The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-29
Pies CAUSED his ruin.
Burglar Schultz Captured by a
Woman Whose Pastry
Tempted Him.

Henry Schultz, alias Henry King, an
ex-conyict with a record for burglaries,
was captured by a woman yesterday in
the act of burglarizing her home, No. 2o4
South street. The woman is Mrs. Fannie
Rosenthaler. Schultz was held in the
Second Criminal Court by Police Justice
Potts this morning for the Grand Jury
for burglary.
Mrs. Rosenthaler'S husband is employed
in a gold watch case mandatory in New
York. Mrs. Rosenthaler went shopping
yesterday afternoon. She locked up the
house, front and rear, securely. Just be-
fore she left the house she left several
pies on a kitchen table. On a window sill
were a dozen wine bottles, thu majority
of which were filled, The Rosenthalers
buy wine by the five or ten gallons and
bottle it. The pie and the wine probably
saved the Rosenthaler house from being
| ~ransacked. The inviting feast was too
| much for the burglar, who had effected
an entrance through a small WlndoW OF
a shed built about the kitchen door on
the plan of a storm shed.
I Schultz had evidently learned that no
| one had been left in the house. He placed
his overcoat on a chair and waded into
the wine. 1t is supposed that he drank
several bottles, and took his time about
it. He had gotten away with nearly a
whole pie and was in an intoxicated con-
dition when he was suddenly surprised by
the entrance of Mrs. Rosenthaler.
Mrs. Rosenthaler is a somewhat mus
of a trim looking Amazon. She is good
looking and possesses a pair OF dark eyes
that can flash scorn and anger as well
as the tenderer attributes of a woman,
and which indicate that the possessor
knows not fear when aroused. The sight
of the intruder getting away with her
forget the balance of the premises.
What are you doing here?s she de-
manded angrily.
Schultz, in an apparently bemuddled
state of mind and a throat half choked
with pie, Replied
sHelpin' myself"
"Humphl well, I like that. Get out of
Mrs. Rosenthaler, yelling "Policei" grab
bed the intruder by the nape of the neck
and hustled him toward the kitchen door,
! which the burglar had opened from the
inside when he first entered the window,
in order to more easily escape should he
be taken by surprise from the front en-
trance of the house. The man wriggled
and twisted in a vain effort to turn and
strike from the shoulder. The woman
held her prisoner at arms length and
gradually hustled him orward, until they
came from behind the house, in plain
view of passers-by on the street. The
prisoner was wriggling and cursing. His
captor was holding him at arms length
by his coat collar, meanwhile calling for
help. The locality is outlying and the
posts patrolled by the police are lengthy.
Real ESTATE agent a. "A. FRANK OF NO.
100 Bowers street CHANGED to be driving
by. He Immediately jumped from his car
riage and ran to Mrs. Rosenthals assist
ance. The prisoner was quickly subdued.
Several pedestrians assisted in bundling
the burglar into Mr.. Franks carriage,
and he was hastily driven up to the
Webster avenu station house. Here he
gave his name as Henry King, and said
he lived at No. 500 Germania avenue. But
the police recognized him Immediately as
Henry Schultz, an old offender. His pic
ture is No. 43 in the Rogues' Gallery, at
| the station house. He had been frequent
ly arrested by Policemen Holderer and
| Frankham, the latter now deceased).
Schultz has served several terms in
States prison. He was sent there on one
| occasion for ~burglarizing a private resi-
dence at Summit and Manhattan avenues.
He also served a term for burglary COM
| mitted in West Hoboken.
In court this morning he tried to make
it appear that he had frequently called
| on the Rosenthalers, and said he called
there yesterday to get something to eat.
The Rosenthalers say they never saw
him before,