New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
|CATCH' BURGLARS WHEN
ABOUT TO CRACK SAFE
Three Members Of New Schoo'
Arrested in Brooklyn After
Chase in Street.
MANY NOVEL TOOLS SEIZED
Detectives Who Had Watcneo
Them for Weeks Say They
Were About to Break
Into Pawnshop.

Three men who had spent large part vi
,be,r lives in the study OF burglary as
science. Judging from the police storg VI
tbeIr methods and OF their tools the ihos'
con,nlete kit ever collected In this city u
is said were arraigned before Magistrate
Dodd in the Manhattan avenue court,
ProokIyn Yesterday afternoon and ne'u
without bail for examination on lueSoaS' E
AZ described by Deputy Police ColI'iiiis
sioner Dougherty, they are burglars ot MS
standing in the profession ana are
n be connected with the famous Goldoe'e
,,o,hors Who arc credited with founding
system Of safe-cracking apart from tne vi
dinary method OF dynamiting' ana arc ~"
serving a long sentence In Massachu'''''
penitentiary for their sins.
The police first encountered i",'
school OF burglary, the story runs III ""
| rnction with the disappearance ot ''
,s0 900 worth Of iewelry from the s'o'e "
| , man named lillian, In Boston. TWO ye",
ago. The method used IN entering the sn.e
| was somewhat the same as the COOK
! ,Io,, "a oe, into a tin can, only the iinp'e'
80, u.ed are necessarily a trife moro
novel and hardy. The process Is 'Vs
bv drilling a hole IN the rear ot the s'ie
u,bera Il may remain unnoticed Tor so'ne
time Then. when the opportunity P''se"',
ps.,f a can-opener Jimmy is introduceo an'
! = .oc,,on ~ the safe Is ripped on. Inc
next move Is for the participants 10 u''
! appear A.. ,-,;.r
| THAT was what happened in the uliiai
| ,aso When a general alarm was sent ou'
detectives here succeeded in roundins "
tnNrfher ~
third man Of unpronounceaoie nam ".o
some of the loot. When tneu D
reduced from $4,000 bond TO Ss'ooV cas'
these three skipped the country i"eI
ver. rearrested abroad last fali DIV
brought back 10 justice
According To Commissioner Dous"e'''
the trail Of one OF their associates N's
"picked ND" about three weeks ago. nv
central ONCE men-Gaynor, Mugs rome
Reilly and OlIver-were assignee 10 wv
task Of shsdovlng this individual 'ah'nN
,urn and turn about His trail leo 10 t"o
others who looked "a II they might Nv
! wanted in the future and the trio was pu'
| to he'd at night and taken out in the morn
inc h,. the vatchfui detectives. IL was
observed that they were gradually accu'
muIsting supply OF tools OF suspicious
| character. and once or twice they maze
| trips to the places where IL seemed pos
sfb,e that the new style OF Jimmy migh'
| be manufa ~'rred.
Early day night the party stroileo
| over 10 Brooklyn and. with a strange snow
! OF stealth, considering they did not kno"
they were watched. hid several large too''
| I'm the rear OF an old tenement house at NO
| 2s9 South lst street, Williamsburg. WheT
mIdnieh, had ceased 10 toll. the watching
detectives followed them 10 tho same piac'
again. The men set 10 work to enect al
| entrance into the rear OF the pa~nshop o
| q. Goodby, which Is No. IA Grand stree
and backs up against IN. LIST street tene
ment house That was enough for tue de
tectiyes They drew their revolvers an'
demanded instant surrender.
Bui again the men proved that they wer'
not ordinary burglars. In determined
effort 10 escape they dashed from IN
building and hed In the direction OF th'
| Williamsburg Bridge plaza. The detectives
| fo,Iowed. firing many shots as they Tan
Tb. oeeing men we're headed of by Ia
troIman Rose. OF the Bedford avenue sta
tion and after a struggle were handcune'
and marched away to cell
! when arrsIgned the three described
themselves az Joseph Cohen. tailor. OF
No - West lOsth street; Joseph huh'
| driver OF No. 81 Madison street, ana marry
| Cold an expressman. OF No. 2t5 Belmont
avenu. Brooklyn. All three. the police
| ,,,,tD,aip nave criminal records, that o
! coh.n being the most imposing. AmonG
hts aliases. they said last night, were
simon Levine, Joseph Bernstein. Harry
simon Harry Goldstein, Louis Gold Harry
suyers,eln and Zoe" Silverstein, while th'
u,as known 10 his pals as Gallitz. they
said He has been arrested under eacl
one OF these names, according 10 the rec
ord ard has served anywhere from thlrt!
days TO two years and four months. III
nicture I'm the Rogues' Gallery Is said e
DO B 121I
yufr's picture is given as iN2. II
| Nav. 1907, he was sentenced TO serve Mn
months for carrying burglars tools II va
said. and an Dave" Sperling he received
an indeterminate sentence to Elmira 10
grand larceny In 1904. Harry Gold admitte'
having served year for burglary unde
the name OF Levine. the police declared.
In speaking OF the arrests Commissions
Dougherty said he expected to trace othe
burglaries to the three prisoners an
hopcd 10 arrest several other men VII
are already under suspicion.
Among the tools collected were thre
iImmies. one Of the can-opener type;
fourteen-lnch cutter, a brace, several bit
and a drill.