The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-07
Pure, HeqkthfM Refreshing
Abolllmazzs
"7Ae queen 17a6le WaherS"
ELUDES BROOKLYN KEEPERS.
PICKPOCKET WILSON LEAVES
THEN no WONDER AND EXPLAIN.

Raymond Street jail Positive This limo
It Wa Not Its ~Fauit-WilsOn VIA Put
In O Prison van Sure, but Another
Fellow Found I'm His Place I'm Court.
Edward Wilson, alias Thomas Kilberthi
alias Chinese Teddy" Keshaw, whose
picture La in the ~piokpooket section Of the
rogues' gallery, gave the police Of Brook
lyn the slip yesterday morning. Last
Friday evening he tried to steal a diamond
pin from Gregory H. Myies, a bank clerk,
on O bridge car. Mr. Myles, who is an
athlete, felt the tug at the pin and In a ji1y
he had Wilson on his knees pleading TO be
released He held his prisoner until the
car reached Brooklyn and then handed
him over to a patrolman. On Saturday
Wilson was arraigned and remanded to
Raymond Street Jail for examination yes
terday.
While Warden Carmody Of the jail says
that he saw Wilson get into the prison van
and Van Driver Evans Is positive he car
ried Wilson TO the court room and saw him
put in the prison pen, yet when his name
was called by Magistrate Wahls no one
answered, and when Court Officer Ansbro
looked into the pen he was unable TO find
him. Instead he found q young fellow
named Peter F. Quinn, who said he was
not under arrest, but had been showed
into lint with the other prisoners when the
transfer was made from the prison van
to the court room. Quinn was arraigned
before Magistrate Wahle. He told the
Magistrate that he had gone up Floods
alley to see q friend who had bee arrested
in order to give him some cigarettes. While
he was standing there, this being the place
where the prisoners are taken out Of the
van, he said he was pushed into the line
and before ne knew it was up the stairs
and in the prison pen.
Court Officer Ansbro said that Wilson
could not have got out Of the prison pen,
as the door was never opened except when
a prisoners name was called.
The regular commitments were handed
up to Magistrate Wahle, and it was these
that the Magistrate used in calling the
names of prisoners. Court Officer Ansbro,
who has been attached to the courtf for years,
couldn't find Wilson, but he found Quinn,
who wasn't wanted.
Warden Carmody said last evening that
two Of the prisoners who had been taken
to court In the morning, locked up tenn
porarily in the court pen and then remanded
to the Jail, told him that owing to the num-
Der Of prisoners in the court in the morning
some stood near the door, and they are
positive that when Officer Ansbro opened
the gate to call the name of a prisoner
Wilson slipped out unobserved. But how
he managed to leave the court house Is not
known. He would either have had to go
downstairs to Flood alley, with q likelihood
Of being seen by the van driver, or through
the crowded court room.
Il am sorry that the fellow got away
said Sheriff Flaherty, rbut my skirts are
clean. l am not at all responsible for the
matter. The prisoner was taken out of
the Jail and put in the prison van. Warden
Carmody saw him get in. Van Driver
Evans is positive he was delivered to the
court. There my responsibility ended"
Quinn has been held by the court authori-
ties pending an investigation. A general
alarm was sent out for Wilson, who is 81
years old. He was arrested in March, 1908, by
Detective Sergeants Brady and McClosky
as a ~pickpocket. He has a Roman nose
and a scar OH his left cheek.