The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-21
BURGLAR PLAYED
WITH BABY
Brooklyn Woman Says
Brown Did the Peek a Boo
Act With Her Child While
Wilson Stole $4,000
Worth of Jewelry
TELEPHONE THIEVES In COURT
ONE LADY BEGs THEM TO TAKE
TIME TO REPENT, WHICH
CHIEF MURPHY THINKS THEY
DEsERvE-THEY WORKED IN
WASHINGTON. TOO.

Frank Wilson and Lawrence Brown,
the two thieves who robbed the home of
William G. Bumsted in Glenwood ave
nue. of over $1,000 worth of jewelry and
attempted several other jobs, were
brought on from Elizabeth at noon yes
terday When captured in Eliza beth
they confessed to Chief Tenny, of that
city, and to Detect.ve-Sergeant James
Larkins, of the Jersey City Police De
partment, who went down to look the
two men over, that they had perpetrated
the Bumsted robbery in this city, and
told where some of the stolen jewelry
could be found. The police have recov-
cred considerable portion of it.
Eight Brooklyn women whose homes
are alleged to have been robbed by the
stme two men. We're ON hand to see if
they could identify them as the men who
came to their houses representing them
selves to be employees Of a telephone
company sent to inspect telephone wir-
ing. Several of them positively identi-
fed the two men, who were "stood up
in the Chiefs office with dozen or more
men. The incident was not without hui
morous features. One lady. Mrs.
Kerr, of No. 769 Ocean avenue, Brook
lyn, walked over to Brown and said, sar-
castically, "You are very fond of tick
ling babies under the chin. aren't you?
You were doing the late Peter Scanlon
act of 'Peek-a-boo' with my baby and
/ looking on innocently while your pal
was going through my house and getting
away with $1,000 worth of jewelrya
Another woman, a motherly looking
old lady, who wore large gold-rimmed
eye glasses. closely scrutinized the two
prisoners, and after having ideptfed
them said.-
I'm sorry for you, young men.
have prayed for you ever since you rob-
bed me. So far as l am concerned
am not anxious to prosecute you, but the
law must take its course But, oh, men,
take little time to think over your past
deeds and make amends"
Chief Murphy (soto voce)-1They'
have plenty of time to think it over"
Detectiye-Sergeant Weedon, of the
Washington, D. G., police force, who
had recovered some of the $4,000 worth
of jewelry alleged to have been stolen
in that city by the two men under ar
rest, came on from Washington to look
the couple over. Among the recovered
articles secured by him he mentioned
two diamond rings. Wilson laughed and
said they were not stolen in Washington;
that they were rings stolen in the Bum
sted robbery in May. He said they had
| been changed from mems rings to lady's
rings, with the same diamond settings,
in Maiden Lane, New York, July last.
The two men, who have been operat-
ing successfully in New York, Brooklyn,
! Albany, Washington and various cities
| in Connecticut and Massachusetts, have
made several confessions. They have ad-
mitted that when times were good they
were getting away with $4,000 year.
1t was a cool-headed servant girl that
led to their capture in Elizabeth. Garry
! ing out their usual tactics of pretending
that they had come to the house as tele-
phone company employees, she found
| them later ransacking drawers in her
mistress's bedroom. She went quietly
down stairs and opened a door that led
to a cellar with barred windows. When
the two came down she pushed one of
| them through the door of the cellar and
/ snapped the lock. The other man struck
her and pushed past her. She ran
out after him crying, Stop thiefw Asa
result of the woman's efforts both men,
after having escaped the police for sew
eral years, were captured They are held
here for trial for the Bumsted robbery
and asfother city authorities are after
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