The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-24
MEDICAL STUDENTS
NABBED As BURGLARS
One Puts Up a Stiff Fight With
Detective Who Found Him
in Apartment House.
LOOTANDWEAPONSINROOM
Police Say Students Have Confessed to
String of Burglaries on the
Hill in Brooklyn.

III ItS NtW IOTh hOhiuOI'dphS SAVNhNh
College. and Pierre c. Gibbons, % years
old. junior in the Long Island College
Hospital. were locked up in the Classon
avenue police station in Brooklyn last
night charged with felonious assault, I'M
lawful entry and carrying burglars tools.
Jacobs was arrested by Detective Dennis
O'Neil in an apartment at 400 Washington
avenue. O'Neil says Jacobs assaulted
him with blackjack. Gibbons was ar
rested as he was entering his home half
ON hour later.
O'Nel asserts that Gibbons was in the
hallway of the apartment house and
helped Jacobs assault him. Acting Cap
tain McCloskey says Jacobs has made
clean breast of the whole matter. telling
the police that for weeks he and Gibbons
have been robbing apartment houses
every Saturday afternoon and dividing
the loot Gibbons denies that he and
Jacobs have been doing any such thing
and declares that both Jacobs and O'Neil
are mistaken when they say he was in the
Washington avenue house yesterday.
Because of the frequent robberies
recently in that part Of the borough
O'Neil and two other detectives. Donlin
and McVeagh. were watching yesterday
afternoon in Washington avenue. They
separated and planned to meet at Wash
ington and Greene avenues. O'Neil was
in front Of 41o Washington avenue when
he saw two young men come out of the
building When they entered 400 he de-
cidcd to watch them. He entered the
place aud says that one of the men, who
he is sure was Gibbons, was standing
Ia.
the stairs and met Jacobs coming down
He asked him what he was doing there
and Jacobs said he was looking for n
friend. The detective suggested they
40 back together to look for tho friend
and Jacobs showed him the way to the top
floor. where he pointed TO a door The
detective raped and an old man shouted
out that he had had enough trouble with
burglars and didn't want to see any more
of them.
The detective then opened the door
and tue Old man came forth. lie told
the officer that Jacobs had been there
inquiring for DR.. Allen and that he had
told him no such person lived there.
The detectiv wanted the old man TO go
to the station and make a complaint
gainst Jacobs, but he refuse ONeil
and Jacobs went down stairs and had
reached the first floor landing when they
met the other man. O'Neil says that this
man gave him push and at the same time
Jacobs hit him over the head with a steel
blackjack.
Although stunned. O'Neil hung onto
both of them and the three went rolling
aud fighting to the floor below. There
one man broke away and ran, but O'Neil
held on to Jacobs and the fight continued
out onto the front steps. Donlin and
McVeagh. coming back to meet O'Neil
and seeing him in trouble. gave him their
assistance. They took Jacobs to the
police station and turned O'Neil over to
a doctor to have three stitches taken in
mis- scalp.
Acting Capt Coughlin in charge OF
the detectives. and acting Capt. McClos-
key put Jacobs on the grill Immediately
They say he confessed that he had been
stealing for weeks and that Gibbons had
been helping him. He said he just
couldn't help stealing and that they had
found it. very easy 10 turn OF jo bs on
Saturday afternoons. He gave the police
the address of Gibbons. and Donlin and
McFeagh went to ms home arriving there
just As Gibbons was entering lie was
arrested and taken to the station.
When the detectives got back to the
station three youngsters were there W he
said they had seen Gibbons running away
from the Washington avenue apartment
and that they had followed him. They
said he ran through st. Andrews place
and that near Atlantic avenue. where
there are vacant lots. they saw him throw
ing things away. They picked the things
up, and they proved TO be silver mounted
brush, comb and mirror.
hon xt.aa ont tod hui Nnit
and Jacobs and the latter repeated his
confession. the police say. accusing Glib
hons The detective also identified hin
az the man he had seen in the hall. Glib
bons denied stubborniy having any part
in the case or in any previous case. Later
attended n lecture on patholog y by DIR
Van Cutt,
McCloskey and Detective Gall inge
went 20 Jacobss home at 52S Putnam
avenue ard there found about $500 worti
Of loot, dirk and blackjack Som
Of the articles were identified as havins
been stolen last Saturday from Mrs. Bea
trice King of Ill Prospect place. from
Mrs. Albert jacobson Of 23O Filton,avenut
and from Mrs. Margaret Green of los
Pros pect place.
Jacobs has lived with his grandfather
since he WAS ten months old. His Inothe
and fathcr are dead. In May, 1911. he
was expelled from Long Island College
Hospital. A valuable microscope had
been stolen from lhe institution and whil
an Investigation was being made it wal
returned. Jacobs was expelled the fol
lowing day
Gibbons lives at 1884 Sterling place wit
his parents. His father is salesman.
Late last night the police reported tina
Gibbons also had made q confession o
many burglaries. They scy Jacobs toll
them that none Of the stun had beel
pAwned, that it was stored in n warehous
and that il was his intention to melt
down later and then to take the gold an
silver to the Government assayers. III
police say he was led to steal becaus
Of his desire to make showing befor
young woman with whom he has bee
keeping company
Jacobs had the entire top floor at hi
grRndf8ther's house. There he had
chemical laboratory. Over the door is
skull and crossbones and the legend "D
not touch or enter" II was here that h
kept great deal of the loot His grand
father said last night that he was dis
couraged and when the detectives shove
him number of lewd pictures found j
his grandson's laboratory he said: well
] guess I'll sell the place and get out
I'm through with him
At the Gibbons home the young man
mother said she neye liked Jacobs becaus
of his habit Of taking her son into "A col
ner and Whispering to him whenever h
called Gibbons X her only child ",
has an uncle who il prominent as phys
clan in the Bedford section and the doctn