New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-16
MASTER CRACKSMEN
FAULTLESSLY DRESSED
Detectives on Guard fo-
Month Watching Pair
Plan Big Haul.
WOMEN TOAD ROBBERS
Jewel Firms Safe Menaced-
Police Get Burglars Kit and
Confession of Robberies.

On "tip from the underworld" the
police yesterday arrested two dapper
youths as burglars. ID the most
complete set Of burglars tools in the
recollection OF Headqu tiers and foiled
a $4,000 Jewel robbery planned to
take place in the shop OF Stern
Brothers & Co. cutters and polishers ct
gems. at No. 1876 West SD street.
II was the busiest Sunday afternoon
in Centre street for months. Spread
out on the floor for purposes OF photo
graphing were sticks OF dynamite. DE-.
tonatng caps, revolvers. automau
pistols. Jlmmies. drills can openers"
and other paraphernalia calculated to
keep safe owners nervous.
While a crowd OF newspaper men.
detectives and photographers clustered
in the big room outside OF Inspector
Faurot's door. details OF the arrests
were made known A detective told
how the prisoners, Jacob Rothman.
twenty-three years old, and Michael
sneiderman. twenty-five, were pounced
on in bed, few hours before. as tho
result Of a month OF trailing, night and
day.
Accused Man Causes Surprise.
Near the burglars outfit, idly klc..-
ing at the jimmies, regardless OF tho
sticks Of dynamite, stood q natty
young man whose cold blue eyes and
rich velour hat, aslant I'm the fashion
Of Robert Hilliard, bespoke the sleuth.
Surrounding him were several rough
men, out Of whom IL was hard TO pick
the burglars. A reporter asked the
natty young man for details. His nose
wrlnkled into a snarl:
"Whaddye think It is-a free show"
Before the reporter could reply to
this sudden answer one Of the rough
men leaped on the dapper youth and
grabbed him by the shoulder.
cut that out, Rothmanl stand over
there" he barked, pushing him into
corner. A moment later the rough
man. otherwise Detective German.
grabbed a second well dressed youth
and threw him beside Rothman.
Every one in the room, with the ex-
eeption Of tho six rough men, gasped
with su Use The two faul rly
dressed .'ouths we're the prisoners, be-
Iieved by the police 10 be the most ex-
pert cracksmen I'm the country. They
had stood in the room for five minutes,
and no one could tell by their looks
that they were anything other than
the window dresser and clerk they
described themselves.
Rothman, the brains OF the conbina-
ton, with his $500 in the bank and
iewelry worth thousands more, is
graduate OF Elmira. Sneiderman re-
Gently sent his wife 10 Europe, eZ- !.
,ecting 70 follow her with his quarter n
IF a million IN loose gems. Y
For a month, night and day, detec-
ives have trailed the two men. The
avs ot the underworld turned them
10" 20 the police. Although Inspector
Taurot would not say so, II is pretty
we'll known where the tip came from.
There is in the Tombs man named
-onnors who will be sentenced to-day
or carrying burglars tools He was
,aught with a Jimmy still hot from a
shop. Rothman and Snei-
ierman visited Connors IN the Tombs.
They even paid for MS lawyers fee.
In Rothman's pocket was found re-
,eipt from George r Simpson, law
yer. for $50 for defending Connors.
Mystery Surrounds Case.
Connors could, it is said. be sent
away for life under the habitual crimi-
lal act. Something that he did saved
lim and the trail after Rothman and
5neiderman was begun.
Detectives Corn an, Gildea, Watson.
Oliver. Ward and Fen
nelly went after them.
A week ago, when the pair were
-eady 70 break into the jewelry store
Il r. Y. Hurd, No. 126 West 23d street,
were behind partition wait
ng. The passing Of a watchman who
1eered in the window at the safe at
intervals spoiled the cracksmen's
.hances. Rothman later said they
needed two uninte. rupted hours for
solving the problem Of the big safe
Friday afternoon, when Rothman en-
.ered the building at No. 1876 West sd
street, Detective German was behind
aim. Rothnan tied to bribe the
Of the building to let him in
and offered $1,000 il he would Jet him
20 to the eleventh floor for few hours
hat night.
Pair Look Over Ground.
As an evidence of faith Rothman
gave the watchman SO and said ~
We d come around later. In "a few
minutes the watchman was telling the