The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-18
THIEF IN LAWS FORTRESS.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE 4
sWINDLER'S TIERS.


toBe aJersey Baseball Manager-Cnught
A butchers cart drove UP to the Elm street
entrance OF the Criminal Court building at 3
o'clock Yesterday afternoon. found Il closed
and went around to the White street entrance
young man carrying two bundles made In
quiries for Assistant District Attorney vii.
liam ]. Stickney." There Is no such assist
ant. The man with the bundles called upon
Chief Clerk Mckenna and snid that he had
thirty pounds Of meat and a quantity OF vege-
tables to deliver to Assistant District At
torney William J. Stickney." The order to de-
liver the meat had been sent by TELEPHONE &c
Underwood. Buckle 4 Co., butchers. OF IA
West street The man who telephoned said
he wanted The. best meat In the market for
the reason that he was to have Major Gardiner
to dinner on Sunday. He had teephoned in.
structions to deliver the meat and groceries
at the Elm street entrance to the Criminal
Court building. II being Saturday afternoon.
the Elm street entrance had been closed &C
that these directions could not be carried out
I'm glad you came" said Chief Clerk Nc.
kenna to the man from the meat market
The fellow who telephoned for this meat is
a swndler. We've been trying to get hold OF
him for the past six months. I'll get a couple
OF detectives down here. and you can 60 down.
stairs to the ground floor and wait there until
some one claims the goods. will follow YOU
and grab the man."
Chief Broderick OF the subpoena servers d.
vision and John Buckley the calendar clerk
volunteered to serve us detectives. McKenna
and the man from the meat market started
down for the first floor Schneider. the eleva-
tor man. seeing them. shouted across the Court
House corridor:
Hey. you butcher Mr.. Stlckney's been look
ing all over the building for you. He has
gone UP to the Grand Jury room. and SAYS he'll
meet You there"
Clerk Buckley ran around to the Grand Jury
room. hut 1t was empty. There was man at
The District Attorneys private telephone. how
ever. Buckley got close to the telephone
booth and listened He heard the man ring
up the West street meat market and say:
Hello. is that Underwood. Buckle 4 Co?
Yes. What about that order? Yes I'm Mr..
Stickney Yes. Assistant District Attorney
Stickney. I'm In the District Attorneys
office now. Well. your man hasn't got here
yet and I've been waiting for him for an hour.
Yes. the Colonel and are going to have din.
ner Tomorrow and didn't want you to dlsap-
point me- Yes. Certainly. I'll pay you by
check Good-by. All right I'll wait for him"
The man who had been telephoning opened
the door OF the tele phone booth and came out.
Buckley pounced upon him. He tried to get
awav Broderick and McKenna appeared, &C.
compauied by the man from the meat market
and helped hold him. buckley produced
pair OF handouts and putting them on the
prisoners wrists. lei him around to the Coro-
ner's office ami haudeuned him Ia table
while he tel.rh'n.d tn 10 Ice Head uarters.
The news OF the arrest iravee all on er the
Criminal Court building and scOre OF doc
S"ari Of ess nurriad 10 he thitd door to sse
the prtt one. District Attorney Gardiner ran
az ft2M b.. t KY "cs and looking ut
can breathe easy now. That's the fellow
Colonel; hello. sCclonel; Can l sneak to you
,,.i Nay Va M n'h him! ASsS with him"eA,
him. Lex MIN IN! Ia. h "n we've H" sot y yon
at last" II npIea,rs that The, young man had
hesE irsaa. . o,r;Gardig:rs oilise and
met him. The Major took him to be snme
y"unG LAWYER and occasionally. when the
MaiGr was out. 'he young man sat In his big
>, P ,r sP same and took the prisoner
s Sc 6se a Jsaes 1 Rs he
James F. Kslly; 457 WAYNE street Jersey CITY -
mitted that he had been wSrkiDs the Dis.
trct Attorney's office as good Thing for the
oGnized him as q man who was wanted on a
charge Of sEindl3g many concerns IN thi.
is SSn me Of
and Identified. the prisoner as the man who
had swndled his nrm on juno 2, paying with
a6 bad check for goods delivered at the Gilsey
This man has made US a 10. of trouble"
Criminal Court building in January last, He
told ne he Tas the HTtvale secretary Of Vice
IN S see sae se
around li5tie bit. and ! showed ed, him around.
b hT9 aye cI af To, b s
o! whiskey delivered at the District Attorney
office. ] learned that no one at the .otIlce hih
me that they had received telephone mes.
sage from the, District Attorneys ON 90 to de-
R liver s ss s sSn wao xsI 1Ss
sill. came as IL BY The sso. E hontaxns
and In the: letter apolovized tor, sending the
bill. saying. We supnoss this little matter has
Many more bills came to us and we found
orders on the District. Attorney stationery.
Butchers came from. Fulton and Catharins
markets With bills for large quantities Of
,ear" and more wnisEey. About ten dnys ago
looking for u man who had pretended to DO
the District Attorney. the chief clerk; the par:
Ths
GilseT House came IN 10 make Inquiries about
MT Broadhead. witness n . murder case
that We knew Q, no such person. He said that
House. had received a Letter on the District
Attorneys paper saying Mr.: Broadhead OF In
diana. who is on here as witness In a murder
case. will stop at your hotel ana Tdesire 20
give him the best kind OF recon mendatIon.'
The man was received at the hotel with open
s5Ts After hsvins So'd meal he went over
Later on in the dav many delivery wagons
stopped at the Gilsey House to ,dellyer goods
addressed G; o. p, &c, Mr.; Broqdhead.,
Mr., Broadhead had left word with the clerk
TO nav for all goods that were received. bur
the clerk got tired OF rayng because so many
goods camo. This man Kelly has been identi.
fed by the hotel people as Broadhead,, He
stayed a couple OF days at the Gilsev and got
a large quantity OF dry goods. which he had
ordered c; .. D. He paid in checks. the hotel
clerk not interfering. because he believed that
Mr.. Broadhead was all Trht, After had in
formed the hotel people that the man was a
swindler. "A notice was sent out about him to
the members OF the Hotel Mems Association.
They have been on the lookout for him ever
since. ] understand that he has been IN the
habit Of using our telenhone 70 order goods and
then receiving the goods at the Court House
door. paving for the same with bad checks"
The police went over last night to ,ersey
City to look Kelly up, They were told that he
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