Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-19

avenue and Sheffield street. Maloney,
who was jovial fellow and congenial
was singing a popular song. Tho
! negro sent a boy into the saloon to
tell that man who is singing that
somebody wants to see him outside
| Maloney went outside, met Eldridge
who deliberately shot and killed him.
The murderer then fled.
Chief of Police Henry Hopper as
signed Long and Captain Christie,
now commandant of the Third pre-
1 cinct on the case and the pair had
several days of hard searching. They
secured every foot of the city and
( county. Long finally discovered the
fugitive, concealed under rubbish in
coal bin in the cellar of Crane
street house. The negro's eyes,
/ shining like blazing orbs, had at
| tracted Longs attention, as he and
| Christie We're about to. abandon the
search at this point. Eldridge was
convicted of the crime and sem
fenced to twenty years in the State
i prison, at Trenton.
Kept His Mind ON "Crooks.o
i That Longs mind was on his work
was once more demonstrated in the
fall of 1895 He had been keeping
a line on Crooks by reading news
paper accounts of police doings and
studying newspaper photographs OF
criminals. and scrutinizing pictures
in the "rogues' gallery" during ''off"
periods. He observed that a crimi
nal named Charles Richardson, alias
"Blacky," and sometimes called
Missouri" had taken up tempo
rary quarters in Newark. He was
not wanted elsewhere for any crime
at this time, yet Long made a men
tai note of his presence here. The
sequel proved the wisdom of his
attention to such matters. A few
DAYS later the home of Hannah Hoff-
man. in Mt. Prospect place, was en-
tered during daylight by two men,
the woman bound and gagged and
the house robbed. The gagging pro-
cess almost caused the woman'S
death Again Chief Hopper called
upon Long. The latter obtained a
description of the robbers from the
woman. and with a quiet 'Blacky'
Richardson for mine" the detective
sailed forth. Sergeant Peter Fall
lon. now on desk duty at the Sec
ond precinct. was his teammate on
this occasion. "Blacky" and his pal,
Charles Sofield. were located in a
Market street lodging house, their
identity was made certain by the
woman, the stolen property was re-
covered and each criminal was sem
fenced to the State prison for twelve
years.
BY far the most interesting of all
the interesting cases in which Long
participated cropped up in Febru- |
airy. 1902 1t attracted country wide |
attention and drew Pinkerton men
and other police celebrities to this
city, Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty, of New York, then a
detective sergeant, being among the |
visitors. There had been a series of |
burglaries in South Broad street that |
were decidedly battling. The thieves
were daring and cleyerly covered
their tracks. The local police |
were mystified, angry and almost |
discouraged. There had been an I'M |
usually large haul of silverware !
from a South Broad street residence,
and it occurred to Long to look. up |
refineries. At a certain refinery he I
found a lot of molten silver that he |
concluded represented stolen ware, |
The proprietor, in answer to ques- !
tons. told the detective that the |
goods had been left there by a young |
man, a description of whom he gave, |
with the explanation that he was to |
call at a certain hour for his goods. |
Long hung around The young man,
who happened to be a local 'erook"
named John Penn, residing on Lib !
erty street, near what was then
Oak street, now Lafayette. called |
for his stuff" and was taken into
custody.
Strategy Versus Strength.
Leaving his prisoner, Penn, in safe |
keeping at police headquarters, Long
hurried to PENIS home, in Liberty
street, to pursue further explorations.
Here he observed two strange men,
and. quietly questioning Mrs. Penn
as to who they might be, was in
formed that they We're apparently
new to Newark, were of the come
and-go" kind, and were generally out
nights. How to proceed puzzled Long
for some time. They were strangers, |
big men, and probably armed, while
he was alone. He possibly might,
single-handed, capture and hold one, |
but hardly two, and there was a pos
sibility that both would get away. To
leave the place to seek assistance
would be an imprudent move, as the
men could make themselves scarce
during his absence. So the detective
resorted to strategy. He must get
that pair. Approaching them, he
asked one: What is your name, |
please?" He received polite and
satisfactory reply, at least
the detective pretended 1t was salts
factory to him.
And yours?" this to the second one.
"It's none of your id business"
was the answer. What the hi do
you want to know my name for?"
Long pretended to be nonplussed,
and remarked, in a feignedly apollo
getic way:
''It isn't any of my business, gentle
men," he said. please excuse me; but
I'm a new police officer and my cap
tain sent me here. There is woman
at the station house. She has three
small children with her. She says her
husband deserted them some time ago,
and she wants the police to get him
and compel him to support them. The
woman told the captain that she knew |
her husband was boarding here. OF |
course 1 want to make good, being a |
green hand, on probation, in fact and
I'm sure neither of you gentlemen is
the husband. Now, if you want to
give young policeman boost" you
might call at the station house, face
this woman, and that will end the |
matter. 1t will square me with the
captain. But you needn't do this If
you don't care to, as I will report that
the husband isn't here"
'Why, young Teller that's an all
right good stunt. Wen go with you
Long was profuse in his thanks. The
trio went to police headquarters and
on arriving there the detective gave
each a chair.