The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-28
GOT SILK THIEVES AND SILK.
FAINT CItiES FOLLOWED UP TO
IMPORTANT ARREST.
Warehouse OH First Ave. Looted About
Dawn; Case Solved Before Evening
New Trunks I'm Transit Cause Capture
OF Two Crooks with SILK Records.


OF Two Crooks with SILK Records.
Detectives Skelly and Van rwistern Of the
East Sixty-seventh street station house did
a clever piece of work yesterday in running
dow u group Of silk thieves. The police
think that the arrests will lead to others
and thereby put an end 10 the many silk
Tobberies that have bafled the men In the
Central Office for some time.
When Louis Pearlman, a dealer in silks,
opened his place Of business at 1888 First
avenue yesterday morning at 8 O'Clock,
he found that the place had been looted by
burglars and that silks valued at nearly
$4,000 had been carted away. Pearlman
hurried TO the Fast SixtAseventh street
police station and Sicily and Van Twistern
were detailed TO the case.
They examined the premises and found
TINT the burglars had gained an entrance to
the cellar Of l4e8 First avenue, had sawed
their way through n wooden partition
within an inch OF a burglar alarm, and thus
got into the cellar OF Pearlman's establish
ment.
The burglars had little difficulty in getting
up TO the first floor Smashing open a door.
they helped themselves to bags OF Japanese
silk, Intheir flight they left behind a brand
new brace and bit and a copper saw. The
detectives found these in the cellar Of 1850.
Skelly and Van Twistern we're at sea AZ to
how they were going to solve the mystery.
Al last they began TO canvass the neighbour
hood in the hope that some one might have
been astlr early in the morning and seen the
thieves departing from Pearlman's.
They were rewarded for their efforts,
for ofl or a GaQrph nf half an hour thew came
across a milkman, who said he had seen
three or four men carrying bags from IN
front of the silk establishment and that
they had turned the corner OF Seventy
seventh street and continued west.
The detectives hustled through Seventy
seventh street, questioning people they
found on the street. Finally their atten-
tion was attracted by an express wagon
in front Of a boarding house at s4s East
Seventy-seventh street. They waited and
saw the driver come out with two brand
new trunks. which he placed in the wagon.
A stool pigeon happened along convent
emily and was told by the detectives to fol-
low the express wagon and see where It
went. He followed the rig to 9s7 Second
avenue, where the trunks were unloaded
and taken upstairs.
The stool pigeon hung around for a time
and soon another wagon drove up and got
the trunks. The driver Of this second wagon
proceeded to Forty-first street and Broad
way and there was met by two men, who
told him to continue to the Broadway Cen
trals Hotel.
The detectives were not flied Of this and
they hurried to the hotel. They learned
from the clerk that a pair of trunks had
just been taken to the room of two men
who had only come there in the morning
and who had registered as Joseph Miller
and Samuel Koch of Philadelphia. The
detectives explained to the clerk who they
we're and were permitted to enter the room,
They found the trunks, opened them and
saw at once that they contained the silks
that had been stolen from Pearlman's
establishment. The trunks were sent to
the East Sixty-seventh street station house
in the patrol wagon OF the Mercer street
police.
When the detectives entered the hotel
room the two men registered from Phlla,
delphia were not in, so the sleuths decided
men weht to the hotel, told the clerk they
had decided to take rooms at another hotel,
paid their bill and called a wagon TO remove
their trunks.
When they entered the room the pair
we're confronted by the two detectives
their hands and handouts were p laced on
them. They were taken to the East
Sixty-seventh street station house and
looked up. They gave their names there
as Samuel Diamond and Joseph Rosen-
berg. The former said he lived at ss7
Second avenue, to which place the trunks
had been taken from the seventy-seventh
street boarding house
The detectives hustled around there and
found a woman who said she was the wife OF
Diamond. She was locked up as a suspicious
person. According to the detectives, both
men nave criminal records. Rosenberg,
they say, is an eS-convict, having done
six years for stealing silk. Diamond, the
detectives say, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment on suspicion OF being inn
pliCateu in "A silk robbery
Rosenberg Is a silk salesman and is en-
ployed by a concern on Broadway. He was
Immediately recognized by Pearlman, who
said he had both bought goods from and
were busy last night looking Off another
man, whom they described as a Western
crook, and who, they declared, was at the
head Of a gang of silk thieves. They said
they expected to have this man before
morning.