New-York tribune., 1911-10-10
RAID ALLEGED THIEF DEN
Police Arrest Two Men and Seize
$4,000 in Goods.
FIND MARKED SILVERWERE
Some Of Articles Bear Initials
"A. M. A., "R. B." and F. -.
-Cloaks Taken from Flat.

Detective Lieutenants John j. Cray
brother-in-law OF Charles F. Murphy. ana
william Savage have for several weeks
had their four eyes on Samuel sason-
twenty-five years old OF No. 1872 East 10Th
street. sason is known 10 the police as
burglar. and has only been out OF Elrnira
a couple OF weeks or 90. He has been mucn
in the company Of one Joseph Curley,
twenty-one years old. Curley has third
floor fat at No ZIl East l4th street, and
Savage and Cray have fingered IN the
neighborhood for two or three nights.
There have been a good many burglaries
IN West Harlem recently. ard Cray and
Savage thought last night q good time 10
lock UP Curley and Sason. They took with
them Detectives Griffith. Sullivan. Hooker
and Lockman. all Central Office men.
About o'clock Griffith and Lockman stood
IN the hallway outside the door. and Cray,
Sullivan and Savage stood on the fire
escape outside the back window. When
Cray began 10 raise the window. some one
inside the fat threatened to shoot. Grif-
fifth and Lockman heard this and broke
open the door
The two men did not resist. and the de-
tectives took them to Police Headquarters.
first gathering UP about 5000 to $4,000
worth of valuable silver. cut glass and
women's wearing apparel This was all
/ tied Up in sheets and sacks
There were I25 pieces Of silver including
cake trays, platters, pitchers and a coffee
pot Five silver toilet articles were marked
F" others were marked a. NJ A and
r. B." There we're five pieces Of cut
glass and four theatre and evening wraps
One satin lined cloak was valued by the
police at about $l75. There was a white
satin dress that looked Ike bridal COS
tune There was also n gold watch OF
foreign maze.
Among the smaller articles was a mans
card case. with the picture Of a girl inside
Curley said the card case, like all the sill
yer. cut glass and other things. belonged
10 a man friend Of his" but said he
could NOT remember the friend name just
then. He explained that his friend s girl
frend-the girl in the card case-had been
sent 70 the workhouse on Blackwell's ISL
and and thus his friends happy home was
broken up Curley had taken the friend 70
live Nth him m 14th street.
IN Curley's hip pocket the police found
/ an empty a. caliDre revolver and Sason
| had the very latest thing In sandbags I'm
his pocket. II was merely long leather
bag that when distended with sand was
about two inches in diameter. When not
| in use the bag was kept empty An
empty leather bag found IN the pocket
violates no provision Of the Sullivan law,
/ even II it Is a weapon when packed with
sand.
/ Under the mattress in Curley'L rooms
a powerful steel jimmy was found not
/ the can opener variety. but with a cross
! bar ar the end.
Both men were locked up as suspicious
characters at the East 22d street station.
Lieutenant Cray said the police had evil
/ dence that Curlev and Sason were members
/ Of a band OF burglars, and that the whole
band would have been found in the rooms
II the raid had been made a few minutes
earlier They assembled there last night.
he said, 70 decide upon the disposition Of
stolen goods