The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-16
GOT One $4,000 HAUL IN FURS.
MAN MEETS MANY FAILURES
IN CONFIDENCE GAME.
Tries Credit Trick to Get Fin Bits OF
Mink and Ermine but Finds the Trade
Very Suspicious -Pistky the Only Loser
Dealers Are All on the watch.

Mink and Ermine but Finds the Trade
Very Suspicious -Piatky the Only Loser
Dealers Are All on the watch.
Manufacturers in the "fur market be-
tween Broadway and Fifth avenue, Eighth
and T~wenty-second streets, are on the
lookout for a man who has been operating
for nearly three weeks as a sneak thief.
They say he has tackled dozens of men, but
has succeeded in getting goods from one
only. The man is described as tall, slim,
dark compleXioned and limping on the
right leg.
Last Wednesday a delivery boy was sent
from the Office Of William Platky, at 5 East
Thirteenth street, with six packages con-
tanning altogether 300 pieces of roadtat
to be delivered to A. Jacket 4 Co. at 81
Union Square. The boy went to the Seven
teenth street delivery entrance and there
found a man corresponding TO the descrip-
ton given above.
is that stuff for Jaeckel?' asked the man.
yes" replied the boy, who had never
been there before.
THE shipping clerk will be here in a
minute. I'm waiting for him myself, said
the lame fellow.
In a moment or so a mar came along
who said he was the shipping clerk. He
took the six bundles and signed for them
and the boy went away.
A while later Jaeckel & Co. called up
Platky to know where the furS were. He
answered that they had been delivered.
Then the theft came out. Platky has
Detective Deering from Police Headquarters
working on the case and has offered a re-
ward of $500 for the detection of the thief.
The furs are worth $500.
The game that the lame man has been
irving on the other furriers is TO visit their
stores and ask them 70 send a selection 81
furs to addresses that he gives, almost all
in the neighborhood Of l35th street and ST.
Nicholas avenue The fuTTiers always
watch new customers closely, because they
Say that annually about this time a gam
of thieves gets busy. For this reason the
lame man has been unable to get away
with anything.
Platky has sent out postal cards to the
men in the trade and notified his friends.
He failed TO give notice to Schulang a
Wiener, at ll3 University place. The lame
man was in there yester day at noon; he
acted 40 suspiciously that they did not
want to sell him any goods, He went away.
One of the Arm old Joseph s.. Dederman
of s22 Broadway about the man. and was
surprised TO learn that he was wanted.
Ore Of the first places the thief visited
when he began operations about three
weeks ago. was that OF G. +. Wilhelm, at
IS University place. There he gave an
order flor ten mink furs, worth $500. He
said he was a member of the firm Of :. Alper-
son 4 Co. in business at l35th street and
st. Nicholas avenue. Mr.. Wilhelm asked
him for reference, as the man wanted to
get the goods on memorandum. He gave
Mayers 4 TigneT, at ~ Fast Twelfth street.
They told Mr.. Wilhelm that they did not
know the man, and he did not send the
goods.
Then he vent to Otto Erler 4 Co., at 10
East Twelfth street, saying he had come
from Lederman. He picked out some
relative Of G. Barron, a Chicago retailer,
who was coming on soon to buy from Erler.
He gave az his address, j.. Barron. 432 st.
Nicholas avenue, which he said was at i35th
street. The boy from Erler's went UP TO
the number, which he found to be at i3ith
street. He inquired for a person named
Barron but could find out nothing about
him. The boy was late in getting up and
il il presumed that the man thought he was
not coming and went away.
Lederman later old Erler that he had
not sent the lame man to his store at all.
The versatile lawyer visited the store nf
William G~reenblatt at rs East Tenth street.
and wanted TO look at a piece Of mink.
Mr.. Greenblatt was busy with another
customer, but sent two Of his Office people
to watch the new customer and he finally
left. He said in Greenblatt's place that he
was in business on st. Nicholas avenue.
At Singer Il Steinberg's, ~ Fast Twelfth
street, he gave an address at l41 Fast Il5th
street, to which he wanted some pieces Of
mini sent, promising a certified check on
delivery. The goods we're sent To the num-
Der, but no man showed up for them and
the wagon took them back
I. Kaufman, at "a Fifth avenue. was
also visited. and to him an address on st.
Nicholas avenu was furnished. Probably
in all more than a dozen places were visited.
without success. The furrierS agree that
the game was while giving an order To put
a piece Of fur under the coat while the
seller was not watching. But the operator
was watched.
Mayors Tigner declare that no less than
seven letters have resched them in the past
three weeks saving that a man named
Alperson has given them ~ reference.
The most recent one was yesterday morn
ing, when GumpertZ & Levy Of 81 EaHt
Twenty-frst street asked whether "AlDer-
son" was good for $500. There is no AlpeT-
son h Co. in the fur business.
Mr.. IedeTman said that he understood
that there was also a woman who had been
going around on the same line ~ work hut
he had not yet received a visit from her.
Detective Deering SAYS the fact that tho
man Ia still operating in the district ought
10 make his ca pture easy. Half a dozen
men are said TO have seen him around
yesterday but for some reason did not try
To arrest HIN.
TO CURE 4 TOLD IN ONE DAT