New-York tribune., 1908-03-16
BLOODHOUNDS GET MAN.
TR4ILED ACROSS JERSEY.
Prisoners Un7cilHngness to Smrren-
der Calls Ont AU officials.

Seabrght, N j., March 15-Bloodhounds capt
ured a prisoner to-day who was locked up here
after chase across country The dogs picked
UP the trail within a few minutes after 1t was
made in Rumson and came straight here. out
onto the pier and aboard schooner lying along
side The arrested, Philip Roher, was the
one man aboard whom the dogs indicated.
For more than year this part of the state
has been bothered by fires in barns and unoccu-
pied or untenanted buildings, and by robberies
of hen roosts and such petty crimes Only two
weeks ago the barn Of Cornelius n Bliss, IN
Rumson, burned. Most of the fires have
been in Rumson and neighborhood, although
there have been some in other nearby places
For a long time II has been noticed that the
fires have been discovered. almost without eX-
ception. at about $50 o'clock in the evening.
The setting of fire after o'clock was excep-
tionaI.
The whole countryside has been alive TO the
chance of catching the firebug and robber,
This evening Henry Richards, who has charge
of the farm of c. D. Halsey, a broker. OF the
Mills Building. New York, milking. Miss
Reese. daughter of the caretaker of the Halsey
summer home, standing in the door of the
barn and man trying TO approach
the barn unseen. She called Rchards'S atten-
ton to him and they watched him until Rich
ards considered it dangerous to let him ap-
proach nearer. The farmer called to him to
halt but the man. who carried either a box or
square basket, fled, and was soon lost in the
darkness.
Richards al telephoned to Mayor Nc
Mahon. The Mayor aroused the marshais and
telephoned to Marshal Snedecker, at Atlantic
Highlands. to bring brace of boodhounds.
Snedecker had been anxious to try the dogs
for some time, but until there had been a
discouraging wave of morality all around.
He came with his dogs in fast automobile
The dogs were taken to the spot where the
man was halted by Richardss outcry. No one
else had been there. They took up the scent
at once and followed the track the took
according to Richards and the girl. -
With party of twenty or more following. the
dogs came straight from Ridge Road. Rumson
10 this place When they reached the pier
where the coal schooner Buena Vista lay along
side Captain Wilson ran out the plank.
Philip Roher came on deck just then and defed
any one to come aboard. He told Mayor Nc
Mahon and the marshals and deputies who had
gathered that only a United States Marshal
could touch him. Roher is a husky fellow, and
as none of the officials cared to take chance on
exceeding their authority. ne stayed on deck.
Mayor Packer summoned and called into
consultation. County Judge Foster was called
too. TO give his opinion. Richards then swore II
"a complaint before Mayor Packer. The Mayor is
sued warrant which he gave to Marshal George
w. Haven OF Seabrig1t. Haven called two
Rumson marshals and then on board
Roher went below and took up a stra tesc posi-
ton behind a closed door. The attacking party
called up their reserves and Roher then sur
rendered and locked up in the borough Jail
He will be arraigned before Mayor Packer in the
morning.
Judge Foster when he learned who had been
arrested said Roher had been convicted twice
before him of chicken stealing and one for kill
ing cow and selling the meat when improper to
do SO.