The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-30
! BELIEVES RIVAL
|NSPiREORA|OOF
"bURGLAR" GANG
Real Estate Agent Kent Tells OF
/ Outrages Attending Flat
hold-Up.
IDENTIFIES ONE MAN.
Trio Who Stole ST. 400 Sub
iected Victim and Wife TO
Many Insults.
IDENTIFIES ONE MAN.

'1t ever see the other burs'a--ths
man who hel. pistol to my w,,e's
ereast and insul;ed her tcully while she
bald cur sick baby in her e-ms--ther.ll
Be no need of policemen or courts, Cor
will place him beyond the reach Of
either
William Kent, the well-to-do real ss-
fAte operator. who thus declared him.
Self TO an Evening World reporter IN
his apartment In the St Nicholas. No
/ u st. Nicholas avenue, today, is still
III with nervousness sc q result Of the
robbery of his place and the il-treat.
ment OF himself and his wife by three
1 men the night % Dec ii
One Of the men. arrested under the
name Of Waiter C. M!nnihan after a
row in the Bohemia Cafe. No 43 West
| Treaty-nirta street, has been positive
" Identified by Mr.. Kent as a member
o. the trto.of burglars. Minnihan, who
has q string 81 aliases. among them
Big Walter Re,ehan, kelleher and
sport" HoulihaH, is in the prison ward
OF Bellevue Hospital. ana there Mr.
Kent was taken BY Detectives Camp
bell. Mercer and Finn, WHO Netieve the
prisoner IS a 1len1oer o. the Jim Kelly
ganG.
Believes Enemy Inspired Outrage.
Mr.. Kent has temporarily withdrawn
from business. Bat has compe-
tency which he made in real estate
deals. He believes the outrage was in
spired by real estate operator whom
'he bested in business deaf come weeks
ego.
The burglars took about si4ro in
1ewery and cash from my apartment"
he said However. 1t is rot for the
money, but for the indignity to which
they subjected myself and my wife that
I want them punished. l am sorry the
story became known. as the detectives,
who have done excellent work on the
case. expected to capture one. or per-
haps. both Of the other burglars to-day.
For several days before Dec. n he
continued, my wife and my TWO chill
dren. Ruth, who is eighteen months old,
and Alex, three years old. had been i'll,
and had had scarcely any sleep. These
men told the elevator boy they had to
zee me on urgent business and when our
maid. Marie Kelly, answered their ring
al the door OF our fiat. they pushed in.
"one Of them held pistol at Marle's
head and also kept the other maid. Cora
Pugh. covered. and the fret l knew o.
their presence was their entrance into
our bedroom. Get up, one Of them said
pointing a pistol AT me. and II you
make any noise I'll kill YOU
lnsuIted and Cursed Pair.
For Gods sake. be careful said
- have sick child and nv wife IS IN
They cursed me and said they didn't
care for my sick child or wife, and
they went into Mrs Kent's room and
abused her, She was stricken cold
with fright, bur they marched her. in
her nightclothes and holding little
Ruth in her arms, with me into the
,parlor. In there for an hour. it
,seemed 10 me-, they beat and cursed
me and insulted my wife
'one OF them placed his pistol 20 her
BODY and made an obscene remarh At
. this she tainted and dropped little Ruin
I 10 the floor. They would not even allow
(. me 10 go TO her assistance or n pick N
the child, but th!nk it was the baby $
crying that made them decide TO depart
They had meanwhile robbed the place
They were thoroughly cool about il
and when they LETT .wenr down by the
elevator, in The usual wa. Ny wife
has been nearly nervous wreck eve,
since and haven't been much better"
Mr.. Kent said one reason he belle, 81
the outrage was a scheme Of the Ies
estate operator who1, 10 olItvf,ted in +
IDEAL Was because he Kent, was accostAr
IN saloon resr the Criminal ,-our,,