The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-10
'OTORIOUS THIEVES CAUGHT
Wanted for Many Crimes
Committed in This City
and Vicinity.

had his detectives working night and day
putting bits of evidence together until
ffnsshy the chain is now complete SO far as
the robberies in this city, Newarkk, Hobo
ken and Brooklyn are concerned The
other robberies in adjoining cities.
The first OF the series, the police have
this gang identified as being connected
with is that of the segar store owned by
Phil Muldoon at Montgomery, near Var
lex streets. this robbery was committed
on February 9, 1899. Sixty boxes of se-
gars were stolen.
The next was the tailor store owned by
Chas. Kelly on Grove street, near Rail
road avenue. on March 27, 1899. The en-
tire stock was taken.
The tailoring establishment owned by
f. w. Wilson, No. AZ Montgomery street,
was also looted. This robbery was COM
mitted February 16, 1893, while Mr.. Wilson
was out to lunch. Cloth valued to the
amount of SIS was stolen
The next robbery committed was that
of w. L. Douglass shoe store March 2s
1893 Shoes valued at $1,000 was stolen
In the Muldoon robbery Sheppard hired
room on Grand street before the rob
berry was committed The cigars We're
carried there in telescopes, from whence
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York
IN the case of the Kelly robbery the
thieves had three telescopes IN which
they put the CLOTH took Grove street
car to Hoboken, and went to the resi-
dence of Charles Wilson on Park avenue,
where the stuff was put in the cellar and
later expressed to asfence in New York
In the Douglas robbery the thieves
hired a room on Warren street, the
shoes were carried over the roofs, down
through the skyliglgt into the room. They
were then packed in trunks and feed bags
!, ard after dark removed to Hoboken in a
covered wagon. Later on they were
shipped to a New York fence.
In the Wilson robbery the thieves went
ITO Exchange place and expressed the
cloth to fence in New York.
In the robbery of Louis Moscone's tad
lor establishment at Washington and
Ninth street. Hoboken, the proceeds tax
en- by them were removed to hired room
or Wayne near Barrow street, Jersey
City, and 1t was later removed to New
York in a covered wagon.
The next job was an umbrella store on
Fulton street, Brooklyn, two hundred
umbrellas were taken and removed to
Wilson'S residence in Hoboken and sever
al days later were shipped to New York.
The next job was shoe store on Broad
way. Brooklyn E. D. They got $1,000
worth of shoes. The proceeds of this rob-
berry were removed to No. First street,
Harrison, vacant store the thieves had
hired and which was covered by sign,
.'storeroom., The agent of the fence in
New York came and appraised the goods
After he had completed his work they
were removed in covered wagon to New
York.
The next Job was that of Berry & Co.,
tailors, on Market street. Newark. where
$1,000 worth of cloth and suits were taken.
The stun was removed to the Harrison
storeroom and from there to a fence in
New York.
The Chief and Detectives Larkins and
Prescott. from the description given by
the people who saw the men who had
hired the room on Warren street, and
Mr.. McGrath, the manager of the Doug
las STORE concluded that Tack Sheppard
was the old man" Of the gang. Pictures
of Sheppard and Mcintyre, who was
known to be working with him, were pro-
cured and placed among dozen others.
Those who saw the men identified the
pictures as the men who hired the room.
The Chief caused an Indictment to be pro-
cured against Sheppard. Mcintyre and
John Doe, the third parity An interview
with Captain McCluslky of New York re-
vealed the fact that he was looking for
this mob for stealing trucks loaded with
merchandise along the river front
The Chief says it is a peculiar coinci-
dence that Jack Sheppard, who is now
fifty-three years old, was first arrested in
r.sA-
for crime His arrest this time will un-
doubtedly be his last, as he is indebted to
this county for crimes which will net him
at least fifty years In State prison.
Another strange coincidence in the case
is that nearly two months after the Null
doom robbery, John Cohn, alias John Ma
honey. was arrested in New York city
with some of Muldoon's cigars on his
person The police of this city tried to
extradite him but failed, as the New York
police wanted him for robbery. He is now
doing two and a half year term at Sing
Sing.
The Chief has positive evidence that
Cohn was in the MuIdoon ROBBERY with
Sheppard.
Last Saturday night Chief of Police
Murphy telephoned to Captain McClusky
Of the New York police, and informed
him that the property stolen by Jack
Sheppard and his gang could be found at
The Empire Loan Office. Twenty-eighth
street and Eighth avenue Captain Nc
Cluskv was not the least surprised at
hearing these facts and informed Chief
Murphy that he had long suspected
Jake Rosenberg Of the loan office of be-
Ing fence, but coul get no positive
proof
Captain McC1usky informed Chief Muir
ply that he would keep Rosenbergs office
as well as that of another place on 12Sd
street which Chief Murphy suspected
About nine o'clock this morning Captain |
Mcclaisky telepboned Chief Murphy that
his men were at work on the case and
be expected 70 raid Rosenberg's office
af noon Shortly after one o'clock Chief
Murphy received word that Mcclusky and I