Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-07
DARING
ROBBER At LAST

street, with various termediate adj
dresses thrown In for good measure,
Finally he broke down and admitted
that he had put in two and a half
years for burglary under the naine of
Frank Miller.
I've never done nothing-nothing at
ALL" whined the prisoner, I'm on de
level now-honest. This was my first
little trick I thought I could pull off
but you pinched me first
Alexander C. Brown, the fnger-print
expert of Jersey City. was summoned
from his bed.
"Youse can go de limit with the
thumb-marks,' sneered slippery Kid.
"Youse haven't got anything on me-"
Print Dim on Glass.
Brown thought differently. A pane
of glass cut from the home OF William
&. Bender, Of Jig Fairview avenue, n
of the thirty-five Jersey City men
whose homes had been robbed, upon
which vas a scarcely discernible brown
spot-a mere criss-crossed oval of In
definite tint and outline.
This and the print taken from the
prisoners fingers were compared
through a microscope by Brown.
Lock at them closely. now" warned
Captain Larkin.
They're the same the expert ex
claimed at length. You've got your
mani"
"It's a Lie,y Says Prisoner.
Its a lie." roared the prisoner, as
he was hurried off.
The formula" as they call the
f1nger-print impression, was sent -
New York. The prisoners photograph
record We quickly sent back. It was
as follows:
July. 1899-As Joseph Bermann. six
months for petit larceny.
December %, 19O0-As Frank Fur
man. Elmira reformatory for BURGLAR
October is, 1903-As Jacob Burman,
for attempted burglary, two years an,
six months.
October Is, 19o6-As Frank Miller, twu
years and six months in Sing Sing 70
burglary.
September 90. 190s-As Frank Millec
two years and six months for burglary.
The popularity of the burglaries lay
in their frequency. the small radius
In which they were committed. the
similarity OF operation in each in
stance, the boldness of the robber, and
the parallelism between the reign If
terror in Newark and in Jersey City.
In both Newark and Jersey City en-
trance was invariably gained by cut
ting a pane from a rear window, or
by removing a panel. either glass or
wood, from a rear door. In practically
every instance similar knives were left
where they typro dronnad uthap tho
robber completed his work or was
frightened off. or stuck into the wood
work as a bold defy to the police. Both
the Jersey City and Newark depart
ments have an interesting collection
of potato II butcher knives.
When he reached the inside of a
house slippery Kid switched off the
burglar alarm, removed his shoes and
refreshed himself with any fine liquors
that were handy, before going about
the business of the hour. When the
labor of testing the jewelry became
too arduous he would cease his activi-
ties long enough TO refresh himself
SO
On last Wednesday morning the Jer-
sey City Gordon nearly caught him. A
crash of glass started the police who
were ear the Smith home.
But while t~hirty-fve men were
searching the Smith home from cellar
to garrett the burglar@"Slippery Kid"
they called him for want of a better
name-was cleaning out the silver in
the dining-room of Walter Everson's
home, at AIS Bergen avenue Mrs. Will
lam d. Edwards, who woke UT one
morning in time to scare the burglar
or as he was reaching for her $1,000
diamond necklace, will be asked to
look him over today.
In addition to, this. he took a peculiar
delight in sending notes to Captain
Larkin.
Some of his notes to Larkin were
real cute" In one he complains Of
the meagreness of the hauls, and dubs
Jerseys mill onaires "tightwads who
sleep on their bank rolls" He also
twitted the police about their clumsy
methods and says: you'll never get
me; I'm too slick. You will never get
my finger prints and you will never
my shadow. You will never
get back a dimes worth of the stuff
I'm getting"
Newsrk Police Aroused.
Police headquarters in Newark are
more aroused over the Stanley robbery
than any other.
Two policemen on the beat state that
they heard the shots while they were
hardly half a block distant, but that
they could not locate the sound.
slippery Kid" made an attempt on
the home of DR.. Theron Y. Sutphen at
the same time he tried the Stanley
residence, from which place he was
frightened by the sound Of revolver
shots. A hole was bored in a side
door. preparatory to the usual opera
ton of saving cut a panel.