New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-24
AUTO AND GUN PLAY
FIGURE IN BURGLARY
Three Prisoners Brains of Band
PiIfering from Drygoods Mer-
chants, Police Assert.
PUT UP A RUNNING FIGHT
Traffic Is Suspended and Hotel
Patrons Rush to Street as
Detectives Close In on Men
Hunted for Weeks.

Three men, the brains of band Of crl nj
mails who have kept the merchants in the
wholesale drygoods district and the puIice
on the anxious bench for many mon, his.
according 10 Deputy Commissioner Dough
erty. were arrested Saturday night The
capture had all the elements of = meIo-
drama-an automobile revolver shots and
frantic yels-and traffic was blocked while
the grim play went on. To make il all
complete, the men have been found to ia Ie
spotted records. set down I'm detail at head
quarters.
one of them Is Harry Milling Ne gave
his name when arrested as Joseph cold
stein, thirty-one years old, of No. l42 West
l45th street. but the police said Gol1stsin
was only one Of the aliases that Milling
No 4,3h in the Rogucs' Gallery. employed,
the others being Joseph Miller. Joseph
Jacobsen, David Miller and David Schwartz
His criminal record began when he was
nineteen years old, they said. when ne vas
sent 10 the House OF Refuge for fifteen
months for petty larceny. The otler TART
of the record is: August a, 1896, ,etty lar
ceny, Blackwels Island. six months, july
20, 1897, attempted burglary, Sing Sing two
years and six months; July >, 1899 assault
500 fine; October co. 1900, petty larceny.
Blackwels Island four months; April H.
1901. arrested for burglary and discharged
MAY s. 1905, attempted grand larceny. FL
mira. thirteen months; June 49, 1906, at
tempted burglary, Sing Sing, two sears
and two months; August %, 1907, our2larv.
Sing Sing, five years.
He was also arrested last year when
1fVl.r
at No. 81 East 18th street. were robbed, nut
spent most of the fifteen years since he
was first convicted in prison.
Safe Blowers, Police Say.
Another Of the prisoners said he was Max
Fishman, twenty-nine years old, Of No. 2l2
East 18th street, or No. 257 East llta street;
he gave both addresses.
The Uolicc said he was Sam Migdal, No.
2l.352 i'm the Rogues GALLERY, safe blower,
just back from England, as helper on
a cattle boat, and that he was sent TO
Sing Sing on an indetcrminate sentence Of
enc year To two years and six months
March 3. 1909
The other prisoner is Harry Cohen. TWEEN
ty-eight years old, of No. y % street,
known TO the police as Louis Kessler and
DIS Louis Setter and No. j,S92 in the gallery
lie went to Elmira, October y. 1905. to
serve an indefinite sentence for attempted
burglary. and in the same month IN 1901
went up the river for one month less than
five Years This man, according TO the
police is great pal Of Harry COrnet. an
an expert craftsman, and he and F1shman,
are two If the Cleverest men with the
soup in all the great galaxy Of yeggmen.
George Earle, the chauffeur, who tried
10 get the men away in his car, has no
police record. but was held as an aCCes-
sorry. and also on the charge of operating
a car without proper license. lie has
stand at No. ~ Second avenue.
Commissioner Dougherty has been fairly
flooded with letters from wholesale dry
goods merchants in the district west OF
Broadway from BroOme street to 18th
put all his available men on the job. They
had good line on these particular three
crooks by their periodical onslaughts on
Nos 80 ana ISL Broadway, for this seemed
TO be their fsvorite hunting ground
Beginning with May !, No. 179 Broadway
was entered and the firm OF Quinto &
Levitt on the first floor, robbed Of 500
worth Of clothing and Joseph Diamond Is
now doing time for that bit of work. He
is believed 10 be a member of the gang.
On June S No. 779 Broadway was entered
and the firm of Rosenbaum & Lpner, on
the fourth floor. was robbed of 5000 worth
Of fine silks. At the time a hole was bored
through 10 No. ISL, where the robbers got
into the African Feather Company store
Saturday night. The silks were afterward
recovered at No. 12S East Sd street from
Louis Kaplan. father Of "ISsy the Cock
roach" notorious fence. The elder kap-
Ian was held as an accessory.