Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-19
STAkAWAY IS
TAKEN TO JAIL
Bail of Bandit Leader Raised
to $780, More
Charges.
MILLER is RELEASED

Another increase in the bail of
robert Stakaway, alleged leader Of
the bandit gang, was made today
When he was arraigned this morning
charged with the robbery of w. & A.
Fines clothing and furnishing store
In State street, near Broad street, on
the night of August 2, last an at
tempt to kill, and train robbing. The
bail was increased $2,500, making
the total now $500. Stakaway is
under $4,000 bail on a charge of as
saulting and robbing Frank Zim-
norman, New Brunswick peddler;
5 900 on charge of robbing the
post office at Sewaren; 81, 900 more
for entering the Central railroad
ticket office in the same building;
$1,000 for carrying concealed wea-
pons, and the same amount for en-
tering Fines store
w. Fine appeared against Staka-
way this morning and identified a
coat worn by the youth when arrest
ed. Stakaway denied having entered
the store, and accounted for the
garment by saying that he had
bought it in New York Chris
Christensen, whose store in Wood
bridge was robbed and some of the
plunder later found by the police in
hang-out of the gang in North
Amboy, appeared at police court this
morning but inasmuch as Staka-
ways bail was already so heavy, he
declined to make complaint. He
will appear, however, when the pris-
oner is brought to trial.
Rev. DR.. Jacob Ganss, pastor of
the St, Pauls German Lutheran
church, visited the prisoner in his
cell this morning and expressed
sympathy for him. stakaway was
at one time a member of Rev. DR..
Ganss' Sunday school class.
The coat worn by Stakaway when
arrested was compared with a vest
brought to police headquarters by
fine. The patterns were identical.
Fine says his loss in the robbery Of
August 2 exceeds $400.
Stakaway positively denies know
ing anything of the robberies. The
stamps taken from him when arrest
ed and identified by the Sewaren
postmaster, he says, were given to
him by Haremza, another member
of the band. Recorder Pickersgill
criticized Stakaway when the pris-
oner was brought before him ON the
concealed weapons charge. He told
him he was a true hero to openly
boast on the outside that the police
would never take him alive, and
then when he was caught, to lay the
entire blame on his companions.
'Is that so?" was the sarcastic re-
joinder of the prisoner. He still con-
tinues sullen, speaking only when
spoken to and sometimes not even
then.
Patrolman Gutowski Saturday
night chased one Of the gang, sup
posed to have been John Haremza.
The bandit had too great a start,
however, and disappeared by jump
ing a fence and making his escape
between houses.
Stakaway was taken to the county
Jail this afternoon in an automobile,
handcuffed between Detective Huff
and Patrolman Hartmann. Before
he was placed in the machine he was
arraigned on charge of having at
tempted to shoot Charles Hans,
Central railroad detective. The af-
fair took place on the night of Au-
gust To- ball On thls ChaI so ""S
fixed at $1,000. On charge of
breaking into car on the Central
railroad and taking merchandise,
Stakaway was held in $500 bail.
The latter charge was preferred by
Charles G. Kaup, also Central rail-
road detective.
John Miller, arrested Thursday
morning as q member Of the gang,
has been released on the inability
of the police to find evidence against
him.