New-York tribune., 1911-09-01
HELD AS BURGLAR GANG
Newark Police Arrest Three Men
for Many RobberieS.
ON TRAIL OF $1,000 LOOT
Pugilist and Private Detective
Among Prisoners--lt Is Said
One Confessed.

The police OF Newark arrested three men
yesterday on charge Of having committed
number OF burglares in that city since
last January. securing booty amounting TO
about 5000 The prisoners are william
Monsky, twenty-five years old. private
detective. living at No. 26l High street,
West Nutley: William Perry. nineteen.
pugilist. of No ia Waverly avenue. and
John Conklin, eighteen. steamhtter
helper, Of No. 1877 Sixteenth avenue.
on the night of January 10 the drygoods
store Of Otto j. Aaron, at Nos. 50 and %
Belleville avenue, was entered and about
81 800 worth of kid gloves. handkerchlefs
and other mems furnishings was taken.
The police found that the burglars had
gained entrance to the store by getting into
the cellar and then boring hole in the
store floor With the aid Of saw the rest
was easy.
Eight nights later there was burglary
Of similar character at the millinery store
of Nathan Whitman, at No. 100 Springfield
avenue. Here the thieves also bored their
way through the store floor and took about
$500 worth of feathers and other mer-
chandise from the place. Fred Monsky, a
brother Of one OF the prisoners, was ar
rested for this robbery, as he was seen
near the store, and was sent to the Rah-
way Reformatory.
The police breathed easy. as they believed
they had broken up the gang, but they
were to he disappointed. as on the night
OF August Is the store of Edward ]. Mack
sey, at No 59S Orange street, was entered.
Here the same methods were used as In
the other two robberies. and the police got
busy again. They found that about $500
worth of the stock had been taken. They
wondered what the burglars could be doing
with all the neckties, gloves and handker-
chiefs that had been stolen from the two
stores.
Six nights later another furnishing store,
that of Frederick j. Hertzberg, at No. 5Il
Orange street, was robbed, and here the
thieves got away with 81 .0s0 worth OF stock,
using the floor cutting method, as In the
other three cases. to gain access TO the
place For a week the police had been
hard at work on the case, and they had
three young men under suspicion, but 1t
was not until yesterday that they decided
they had evidence enough against them to
arrest them. and this they did.
Monsky seemed TO be the leader of the
three, and the police put him through the
third degree for a couple of hours, and they
say they got confession from him lmpli-
eating the other two. Monsky told the po-
lice. they declare, that he was with his
brother on the night of the Whitman rob-
berry, but his brother never admitted that
any one was with him, and the police
seemed unable to find any accomplices.
The prisoners willingly. according TO the
police told them the name OF the Green
point y. Y, man TO whom they sold the
stuff they stole. and it was at once de-
cided upon to send a decoy letter To this
man. Monsky wrote out the letter, at the
direction of the police, and II was regis
tered and sent to him. At the same time
the Brooklyn police were asked to keep a
watch on the man and see that he did not
get away.
The letter sent by Monsky directed q
Greenpoint man to 20 to Newark as thew
had another haul" which they wanted him
10 buy. This. according to Monsky, was
the usual method adopted by them after
they had robbed n place They would send
the Greenpoin, man word, and he never
failed TO respond.