New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
BIG SAFE GANG LANDED.
Leader SAID to Haze Worhed TOR
= Ma,Uin Company.
ONE coNFEssEs TO MANY euReLARlEs.

CAPTAIN Langan of the Detective Bureau, at
Police Headquarters. announced last night that
four of his detectives arrested three men last
Friday evening who had proved, he said, to be
a gang of safe opening burglars who had been
wanted by the police for long time
Within the last month five robberies of safes.
alike in almost every detail. have taken place
in the city, and one of the prisoners Captain
Langan announced, confessed that he ana MS
companions had committed them ALL
The firms alleged to have been robbed by the
men are: Farrell's furniture store at Eighth
ave and Thirtieth-st.; Griffenhagen Brothers
bottling estn blishment at Tenth-ave- and TWen-
ty-fourth-st; the distllery Of M. Won Claim at
Sixty-irst-st. and Tenth-ave.; cafe IN Rose
St near William-st., and the warehouse OF
Charles L. Rickerson & Sons, dealers IN hay,
straw etc. at No. 212 West-st.
Two of the prisoners are said by the police TO
be ex-convicts. The names of the prisoners are
James w Wilson, forty-two years Old address
refused; Albert Emerson, twenty-nine years DID,
of No 347 West Thirty y-ffth-st. and Edward
Gallagher thirty-six years old, of No. III West
Sixtieth-st.
Gallagher was employed by the Marvin Safe
Company for eight years, leaving his place last
JuIv According to the police he was the super
visor of all the safe breaking expeditions MT
Marvin, the police said Identified numner Oh
safe opening tools alleged to have been found IN
Gallagher's house having been stolen from
the firm. Gallagher was an expert in his line Oh
work and during the time he was IN the nrm
employ he was sent all over the city to open
safes for firms which had forgotten combina-
tions or had some other trouble with their safes.
Gallagher always succeeded In opening the safes
within a short time, Mr.. Marvin is said to have
told the police and the safe dealer has made
charge of grand larceny against the man.
In Gallagher's possession. the detectives say.
they found a notebook, with the names OF sew
eraI concerns that deal in safes Opposite each
name was a description of the combination Oh
that particular make of safe, and in some IN
stances diagrams had been drawn to show where
a hole bored in the steel would have the best
effect of breaking open the door
The three men were followed and watched by
Detective Sergeants Reap. MacCauley, Collins,
Murphy and Deevy for week. Last FRIDAY
night Wilson and Emerson were arrested by
them at the Circle Fifty -ninth-st and Eighth
ave- and taken to Police Headquarters. Two OF
the detectives remained behind and watched
GalIagher's house until $50 o'clock the next
morning. Then they went TO his apartment,
where they found him, they say, fully dressed
and apparently waiting for some one. He lives
with his wife and two children. The man took
his arrest coolly the detectives say, and did not
show the least concern when they found the in
eliminating evidence of the jimmys, bits, etc.
that alleged to have been stolen from the
Marvin Safe Company, in his rooms.
The men were all taken to the Tornbs police
court and remanded by Magistrate Zeller until
this morning.
Yesterday Emerson sent word TO Captain
Langan that he would like to see him. The man
then confessed, the captain said, that he and
his companions had committed the robberies
that had been reported to the police within the
last month Emerson is alleged to have said
that Gallagher clever burglar that he
was jokingIy called The Dope" by them. The
financial gain.
AT the furniture store the burglars, it is said
found So in the safe, which was divided evenly
among them. Two hours work on the safe of
Griffenhagen Brothers revealed an empty in
terror, but some clothing that was lying around
in the store partly made up for this disappoint-
ment Mr.. Won Claims safe also contained
nothing and in this case, Emerson told Captain
Langan. they took 200 cigars. for which they
received SO.
The safe in the cafe had only contained few
Collars, but the Job at Rickerson & Sons was
the saddest blow of ALL Seventy-ive cents in
pennies were sadly divided, Emerson said.
among three of the most disgusted thieves
seen, after three hours manipulation of the
safes computation.