The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-28

Disguised as q Farmer, He Meets n Green
goods Dealer and Is Taken to o Room
just as He 10 Drawing q Revolver
Man and Conf ederate Spring Upon Him.
A telephone message reache d the Clymer
street police station, Williamsburg, yester-
day afternoon that a detective sergeant was
in serious trouble in a saloon at Lee avenue
and Hayward street and that policemen
we're urgently required. Capt. Holahan
ordered the patrol wagon out, and with
seven cops he made all haste to reach the
saloon. In front Of a drug store at Lee
avenue and Hayward street he met a man
dressed like a farmer. This was Detective
Sergeant John W. Vaughan Of Mulberry
street headquarters. He said that three
greengoods men had escaped from him a
few minutes before after he had given them
a hard fight in a room over the saloon OF
Joseph Fox at 100 Lee avenue, directly
opposite.
According to Vaughan, whose face and
wearing apparel betrayed the experience
he had had, he was detailed to run down
a gang Of greengoods men. A farmer in
lockwood. H., had received greengoods
circulars. Vaughan personatedt this farmer.
He got into communication with the con
men under the name of Tucket and made
an appointment to meet them yesterday
in the corridor Of the Grand Union Hotel.
A man who said he was John G.. Rice intro
duced himself to him and told him no busl-
ness could be lone there. He escorted
Vaughan all around town on foot and In
cars, also taking him back and forth on
the Williamsburg Bridge and the Brooklyn
Bridge. 1t was thought that the object
of this was to give Rice's oonfederat es
an opportunity to find out il the detective
sergeant was really a come on 1t was
nearly 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon when
the two men who had walked around town
for nearly three hours stopped in front Of
Fox's saloon in Williamsburg.
An hour before their appearance a well
dressed man about 80 years old went
into the saloon and told the proprietor that
he was a commercial traveller and very
much desired to have the Use Of a room up
stairs, as he had promised to show some
friends a line of goods he had in his hand
satchel. Fox told the man there was a
sitting room on the floor above the saloon
where there was a pool table and a desk,
and that he could use that II he desired.
The stranger went upstairs from the saloon
entrance on Hayward street.
Afterward when the detective sergeant
and the con man arrived the stranger who
had got the Use Of the room beckoned to
them from the window and they went up:
man in the room. He was industriously
writing at the desk. The man who had
spoken to Fox previously opened the hand
satchel and took therefrom several pack
ages.
inside pocket Of his coat, his object being
to whip it out when the opportunity came
and cover the con men with it. Vaughan
told the men that he had $500 in cash and
they told him that they would give him
showed Vaughan 81 800 in good bank notes
and lust as Vaughan was putting his hand
to his revolver, believing the con men
would, think he was pulling out his wallet,
the revolver, Immediately jumped at him,
while he shouted out that he was an officer
and that they were his prisoners.
One Of the men wrenched the revolver
from his hand while the other choked him
and threw. him down. In the tussle the
man who had taken his revolver struck
him ON the head with the butt end Of it.
Vaughan was badly used up, before the
con men we're through with him, but as
took 70 follow them. They disappeared,
however, before he had followed them
very far. Vaughan ran over to a drug
store and sent the telephone message him
self to the Clymer street station that a
detective sergeant was in trouble.
The only man in the Balloon was the bar
tender, Joseph Lazarus and Vaughan de-
cided to arrest him as a suspicious person,
although Lazarus protested hat he knew
absolutely nothing of the green goods
incident. The saloon keeper was absent
while Vaughan was having his experience
and when he returned he related to Capt
Holahan how he had accommodated the
stranger with the sitting room.
When a reporter q uestioned Detective