The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-25
BEDFORD GANG SEIZE A HOUSE
THREE or THEM ENTTCE A GIRL
INTO 1T AND ARE ARRESTED.

NeIxhbors Saw Them Take the Young
StenOgrapler They Had Met at C0ney
Island Into L. ii. ArnOld's House while
Family Were Away and Called Police.
The Bedford gang OF Brooklyn, which
gained something more than neighborhood
notoriety as the result of the Walter BROOKS
and Florence Burns Case, has adopted a
new method of enticing girls, Three young
men of the gang were caught with young
woman in the home Of c. H. Arnold. at 4sl
Throop avenue on Saturday night, and al
were arrested on the charge OF false entry.
The Arnolds are away for the summer
and the police of the Gates avenue station
are irving to find out how the intruders got
key TO the house.
The four prisoners, who are to have
hearing before Magistrate Furlong on
Friday are Wilfred H. Samuels OF 40 JEFF
ferson avenue, Jerome Hopkins OF ITO
Hancock street, w. A. Sullivan OF 1928
Classon avenue and Addie Eichorn Of 245
Steuben street The Eichorn girl is 20
years old and belongs to family OF thirteen
children.
The men with whom she was found are
about % years old. The one who called
himself Sullivan gave a fictitious name
and address. The other names and ad-
dresses are correct. Hopkins couldn't
very we'll deceive the Gates avenue police,
because he has been arrested before IN
the precinct. When first captured the
Eichorn girl said that she was Gertrude
Hopkins. She Ia stenographer employed
in Manhattan. Samuels ia a bank clerk.
All OF the young men, according to the
police, belong to respectable families,
but unfortunately for the families, they
also belong to the gang Of young men who
try to live double lives and be Bedford
avenue high-rollers on 81 week. As the
police put 1t they are lot Of damn little
dudes who steal from their mammas TO
buy red neckties and who would rob per-
ambulators occupied by female infants
The four persons now under arrest were
discovered by a neighbor and intimate
friend of the Arnolds, who knew that the
family had gone to New London. Conn.
for the summer. When this neighbor saw
three men and a woman going into the
Arnolds' house late at night she became
suspicious OF burglary and sent word TO
the Gates avenue police station two blocks
away.
Detective Schryver and Policema n
O'Reilly, son Of Capt. Miles. were sent to the
house, OReilly went to the rear to cut on
escape by the yard and Schryver pulled the
front door bell. His ring was answered
by Samues. who pretended to be at home
and politely asked Schryver what he wanted.
IL want you and the rest OF the gang
that's in here replied the detective as he
stepped into the hail, closed the door after
him and grabbed Samuels by the arm.
-Oh, that's all right" said Samuels; we
got the key from young Arnold and had
permission to use the house while the family
was away. We came in Just for quiet
time The rest arc upstairs
The detective went up to the top floor,
dragging Samuels along with him. and
there found the two other men and the girl
in a bedroom. Their only illumination
was candle light az the Arnolds shut
of the gas before they left town. There
was nothing about the house to indicate
that the intruders had contemplated rob-
berv.
Samuels and the other two men stuck to
! the story that they had received the key
from young Clifford Arnold. with permits
didn't know anything about that and that
she had been invited to the place by one
| of the Young men, who had told her that
| II was his home. The police have sent TO
New London to find out what truth there is
| in the KEY story. The neighbors don't
| believe there liz any truth i'll It,
| When the prisoners were first arraigned,
| Miss Anna " Roome, the probation officer
! Of the Gates avenue court, tried to have the
girl sent to the House Of the Good Shepherd.
but Magistrate Furlong said that the case
was too serious for any leniency and sent
all the prisoners to Raymond Street Jail
| That was on Sunday morning. The girl
| has since been released on bail.
"She didn't seem at ali repentant," said
Miss Rooms "On the contrary. she was
very defiant and declared that she had
done nothing wrong. She met one Of the
Young men with whom she was arrested
at CGney Island and had never seen any
she went 10 the Arnold house with them"
Henry Eichorn. the father Of the young
woman prisoner and twelve other children,
is a pia nomalser. When seen at his home
last night, he pointed to group photo
graph OF himself. his wife and all the children
and remarked
aThere are thirteen children in that group.
We have raised them all and none of them
has ever got into trouble. In this case
Addie was enticed away. She thought sho
was going to the home Of enc of the men
with whom she was arrested, Everything
will be Strengthened out at the trial ON
Friday"
There was a report that Addie had been
drinking cocktails.
II don't know whether that's so or not y
said her father ABut | understand that
all these girls who like TO call themselve
up TO date do that sort Of thing nowadays.
"Ad1ie IL a stenographcr, employed some-
where in Now York. / don't know where
She went to Coney Island every Saturday
afternoon to go in bathing She did that
last Saturday and met one OF the men at
the beach and made an appointment with
him for that evening. She came home to
supper and then went out again to keep
the appointment That's the night she
was arrested
One Of the Eichorn girls is Sister Mary
Of the Dominican Order in Hoboken where
she ia q teacher In the parochial school
She appears in the family group picture
wearing the garb OF Dominican sister.
Not Chief Clerk Mallabar Arrested,
The man arrested as a suspicious person