Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-04-07
Nabbed On Staten
Island admit
Raids Mere.
PROFESSIONALS s

luNeSIiSdIlou Cne ponce nave learned
definitely that the man, youth and
boy arrested in New York the latter
part of last month for robbery were
the trio who alarmed this city with
numerous small sneak thief robberies
the past few months. They have
positive information that they looted
homes In the southern section of the
city in sneak thief style and usually
helped themselves to milk ana cake.
Chicken" Rice, alias Pagan and
other names. of Flatbush, thirty
years old; Elmer Schultz, seventeen
years old, and William Beckert, thir-
teen years old, are the trio accused,
Rice is in jail Or -LeRg Island and
young Beckert 10 confined in the
Childrens Society rooms at New
Brighton, S. l., from which Schultz
escaped last week. He sawed one of
the window bars, following a trip to
several pawn shops In company with
detectives. The police claim the trio
have confessed to robbing places In
ReW York, all over Staten Island,
Perth Amboy, the Oranges, New
Brunswick, Trenton, Newark and
Jersey City. They committed thefts
in other cities, OF which they did not
know the name. Upwards OF $4,000
worth Of loot was taken from homes
and stores in this and New York
state. But little of the loot has
been recovered and the police be-
Iieve but little VIII be secured.
Rice and Schultz appear to the
New York and local police to be two
of the most clever sneak thieves they
have ever laid eyes on. For the past
year or so they drilled young Beckert
to become professional thief. He
and Schultz were captured by the
GhreWdness of woman in Tompkins-
vile, S. l., on March 20. Schultz
was trained enough not to tell any
oyhing, but young Reckert confessed
purit, told a long story of crime. Rice
are tohplicated and declared to be a
guard of big sneak thief gang and
err ditrest followed. The New York
other djtties are now after q man
rsntecf Bartease, of Thirty-ninth
street and Fifth avenue, Brooklyn,
who they declare received much OF
the loot and disposed of it.
The younger thieves were captured
when they attempted to rob a place
In Tompkinsville and Unexpectedly
found the woman of the house home.
They then asked her II she had some
work to do, SO that they might earn
some pennies to purchase something
to eat. She gave them some rugs to
beat and summoned the police.
Schultz and Beckert were nabbed as
they stepped into her home to get
something to eat. Having heard Of
numerous robberies about the island
she suspected they were the sneak
thieves.
Detectives McKittrick, Considine
and Graham worked up the case for
the New York police and Chief of
Police Burke and Detective Sergeants
Long and HUFF looked after this city's
interests. They have worked indus
triously in an effort to recover some
of the things stolen from this city,
without avail. They are continuing
their efforts. Although they have
little hopes of recovering any, they
will keep up the task. The thieves
were so shrewd as to throw jewelry
bearing initials into waters and sew
ers. Other jewelry went to second
hand dealers and into smelling pots.
Only diamonds were left with pawn
brokers. They left no trace of evil
dence behind them, being careful
above all to drag their fingers over
objects to avoid finger prints. They
specialized on ransacking women's
dressers, always believing they would
get the most valuable loot of
household from them.
They feasted and made merry
whenever possible. In places where
they found eggs and other articles of
food they would throw them at tar
gets, such as pictures on walls, tele-
pb one transmitters, mirrors and the
like. They ate freely in homes of
their victims, as they did in a num-
ber of places here. The trio had /
great nerve. In one instance they
robbed house while the owner was
moving grass in front of the place.
As the woman entered Rice bowled
her over, ran out, knocked the man
over the mower and escaped before !
he could get glimpse at the features
of any of the thieves. i
There was no woman in the case
as was supposed. Detective Sergeant
Long declared today the woman's s
footprints seen between the Dunham
and Brimlow homes at Market and
Rector streets were those Of woman
of one of the households. The police
deny q home in upper State street
was robbed. They say If IS did dis
appear there, 1t was under mysteri-
Gus circumstances and member of
the household was probably to blame.