The evening world., 1911-03-31
Policeman Says He Caught
Them Trying Several Doors
With Skeleton Keys.
KONlCKS BOTH DIFFER.
Merchant Called to Examine
Fixtures He Intended to Buy,
He Explains to Court.

Arrested with his nfteen-ycar-ola son
William for acting In n suspicious man
ner early this morning on Graham ave-
nue. Williamsburg. Isaac Konick told
Magistrate Manner IN the Manhattan
Avenue Police Court. where he was ar
Faigred. that he Is the owner Of a store
fixture establishment al No. PIG Broome
street. near Goerck. Manhattan. tina, he
owns the house No. 1856 McKibben street,
IN which he lives, and tina, no Is worth
10000. lie denounced the arrest OF
himself and his son as nm outrage. and
said that they were simply yielding 10
bus.ncs thrift when their actions at
tracted the suspicious Of Policeman
Resented OF the .-tagg street police sta
zion. who arrested them.
According to the p~oiiceman's story.
he placed the pair under arrest while
the boy was trying to open the door OF
NJ. y. Schrink's ladies' wear store. at
No. rs Graham avenue. with n false
key. Konick. the policeman testified.
stood nearby and seemed TO be looking
up and down the street. as II he were
acting as a lookout"
Policeman Plays Detective.
The policeman told the Magistrate
that ne had seen the pair for the first
tsme only ten minutes before he ar
rested them. They were peering into
store windows. in the dark. and when
they observed the policeman watching
them. they stepped out near 20 the
curb. The policeman walked ast
them. and turned into the next street.
He clrcled the block and came upon
them In tho vestibulc OF Schrink's store.
Policeman Rosenfeld told Magistrate
Manner that at the station Konick told
the desk Lieutenant he and his SON had
been waiting for q friend when ar
rested. and that they were both In
nocent Of the charge no had made
agains, them When searched. the po-
iiceman said. a bunch OF seven keys
were found In the boys pocket. Three
Of them. the policeman insisted. were
'skeleton" keys.
There a. q Purchaser.
Konick told Magistrate Manner an
entirely different story. lie said tina, ,
merchant on Graham venue had offered
20 sell him some second hand nxtures,
and that he had intended TO drop
around during the day to look them
over. but he had been detained at his
place of business until very late last
night and while or their way home had
decided to have a peep at the fixtures.
Kon!ck had forgotten the name of the
merchant who had offered the fixtures
for sale. 90 they looked into several
stores. That. Konick said. was what
they were doing when arrested.
The Magistrate wanted TO know how II
happened that William who was taken
90 the Children's Court happened 10
have keys In his pocket which had the
appearance OF being skeleton keys.
They are not skeleton keys" indlg-
nantly replied Konick. They are or
binary fiat keys. and tho three In ques-
tion arc for the Offices and closets In
my place Of business"
Magistrate Naumcr was inclined e.
take the policeman's view Of the situa,
zion. and held Konick in $1,000 bail fol
Examination on Monday.
''Some one viii suffer for this befor,
! get through with A." vowed Konicl
while waiting for his bondsman,
Sons Story Plausible.
AZ tho Children's Court. young VIII
lam told the reporters a very straight
forward story. which Tailed exact,
with the story told by his father In III
Manhattan Avenue Police Court.
IT have been working for my fathe
ever since I left school. nine month
aso.r said the boy. 1T II my bushes
70 lock up the place. as well as (
open II up again in the morning. That
Why I carry the keys. The seven key
= have are for the store. the effices 1
the store, the closets. for tho nat "
1.-Two in. and for the downstairs door.
I'VE worked late last night, n a
we were going home father suggeste
that We try TO have 4 look at SON
6xturcs he va going to buy from
s%torek-eper on Graham wen to-da,
We looked into several stores, and n
policeman came along just as we wei
looking into schrink's store and a
rested up
Yonng william also told the repor
srs that his mother was dead. and III.
the family included two sisters NJ
another san.
When the boy was arratgned befoi
Justice wilkins. he said that he and h
father had quit working AT about u
A. NJ. and before going home M
Nopped In a restaurant at Norfolk AZ
Broome streets. Manhattan. for a bi
70 eat. before boarding a Hamburg av
nue. car. IT held out my hands to sho
the policeman that / hhd nothing
them whe he said ] was trying TO op.
the door" the little fellow said. IA
then the policeman felt me all over. ]
room as he felt the keys which were
my pocket. he arrested us"
Justice wilkins held the boy until Il
strange case could be investigated.
There have been several burglari
in the neighborhood where the Ko
icks were arrested during the last thr
weeks.
ssBeatrtce Fairfax" Dead.