New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-01
4 BAND OF CHICKEN THIEVES.
ONE OF ITS ALLEGED MEMBERS CAUGHT-How
WAGONS ARE PLUNDERED

ONE OF ITS ALLEGED MEMBERS CAUGHT-HOw
WAGONS ARE PLUNDEREp.
small boy was arraigned in Yorkvlc Court
Yesterday morning. charged with stealing live
chicken and from the evidence in the case it was
learned that an organized and bold band of young
chicken thieves have been pundering wagons In
the neghborhood of Gansevoort Market for years
The boy arraigned yesterday Is Bernard HoZ-
hauser fourteen years old, Of No. 404 East Six
teerth-st. He denied the charge of stealing the
chicken and explained his possession OF II by saying
that II had been given him by companion
MAGISTRATE Kuilich held Hozhauser in 500 bail for
examination tomorrow. Herman Cohen, of No. A3
East ne-hundred -and-twentieth-st from whose
wagon the chicken stolen, was the complain
ant In the case He said that he had been in tho
live poultry business for the last ten years and in
that time had lost many hundred chickens, whicn
had been stolen from his wagons by boys He said
that large band of boys infested the neighbcrhood
Of Gansevoort Market watched the wagons OF deal
ers making purchases there. and stole anything
vehicles While the boys would take almost any
thing they showed great partially Tor i've, I'VE low b
self and other dealers amounted TO many thousand
in the last years He declared that the bo!s
were regularly organized. had code OF signals ana
always carried bags into which TO put their pun
der He said that when the driver OF wagon
started away from the market q humber OF boys
would follow and when little distance away
would sneak up behind and, breaking the stats OF
These they would put into the bags and then scam cam
per away The boys were so expert IN handhnS
The birds that they could make no noise. ana were
such fast runners that II seemed impossbie 20
catch any OF them. The wagons were GenrraHF
heavily laden and drove slowly. and the drivers HS
a rule were afraid leave their horses ana
wagons to chase the boys when they did happen
to detect them in the act which was seldom IN
some cases when they had left their teams ana
chased the boys for a considerable distance. they
returned to find that another set OF boys had looted
their wagons of about everything.
Uolzhauser was arrested Saturday afternoon ny
Policeman Fullerton of the West SlXty-elghth-st'
:, alton who is one OF the bicycle squad. lie was
riding his wheel down Ninth-ave, near Fourteenth
81 when he saw four young boys follow tohen
wagon pull Stat from crate in the back par'
and take out several chickens. which they put INTO
bags they carried The boys saw Fullerton as NJ
started TO squirt toward them and, scattering. @acn
ran in q different direction. Fullerton scoTghed
after the largest boy. and finally caught itoH-
hauser about half block away in fGurtcGnth-S,;
Inst before he caught Holzhauser tn" boy dropllcp
Tho bag he had been carrying. In II was iouhh q
FAT hen An attempt was made TO induce inc hoE
In tell who his accomplices were. hut every e0oit
failed II is thought that on" Of them Is a HounSe-
brother In passing large pile Of paving stones
i'm tho same neighborhood later i'm III" afternoon
Fullerton noticed that about thirty boys VINO hdu
been hiding behind the stones. scattered III ever
direction when they saw him. lie was told mat
they belonged 70 the band Of chicken thieves.