The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-09
BXULTANT THIEVES CAUGHT.
HAD FIRED A ROW or BUILD
MOS TO STEAL FROM THEN.


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Plrs Accidental Untn sbopkecpers
Reeeived letter. I'm which the
Criminals Boastcd % Their Grimes.
. Indiscreet letter writing has brought about
The arrest Of two principals and two alleged
aocessories In n case Of bur glary and arson
In Newark. On Sunday night. Sept. =.
q fire ccurred In q row Of frame buildings
at s<s, go and sS7 Mulberry street, occupied
by Q ant. n laundry. a shoe mending
shop and q barber shop. h fires origin
was attributed TO q hot stove In the China
mans laundry. The matter might have
rested there had not the barber received
atypswritten letter -four days later. accom-
panied by an empty wallet. which he SUI
posed had been burned up In the fire with
SO In n. The fool letter was In part n
follows:
UNvoRrrSart GRrAsRN. Enclosed please
Ind your wallet, which Was taken the
SiIsss ssr sufd hAnd nf 1S ns'u tSst y sSG-
ton. hut we feel az ease. since We made a
desperate attempt see by a certain NeN-
heated stove. but such talk Il simply so utterly
Preposterous as TO insult common sense
far dstant when the place viii 60 up with
dynamite
The letter WA signed with the names OF
DIR. Dcpew. J. ID. Rockefeller and Senator
Hanna. Tho barber. John TortoreM, took
the letter to police headquarters. and the
case was turned over to Detectives Carroll
and Long. They began an investigation,
which resulted In the discovery that two
men had been seen 20 leave the laundry
lust before tho fire broke out and ride
away In a buggy. A woman gave a good
description Of the men. the officers
found that a mar answering the description
OF ono of them had hired a buggy on that
Sunday night from u. Cody's stable and
returned Il NJ I o'clock next morning.
just then the Chinaman VINO owned the
laundry received a package from New
York. II contained a letter informing him
" get a better class Of custom before this
writer visited him again, as the articles
returned In the package were not good
enough for the people who set fire 10 his
place. They had selected what they cculd
use and returned the rect. The Chinaman,
who had supposed that the linen " a. burned
up. fastened to Police ~Hcadquaricrs with
the letter and The wrapper OF the package.
The latter showed that II was sent from
the foot Of Liberty street by the Unlteh
States Express Company. and the night clerk
accurately described the man who sent II,
SAYING that no had quite a chat with him
because the package wa marked, II no,
called LOT return 10 AnalltNN W. t|ItNs
Waldorf-Astoria.-
The clerks description Of the man tailed
with thai given by Cody's stablcman Then
n woman told the detectives that she saw
the men In the wagon that night and wns
sure that they we're oil right because d
recognized one OF them ~ Marcus DuS-ler,
who worked in Lemmerson's restaurant,
which was one OF the places burned. Til
detectives kept track of Dus~ler until they
saw him Join Oscar Steiglich, who answered
the description Of the maj Who hired the
buggy and shipped the package. He was
identified later 10y the hveryman and then
by the express agent, whIls walking In the
streets. and no Was arrested without the
knowledge OF Dussler, who was suhse-
quen,ly arrested.
s,eiglich is - years old and lived At ,;
Norfolk street. Dusrler j. two years
younger and his home IL at 3tS Plane street.
They were kept apart and Questioned
separately. Their stories confiicted and
when Dusslcr was told wherein he had
lied he broke down and told n story which
implicated not only Steiglich a. "A principal
In the crime, but brought in kaimon Catcna.
the BARRIERS sixteen-ycar-old assistant.
as an accomplicc in the theft Of articles
taken from the barbe- shop. and DusAler's
stepfnthcr. Charles Hoyt. whom he accused
OF receiving and di-po-ing OF the stolen
goods. Both were arrested.
The police say that Steiglich confessed
when the written confession OF Dussler
was shown him. Hoyt. whom the police
say II an old offender, whose picture they
have in their cabinet, made a stout denial
Of complicii v, but aid that he thought he
knew where the BARRIERS mandolin- were
sold.
II IL said that both 81 tho letters were
written by a young woman friend Of Steig-
Itch.