New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-10
Three Groups of.Robbers Under
Leadership of Young Man Of
Good Family, Who Calmly
Tells of Crimes.
CHAUFFEURS AIDED RAIDS
five Have Pleaded Guilty to Sc
ries of Daring Hold-ups in
Shops and Saloons-Doilies
and a Fish Sandwich Sole
Loot of One Job

with five of the men arrested for re-
(ent automobile raids on shops and sa-
bons pleading guilty and the chief Of
Ihe bandits, a young man Of good fam
~ gone wrong through drugs, barring
he innermost secrets of the raiders,
be District Attorney was confident
yesterday that the automobile bandits
New York had suffered a reverse
khich would curb such practices.
The five who pleaded guilty before
Judge Foster in General Sessions yes
Ierday are Joseph Taylor. Charles
t.ober. Joseph r. O'Connell. Benjamin
Fold and Frank Jerrie. Taylor and
tober pleaded guilty TO robbery in the
Second degree. O'Connell TO assault IN
ihe first degree and Gold and Jerrie 10
attempted assault in the second degree
Four more, Patrick Bolger. George Nc
Eetty, Robert McVetty and Charles c.
Clark, will go on trial to-day charged
! trth robbery in the first degree.
l The most interesting figure in the
hang is Joseph Taylor. whose real
tame is said to be Joseph Young. For
fhe last eighteen months. he admitted
be has been the chief auto bandit in
his city He has told his history-a
ktTy which occupies almost fifty type
kritten pages-to Charles +. Bost-
kck. of District Attorney Whitman's
kiaff. AS result of Taylor's story
knd of statements made by some Of the
kthers who pleaded guilty, there may
te half dozen more arrests and a
GENERAL cleaning up" either official or
Unofficial, among the chauffeurs Of New
|York
Bandit Model Boy.
TAYLOR is thiriythrec years OLD and
WAS married six months ago. His up
bringing was that Of a model boy
when he went TO school a maid ac-
|companied him and brought him home.
[Hc sang in the choir of st. Francis
Navicr Church, and was noted for his
soprano voice. He is a college gradu-
kte. His father and wife are living.
bis mother died several years aGo,
leaving him some money.
He began TO spend the legacy in n
loung mans follies. His mode of life
became wild. One night six years ago
|he regained consciousness on Il North
River pier. Knockout drops" had been
but in his whiskcy in a West Side sa-
boon. He was dazed when he opened
his eyes and could not remember his
|ogn name. lie wandered through the
|Ncst Side streets and finally recOg-
|rized a house as one TO which friend
had taken him months before. He
IL rent I'm and found the woman whom
|ic had met on that occasion still lived
|hore.
She took him in and recommended
|'hop' for his troubles. Under her di-
|iection he took up opium smoking. 1t
|tulled his faculties and he decided he
y oud stay there. lie lived with the
v oman until six months ago. when he
|married. In the mean time he had
been introduced 10 the delights of NOR
|rhnc. He told Mr.. Bostwick yester-
day he now had to have twenty-five
brains as a daily allowance.
lie was the leader and the planner
among the automobile bandits. He did
not boast of IT; he stated it as a fact.
without emotion. Coups were planned
by him and carried out under his direc-
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