New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-14
ANOTHER TOWER HOLDUP
Little Cleo to Camden Bandits
Looking for Escaped Man.
[nY rELEGRAPH To THE TRIDUNE. ]


Camden n. J.. Dec. 13.-The Pennsylvania Rail-
road towerman at Rushing Station. on the CAM
den and Amboy Division four miles from trenton
was held up late Iast night. Three men entered
the tower and at the point of a revolver secured
from James Kinsey of Bordentown, the tele-
graph operator the contents of his pockets con-
sisting of only small change. The robbers then
made their escape and Kinsey sent WORD 10
Trenton. While a squad of police were going
toward the tower they three men who on the
approach of the officers took flight. one or theIn'
Robert Mitchell. who gave Trenton as his address,
was captured and held on a charge OF trespass-
ing on the railroad. The police have no evidence
men who held up Kinsey belonged to the band OF
robbers that operated in East Camden on Friday
night.
The police of this city are keeping a sharp
lookout for the who early yesterday spread
such CONSERVATION throughout this city. Every
man who in any way fits the meagre descrip-
ton of the five bandits is made to give good
account of himself and is not likely that any one
who is able to do will soon get away
score or more of men have been rounded up In
various places, but far all the arrests nave
proved worthless and the real culprits are stli
roaming about the country.
Till and Lsougheed. the bridge tenders, who were
cleverly held up, can give no adequate descrlp-
ton of the desperadOes because they had their
little encounter in almost total darkness. only the
barrels of the five revolvers showing up with any
distinctness. Nor was Ralph Haines. the tower
operator, able to get good look at the men VINO
sent several bullets in his direction he poked
his head out of the window and asked what was
meant by the explosion in the Pavonia station.
The engineer and fireman of the train which the
bandits cut loose and sent up the track so That
the cracksmen might work more satisfactorily in
the station. and the policemen who had the bit OF
duel with the flying bandits. it was too dark
and exciting to make accurate notes of the color
of the eyes of the five cool 1t is not possible.
therefore, send word the police OF other cities
to look for any certain five young men. because
of the absence of any description.
Railroad Detective Curtis and City Detectives
Painter and Hart went to Elizabeth to-day to get
a look at three men who had been taken from a
Pennsylvania Railroad freight there, but word
came from them tonight that the suspected men
did not fit even the meagre descriptions OF the
despeTadoes Today the ponce iearnea tnai sPe
Railroad station at Pavonia, had seen gang OF
jumped a freight and got out of sight. A
to the city jail, but he proved not to be one OF
Word came to the city tonight that three sus-
Railroad station in Bordentown. 1t was said that
they had been found lettering about the station,
Trout they gave unsatisfactory accounts OF them
selves As it supposed that the Camden
bandits had jumped Jersey City freight train.
which passed Pavonia about the time they had
finished their work there the three men were taken
possible Identification of the police.
The police authorities of Burlington and of Cam
den counties looking for William Thallman,
for whose arrest a warrant has been issued by the
Burlington police. who believe him to have been at
have caused terror in this part OF New-Jersey.
Thallman marine in the United States Navy,
officials and held prisoner the training ship
Lancaster at the League Island Navy Yard. Last
from one part the ship another without irons,
he escaped, and has not yet been found.