New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
BOASTS 400 BtIRGLARIES.
DetectiUes Search for L0Ot-Harlem
Gang Implicated.

"AII day and night yesterday detectives from the
| Central Office and the Harlem precinrt searched
Harlem fer the loot supposed to be hidden
by John Mulcaire. said to be William Call, who
! bcasted when arragned in the Harlem court
| yesterday that he had committed seyeral num-
dred robberies. It is not thought that they
| found anything None of them would talk OF
| the search which is not the manner OF the
successful detective. All professed they had
| evidence enough to convict Mulcaire, VINO also
| bears the alias of William Call.
| Locked rp with Mulcaire at Police Headquar-
| ters are Fred Martin. of No. 2,171 3d-ave., and
| Sstephen Haven. of No. 53 Market-st. who are
charged with burglary. and Benjamin Bergman
a ieweller. of No 1637 Lexington ave. and 81
| mon D. Levy, also jeweller. of No w East
| 11Gth-st. who are charged with being fences
| All five men were arraigned in the Harlem
| court yesterday
Hall is said by the police to be a brotner OIL
! Charles Hall who is now serving a three and
! half wear term in Sing Sing for rObbing Thomas
! Tlovd and William Newman, of No Z.O24 Lex
! ington-ave.. early this year The loot, valued
| at over $4,000 was almost all recovered in a
storage warehouse in 125th-st- near 5d-ave-
! Some of it. valued at several thousand dollars
vas found in a pool and billiard parior IN the
same street
Hall has been known the police for d long
| time For over year his picture has been in the
/ Fogues' Gallery. Three weeks or soago Han was
arrested after stabbing affair at 125th-st and
| 2d-ave.. when man named Michael DAILY was
cut bv Havens. one of the men now under ar
| rest The quarre: at that time is now believed
| bv the police to have been over division OF the
fruits of SONS of the robberies. DAILY is thoushC
! TO be a member of the gang
The specffc charge on which Hall, or Mulcaire'
Havens and Martin are held is the roonin& oil
tho fiat Of Mrs. Horace Hord, in the house at
/ No 203 Ieno~-ave, when silverware, cut glass
and clothing of considerable value were stolen
! This was all recovered by the police
| Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Hord on her re
! t,,rn home found on the floor in the hall an
! .o,,.,,-o crt glass dish She hurried to the
dining room AS she entered by ore door she
| cow man departing by another. He ran down
| Tho stairs and jumping into q cab drove away
rbree detectives went to the Hord home ana
NTH a list Of the stole property started out 10
/ visit pawnshops. According to Detective Hliey'
/ Hall was seen to enter a pawnbroker ONCE At
! 116tb-st. and 3d-ave.. where he offered a cut
glass bowl answering the description given by
N1re Hord of her lost property. Hall said the
howl had been given to him to pawn His
| statements being unsausfying, he was arrested
HALL MAKES CONFESSION.
While he was being taken to the station ac-
cording to the detectives, Hall broke down and
confessed that the property was stolen ana that
/ his mails" with more OF it, We're waiting Tor
him at 114th-st. and Lexington-ave Iii a CAP
PiIev and his prisoner started for the lO4th-st
station by way OF Lexington-ave. kear and
Collins followed closely behind. As they turned
t,,o corner into 114th-st. they saw cab. The
driver Of the cab them first, however, and
ba ,lind the whip to his horse in effort to es-
cape
I,t1a,, turned his prisoner over to his compan-
iDs and running to the horses head. stopped
:, the rig Inside the cab they found Havens. The
driver was Martin. No record of the arrest was
4 made at the police station
i On the wav downtown Hall said. according to
the detectives that he had been concerned in
more than four hundred burglaries in this city
in the last eighteen months, and that most OF
the rohberies were OF fats in the Harlem sec
ton He said that the proceeds of the rob-
berries had been turned over to one Benjamin
Bergman who has a jewery store at No. 1857
Iexington-ave. Bergman was arrested on Sat
urday He too say the detectives, admitted
that he had received goods from Hall and his
friends. and he implicated Simon d. Levy, also
a jeweller, at No. g. East 116th-st
Besides Mrs. Hord, there were several COM
piainants against the five when they were ar
raigned before Magistrate Crane in the Harlem
West 1G3d-st who was robbed of silverware
and iewelry valued at $500. about two weeks
ago: Mrs Dora Kelley, OF No. 303 LenoX-ave..
who was robbed of quantity of furs about the
/ same time and William Undgriesh, Of No. 800
/ Ienox-ave from whose apartments was stolen
cut glassware Of considerable value. All OF
these robberies took place about the same time.
This man has confessed to beirE implicated
| in more than four hundred burglaries, said
Detective Riley when Hall was arraigned
FEW LESS THAN FOUR HUNDRED.
-Four hundredr' exclaimed the magistrate.
mo. not quite that number: the detective
| overestimated it, 1t was at least ten or fifteen
less" said Hall. smiling.
According to Halls statements after locating
a house or flat that looked as though it would
paw 70 rob, the movements of the household
| would be discovered. Ten o'clock in the morn
ing was the time usually chosen. for then the
man was usually at work. while the woman was
marketing.
watchins rntn the way was clear, the three
! Continued second