New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-18
FOUR BURGLARS IN THE TOLLS
MARKS ON A TOOL LIKELY TO LAND
THEM IN JAIL.
ALL oLD-rTsfD cRAcKsMEN WHO PIrTED THEIR
WITS AGAINST BYRNEs. AND USUALLY LOST
GOT 5000 WORTH OF PLUMBER
IN PHILADELPHIA

IN PHILADELPHIA
gang Of safe-blowers came to town recently.
and yesterday. after two weeks chase, Captain
McClusky Of the Detective Bureau succeeded In
rounding up the last member. Three were then
already in the cells at Police Headquarters They
had cracked shop In this city ten days ago, but.
mcre important still, they had made a valuable
haul q short time before in Philadelphia. at an
opticians store. The burglars Andrew Craig
alies Fairy Mcguire; Edward Farrell. alias
Ned" Mallaty, OF No. 531 East Seventy st
Edward Mason. alias ed Niece" and Martin
McCloskey. OF Philadelphia. 1t was In that town
that McCloskey was arrested yesterday They are
all old-timers whose pictures have been in the
Rogues' Gallery for years, and who In their day
pltted their wits against Byrnes and Mclaughlin
and were overthrow. McCloskey and Craig have
only just come out OF prison. Farrell was DIS
charged from Auburn seven months ago. AFTER
serving a term for burglary and emptyng his re
volver at policeman who caught him In Fordham
with n complete set OF burglars tools In his pos
session That was in 1898 but he Is still at the
same work.
Albert Pelsers dellcatessen store at NO 1888
Third-ave. was blown open by dynamite ten days
ago at the hour when the policemen are changing
| tours and are sure to be far away The explosion
! awoke the entire neighborhood. but the thieves
| escaped They secured only 81. although there was
| about $50 In the SAFE The greater part or the
money not seen in their hurry. IL was plain
| to Captain McCusky however. that the JOB was
the work Of old hands, and he set his best men to
| search the neighborhood for clews. servant liv-
ing behind the delicatessen store put them on the
| right track She had seen man In the yard In
| tho rear OF her house on the morning OF the rob-
| berg. The man asked her II she would let him 60
| through her house 10 the street She promptly
| picked out Crag's photograph In the Rogues Gai-
| lery as that OF the man she had seen. The de-
tectves watched Craigs house. In East Seventy
seventh-st. They learned that Farrell had been
| seen in the street a short time before, and on
Thursday night the detectives saw him. carrying
bundle, go into tho house. They followed him, and
arrested Craig. McGee and Farrell
No bundle OF any description was found In the
rooms, but a piece OF iron, called ripper,
weighing about forty pounds which Is used for tear
ing of safe doors. picked up there. besides ar
| iron wedge and loaded revolver The three ner
were taken to Police Headquarters. where they
| were locked up Then the servant who had aided
the police IN finding the prisoners was asked 10
view them, TO II she could identity any one OF
Craig. who had changed his clothes so as to look
l.ke typical tough" He wore his trousers tucked
and he he had red handkerchief around his neck
didn't recognize the man. for they would not have
| known him had Il not been for the squeaky VOICE
In watch he speaks and which gave him MS nick
Whether the gang can be convicted OF the deli.
in IN Sir room dentiaes them with the Philadelphia
burglary and is likely to send them TO jail. The
|
| When hlbert Abraham's optical store, at No:
! North Ninth-st., Philadelphia, was robbed OF S,r
| worth OF booty, the burglars used tool nicked IN
| a peculiar manner which left marks OF the nlcks
| upon the wood The marks correspond with those
| on the tool found here The discovery Of this
! fact has led The three prisoners TO make some
! damaging admissions, and that In why McCloskey
| was arrested in Philadelphia yesterday at Cap
| tain McC'lusky's request The police are positive
| that MCGEE and McCloskey did the Phiadeipnia
Job and that Mcclure and Farrell cracked Peiser
| safe on December last. $1,000, .
| Craig Farrell and MCGEE will be arraigned 70
| ,kn
| Other burgaries may BE- traced 10 them and tht
police working like beavers 10 trace their recon
| moy