The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-25
POLICE HAPPY.
Believe They Have the Bur
glar Who Has Been
Working the Ber-
gen Section.
4 DESPERATE CRIMINAL
Fought Viciously After Being
Wounded Twice By
/, Bullets.

The naI;ce of the Ocean avenue slatlon
era i,,b,lant over the capture of the pur-
e1ar who attempted to rob the nome u
Mounted ofhcer Frederick Thau carry
Tb,,rsaav morning. The fellow MADE q
desperate light for liberty, and aitnough
shat twice only yielded when a gun was
nlaced At his head. accompanied with a
threat TO blow out his brains. ne can
consider himself fortunate IN no' co.
killed. as Oficer THAI had aim covered
with a revolver when he stoou ~
window. and only RETAINED from
ing for fear of disturbing his FANNY.
man displayed wonderful aglilty III I.
ing fences, and would have suceeeusu 3.
escaping had he not been headed on 10
Thau's son Herman. who ran arouho Luz
block. -
The burglar was shot twice one shos
from Oficer Thau's revolver passea
through his right han On peihg snVe
the man exclaimed: HARRY. I'm shot' !
guess I am done for He still continued
to run. however, and THAI called TO MS
SON, who was armed with a shotgun g
wing him., The shot took effect IN the
mans right arm above the elbow anu
caused him to ALT. When caught he aia
to THAI: Il wish I had been shot IN tne
head, for then it would be all over. No
time was lost in conveying the prisoner
to the station house.
When asked what he was doing IN
Thau's house he replied that he got tired
and simply meant to sit on the porch TO
rest. He refused to reply to further
questioning. Two chisels. a piece of zinc
about ten inches long and one inch wide,
four keys. and $2.40 were found in MS
pockets. He had evidently used the zine
for prying back window catches. The
man had every appearance Of a hardened
criminal. His hair was cropped close and
his face bore. unmistakable traces of
prison pallor. 1t is evident that he has
not been long out of jail.
Acting Captain snow said last night
that he believed that they had at last
caught the man who had been terroriz-
ing the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh pre-
cincts for the past three months by COM
hitting numerous burgIaries. He said
that access to the houses has been gained
in nearly every instance by means of the
old gam of inserting the blade between
the window sashes n forcing back the
catch. The burglar usually confined his
CPcId%lClS ~ pa1lOA AOCA - ~
house entered. probably because the in
mates would be less liable to be awak-
ened. Acting Captain Snow is inclined to
believe that the man had a pal" al
though he was not seen.
An attempt was made to enter the house
of Mr.. Skillman, No. "a Virginia avenue
about two weeks ago. A member of the
family heard a noise at the front parlor
window, and started down stairs to in
vestigate, but the noise had ceased be-
fore he reached the window. He opened
the window, looked out, but could see no
one and went back to bed. In the morn
ing a mark was found on the window sill
which appeared to LAY been made by a
chisel while being used as a lever to
force the window up.
Detective Pearson discovered yesterday
morning that one of the chisels found in
the burglars possession fitted exactly
into the indentation in the window sill.
officer Harrigan, of the Communipaw
avenue station, saw the prisoner, and
Identified him as the man he saw at
tempting to rob a house on Belmont av-
enue a few weeks ago.
These facts tend to make the police be-
lieve that they have at last caught the
right man.