New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-16
BURGLAR AND ROMANCER.
HESS TELLS OF A ROBBERY FOR WHICH
ANOTHER MAN IS IN PRISON.
WEIsENBERGER, THE PAWNBROKER AND
ALLEGED FENCE, HEARS DAM
AGING TESTIMONY.

The examination in the case of William Weis-
enberger the pawnbroker. of No. 52S Sixth
ave. charged with receiving stolen goods from
Henry Hess, the West Side burglar, con-
tinued before Magistrate Zeer in the West
Side Court. yesterday afternoon. The people
were represented by Assistant District Attorney
l>McCleland. and Weisenberger's counsel was
| Emanuel Friend
Mrs. A. #. Connors, of No. 126 West Ninety
siXth-st.. testified to the Identification of
some property. she did this In some instances
by putting On garments that had yheen, stolen.
Hess was then called. He has been indicted for
burglary in the second degree. and is awaiting
sentence. He said that he had pawned articles
in about eight or ten pawnshops in New-York
City, but nearly all the stuff taken to Weis-
enberger's place at No. .2S Sxth-ave Hess said
that shortly after he went there first. in No
vember last, Weisenberger asked him to tell
him where he got the different stuff he
pawnng. so that he could dispose of it in other
localities than where it was stolen. He says
that Weisenberger told him then that he would
get rid of 1t. so that he would have fear of
detection.
After Hess had robbed the fat of Policeman
William H Cross. of No. 211 West One hundred
ard -fourth-st.. the pawnbroker told him that he
would be careful of the stuff and send it along
the line in short order.
In response TO questions by Mr.. Friend, Hess
said that he was arrested two days before the
Dewey celebration suspicious character. and
held In 1000 hail. Hess said that it led him TO
believe that honesty was not the best policy as.
if an honest man was arrested for nothing. he
might as well be dishonest. Asked if this one
. fact made him go wrong, Hess said that he had
TO pay q lawyer $50 to get out, and that his
debts hung so heavily on his head that he had
to do something to get money
Hess said that he had received at least $500
from Weisenberger during the course of his
pawning articles.
Mrs. c. S. Holzwasser, of No J1G Manhattan
ave- identified several articles of wearing ap-
parel as some that had been stolen from her
fat on November q last. She complained to the
police of the West One-hundred-a -and-twenty-
fifth-st. station. and on November % Detective
Boye arrested two men at One-hundred-and-
twenty -second-st. and st. Nicholas-ave. as sus
picious persons. On of these men, Fred
erick Hayes, found Jimmy and other bur
glars tools. Mrs Holzwasser went TO the One
hundred and twenty -ffth-st. station and identi
fed Hayes as a man whom she had seen leaving
her apartment the day of the robbery. In
due course of time he tried In Special Ses-
sions and sentenced to six months imprisonment
for carrying the burglars tools. and to one
year additional for robbing Mrs Holzwasser's
fiat
/. On February IL, when WelSenDergerS shop
was visited by the police, Jewelry that belonged
to Mrs. HolZwasser was found offered FOR sale.
+ II was surrendered by Weisenberger. Hess ad-
mitted when placed on the stand yesterday that
1t was he that had committed the burglary for
which another man is paying the penalty. Mrs.
Holzwasser was loath TO believe that she had
made a mistake, but Hess described her prop
erty mnutey and mentioned the arrangement
of her rooms He also told of meeting her little
girl on the stairs the day of the robbery, and
of the conversation he had with the child He
| said he could recover her dresses, which he had
| given to a friend, within twenty-fou
hours He promised to do this. but would not
| give the name Of the woman, he said she was
innocent and did not know that the gift he had
made was stolen. He said that ne had never
heard of Hayes.
Magistrate Mayo. Assistant District Attorney
| McClelland and Mr.. Friend said they would
exert themselves TO that the man wrong
after he had served his sentence for carrying
burglars tools.
Detective Day Of the West Sixty-eighth-st.
station told Of a visit he had made TO Weisen
bergers pawnshop. He found Hess there. and
when he entered Weisenberger hurriedly COW
cred n number of articles that were on the coun-
ter and motioned for Hess 70 leave the place
MAGISTRATE Mayo denied MIR. Friends motion
that the complaints be dismissed After long
wrangle between the lawyers, Mr.. McClelland
wanting the bail increased and Mr.. Friend
wanting II 10 be left at the original figure Mag
! ietrete MAYO announced that he would hold
| Waisenberger for trial IN $4,000 on each one of
| the three complaints against him. or $4,000 for
| ell three.
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