Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
CAN'T REMEMBER
ALL bURGLAR|ES,
He TELLS JUDGE
DeIahanty Pleads Non Vult to
RObberies That Keep East
Orange Worried.

John Delahanty in Special Sessions
Court before Judge William p. Mar
tin today said his mind was not
clear about all the cases, but he
guessed he did them all, as he
pleaded non vult to nine indictments
charging him with the burglary Of
homes in East Orange and Glen Ridge
during August, September, October
and November last.
Delahanty, tall rather refined
looking man, did not look like the
burglar that had the East Orange
police department worried for almost
three months, as house after house
was entered. He was finally captured
in a house at ga Mum avenue, by
Roundsman Burns and Patrolman
Vetter, of the East Orange police
who had been following Delahanty
and a man named Charles Harris
and saw them enter the Mum ave-
nue. home on the night of November
Fl. The two men attempted to es-
cape, but were stopped by the police
men pulling their revolvers and
threatening to shoot.
The job on which the men were
caught was the only one Harris was
implicated and he pleaded not guilty
To the charge today. Articles stolen
from the other homes were found in
Delahanty's room after his arrest
and he realized that to go to trial
only meant sure conviction.
AS he was called on to plead to in
oictment after indictment Delahanty
would look first at Grand Jury Clerk
7. e. Scales, who was reading the
indictments to him and then would
gaze at the ceiling as he scratched
his head, evidently trying TO recall
the specifice robbery.
In several instances he said, "I don t
recall that place, but / want to save
the State all the trouble ] can, so |
will plead non vult." The charges to
which Delehanty pleaded are as fol-
lows, all of them being for entering
and robbery: Home of Katie b. II.
Harris, IL Summit street, East Or
ange, on October 20. where he OBJ
tanned loot at s57; home of John f.
Conroy, SO South Mum avenue, East
Orange, September Is, loot $100; home
of James w. Townes, 81 North Wal
nut street, October 20, loot $19; home
of Walter and George S. Kerr SO East
Park street, East Orange, August 2S,
loot $204; home of e. w. Congdon,
Glen Ridge, on October 30, loot $4O0,
this being the largest haul Delehanty
made single-handed home of Dennis
O'Brien, "A South Mum avenue No
vember Is, s32, and home of Juliet c.
Cushing, 50 South Mum avenue, the
same night, loot S103.
Other pleaders We're Charles p,
Thelen, arrested last week by Police
man John Eckerlin, of the First pre-
cinct, who pleaded non Vult to wife
desertion; Wardell Baldwin, charged
with stealing a shotgun from Louis
Diecks, of West Orange, on Septem-
ber % last; Henry Clark, a negro,
charged with assault and battery on
William Nicholas. another negro, on
November 10 last; John Connors,
charged with attempting to burglarize
the pawnshop of julius Chasen, at Is
Market street, on November IL;
Samuel Gesumaria, OF 81 Madison
street, on two indictments, one charg-
ing him with assault on Michael
Schlesinger. of 178 William street, on
November IA, and the other charging
him with carrying a loaded revolver
on the same date.