Office. which exhibited
yawnng and ragged hole in evidence OF the
treatment II had received and expressed the belief
that the Pawsors knew how the hole made
las, summer. lie had suspicion. too. that they
were the persons who escaped when young Charles
Murray arrested two weeks ago for breaking
into the haywood station II was limited that the
recent hold up the IIoioken and Rutherford
trolley road nigh. be traced TO the same source.
Then His Honor turned to Mr. Kelsey "A young
lawyer ard asked: lis that warrant ready YETI"
"I.ll have It in II minute, Squire" the
answer.
THAT warrant IA new feature I'm The inter
esting case that Justice Smith has been making
out against the twins. Some months ago some
body carried Kit Of burglars tools into Constable
Duryea's house which H. near Justice Smiths
office. The unknown told the officer tina, the
| thirty pieces OF iron belonged TO gang OF seven
desperadoes under the leadership OF the twins.
the company being known among themselves as
| the Raw-on Rangers. The Constable marked each
! implement. and the departed mysteriousy
he under cove" OF the night. to place the
| XII in it's hiding place. These We're the things
| upon which the terrors TO be trapped
| Having caught the twins yesterday. Justice Smith
WAS after their working tools to-day and his IN
| forma ton correct that he went this
| evening in placid mood. The warrant prepared
| by Mr. Kelsey given TO constables Duryea aud
Noble 1T directed them to search the house of Al
bert l.. Rawson father OF the twins for machin,-
tools and implements adapted designed for
breaking into buildings, forcing rooms. and for
| other immoral purposes
The officers proceeded promptly TO the cottage
| near Woodcn approaching stealthily bur fear
| essly They found the kitchen door open and Ell
tered cautiously. The house void OF occupants
| MIR Rawson. his wife and the dogs absent He
said we'd find loose board in the Kitchen" said
| Constable Dury,a to his aid third from the hearth
That's H. Try it,. Noble raised the board ana there
! lay package. which proved 10 De burglars tools
Including Jimmy made OF a Flobert rife The OUT
! lit was taken 10 Justice Smiths Office and examined
where II was given out that some Of the articles
bore the private mark of Constable Duryea This
will put Mr. Rawson TO The dsa greeab nece ssiiy
explaining how the articles 20; under his kitchen
/ The old man not found by the Officers and
therefore they could no, him directed tie
and the twins have been ibsent for a considered bic
I time. Aipheus returned home Friday night and
/ his father reached Woodclin on Saturday morning
! with two men. who lcft during the day II il
among the possibilities that there may he Raw
son family reunion at Iiackerssck this week