The sun., 1910-07-31
TRAP FOR YOUNG BURGLARS
SET ron THREE NIGHTS. ITWtS
SPRI Va an THE FOI RTH.
The catch Was Five Members of the Kent
street saNaEea IN NilliamsburE-A
i.arky sip af settler for serEt. Me-
4 a'Auley- tlsW the Trap Operated.

Just how lucky IL was that he had
9ropped into tho corner ginmill 10 get
bottle of s-ltzer Sergeant Archie
NcCauley Of the StRgg street police
station. Brooklyn. didn't reails until
he overheard one Of the three men at
the end OF the bAr say:
4 want we should get into the house
of that damned policeman McCauley.
He sent me To the pan for that six
months stretch Now I'm out | want
b. get him.
MCCauley paid for the bottle Of ssltyer
and As he turned away from the bar
let HE eyes rove over the three mon. The
one who had spoken hs could not name
Ca himself. though hes knew we'll the face.
lie walked back to the har and with
the air of one almost forgetting an errand
bought c Sar. He overheard
Yep he lives in Iombardy street.
a.. on the upper hoor. III choke him
meself IN get him. ! will
That was on Monday last. McCauley
thrashed around in his mind continually
a. hs walked slowly to the Herbert street
pohce station, but all he could do was to
identify the face as that of un" of the
choicest members of the Kent Street
SAvages "a gang famed IN Williamsburg
tor outlswry Az the Herbert street
station hous- Sergeant McCauIev found
capt Lincoln Gray and told him what
he had heard
I cant Just place this fellow. sald the
sergeant 4 know he's on" of the Kent
street savages and | think he's a fellow
had sent up for SIX months. IL was three
wears ago Anyhow. II my house il to
he busted open | hops you'll h.' ON the
job
4 undoubtedly will replied Capt
Gray He ruhled his hands and medi-
taIsd and had "a long talk with the
threatened sergeant
The sergeant went home aud told Mrs
McCauley that sh. must GO away and
visit her mother for "a few days az
course Mrs MCCaul-y wanted 20 know
why and had to h' told ali She Was
pretty much upset when She went to visit
her mother
Sergt McCaulev had To tell the whole
thing over again at his own station house
IN StAgg street. hut upon telling he readily
got leave To sleep home for "A few sue
ce~sive nights.
ON Tuesday night had YOU been in
l.omhardy street near "a you might have
seen several longshoremen doing IN the
gutter and against the brick wall Of the
from the McCauley hous. In the
McCaulsy hack yard you might almost
have stumbled over a couple OF policemen
and Capt. Lincoln Gray squatting uncom-
iortably against the fence
Al tan minutes before midni ght a man
wing IN the McC Cauley house ON the ground
floor came oIt Of the house and according
TO simple instructions received at the
Herbert street station during, the after
noon lit his cigar and tramped to the ic. |
plant across the street to start work for |
his eight hour shift. The moment he had |
got within the ics factory Ave figures |
slipped from doOrways and met in the |
middle Of the street. The five shadows
talked in whispers. One Of them led the |
way toward "a Just as he put his hand |
to the doorknob a couple OF policemen |
ON beat turned the corner
The five visitors faded swiftly away
That was all for Tuesday night.
On "Wednesday night the Ion gshorsmen |
Aumbered in the gutter as before. the /
man on the ground floor OF "a came out /
at ten minutes 90 ~ and lighting a cigar
again and started for the McCauley front
door. They hadn't reached it when a
dog barked somewhere IN the neighhor.
hood The five went off by separate. ways
On Thursday night the five saw new
Ion ngshoreman on the steps of a house near
GA IL was Policeman George Eckert
and he had enough presence Of mind
as the five approached TO burn his thumb
as he extinguished his pipe and begin
gently to snore The five stood over
him.
-Aw. he don't look right whispered
one. He may be cop I'll just bit
him
Slap came the speakers hand upon
Eckert = jaw IL Was trying To the police
mans temper. but he stirred not nor
ceAsed reproachfuly to snore
He amt a cop mu ttered the free
handed one That I'D bring any cop
to life
The five now moved toward ga They
tried the front door. but IL was locked and
they seemed at loss While they were
discussing how most quickly they might
get cold chlsel woman coughed in the
distance
Five pairs Of ears were cooked and the
cold chisel was forgotten Then some
one of the Ave spotted the woman leaning
out ~ an upstairs bedroom window II
she was gazing IN a sleepy way at the
sky. but the i've concludcd she might
easily and soon gaze ia a wide9wake way
at them They dissolved into he night
by this iIrne Capt Lincoln Gray was
rubbing himself daily Nitn oil to over
come the cramping effect of squRttinR
the whole of successive nights Va the
McCauley back yard But. a. h" said.
30 long as tn" five appeared nightly one
Cohldn Z help anticipating stirrring events
q lady cough Besides. he could stick TO
~ as long as the hve could
There we're just nine policemen scat
tered around the NlCCauley premises on
Friday night Capt Gray. with two mon
sat hunched up IN IN" dim back yard
Policemen McDermott and Costello were
IN Mc''a'ley y bedroom with hum Five
longshoremen, thre. Of them not easy
to bs seen. lay III Lombardy street siinu-
lsting drunken sleep The man DOWN
stairs In "a IN his cigar. looked AZ tho
SKY and strolled TO labor Bat no five
appeared aftsrwsrd i,
just az the five longshoremen were
getting uneasy and almost forgetting the
duration 81 alcohol's effects they hea rd
three pistol shots All tive jumped M
and ran for the Mo- aulsy front door
Tn. hv~ Kent Street Sava gss had entered
by scaling the Met auley back fenc. and
slipping through the cellar door into IN.
cellar. Capt Gray could have kicked
them separately A. they did so. but he
r"frained With hr two men h. fol-
lowed very uuIsty
The i've went from the cellar 10 the
FIRST nOOr The house has no basement
They tailed silently up the staircase and
from ~, bottom of the stairs Capt Gray
raw uus of them pry open the door 10
AlcC au'eys httla parlOr with chiseI
k..s. Il. "A -