New-York tribune., 1901-12-09
BIG "FENCE" in BROOKLYN.
THE MOUNT VERNON GIRL BURGLAR
pISCLOSES THE PLACE WHERE HEX
STOLEN PLUMBER Is TAKEN

Through confessions obtained by ruse OF Chief
Foley CT the Mount Vernon police from MARY
Elizabeth Thompson. a seventeen-year-old eirl
burglar. who is locked up in that city, fence
renresen:ing s. 600 worth of piunder. was unearthed
yesterday in Brooklyn and two men believed to ne
confederates of the female burglar, were arrested
The plunder includes booty from dozen burslaries
in Mount Vernon. New-RocheIle and Yonkers
Z was found in iathousc at No zoos Fulton
ST. Brooklyn. by Detective William Lynch, OF
Mount Vernon and two of Captain Whites men
from the Sixty-ffth Precinct. To-day party OF
wealthy suburbanites whose houses have been
robbed will go Brooklyn TO look over the looI
which consists of q score of ..ilk dresses. men S
evening suits. opera cloaks, silk hats, furs over
silver and jewelry. 1t is believed by the po
Ice that some of the plunder may belong 10 Car =
Morris. the actress, whose home. inc fiies "'
Yonkers. robbed several weeks ago
The Thompson girl who is a creole. was arrested
Friday night Mount Vernon trolley car "hie
making off with a seaiskin sack and a SILK ofess
which she had stolen frori the home of Mrs Samuei
Hettinger of New-Rochelle She entered the Het-
ringer house in broad daylight by the way OF the
basement and finding the family out. smashed IN
the door leading TO the kitchen and ransacked the
house. The girl when arrested declared that she
was innocent and the police could get no inforna-
tion from her. Chief Foley finally resorted to the
~old of putting a decoy in the cell with her.
He employed smart coiored girl, who was landed
in the cell with great eXertion on the part OF Two
pocemen After the decoy was locked & up she bis
;a
f.on the confidence of the other glrl: who' IL Is
alleged told her OF the fence" in Brooklyf1.,
According the story of the decoy, the hornpc oo
son girl saiG that the fence" was at No 2,Vlo
Futon-st and that il was conducted by her hIls-
band Louis Prior. and his brother, Robert Prior
both colored The prisoner, IL is aVerreo. sald
that she and several other young women were SEM
TO the suburbs TO rob houses. They usnaliy Sc
;lected places where the owners were not al home,
and entered them in the manner thdt She en-
.,ioyed in getting into the house in NeW-Rocheiie
All this information communicated TO thleL
Foley, who sent Detective Lynch, as soon as as pos $,
sibIe Brooklyn. The police arrived lusl 10
vtr,a he
Prfor had evidently suspected his wifes arrest for
he had the goods packed and was getting reaoS
to move when the police appeared
The plumber was in trunks and big drysooos
boxes and the police say there is enough OF II 60
ill two furniture vans. Fourteen pawn tickets
were found on Prior and his brother. who were
locked up while one of Captain Whites men was
LEFT 10 guard the house until the arrival Of the
3oentification party from the suburbs to-day
Another young colored woman has been arrested
in this CITY in connection with the robbery on a
technical charge. The police will not disclose her
name The girl burglar >ho is in Mount Vernon
IS alleged 10 have told the decoy that Friday was
her day for operating in Westchester County: but
che now believes that il proved her ''hoodoo." as
she was captured and locked up on that day.