New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-17
Farmer Police Chiefs Alleged
slayers Killed Him to make
Good" 1t Is Charged
by the Police.
oNE WAS CHURCH WORKER
Wife He Won While Doing
Neighborhood Work Testifies
Against Him-Detectlves
Got Prisoners After
Chase of Weeks.

,.,a, alias The Kid" and William
,.,o,sv alias Big Bill" for the murder
= patrick Burns. a Bronx saloonkeeper.
.hors was a revelation yesterday OF the
,,,.ous WAYS of the Car Barn Gang
.hich holds the east side Of Harlem Ill
.,raudom even stronger than the sway
:. ,be Gophers on the West Side, the
-.--ib,e Nine in Chelsea Village or the
cas- House Gang of the middle East
Side
"rbe Kid" who by daylight and under
ST. opn name professed deep religious
,,-,.or Is said 10 have been leader or
srb-orranization Of the Car Barn
Gang. known as The Mob He and ms
ueutenant. Big Bill" being deposed'
sousht to make good and Patrick
Burns was murdered.
The effort to make good" and vein
,,ote themselves with The Mob. the
no,ice say. resulted in numerous saloon
ho,3.uns in The Bronx. which eliminated
IN the murder of Burns. After each
hold-up the police noticed that the roo-
hers made their escape in an automo-
hila CAPTAIN Samuel Price, OF 'he
IRONY Detective Bureau, with Detectives
Cassassa. McKenna. Cavanagh' QuicK
and Ouaine. took up the trail on that
scent,
After a chase which began on Marcn
II and necessitated the hiring OF mats
and furnished rooms and the most uCk-
rsb kind of "shadowing," they landed
their quarry. The denouement Was pro-
ssic compared to the siege whlch leu "
the capture Of the automobile oanolts Oh
Paris The adroit and resourceiul
Muehlfeldt was quietly arrested at an
institution for feeble-minded children at
vineIand. y. j.. where he had obtained
q nlace as keeper while he studied crim-
,nologv. The capture of Big b'II was
no less tame. He was arrested ioi
another crime Both are III the lomos'
ord ..Rir Bill is awaiting sentence for
robbery.
Other Crime Gives Clew'
I, was that other case which resIly
..o the detectives their first lead.
C;iusepre De Lucca. an itineraht Jew
ler was attacked and robbed at ''''
stree, and Second avenue. Quaine' theh
q pstrolman. arrested Big Bin l"e'
the hunt started in earnest
rhn detectives believe that the storf
leads back to a sub-organizatloh u u"
Car Rarn Gang, known as Inc -No'.
The Kid" who, despite his youth 'ne -
,ho,,. tuentv-two) and his daytime re-
,,,io,,s fervor they say was the leader oi
The Mob" and his lieutenant Dis
nm" we're dcposed early in the year
o,ber members Of The Mob not OILY
accused them Of holding out 'he pio-
coads NJ certain robberies, but had spe-
ci6c COMPLAINT 10 lodge against earn u
then, THE Kid" they said, was t',
,-o,,rs for leadership. and Rig Fiil
would be known anywhere ny HIS
which is hooked and unusually no'''
an. ro,iceman. they said need "hiy
n,,,.- pu,,s" nose once to recognize
him anywhere.
~ vair THE Kid" harked back 10 'he
dsvs when. as a youthful ollNer "'S'
Jimmy the Crab notorious nat pui
,sr lowered him from roofs that ne ",ie
,,,st his supple body through alrsha'O
windows II was Of no avail mat DIS
purs" undoubted prowess III pln'"
uas called 10 mind. "Th, MOD 10"
cided. lid".
rber cav the detectives, THE hfp
and Big Bill" resolved TO sho"
Mobo . feu, things Saloon roboerles 10
m. prorv became Of common occur
,srn. A. saloon az 149th street am
e. AIMS avenue hold-up was ~ - -
ONLY because the proprietor ,houkn. -"
recognized detective IN bls
burlv feure. and, as IT vas stter oou, -
bolted his door. After the roDperies '"7
robbers made their escape in an a"''
mobile =,
The climax came on tebruall
Patrick Burns. formerly police chie' az
Findlsv. Ohio. and his barkeeper' fI'""
Neyberger. were alone I'm the sd'oo',. s'''.
Two men. since identified as "Jho MA
and pig RiII" ordered beer. NeWpcrSci
was in the back room and Burns was a.
the bar. While the drink was p'A'e
drawn each Of the strangers ieNe"'u :"
revolver. it is alleged, Big BIZ at Ne"
berger and "The Kid" at Burns. burh>
threw a pitcher at "The Kid, laying ms
scalp open.
Two Shots Fired: Cash Stolen
Then Newberger heard two shots from
the barroom, where The hiu "','
Burns were, and Big Bill 1t IS sa'"'
clouted him over the head with the DIN
Of q revolver. The cash register va"
rifed. and Newberger staggered into i"c
barroom, where Burns lay dead one p''1-
let having bored through his chest anu
another through his back. OUTSIDE Ne"
berger heard the staccato rumble OF III
automobile diminishing in the distance
Big Bill" it is said, took both revoiVerS'
so that IL any inquisitive patroIihan
stopped the bleeding KID no weapon
would be found.
The Kid" and big Bill' had mace
good. iRobberies OF that kind ceased db-
rnDtly in The Bronx.
Captain Price and John NJ Minton' Jr'
an Assistant District Attorney III the
Homicide Bureau, got to work. AL
mouse In Lenox avenu2 Linglys grahd
mother. a Mrs. Bullock, was found
while Captain Price waited outside De
tective McKenna rang the bell and toie
mrs. Bullock. who was caretaker IN th'