New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
New Confession Also Tells
of Scheme to Rob Noted
Broadway Hotel.
USED INNOCENT
FRIEND FOR TIP
After Series of Hold-Ups on
Messengers Here Gang Was
to Attempt One in Detroit.

Extensive plans for more robberes
than those which took place at the
Sackett & Wilhelm and the Masury
plants were engineered by Philip T..
White aad William +. Clinnin, accord
ing to a supplementary confession
which the two men now in the Ray
mond Street Jail, Brooklyn, made TO
Assistant District Attorney Louis
Goldstein yesterday. Copies OF their
statements have been given to Supreme
Court Justice Aspinall. who will pro-
nounce sentence upon them Wednesday.
These rotberies. it was learned last
night from an unofficial source, were
TO have been attempted on the pay
rolls Of company in Long Island, an
automobile salesroom and large hotel
in this c y. and we're to have culminat-
ed in an attack upon the messengers
of the main plant of the automobile
company n Detroit.
II was also learned that the original
plans for the hold-up Of the messengers
of John ". Masury & Sons Paint Com
pany were laid in the Crescent Ath-
letic Club by White and Clinnin, ard
that they divided their spells, SO 032,
at room in the Elks clubhouse III
Manhattan.
One of the officers OF the United
States Metal Products Company, of
College Point, according to the confess
sion, was a friend of Waite, and visit
cG him at ~ home in Elizabeth. Here
the two discussed the MasLry hold-ur,
and the cor fessed robber IS supposed to
Lave Learned from his companion, wn1
Dtheyed Inn an honest II an, just row
the concern obtained its payroll from
the lGnk.
With this information, given inno-
Gently enough, White was to provide
the men who would perform the actual
work, while Clinnin was assigned to
watch for other places where the risk
of holding up the payroll carriers ap-
peared small. Clinnin, an accountant,
DID some work for the automobile
agency in the neighborhood of Colum-
bus Circle, and knew just how single
messenger brought the weekly payroll
from a bank.
The president of this concern has
told the Brooklyn prosecutors office, it
was said last night, Of Clinnin's en-
ployment by him, and also OF the ques-
tons put in learning how the payroll
reached the salesroom. He added that
the accountant had urged him to insure
his payroll against possible hold-up.
If this raid had proved successful
White and Clinnin were to have had
their accomplices take a sum which
would have reached we'll into the thou
sands from the nen who carried the
weekly pay for one Of Broadway's best
known hotels.
Then Clinnin was to have obtained
work on an accounting job in the auto
mobile company's manufacturing plant
il Detroit. where the payroll carried
each week would be the largest of any
place they had thus far tried to get
He was to notify White, and, according
to the confessions, the latter was to
have taken his accomplices to the
Michigan city and attempt the robbery.
1t was also learned yesterday that
the hold-up at the Sackett e. Wilhelm
plant in Brooklyn almost approached
murder, when one of Whites accom-
plces, who also worked on the Masury
robbery, had to be restrained from
using his gun on one Of the messengers
who refused TO give up the money he
brought from a bank.