The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-10
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Central ONCE dot 20, ivea stated yes, erday
that tboy had recovered abovt $50. 700 worth
Of the loot Of Joseph Mateshi. alias Barrett.
the burglar who robbed the Flatbush sec-
ton Of Brooklyn at will and left one house
when q man showed a Masonic ring, the
crook alleging that no, too. was q Mason.
and wouldn't rob a fellow member Of HE
order.
Tn detectives made their statement con-
corning the recovery OF the plumber when
they arrRigned Barnet K~oenigsberg, pro-
prietor Of a jewelry store at eio second
avenue, and his assistant, Samuel Good
man, before Magistrate wahle in the Tombs
police court on a charge Of receiving stolen
goods.
The detectives told n rather interesting
tale as to how they got on the track OF
K~oenigsberg. After Detective Sergeanta
Crystal and Capper had arrested Mateski
or Barnett and the latter was taken 10
Police Headquarters they kept a cloae watch
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the hiding place 81 his rlundcr. Two nights
q Detective Scrgeants Peabody and
O'Farrpll were placed in a cell adjoining
that In which Mateeki was locked up. In the
same cell with the burglar was placed
Whaley, who was arrested for raising a
warrant from So to over $3.50 900 and trying
to pass the same on the Day and Night
Bank.
According to the detectives, the two
prisoners talked long about their respective
offences and Whaley tried to coach Mateski
on the signs and ways of Masons IA the
alleged Masonic burglar admitted TO his
cellmate that he didn't know the first thing
about Masonry, Finally. the detectives
say, Mateski began to plan a good way
in which. TO get a message to q place where
he said he had a lot of his stuff planted.
1T will be some time before ! can get
out Of this, the detectives say the burglar
said to Whaley, "and it don't look as II you
are going to be loose very soon. IN have
to get some guy who is likely to be turned
out and turned out pretty quick at that
The detectives declare that in the course
of the night, after q~uizzing the occupants
of various cells, the burglar found across
the corridor from him q man who had been
picked up merely as a suspicious person
and one who was positive that he would
be discharged in the police court the next
morning. He was taken into the plan,
the detectives state, and was told that az
soon as he was freed he must so to 6le
Second avenue and tell either Koenigsberg
or his clerk to get busy and get him, Mateski,
out on bail. ,
It 50 happens, according to the tale Of the
detectives, that the suspicious person
wasn't discharged the next morning, but
he was eventually turned loose the day
after. Peabody and O'Farref soy that
they trailed him from court and that he
made straight for Ko~enigsberg's shop.
The detectives waited outside while the
discharged man had a long talk with the
proprietor of the jewslry store. He left
without any stuff and the detectives then
entered the place and arrested Koenigs-
berg and his clerk. Before the arrests
were made, Detective Sergeants Crystal and
Capper had arrived on the scene and the
four sleuths sc lrched the place thoroughly.
They say that they found all sorts OF jewelry
and silverware answering the description
Of stuff stolen by the Brooklyn burglar.
The detectives say that down at Police
Headquarters there is a list describing the
stuff taken and that most Of the articles
found In Koenigsberg's establishment tailed
with the descriptions In that list. The four
detectives said that after arresting the
jeweller and his clerk they bundled up this
stuff and took it to Police Headquarters.
An effort was made at the Detective Bureau
last night-for some reason-to deny thiS
and Il was stated that no stuff Ind been
brought there.
The whole action of the police yesterday
in the case was queer. At the Brooklyn
HEADQUARTERS there were lots Of stuff piled
I'D for the inspection Of the victims, TIL
police explained that this was the result OF
a raid on the burglars rooms several days
ago. II was said that the stuff In Brooklyn
didn't come from the jewelry store and that,
as far as was known, little or nothing was
found In the possession of the two men
arrested for receiving stolen goods.
In certain quarters aroun Police Head
quarter RS 1t was said that the tale handed
out by the detectives regarding their caves
| dropping in an adjoining cell was some
what highly colored. In confederation
Of this it was said that Whaley, the booster
of the $s warrant, was seen In the conn.,
pany Of Central Office detectives all day
Tuesday after his release, especially with
| the four men concerned in this case. 1t
| Is thought by SOM that he may have told
| things that led to the raid On K~oenigsberg's
| store yesterday morning.
The four detectives said last night that
the stuff they had recovered in the Second
avenue jewelry store was valued at about
at least $50, 900. The STUFF already C
| cred and in the Brooklyn Central Office Ia
said to be worth about $40, 200.
The detectives said last night that they
had good reason to believe that the burglar
| had about $4,000 hid away somewhere
| else and that he boasted while In q cell
at Police Headquarters that he had q bundle
| Of real cash. tucked away In o spot whore
| the police would never find It.
The prisoners gave their names az Barnett
| Konigsberg Of II West 1i2th street and
Samuel Goodwin Of 25s Monroe street.
Detective o'Farrell told Magistrate wahls
that when the property was taken to Police
| Headquarters twenty-one Brooklynites,
among them W. X, Rossiter. a brother OF
the street railway man, identified most OF
1t as theirs.
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