Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-10
RICH LOOT RECOVERED
Real Detective Work Runs
Down Trio of Thieves.
ONE JUMPS FROM WINDOW
Thirty-Five Feet Below Policeman
Picks Him Up Unhurt.
TWO MEN AND WOMAN CAUGHT
Trail Picked Up by Lucky Clue and
Followed to Many Places
in New York.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 1O.-Real de-
tective work that reads like romance re-
suited in the capture. this morning. of
two burglars and a woman, wife of one
and sister of the other. and the recovery
of great quantity of loot from a fiat in
Grafton street, Brooklyn.
The detectives believe the men are
eastern agents for a gang of organized
thieves. who are running clearing house
for stolen goods in Chicago.
The prisoners are Gieuseppe Markette,
William Pesky and Markette's wife, Min
ME. An inventory of the articles found
in the Grafton street fiat includes all
manner of jewelry, watches and articles
of clothing made of Persian lambs wool
and other expensive stuffs.
October 20. safe was blown in the Of
fees of Samuel Peck, on the third floor
of SO6 Broadway, and property to the
value of $500 taken from IT. This Is
where the detectives enter into the reck-
oning.
Deductions Of Sleuths.
They nosed about over the premises and
then pieced together what information
their eyes gave them, coming to the fol-
lowing conclusions:
That the thieves had mounted to the
roof of one-story extension, for on the
roof were their footprints.
That the only way they could have
reached the third floor from the extern
sion was by climbing up the telephone
wire hand over hand to the fire shutters
protecting the windows.
That they passed something between
the shutters. possibly a piece of wire,
and detached the fastening. after which
they jimmied the windows.
From the windows to the safe were
footprints plainly outlined In plaster OF
paris They were the prints of men who
walked in bare feet. The plaster of paris
had come from the base Of the safe when
the bottom was blown out and the pow
derry substance scattered about the moor.
The footprints led from the extension
roof across the yard to the rear OF Jos
4th avenue, where they were lost to view.
No. los was roOming house. The detec-
tives asked the landlady If she would not
kindly accompany them to police head
quarters.
Down there she thumbed over the pic
lures in the gallery until she came to
those of Pesky and Markette. They were
the faces of her roomers, much to her
amazement.
There was something about Pesky in
the police archives the better to recall
the photograph He had been released re-
Gently from Dannemora. While the police
there arrived hot from the wires tele-
gram from Chicago. A man answering
Pesky's description was wanted there for
a $4,000 fur robbery.
Look for Pesky" were the police in
structions The chase began.
Through channels the police are familiar
with the five detectives learned that
Pesky. Markette and the girl had been
at 22S East 18th street. They went there
last Friday night and putting their Shout
ders to the door forced it in. -
The fiat was empty. There were signs
of a hasty moving. In the kitchen was
a range, and the central Office men poked
about in that. They found a pile Of half
burned cardboards such as jewelry is
mounted on.
The fire had been smothered by the
mass of material piled on top of it. Out
of the debris the police raked an inter-
esting paper. 1t was a scorched receipt
for an express package of jewelry which
had been shipped to Chicago.
Quarry Trailed to Quarters.
The detectives followed their quarry to
Brooklyn, helped out by informers. This
morning they arrived in front of No. z
Grafton street.
Detectives kiRsler, Finn and Donahue
were posted outside. Dugan and O'Far-
rell went quietly to the third floor. There
O'Farrell induced the persons inside to
open the door by initiating the voice of
the janitor
Pesky was in bed. The Markettes hus-
band and wife, stood silently by in their
nightgowns.
AS O'FarrelI turned his back there was
a crash Of glass. Both detectives wheeled
to find Pesky's bed empty. and a jagged
hole in the window. The man had taken
a desperate chance and gone right
through the glass to the street, thirty
five feet below. He fell into the hands
of Kinsler, who made a prisoner of him.
Are you hurt?" asked the policeman.
mo. If l was hurt, / would say so,''
growled Pesky. mo ambulance. for me
this time"
The police gathered up what they found
quarters.