The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-22
Detectives Sure Robbers Have
Circulated 100000 ID
Spurious Banknotes.
JERSEY CITIES FLOODED
WITH BOGUS CURRENCY
Reason to Believe Desperad0es
Broke Into Vault at
IrvingtOn. a.
KREMLIN BUILDING WAS
LOOTED BY THE GANG
Their Headquarters in Brooklyn
House Kept by Alleged Wife
of Prisoner.

BY the arrest early today OF a woms
an I'm Brooklyn, u man In Hoboken and
two men here, the police of this city,
Brooklyn and New York believe they
have rounded up the most desperate
and daring band of safe-blowexs and
counterfeiters that have operated In
this section for years.
The woman was arrested at 2s Fourth
street, Brooklyn, early today. The po-
lice seized complete counterfeiting
outfit and large quantity of counter
felt $40 bank notes. They have posi-
tive information that, the gang has
placed more than $4,000 OF this coun-
terfeit money In circulation, and say
that tho amount may exceed $100.000
More than $4,000 worth of loot, the
covered and taken to Brooklyn police
headquarters in a wagon. The prop
erty now awaits Identification.
woman Prisoners wife.
The woman describes herself as Mrs.
Lizzie jacobson. and says she Is the
common-law wife of George Williams,
one of the men arrested here.
The men in custody are declared by
the police today to be the ones who
blew the safe in the Union Hotel in
1rvington four months ago. Jewelry
and cash amounting to 5000 was OBJ
tained and search is being made of
the house at Brooklyn. where the gang
made its headquarters, believing that
some of this loot may be recovered
In addition to this the police have
absolute information that they are
guilty Of the lootlng of the Kremlin
building at 7Ss Broad street on Monday
night, and they are also believed to
have played an important part In many
of the robberies that have held the resi-
dents of Nutley in constant fear for
several weeks.
Verona Residents Suffered.
The residents of Verona have also
suffered at the hands of q band of bur
glahs, and the police think that the three
men now in custody at police head
quarters know more than they care to
tell about these crimes.
1t was after a running chase that the
two men were caught here. They had
been shadowed by several men from
the local police force, aided by detec-
tlves from New York, who had been
following them for several months, and
were caught In the act of rifiing the
Aaron Ward building, at Broad and
West Park streets.
The prisoners are Williams and Rich
ard Vaughn. Williams Is known to
the police throughout the country as
"Humpty" Williams and was released
from Sing Sing prison six weeks ago.
He has spent seventeen of his thirty
five years of life behind prison bars.
Vaughn is also a desperate character
and we'll known to the police. He has
operated the police say, In Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
New Jersey, but 1t was not until the
leader. Williams, was released from
Sing Sing prison that the gang be-
came SO bold.
Swallowed from Brooklyn.
Eight men from the New York Cen
trail office have been on the trail of the
gang since July 25. Last night they
shadowed them from the Brooklyn
house to this city. They were on the
same train with Williams and his
gang, and saw them enter the Ward
building. The local police were taken
into their confidence, and Detective
Sergeants Ryan and Harris were as
signed to assist them. In addition to
this, seven men were detailed at police
in case they were wanted
on hurry call.
Lieutenant McKenna, of the New
York central Office, had seven men in
his squad, and when the two safe blow
ers emerged from the Ward building
they stepped right into the arms of
Ryan and Harris and the New York
men.
The third man, Martin Tiffany, es-
capped. but Ryan made hasty trip to
HobolSen with two of the men from
New York. and Tiffany was taken into
custody at 80 clinton street, the gangs
there.
He put up stiff fight. and attempted
to fell his captors with Jimmy. The
detectives closed in on him, but hi