New-York tribune., 1908-03-29

a barber al Exeter and is said to have committed
suicide by cutting his throat
Chief Tinmons has learned that boy Hanna
was fond Of playing pool and gambling. AT the
Of eighteen ne sent to the Massachusetts
Reformatory for robbery at Lynn. He was sub
sequently committed the same institution for
burglaries at Haverhil Mass. and Dover ". H
He pardoned by the Nassa chusetts Prison
Commission November Ii, 1907. and must have
come directly 70 New York City. for a few days
later he met Taylor. whom he persuaded 10
Join him
Taylor's real name is said to be Townsend. and
about all the police have been able 10 find out is
that he was born in Pennsylvania and came to
New York 10 work in department store. He
was afteruard conductor the Brooklyn Ra pid
Transit lines. and then drifted 10 Coney Island.
where he was employed waiter at the Luna
Park restaurant. He was out Of work and staying
! Mills hotel when he met Hanna
{ According 20 his story. Hanna told him that he
knew OF place where he could find easy work.
TAYLOR went with his new found friend and that
night Hanna took him 10 the suburbs and left him
outside guard while he robbed house The
pair continued their operations. and finally gath
cred up so much loot that they decided 10 move
into an apartment where they could have more
room 10 store it The apartment was in Lexing-
ton avenue
Il was here that Serseants Cody and Scott. Of
the New Rochelle police. found fifteen trunks and
suitcases filed with plunder- The rooms OF the
burglars were up like college students dens.
with pictures bric-a-b-ac and silver, while in tn
closets the detectives found twenty suits of
clothes. & dozen overcoats, bathrobes, silk pa
jamas and more than two hundred neckties stolen
from suhurbanites.
While robbing the home of c. w Inslee of New
Rochelle the burglars took a fancy to Mrs. Ins-
lees photograph and it was found nantel in
the den. The loot which was shipped TO New
Rochelle for Identification. filled three express
wagons and was by far the largest haul ever made
by the police Of Westchester County
: On OF their trips the burglars came across
some evening clothes and silk hats. which they
Say led TO their undoing. Taylor had read in the
newspapers of how burglars had masqueraded in
evening clothes and successfully evaded the police
and he persuaded Hanna 10 try the experiment
On the night Of January Mrs Helen Atwood
wife OF William Hooker Atwood, president of the
New Haven Carriage Company. vino lives IN
Woodland avenue. New Rochelle, was awakened
sbout 10 O'Clock by noise. and peeping out from
under the she two stylshly dressed
men in her room. Both wore evening clothes and
silk hats. At first Mrs. Atwood thought that they
were two drunken clubmen who had got into the
house by mistake, and Mr.. Atwood was away
and the servants had retired she decided to lie
sill, hoping that they would not notice her But
she realized that the We're burglars when she
ssw them fash their dark lanterns about the room
and take from the dresser the family jewels.
From Mrs. Atwood's room they went to the room
oi her husband where they took q new opera coat
vuch he had just had made in London and a suit
o&se Mrs. Atwood remained perfectly quiet until
- beard the burglars close the front door Then
- selephoned to the police TO be on the lookout
io' TWO burglars wearing silk hats
an less than thirty minutes the men were ar
Fsted al The railroad station by Detectives De
Neaush and Smith. just they were about to
board q train for New York They protested in
csnantly, saying they were yachfsmen on
'heir Ray back 10 the city. but when they were
searched revolvers and masks were found in their
pockeis The suit case. which they had checked,
contained Mr.. Atwoods opera coat and the stolen
sewery
among the other victims of the pair were Ed
'sno H. Hart DIR. G. A Lyon. William Bantel
Aao Mrs lnslee Of New Rochelle: Stephen Mar
snsiL 5r. Of Port Chester; J. B. Lutbes of Mount
e'non. and Samuel Hayward. jr-, and the Jewish
nene in Yonkers
He hehwaynen were surprised while looting
@ 1s none Of DIR. Lyon by Mrs. Lyon who had been
~ calling and in about O'clock in the
.ehins AS she opened the door they sprang
- @io one OF them showed a revolver I'm her face
1 ~, 'oic her that If she made outcry he would
l :" her struggle followed during which they
eAhed her unt she unconscious and fed
- Aa The house AT Jewish Home in Yonkers
s stole Stradivarius violin from an inmate
"s-h was said 10 have been worth about 500