The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-24
Prisoners Had Arranged to At
tack Mrs. Ross on Way from
Bank, Says Sleuth.
ARMED AND SENT OUT TO
BRING BACK PLUMBER
Schneider and Adamovicz Are
Trapped When Believed TO Be
About to Obey Chiefs Orders.


mt 5s7 Hawthorne avenue, this
city, was to have been attacked to
make her reveal the combina tion of
her fathers treasure-laden safe, ac-
cording to statements made today by
Newark and New York detectives, who
captured two heavily-armed alleged
anarchists In the vicinity of the factory
of Joseph Ross, Jr., d Co., mnnufac-
turers of manicure articles in Colt
street, Irvington. At the moment of
their arrest the two men are said to
have abandoned the plot to attack the
sick daughter and to have been ready
to pounce upon her mother, Mrs. Joseph
Ross, who would have passed them a
moment later with about II 900 In cash,
the weekly payroll of the Ross fac
tory.
The prisoners, John Schneider and
John Adamowicz. were today arraigned
before Justice of the Peace Miller, in
the Prosecutors office, and held in
$500 bail each on charges Of attempted
highway robbery, and carrying con-
cealed weapons. They did not furnish
bail and were committed.
Detective Lieutenant Irving Rafsky,
of the Allen street branch of the New
York Central office, trailed the two
suspects from New York to Newark,
and here called in Detective Sergeants
Ryan and Farrell.
Told to XIII If Necessary.
Rafsky said that he had been watch
ing the two men a long time, that they
We're members of an Anarchistic circle
which had delegated them to obtain the
money, without a killing, if possible, but
to get the money in any event.
According to Rafsky, who is rated
highly by the New York detective bu-
reau, he overheard the two prisoners,
plan the attack and robbery. They had
first planned to break into the Ross
home and there gag and bind Miss
Ross, who has been a bookkeeper for
her father, and force from her, by tor
ture, if necessary, the combination Of
the safe In the office and then loot it.
Miss Ross had been Ill in bed re-
Gently, and had been absent from her
desk The conspirators gave up this
plan because they could not find her In
the house alone at any time
Then they discovered that every
Monday afternoon Mrs. Ross went to
the Office of the National Newark
Banking Company and there obtained
about 81, 900 in cash with which to pay
off employees of the Ross factory.
While Detective Rafsky does not ad
NIT it, 1t is inferred that he secretly
worked with the anarchist band In
New York and in that way learned of
the plans. The robbery was to have
been effected yesterday afternoon, and
RafslSy followed the two men under
arrest over to Newark and here called
in Ryan and Farrell. At that time
Rafsky did not know the identity of the
intended victim. He knew the bank
from which the money would be drawn
and that 1t was a factory In Irvington
and that the victim was to be an elder
ly woman.
They learned the identity of Mrs
Ross at the bank, and learned that she
had Just left there with the money
They telephoned Immediately to Mr..
Ross, at the factory, to have some
armed men meet Mrs. Ross at the street
can and escort her to the factory Then
the detectives hurried out to Irvington.
reaching there at about the same time
as Mrs. Ross.
Armed when Arrested.
Mr. Ross and several employees, with
George B. Cole, brother of Mrs. Ross,
were there to meet and escort Mrs.
Ross, Cole having a shotgun that he
had brought back after hunting trip.
At a fence close to the factory the de-
tectives saw Schreiber, who is 45 years
old, and Adamovicz, who is 10, and
quickly arrested them before they could
resist. Schneider had a long knife,
opened, in his pocket, and Adamovicz
had loaded revolver strapped to his
waist with a belt. Both men were
hustled to headquarters
Mrs. Ross was greatly relieved today
when she told of her escape.
ct have been going to the bank every
Monday for the payroll money for
twenty three years." she said, land
have often feared robbery, but did not
know I was so close to it. / am so
glad that my daughter escaped"
The men had planned to attack her
while she was sick in bed and make
her tell the combination of the safe.
THE detectives say that they planned
to hold me up as I approached the fac
tory and take the money from me.
They did not intend to kill me, but had
planned to kill anyone who interfered
with their escape.