New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-21
ACTIVE BURGLAR CA ACGHT.
HAS ROBBED THIRTEEN HOUSES IN
THREE MONTHS
ARRESTED FROM A SERVANTS DESCRIPTION AND
MADE FULL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
HIS GRANDPARENTS on THE PRO
cEEps OF HIS CRIMES.

CEEps OF HIS CRIMES.
Frederick ~ Hoyt living az No. 34S East
One hundred and nineteenth-st. was arraigneo
in the Centre-st police court Yesterday on
several charges Of burglary in the first degree
and was remanded until to-day. There was also
arraigned at the same time enc Ernest Schlett
bartender. Of No. ) Frince-st. who had been
found with Hoyt when ne was captured by De-
tectives Foye and Frank Price. of Captain NC
Cluskv's staff. on Monday night near Hoyt's
hcEe.
For long time the police have been looking
for man who had been robbing houses in the
unner mart Of the city. but no trace Of him
could be found. and no description was mad until
sontomber l. when servant employed in the
house at No. II Convent-ave. caught glimpse
~ tho mysterious Individual and told the police
about II the next day On that night the glri
eIart in the basement Of the house. she was
ouaLened in the course OF the night by me
scratching Of a match and saw man on the
,r.r,;eoo who had entered by the rear basement
window. a. -.
The Girl screamed and the burglar He'd out
not before she had gained a fair description Ok
him. He had entered the house. as ne hao "ohe
many other housec. by removing the "oo"e"
frames Of the basement windows ana 'n'S ""'
enabled 10 take out the protecting IRON pai .
fastened in every case into the "ood "a 'ne
frame and not into the stonework OF the
window.
From the description furnished by the servant
the detectives arrested Hoyt They touho III
his possession quantity OF property TAKEN i'oii'
the house OF L. Straus, OF No. East Ninety
,ourtb-st last Sunday night. Schlett was with
trov, v.ben the arrest was made, and although
,bere WAS nothing to incriminate him ne was
taken with the Other to Police Headquarters'
uovt confessed 10 Captain McCusky yester-
dav that he had entered thirteen houses. Prop
ar,, taken from these places had been identlAed u
In nawnshops. where II had been pledged IN TO
case did the burglar go above the E, ,
So IN houses where he visited He lett tne
eIaening- rooms untouched. and the major par I
~ the booty he took consisted OF sllvSr "a ,aoie :.
ware hlcycles etc. The most NaIudoiT ''' ~
booty did not exceed sl12 III soSS SoSs no entered:
robn cooner's at No - Copvent-ave, on June
-: No 81 Conv ave. owner ul,Kl9"m az ~,
same date: Emil Becks: al NO ISoS Saniso- nIs,s
,.c on Iuiv Il; Police Sergeant John Cooney 5,
81 No 307 West One-hundred-a d-and-twedi ST. oi'
July 26 Winthrop Earles, al NO ~ ~, on, IN el..
ave July - H. NJ LANES at nT tgi MT
a. No ol1 West One hundred and-thirty -slxtno o
st. on August II; Maurice klaber : al 40, % ',So
Manhattanave.. on August -: H. = I'm. ~
y
Max Hilborns at No. Il West Ninety -lourth 81, =
on September .. DR.. G. r. Morse : at No. 80
Fdgecombe-ave. on September 10. Mrs Charies
II Coor's AZ No $50 West -hundred-and-
thIrty-sccond-st on September 10. ana l..
+ strauss. at No. x Fast Ninety-fourth-st.' on
September Is . ... -.
Hoyt was sent 70 the Elrira Reformatory on
September iS. 1905. under the name ot James =,
Carroll for burglary. When arrested at ttat i
time XII Of burglars tools ana "a, anaHS,,G We ba
of dynamite were found IN the room ne mao
oeeupied~~Since his return to this city he ma
bas s,,nnOrted on the proceeds ~ his burglaries
his grandfather having disposed OF the nootI
FOR him knowing IL to have been stolen HoYt
has exonerated Schlett from having been an ac-
cornnlice ~ his as he saws that he carried on
his operations alone.
Schlett Is a paroled prisoner from the r.mrh
Refornatory. and will he sent back to that IN
stttutlon for having broken his parole by being
I'm the company Of thief. The two Young men
met In Elmira Hoyt being the handmaster %
tho reformatory band and Schlett being cornet-
r,laNer