The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-16
ROUND UP OF WlRETAPPERS.
EIGHT CAUGHT BEFORE THEY
"TRIMMED A SUCKER"
Hired Parlor in FOrty.fifth street Board.
Ing House and Put In Dummy Teie-
graph-Prisoner Makes Lively Fight
Against Having Pinot ograph Taken.

Ing House and Put In Dummy Teie'
graph-Prisoner Makes Lively Fight
Against Having Pinot ograph Taken.
Robert johnson Of 14o West i2oth street
and John Gilbert OF II Carmine street.
looking like prosperous and respectable
citizens, called upon Mrs. White at her
boarding house, $50 West Forty-ffth street,
yesterday morning, rented the front parlor
for few days and engaged exclusive use
Of the telephone.
We are silk merchants from the West, y
they explained and expect our agents
from the Orient to-day or tomorrow We
will have two or three days business with
them and other parties and want quiet place
In which to transact it. We will need the tele-
phone most OF the time and, OF course, are
willing to pay something above the average
rent in return for uninterrupted possession
Of the rooms
johnson and Gilbert brought some bag
gage In the morning and In the early after
noon told the landla dy not to interrupt
them. Within the half hour preceding
2 o'clock seven other men came In by twos
and threes.
Acting Captain Schulum OF the West
Forty-seventh street station and two OF his
sleuths, Fitzpatrick and Quinn, were stand
ing near the Hotel Aston when johnson
and Gilbert went by In the afternoon. The
men seemed familiar and the three followed.
When the other seven went to the same
place they recognized among them several
professional wiretappers
Capt Schulum sent for Detectives Shea,
Quincy and Kreutzer, but waited until 4I5
before making the raid. The captain HIM
calf oh window
two Of the Others got in the basement and
the rest through the hall door. The
policemen saw that some OF their prisoners
used to he lieutenants OF Larry, Summer
field and the outfit would have done credit
Morse key and leading from It were wires
extending to an open window. Thence
the wires wound around q portion OF the
basement railing and ran into the ground.
Racing charts were placed on mantel,
schulum hurried ali his prisoners, it was
found that Of the nine eight we're in the
rogues' gallery. The exception was Rob-
ert johnson, but in him the detectives
reco gnized an old offender, arrested severa!!
times for wire tapping They determines I meg
him before the camera on the top floor.
johnson protested that it was VIOLA
ton OF his rights as a citizen to photograph
him before conviction. but his oratory die
no good. Neither ola q n&ht ne put w
against the detectives. His picture was
taken as he was strapped in chair.
The other prisoners were Thomas Waters
of ATS Amsterdam avenue. Henry Wilson
alias Henry Engle, 1870 West Twenty eighth
street; William Harris, alias William Davis
1880 West Ninetieth. street: Thomas Daley
alias Tim Oates. 3l8 West Twenty, ,fftf
street; Henry johnson, 525 Park place
Brooklyn; Michael Moran 400 Third avenue
and Abe Cohen. PAL Chrystie street. John
Gilbert is also known to the police az Johr
Muccia.
1t was said about the West Forty seventh
street station that the police there hat
been tipped Off to watch for the men by TIT
Tenderloin station Operating in that pre-
cinct few days ago. It was said the sam'
gang made a rich haul.
johnson and Gilbert we're locked up II
the West Forty-seventh street station OF
poolroom. The others were held as sus
piCioys CharaCterS.