Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-04-06
To RESCUE
TWO PRISONERS
Police Believe Friends of Al
legged Thieves Threw Stone
Into Door.
PLATE GLASS WAS BROKEN
Have Evidence Against Men
Charged With Stealing
Two Horses Here.
PLATE GLASS WAS BROKEN

Friends of the two Italians, who
are now being held in the county
jail for stealing four horses, two
wagons and two sets of harness from
Jens NJ. Sorenson, of col Sayre ave-
rue, Thursday night, made an at
tempt to rescue their confederates
while In the lookup here Saturday
night, the police believe. About mid
night a heavy stone was thrown
through one of the plate glass doors,
of the southern entrance to city han
in Market street, and half the glass
smashed to smithereens. The police
believe that friends of the alleged
horse thieves tried to create 8 COM
motion at this end of the building to
cause Desk Sergeant Mulligan, the
only officer at the station, to leave
his post to investigate. If the SER
geant had left his desk and gone to
the scene of the trouble, the police
say confederates of the accused
would have rushed into the station,
and having no one to stop them, res
cued the two Italians.
This theory was evolved from the
fact that the stone was foreign, and
careful search of the vicinity of
city hall by Chief of Police Burke
revealed to his satisfaction that no
such rocks could be native to that
district The chief believes the stone
VISA brought for the express purpose
as stated above. Sergeant Mulligan
did not hear the noise, so stayed at
his desk.
The two italians when arraigned
before Recorder Pickersgill yester-
day morning pleaded not guilty, but
the preponderance of evidence the
police have worked up against
them caused them to be held in
$4,000 bail each for \the grand jury.
They gave their names as Joseph
Ferrata, thirty years old, of 1893
Second avenue, New York city, and
Joseph Rodolfo,~ twenty-oDe years
old, Of 406 Eleventh street, New
York city. The former said he was
shoemaker and the latter a baker.
Rodolfo was held in an additional
$1,000 ball ON a charge of carrying
concealed geapons. T!toulA q Smith
and Wessen, blue steel. thirty-eight
calibre revolver was found on him by
the Jersey City police when they ar
rested the two men Friday morning,
the charge was left for the local po-
lice to prosecute, to facilitate mat
ters.
The two men were locked up here
Saturday afternoon, being brought
from Jersey City by Detective Ser
geants Long and Huff All the cross
examinations of the detectives failed
I n lyf in taip nj
their innocence up until they were
taken to the county Jail this morn
ing in company with two other pris-
oners, by City Marshal Desmond and
Sergeant Long.
The police believe they have evil
dence that will not only convict them
on the charge of looting the stables
of Mr. Sorenson, but will place on
them the blame for the theft of the
horse from the Feigensnan stables
in second street few weeks ago. and
the theft of black mare from Jo-
seph Catali of tombstone street, q
bother, during December. The tracks
left in the vicinity of the latter's
stables are OF the same size and
shape as the shoes worn by the two
men under arrest. The man who in
nocently caught the Feieenspan
horse after it had escaped from the
thief on the night when that animal
was stolen, Is almost positive that
Ferrata is the man he turned the
animal over to believing him its own
er. The police are holding as evidence
shoes worn by the two italians when
they were arrested. They are be-
smeared with clav OF the same color
az lies in the vicinity OF col Sayre
avenue from which place the horses
we're taken.
The police claim this Is an old gag,
and have evidence that thew believe
will fasten the crime on the men. |
The stableman. Thomas Peterson, !
positively identified the men when |
they were in cell at Jersey City, |
and a bov that was near the stables |
N the Afternoon declares they are the |
men he had seen about the place In T,
The afternoon. The bay says that
one OF the men even went so far as
TO pet one of the horses that were
stolen Thursday night.