New-York tribune., 1910-09-24
CALL WOMAN A BURGLAR GRADE CROSSINGS TO CO.
Arrested with Man and identI-
fled by Victim. Say Detectives.
SHE WAS GUARD, Is CHARGED
While Companion Robbed Flat,
According to Tenant, She
Waited to Give Warning.

A man and a woman who said they were
Louis Wolf. of No. S73 First avenue, and
Mrs Katherine Powers. of No. 319 East
74th street, were arrested yesterday by
/ Detectives O'Neil and Rayme I'm the hall
Of q fat building at 172d street and Ster-
ling Place. and locked up in The Bronx de
tective bureau. charged with burglary.
They were both identified. the detectives
said. by Mrs. Julia Sherman, of No. 196
Brown Place The Bronx. as a pair she
caught in her fiat on September 20, who
got away with about $500 worth of jewelry-
On that day. according to the detectives,
Mrs sherman returned home from a shop
ping trip to find her front door open and a
woman standing just inside it Asked
what she was doing there, the woman re
piled that she was looking for Mrs Sea
man" and then moment later, yelled,
Beat H. Louie :" whereupon a man rushed
out of a rear room of the fat. out of the
door and up the stairs.
Mrs. Sherman started after him and the
strange woman threw her arms around her
and told her TO calm herself
That mans thief" Mrs. Sherman OK
postulated
NO ne isn't" the stranger told her {;
don't get excited"
.
I'D the stairs after the man. but he had
made good his escape over the roof. When
she got downstairs again the woman had
gone 100 Mrs Sherman went at once TO
The Bronx detective bureau, where she
gave . description of the pair, and Detec-
tives O-Neil and Rayme were assigned 10
the case.
The detectives said they had had Wolf
and Mrs. Powers under surveillance for
some time having seen the woman pawn
number of articles III different pawnshops
n The Bronx and had found that they
lived together at No. 641 East 1S6th street,
where they had a three room fiat on the
third floor,
Yesterday morning. having gone down 70
Police Headquarters they were returning
I'D Third avenue. when they ran across
Wolf at 18th street and followed him. He
took the elevated railroad 10 18th street,
where he met the woman. They went TO
the 1S5th street mouse, remained there about
half an hour and then went to Sterling
Place where the woman entered a big
apartment house on the corner. She came
out again in q few minutes. and then both
entered
Rayn1e followed them in while O'Neil
remained outside Rayme passed them in
one Of the halls and then. when he was
sure he was unobserved by them, turned
and watched their movements from above.
He said he saw them try several DOORS
but that they did not succeed in opening
any OF them
Finally RayTne went to q hall wlndo"
and siEnalled to his partner 10 come up,
and tho detectives then arrested the pair.
Both we're highly indignant and said they
were strangers 20 each other They were
taken 10 the detective bureau, however,
despite their protestations and there. the
detectives asserted they were lined up
with several other men and women and
identified.
I'm the fat the pair had IN 136th street
which was searched after their arrest. the
police found. they said. jewelry and other
goods worth 5000 The lot included two
watches. orc silver one inscribed ITO s
u Serferber 4 1a4''. a dozen silver
Ia nlc knives. 4 dozen silver spoons in
case > diamond ring. = loCket auo chain
set with twenty-three stones, diamond
slInhirst aid by tho police 10 be paste;
icv-ei box full 81 small trinkets. most of
them marked Nth initials, three emerald
ring=. Z diamond pin. diamond brooch,
necklace of false pearls silver Jewel case.
six razors = safety razor in = silver plated
case engraved From your wife Gcrtie To
husband Lou 2 gold bracelet. initialled
f E"- half = dozen willow ostrich
rlrtrnes. : dozen pairs Of kid gloves and
uumher of silk hsndkerchiefs
In the fat the police also found they
said. 4 blackjack combination knife and
derrinser pistol. the muzzle being at the
base Of the blade, and IN opium layout
Among 2 number Of letters found, the
police SAID. We're several from convicts IN
the prison II Snake Hill. New Jersey.