The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-08
Three Remarkable Thieves
Run to Earth BY Jersey
City Detect YES.
ROBBED STORES IN THREE CITIES
Looted a House Under the
Eyes of Capt. Whiskers
Chapman Chief Muir
phys Clever Work.


John Mcintyre with plenty of aliases and
Charles Wilson, three exceedingly clever
thieves who have kept the police Of New
York, Brooklyn, and Newark on the
anxious seat for several months, were run
to earth today by Jersey City detectives
! under the Instructions of Chief Murphy
The trio of precious rascals confined
their attention to looting stores and since
April last have at last carried away
$4,000 Of booty So bold had they become
that only day or two age they actually
removed the entire contents Of a whole
sale store in New York City, under the
nose of Captain Chapman, he Of the
whskers, who calmly watched0 their pro-
ceedings never dreaming that they were
slick bad men. Their mode of operation
was invariably the same A room hired
near to tn estore 10 be cleaned out and
that room near to the roof
| 1t was this fact that gave Chief Murphy
a clue t5 the men who almost entirely
cleaned out ON April 2s last, the shoe store
at No is Newark avenue, of VIM Z.
Douglass The thieves had removed the
stock to the adjoining vacant store, west.
the windows of which were covered with
theatrical posters. When the police
/
feed bag in the rooms and from this con-
! cluded that the goods had been taken
/ away through the roof Of the vacant
store.
Chief Murphy, after hearing the report
of his detectives and divining the style
of the robbery. sent them to find out if
any one had hired room near the store
| during the week The officers found that
three men had hired a room on the corner
Of Warren street and Newark avenue
| only few days before the robbery.
! These men told the landlord that they
were scene painters and naturally re-
quired plenty of light in their sky parlor:
wouldn't the landlord be kind enough to
/ make the roof light larger? OF he rid,
/ so delighted was he with his guests. On
! the day before the robbery the people in
the house noticed the, three men carrying
upstairs large trunks Two Of these pee-
pie were Mrs. Sanderson and Mrs. Fred.
Herring, wife of q policeman Oddly
enough. the day after the robbery these
two ladies' saw the men carrying out the
trunks
What are you going to do with them?''
they asked of Mr.. Jack Sheppard.
"oh. we are carrying away our work.
You see. we are through" :" he replied very
truly.
/ When al lthese facts were reported to
Chief Murphy he went to the Rogue's
Gallery and hunted up a portrait of Mr..
/ Sheppard, shrewdly guessing from the
! .sstyle'' that it was some of his work. The
Chief dug up ALSO the picture of one of
| Sheppard's pals. John Mcintyre, and
these were shown to q. man named Hanlil-
ton who rented the room to the three
/ men and to the woman, all of whom at
once picked them out as two of the three
! who rented the room.
! A week later Chief Murphy, who had
been diligently looking up Master Jacks
| whereabouts, heard that a store on Will
iamsburg Brooklyn, had been looted to
the tune tf 5000 worth of shoes. The
Chief at once rang up on the telephone
Captain Reynolds of that city, and adj
vised him to find out if any room had
been rented near the store prior TO the
robbery.
'What do you know about it?' inquired
| Captain Reynolds very much surprised at
the clue.
| "oh, said Chief Murphy, 1--WE had a
similar job here only recently, and
think it is the work Of Jack Sheppard
/ A few days later shoe store was emp
tied in New York, too, in Harlem, and
! finally one, bright morning a few days
ago they removed the entire stock of a
store on I'd wagons in Captain Chapman's
precinct ii, New York city while that
police freak was looking no.
On Thursday last Chief Murphy learned
from p Fl. Hanley, the furniture dealer
4 on Newark avenue, that a man named
Charles Wilson, who was behind on his
payments on furniture supplied by Mr.
Hanley, and had fraudulently removed
that furniture, was in the store The
Chief had an idea, ana quick as flash
4 ordered Detective Lee to bring the fellow
to headquarters.
Detectives Larlsins and Prescott looked
him over and their detective instinct told
them that he looked like some criminal
He was locked up. Wilson wore pair
! of Douglass shoes ana the numbers had
been carefully cut out. Chief Murphy at
once concluded that Wilson was the third
partly and he notified Captain Reynolds
in Brooklyn that at least one of the three
was in limbo in Jersey City
/ Captain Reynolds sent over August H
Boege, of No. 80 South Tenth Street.
Brooklyn, and Miss Ougael and Mrs. Eve
line Eldridge, both OF No. 207 Broadway,
Brooklyn, to look aft Wilson and see if
he was one of the three who hired a room
near to the store burgled in williamsburg.
Captain Reynolds, having acted on Chief
Murphy's valuable hint, found out that a
room had been hired the day before the
robbery All these parties at once picked
out Wilson Is one Of the three Mrs
Herring. Mrs. sanderson, and the agent.
Hamilton, also identified him as one Of
those who rented the room on the corner
Of Warren street and Newark avenue
8 this city
Having one Of the trio secure Chief
Murphy bent his attention on securing the
others. Wilson, having secured lawyer
TO defend him, sent Detectives Larlins
and Prescott to- watch the office of the
lawyer onA[onteomery street and folldw
anybody who came there. the Chief beftg
q confident that Wilsont Wife would oodl-
madnicate II some way with Sheppard add
i Mcintyre the do1eful news that Wils1n
was sJueged The Chief's vlew Of i p
ease turned Aout actuaily
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