New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-19
TAYLOR GIVES RECIPE
FOR HOLD-UP SUCCESS
as Quoted by Dougherty PerSe-
veranCe Is Most Essential
Quality for HighWayman.
NEW PRISONERS TAKEN
Victims of Robbers Visit Head
quarters and Many Profess
to Recognize Assailants
Among Suspected Men.

Joseph Iat4Ol. WHO mas called himself
the brains" of the taXicab bandits. gave
George 5. Doushcrty. Second Deputy
Commissioner much interesting material
Yesterday as 20 me manner in which his
gang had worked
According 10 a good authority. Taylor
who seems 20 have grown quite "chum-
my" ana appears to be on very pleasant
terms with the Deputy Commissioner,
proudly Explained how ne had intended to
rob the iewelry store of +. NJ. Cattle n
Co. al Fifth avenue and 3Sth street
III il hadn't been for the hard Job that
i had i'm trying To get a mob Taylor is
said 10 have told the Commissioner. Il
would have turned that little trick long
ago. Why. commissioner | was going
10 have my car. a racing machine at
Fifth avenue. facing west IN 3Sth street.
| intended TO take a orici< and walk
over 10 the store. throw il through the
window. grab necklace that was there
say that pearl necklace was iii for
queen that's what got me-makc ny
getaway to the machin" and speed off.
] have lost track OF any machines fol
lowing me and there lou are. But !
couldn't set q mob TO work Will, me. hut
II would have been easy. In the after
noon at that
Concerning the Douglas shoe store
robbery. Taylor is said to have declared
that he planned the hold-up weeks in adj
vance. going in at times as a customer
10 get the lay of the place and finally
arranging on the night lie is said 10
have told the Deputy Commissioner that
the job was TO have been pulled of
at about $40 o'clock. but the crowds
we're too thick.
Asked 10y Dousherty TO what he attrib-
uted his success. Taylor is said to have
stated that his perseverance in follow
ing M carefully laid out plans was the
sole reason he had escaped.
Police Arrest Two.
Detectives arrested another alleged
member Of the gang that held mp Bert
Newman AT li3d street and Eighth ave-
nile on the night Of March Il. They
believe him 10 be the fourth IN the car
with Lorber TAYLOR and quinn.
He said that ne was Philip FOrsythe.
twenty-nine years old, living at 40. ~
tives Quick and Brakeman arrested him
at 10th street and Columbus avenue.
Another man-WWiam Weber. a truck
driver. OF 80 qSs First avenue-was ar
rested last night at Third avenue and
seth street. charged with being sus-
pcious person. The detectives think he is
one OF those who attacked and robbed
Neil Henderson. paymaster of the kice-
Thompson Construction Company. in
broad daylight at Park avenue and 18th
street.
As a result Of the arrest Monday OF
eleven taXiCab robbers who the police saw
have been working for months i'm an or
ganizcd band. George :. Doughert|. Sec
ond Deputy Commissioner. who was I'D
personal command of the roundup. SAID
last night AT Headquarters that at least
fifty unsolved robberies would be cleared
up before he got through with the case.
I'm addition 10 the Dragging confession
made shortly after his arrest by Joseph
Tavlor. who proudly called himself the
leader Of the gang. it was said that sew
eral other prisoners were Wiling TO te"
all the, knew. seven Of them were taken
to Harlem court Yesterday. but because
Of the promises they had made TO the TO-
lice they We're simply remanded to Gus
tody and taken back to headquarters
their hearing being set for to-day at
clock
They spent most OF the day ion Dough-
otv's Office going through mill o. iden-
t.fcation both 10y detectives from al. parts
Of tho citv and by more than score oi
victims Of their operations, many or
whom professed TO recognize in different
members OF the gang men who had robbed
them.
BESIDES this they were subjected TO the
Identification processes by Inspector
Paurot. and several OF them were found
10 be old offenders Joseph Taylor was
found 10 have received a suspended sen
tcnce on charge Of petit larceny IN 1910
Philip Commius6y. alias joseph Reilly.
the detectives said. had a record Of term
o. four years in Philadelphia for burglary.
another Of one year and seven months IN
Sing Sing as receiver OF stolen goods
and still third in Elmira for grand lar
ceny. Charles r. Lorber. the police SAID.
served a six months pen.tentiary term
for burglary. and was arrested, but dis
charged. Oh the same charge again IN 1901.
Among those who appeared 10 look the
prisoners over were clerks Of the Doug
las Shoe company. which was robbed
about month ago Of 500 Other visi-
tors were John Pepper Of Pepper Gray
& Co. robbed Of $500 last september and
also representatives OF the SIX Finishing
Company. which lost 81 1913 in December
in addition TO several other victims Of
taxi robberies
Pepper Identifies Taylor.
According to the police definite
Identification OF Taylor was made by Mr..
Pepper. who said Taylor was the man
who fred shot from the taxi as 1t
dashed south in Ninth avenue after me
holdup. Taylor was also picked out the
police said. by other visitors.
1t was also said that I>orber. one OF the
Prisoners. had made "A fun confession tha'
he had stolen the racing automobile Fri
day from in front OF the house OF j. X.