The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-20
Goods Valued at $2,5OO
Stolen During Night
from Mein'S Store.
SECOND VISIT TO PLACE
BY THIEVES IN SIX YEARS
Method of Forcing Entrance
Shows Robbers Were Fa-
miIiar With Premises.

For the second time in six years
burglars forced an entrance into the
store of David Klein, at 205 Springfield
avenue. last night and carried off silk
valued at $500. An examination to-
day showed that only men familiar with
the premises could have succeeded in
getting into the building in so work
manlike manner. An inventory Of the
stock proves further that the thieves
knew silk, as only the most valuable
rolls were taken.
Four of the men captured after the
robbery of six years ago are at large.
Two of them ,rearrested for other Of
fenses, are serving time. The arrest Of
the thieves and the recovery of the silk
In the previous robbery was accounted
so clever d piece of detective work that
it was made the basis for the promo
tion of several policemen.
Evidences of the robbery were nu-
merous In the rear of the store when
Mr. Klein entered it today. An exarni-
nation showed him that 1000 yards of
taffeta silk, in gray, white, pink and
green, valued at $1,000; 500 yards of
saline, worth $3.50, had been removed
Klein telephoned to the Fourth Pre-
cnct station and police headquarters
was notified in turn. Plainclothesman
Sebold was sent from tho Fourth, and
| Captain Carroll, of the detective bu-
reau, detailed Sergeants Koerber and
! Walzer to the case.
| A cursory examination of the store
was enough to convince the detectives
that the thieves had been thoroughly
acquainted with the building befofe
they attempted to force an entrance.
rear door leading to a cellar under the
store had been easily forced. From the
cellar the thievs made their way up &
blind stairway which had been walled
off from the store building. The Top
of this stairway had been covered with
boards which were easily removed. Then
the robbers faced plaster and board
wall. A hole a foot and half square
had been cut through this wall direct
ly behind the shelves ON which the
rolls of the more valuable silk were piled.
The silk was taken to the cellar, where
the paper was taker from the rolls,
and was then probably put in sacks and
loaded on a wagon. There we're no
wheel tracks to bolster up this last
theory, as the Belgian block pavement
In the rear of the store would not re-
tain such evidences. but so great waS
me quantity of the silk taken that It
would have been impossible to remove
1t in any other way.
When &lein's store, which Is de-
voted exclusively to silk furnishings,
was robbed six years ago about the
same amount of goods was taken. Al
that time Walzer, now on the case as
detective was on reserve in the
Fourth Precinct station house then al
Springfield and Fifteenth avenues, and
he was sent to make the first examina
tion of the looted building. Sergeant
Fohs. OF the detective bureau, then
plainclothesman in the Fourth. and
Sergeant CORDIALLY, of the detective
bureau, who was a roundsman, were
also detailed to the case. August
ziegler policeman of the Fourth Pre-
cinct, now dead, discovered that the
thieves made their rendezvous in
vacant house at s Fairview avenue
In promotion he later received a detail
Fohs and CORDIALLY, with number of
policemen, surrounded the burglars
headquarters in the early morning, and
with drawn revolvers forced an en-
trance. The six burglars We're caught
like rats in a trap. Most of the silk
was recovered. Fohs and CORDIALLY weTe
elevated to the detective bureau Ter
their good work.
Leading the band of burglars was Dt'
Sam Bohlen, notorious crook Other
members were Joseph Goldberg, Will
lam Singer and Joseph Behrman. Behr-
man escaped and was arrested later ia
New York. William Dorf, Max
Leischan and Joseph Kruger were ar
tested as receivers. The burglars were
sent to the penitentiary for six months
each. and were required to pay fines of
5000 each They appealed their case and
the appeal dragged on until last year,
when the sentences were affirmed. They
were completed but few months ago.
Bohlen and Goldberg are now at lib
erty Singer was arrested in New York
in 1907 and is now serving five-year
term in Sing Sing