Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-03-05
BELIEVE CAR
BARN ROBBERS
ARE CAPTURED
Dispatch from Suffern, N. T.,
Tells Of Important Arrests
Made There.
ANBOY RED is ONE,
Gang Has Been LOOtinS Post Of
fices and Making Big HauIs
in This Section.

The gang of five burglars in Gus
tody al Suffern, New York, as told
in the following despatch, is believed
10 be that which blew the safe in the
car barls of the Public Service Cor
poration in this city some months
ago and which has blown the safe at
the Mawer railroad station and post
Office three times in the last few
years. They are thought to have
been in this section about three or
four weeks ago, but they did no job
then as far as is known.
One of them is believed to he Am
boy Red who has COON connections
among people living in this city He
gives his name as Clarke, and he
has, at other times, given his name as
Kelly, but neither is the right name.
Suffern, n. Y, March 5.-In five
yeggmen lodged on a technical charge
Of vagrancy in the Rockland county
jail at New City, the postal inspectors
of New York and New Jersey believe
they have bagged one of the most
daring and expert gangs of yegg bur-
glars that has ever operated in the
East. This gang. say the inspectors
is responsible for the recent scare
among postmasters in small towns
on both sides of the New York-New
Jersey line. In the last four months
sixteen post offices have been broken
into, the safes cracked and thousands
of dollars in money and stamps car
l-ied away. Inspectors Joseph e. ia
cobs and Thomas Meyer, of the New
York office, lay the whole series of
crimes to the bunch lodged here, and
point Significantly to the lack of post
office burglaries since the arrest Of
the men February 13.
The Names Given.
The men give their names as Pat
rick Burke, James Broderick, James
l.. Clarke. James Hackett and James
O'Brien. Inspector Jacobs, who has
had thirty years acquaintance with
the yegg fraternity, says that Clarke,
Burke and Brodericl1 bear remarka-
Bile resemblance to three of the best
known crooks of the east, wanted in
half dozen states for various crimes.
They are known in the under world
as Amboy Red Little Falls Billy and
the Brooklyn Kid, and are aristocrats
of yegg society.
The gang is known to have had its
Headquarters in New Jersey, where ii
was part of large criminal organiEa-
ton headed by yegg who is one of
the generals in the craft and is elabo-
ra1elv sheltered by political friends
as well - bT relatives who have in
fiuence.
Gave Exciting Chase.
The gang was nabbed after an eX-
citing chase by Chief of Police w. n.
Smith, of this place, and two assist
ants. The particulars of the attempt
at blowing up the safe in the Suffern
post Office were then withheld to help
Post Office Inspectors Jacobs, Meyer
and Cortelyou to work up the case.
The plan OF this crowd was TO crack
a safe in a small country town, jump
to another in the next county, and
crack that in another day or two, and
then lie low for two or three weeks
The gang would disperse in this time
one man usually taking taking the
swag to New Jersey, where the fences
that flourish in that town converted
it into money. Then at the appointed
time and place they would meet again
and pull off Two or three more jobs.
"Amboy Red Is Famous.
If Clarke is Amboy Red there is
enough against him in this region to
keep him in Jail for many years. He
is wanted for blowing safes in South
Jersey. PENNSYLVANIA and Long Is
land. He has reputation among his
kind as an expert safe burglar. In
spactor Meyer believes the man with
the man with the red beard was the
"soup man" of the gang in custody.
Inspector Meyer applied TO Judge
Fa!lon of the Rockland county court
for leave to take the prisoners TO New
York at once, but Judge Fallon ruled
that they must serve out their terms
of thirty days for vagrancy. These
will be mp within ten days. Then the
prisoners will be arraigned before a
United States commissioner at New
York.
Chief Smith. who arrested the men,
will no doubt receive the thanks OF
the post office department and a suit
able reward. There is a standing Of
fer of $500 down for every arrest and
conviction for breaking into a post
Office with intent to rob.
His First Petit Jury.
c,noi,y 70 the EIrENTN(1 ME1afc.