Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-31
sUPT. SCHWARTZ
CLEVERLY TRAPS
BOLD BURGLARS
Through Finger Prints Makes
Thief Confess, Then Con-
yicts His Pal.
EVIDENCE WAS LEFT
ON GLASS AND PAPER
Two Men Arrested Here RAM
sacked New York Mans
House at Tuxedo.

Through the triumph of Superintend-
ent Edward II. Schwartz, of the New
ark police headquarters Bertillon de-
partment, and the system of finger
prints he uses TO identify criminals,
one of the cleverest crooks who ever
robbed the rich al the famous Tuxedo
Park colony was convicted yesterday,
and will be sent along to prison with
his pal, who broke down before the in
eliminating finger prints and confessed.
Love of glass of wine and burglars
curiosity about society woman's
correspondence, gave Schwartz and his
finger prints a chance that works out
like Mark Twain's "Pudd'n Head Will
son."
1t was November 16 last that Detec-
tive Sergeants Koerber and Walzer
picked up" James Card and Frank
Brown on Canal street for no other
reason than that they were carrying
suspiciously large bundles and seemed
to be in too much of hurry. The de-
tectives silenced the violent protest OF
innocence at police headquarters, pried
open the bundle covers and came upon
nearly a trunkful of fine wearing ap-
parel Some of it was in silks and sat
ins of women's garments from Paris,
London and the Bermudas. There was
more silk In the texture of mems shirts
and some of the trousers and coats were
of the most expensive sort
Tuxedo Park House Robbed.
Captain Carroll saw1at glance that
the case was serious and involved some
big robbery. He wasn't wrong. Three
DAYS after Card and Brown were sent
up for thirty days to await the grand
jury's action Chief of Police Bush, of
Tuxedo Park, sent word that the home
of Augustus B. Fields, rich New
York broker, with a residence in the
heart of the Tuxedo colony, had been
burglarized few nights before. Fields
came to Newark and identified the
costly fabrics. Then Card and Brown
were extradited and sent up to Rock
lsland county. n. Y, for indictment
and trial.
! Schwartz and his finger prints here
became important. 1t was easily
proved that the two men we're found
with the stolen goods upon them, but
! it couldn't be proved that they had
stolen the goods themselves or even
knew that they were stolen.
| Both pleaded not guilty at the outset,
sure that they couldn't be convicted.
Detective Schwartz had been up to the
| Fields home the day that the news
of the robbery reached here, and had
:. found finger prints on the sides Of the
decanters. from which wine had been
drunk by two men on the night the
burglary took place. Schwartz took
prints Of these finger marks, with
every line and crease and crevice. and
then he went to Mrs. Fields and asked
her for the scraps of her private cor
respondence which the burglars had
opened and then torn up.
| Photographed Finger Prints.
! Mrs. Fields thought Schwartz was "a
little bit unbalanced when he made
that request, but having saved the
scraps of paper she let him have them.
! He brought them back to Newark ana
photographed the finger prints found
on the envelopes.
He had already the prints from the
fingers of the suspects, Carl aud
Brown, and he simply compared them
with those he had reproduced from
the wine decanter and envelopes.
Then he said to himself, 'Um; I
thought So" and next day went up to
ROCkland county ana gave SuCu et
convincing exhibition of those finger
prints that Brown couldn't stand the
mute charge and pleaded guilty then
and there.
! Card, however, stuck to his plea of
innocence and tried to laugh off the
evidence of the finger prints. But
when he was placed on trial Schwartz
went upon the witness stand a second
time and showed beyond the shadow
of doubt that Card had been the first
man and the last man to drink out of
the Fields decanter, after they had
4 robbed the house that night. When
his second exhibit brought forth the
indlsputable fact that it was Card also
! who had opened up and torn up Mrs.
Fieldss correspondence the jury lost no
time in convicting the man and he
1 will be sentenced today or tomorrow.
4 The Rockland county district attor-
ney made nice speech congratulating
Schwartz on his cleverness and the
county Judge paid him high compli-
ment from the bench.