Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-08
Both Men Under Arrest
Are Held With
out Bail.
HAD SERVED TIME, AS
HAD WALSH, THE DUPE
Wife of Local Accountant Must
Go to WOrk--PrisOnerS
Arraigned.

htk oSn~os
Patrick B. Timmons, expert accounts
ant, and Samuel Brown. alleged defau1-
ter, were arraigned today before Justice
Queen in the Second Criminal Court. OF
Jersey City, charged with manslaugh-
ter, arson and conspiracy They waived
examination and was remanded with
out bail to Jail to await the action of
the grand jury.
lightning Walsh, of East Newark.
roustabout and saloon lounger, his eyes
blown out and horribly burned, lies
dead at Hughess morgue, Jersey City,
after endeavoring to the last to shield
whoever hired him.
Patrick Timmons- whose wife and six
children live In. third-fioor fiat at sss
Clinton avenue, resolutely refused to
say a word about the fire at the Long
Dock Milling Companys office, at 6S
Pavonia avenue, Jersey City, until he
had found himself betrayed
Walsh had served a year in the Es-
sex county penitentiary eor horse
stealing.
Timmons has served six months in the
Passaic county Jail for embezzlement
From 1899 to 1900 he stole 81, 1,257.40 from
the Nelson Morris Company of Pater-
| son, for which he was a collector. He
was sentenced February %, 1900 by
Judge Scott. of Passaic. on six indct-
! ments, to which he pleaded guilty, for
one month each.
| Brown, of the Georgia Court elevator
apartment house, at S15 West 1l3th
street, New York. earning $40 a week
as trusted cashier. after violating
| the confidence of his employers and
begging Timmons and Lightning, to
help him cover up his defalcatiofis, be-
| trayed them without remorse or hesita-
ton.
Yet Lightning" Walsh. charred and
mangled lying in anguish ar the hos
pital, with policeman beside him. had
kept faith with his pals"
| Came Here sunday.
Timmons and Brown came to New
ARK Sunday afternoon on a trolley
car about 8 O'clock. They got off at
Eoche's roadhouse. in F'relinghuysen
avenue.
According to Timmons, Brown, the
cashier, had called upon him for as
sistance. Together the two men had
been working on the books of the Long
Dock Milling Company. Timmons was
trying to discover some way to
straighten out Browns books Brown
was $500 short.
When they came to Newark. so Tim
mons says, Brown asked Roche, the
roadhouse keeper:
| Where's Ligh ming? He's ,od old
skate! We sure ought to buy him some
drinks"
ITS near feeding time guess,
/ Roche returned. You'll probably find
him down the street at the lunch
room"
Timmons, Brown says then went out
in search of lightning" Walsh and
returned with him half an hour later.
| Walsh was given some change and
several drinks
| In the dark barroom the three men
sat at table and planned their action.
Walsh was to do the lob" Brown
was to open the safe. Timmons was to
go along for friendships sake.
TITS the only way-its the only
thing!" Brown exclaimed feverishly to
his two friends. Those books must be
burnt-or I'm done fort"
Five Gallons of Gasoline.
| One of the trio telephoned to the
Rain TaXicab Company for an auto
| mobile Chauffeur Eugene Ryno an
| swered the call. Another round Of
drinks sealed the solemn pact of the
three men to reveal nothing Then
they left the roadhouse.
At the West Hudson garage, 4io
Harrison avenue, Harrison. Walsh
| bought five gallon can of gasoline.
paying seventy-fve cents for the gaso-
line and a dollar for the can, which
he promised to return. Henry Strumpf.
cousin of the owner. sold the gaso-
line
They rode to Jersey City where
they had more drinks at Cavanagh's
saloon, next door to the Long Dock
Milling Company's office in Pavonia
avenue. The chauffeur left and the
three men entered the office, so Brown
confessed.
This is the statement Timmons made
to Captain Richards of Jersey City last
night as to what happened;
We went down to the office. Brown
let us in and opened the safe and
Lightning carried in the gasoline
"Then l went out to get a drink, and
when | came back Brown was gone,
but Lightning was there. Lightning
told me to beat it, tossing me my
coat, which l had left behind on going
out. He said he was the manager of
the place now and 1 must obey orders.
Cursed by Brown.
IT went back to the saloon In about
fifteen minutes a woman burst in the
front door, shouting that the place next
door was afire. l ran to the place and
kicked in a panel Of the door Then
flremen came and carried out poor
Lightning He was terribly burned
and somebody said he was dead.
IT ran for the Hudson Tubes and
came across to Manhattan. where !