The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-11
MORGAN HAS RECORD
is BAD ONE-CONvICT AGAIN
LOCKED UP.
Said to Be Horse Thief, But Is Held
for Grand Jury for Small
Theft.

Edward Morgan, who was arrested
by Detective Sergeant Templeton for
stealing a horse and wagon last night,
was arraigned his morning before
Judge Howell in the First Precinct
Police Court and held in $500 ball to
await the action of the Grand Jury
after he had admitted to the headquar-
tiers men that he had served several
terms in the penitentiary. and also that
he was implicated in the robbery of a
number of ladders and baskets yes
terday from the storehouse of Johnston
& Company, 1876 Mulberry street. 1t
was on the latter charge that he was
held for the Grand Jury.
Morgan was arrested by Templeton yes
| terday Just after he had attempted his
third Job in the last month, and the
Headquarters men are positive they can
fasten a number of other robberies on him.
Morgan was sentenced to nine months In
the penitentiary two years ago for steal
ing rubber tires from Mullins Central
Livery stable In Washington street, and
before that he served nine months on a
| charge of breaking and entering, accord
ing to the police.
On June II the saloon OF Fred Wagner,
at Mechanic and Mulberry streets. was
/ entered and a quantity OF case goods
stolen. Headquartelsmen Fohs and Tenn
pleton have been on the case since then.
and have been looking for Morgan.
What led up to Morgan's arrest was a
report sent to headquarters late yesterday
afternoon by Slade & Co.. Wholesale prod
uce dealers, of 1852 Mulberry street. that
a horse and wagon had been stolen from
in front Of their place, and after hearing
the report Captain Carol assigned De-
tective Templeton to the case.
Templeton saw n rig standing in front of
a saloon in William street, opposite the
First Precinct police station, that an
swered the description Of the missing out
nt.
Entering the saloon he found Morgan.
half intoxicated, playing cards. and when
questioned he said that the rig belonged
TO him, but after being placed under ar
rest he said that the rig was not his, but
that a man whose name he did not remem
Der had sent him to get a load Of ashes
and that he met a number Of friends ana
/ with ashes, but the fact that he had started
In the morning TO get them and did not
know who the horse ana Wagon belonged
tody. and he was locked up at headquar-
tiers for the rest Of the night. +
This.morning before being taken to court
Morgan was photographed and his meas
urements taken by Berttllon Expert
Schwartz.
The police think that the man Is the one
who last winter was responsible for m
inries received by Policeman Heller, Of
the First Precinct. when he nearly broke
his leg and ribs falling over tombstOnes
In the old graveyard back of the First
Presbyterian Church.
Heller was chasing a man who had es-
capped from a house that was raided In
Mulberry street. and in going through
the graveyard injured himself severely by
coming In contact with the tombstones.
but he captured his man. who. rammed
his mead into another stone and was rem
dered unconscious
AT that time the man, whom the police
say was Morgan. was held In the county
Jail for sixty days as a witness.