The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-17
INCITED BOYS TO STEAL.
Junkdealers Arrested for Receiving
Stolen Goods-Boys Seriously
Implicate Them.

At last the police have got what they
consider IL good case against two of
the Raymond court junli-dealers, who
for some time past have been suspected
of melting boys to theft and with the
! help of twelve good men and true at
the next session of criminal court will
make an example OF them that will be
lasting caution to all of their ilk.
Jacob and Michael Suravitz, father
and son, are the parties. Their ar
rest was a consequence of the rounding
up of the gang of boy burglars, told
in yesterdays Tribune. They and the
boys were given a hearing before AL
derman Millar yesterday and held ir
bail for appearance at court. The boys
were held as witnesses rather than de-
| PENDANTS. 1t is the junk-dealers the
police are after.
The four boys whom young Crane i'm
plicated, George Tate, of the West Side;
Harry Vessel, of the South Side; Harry
Murray, of the Scranton 'iats. and JOS
eph Rogers, of the central city, corrob-
| GRATED Crane in all the main features
OF the story he told the police.
They had their rendezvous in a de-
serted shanty belonging TO the Key
stone Paving company, which is lo-
Gated on the commons near the Del
aware and Hudson freight depot at the
! foot of Wyoming avenue. Here they
met nightly and sailed forth on their
thieving expeditions. When they had
secured all the plunder they could get
away with they would carry it to
| the Suravitz place under cover of
darkness and sell it to the junkmen.
One or the other usually awaited the
| boys coming, but on one occasion the
elder SuravitI got out of bed at two
O'clock in the morning to buy their
| booty.
The junkmen knew well enough how
| the goods were gotten, the boys say,
| and Crane goes so far as to state that
| the elder Suravitz was told in one in
stance where the booty was stolen from.
| The character of the goods purchased
| from the lads will be put forward by
the police as stronger evidence of the
| junkmens guilt than any testimony the
boys may give. A large brass coup
| ling which was found secreted in a
! bed in SuraVitz house; twenty sticks
| of solder, new and untarnished brass
attachments of stationary engines, cop
per wire in large strands and the like
| which were found at the Junk shor
and identified by the boys as goods
which they carried there. will poin!
more strongly to the iunkmen's guilt
than anything else, the police contend
Leonard's Tobacco factory, Cusick's
Undertaking establishment, the Lacka-
wanna Paint works and the LaCkawan.
ma Lubricating works are amcng thC
places the boys confess to have en-.
tered. The different rObberies Were
committed by different boys. not al
of them being concerned in each case
Young Rogers claims he participated
only in the Leonard affair. At the lubri
eating works a bungling attempt was
made to drill the safe, but the lads vii
not admit openly that they did this
| They look sheepishly at one another
and laugh when this matter is men
toned, as If there was some coed JOKE
attached to the affair.
The accused junkmen say nothing
except that they are entirely innocent
ard will prove it.
Two other boys were arrested las
night for completely in the thefts
Their names are withheld by the police