The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
SUSPECT IS
CAUGHT BY
TELEPATHY
Detective Pagan ApprehendS
Alleged Thief by IN
usual Method.
he ADMITTED ARREST
he ADMITTED ARREST
Sleath Approached Bennett,
Told Him That Picture Was
in Baltimore Gallery. and
He Admitted Previous
Imprisonment.

Telepathy, upon which subject Au-
gustus Thomas has built one of the best
American plays, is believed by the po-
lice to be responsible for the arrest of
Harvey P. Bennett, alias Leslie Tower,
by Detective Sergeant Pagan yester-
day afternoon. The arrest is believed
by the police to be an important one,
as they have already n robbery
charged against the man besides an
years in Baltimore for breaking and
entering. He had a burglars tool in
his possession somewhat similar to
those found on Henry Tomlinson,"
who was taken into custody last week
in Miller street.
Detective Sergeant Pagan, of police
headquarters, who has heretofore
scoffed at ~telepathy as a bug house"
idea, now believes that thought Is dy-
manic. He Was walking in Canal street
yesterday afternoon when he saw Ben
nett trying to dispose of some clothing.
Pagan thought the man looked suspi-
cious, and found that he vas wearing
two suits of clothes.
Fagan's questions as to how he came
into possession of the clothing were
answered apparently to Fagan's salts
faction.
"You nave a long police record" then
said Pagan.
mo. l haven't replied the man.
"Well, you have been arrested before
and your picture is in the gallery" de-
clared Pagan.
Where is my picture?' asked Ben
nett.
"In Baltimore" Pagan answered.
ut is all up with me now" said he
man; 81 might as well admit 1 have
done time there
Bennett was promptly placed under ar
rest. Pagan does not know how he came
TO say Baltimore. He said 1t was q
guess 1t was suggested that perhaps
the man might have been thinking of
Baltimore at the same time Pagan was
trying to think of a city to name, and in
that way the thought of the man was
transferred to him.
The police believe that Bennett. who was
arrested here in 1908 by Detective Ser
geant Tpite on d charge of passing a
a12EEedsh&s4ran the namessof Leslie
Tower, is the man who committed. the
robbery at the home of Miss Marietta Cor
bitt, a niece of Chief of Police Corbitt. He
answers the description of the man in
many particulars, and the police are con-
WINGED more than ever that he is the man.
Miss Corbitt was awakened early one
morning in. October by hearing a man In
her room on the second floor of the house
at 81 East Park street. The burglar
warned her not to utter a sound. He rob-
bed her of jewelry and silverware valued
at $500. Miss Corbitt has seen several
'second-story men" hut has not positively
identified any of them. Two months ago
she partly identified an East Orange
burglar as the one who entered her house.
The police did not believe at the time
that he was the man, Miss Corbitt will be
asked to come to police headquarters to
see If she can identify the suspect under
arrest there.
Shortly after Pagan had arrested the man
yesterday afternoon, Charles Groell, of 1903
Halsey street, went to police headquarters
and reported that a room of James Lawn,
a boarder at his house, was entered and
two overcoats, two undercoats, two shirts
and a gold locket were taken from the
room. The goods found on Fagan's prisoner
were identified by Groell as belonging to
Lawn. The man was also identified by
Groell as one who obtained a room at the
Halsey street house early in the afternoon.
Pagan found marks on three doors in the
Groell house today, showing that the doors
had been forced open with a tool similar
to the one found in Benefits possession.
The police say that Tower is the mans
right name, and that his mode OF work is
to pose as a painter so as to gain entrance
to houses and then rob the places. They
know OF no instance where he did this.
He will be held pending further investiga-
ton. The man Is educated and is a short
hand writer, he told the police. He quotes
scripture at some length and would rather
talk Shakespeare than eat.