Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-30
MILLER ADMITS
COMPANION SHOT
MAN IN NEWARK
Slayer of Philadelphia Detec-
tive "SqueaIs" on Prisoner
at MiIlviIIe.
LATTER TRIED TO ROB
SOUTH JERSEY BANKER
"SaiIor Jake" Says Davis,
Alias Kelly, Shot Sheridan
During Row Here.


hold-ups man now under arrest in
~ -MillviIls. Cumberland county, as the
man wanted here for the shooting Of
Thomas Sheridan on February last.
The police also hope to prove that
the Millville prisoner Is one of gang
of burglars who have been terrorizing
residential sections of Newark all
winter. His picture will be shown to
the people living in Forest Hill and
in Woodside who recently caught
glimpses of burglar. 1t also will be
shown to Claud G. Flint, who drove
an intruder from an open window
at his home on Wallace place two
weeks ago. AS the man has been
under arrest for two weeks, however,
he could not have been the only one
active In this city.
The identity of the man in Millville
was established by Sailor Jake" Mil
Ter, under arrest in Philadelphia for
the murder of a detective about to
arrest him last Thursday night. Mil
Ter, who was in Newark the day be-
fore the tragedy, spent much time in
Newark this winter. TIe yesterday
told the Philadelphia police that the
man in Millville is "The Newa TX
Spider" sometimes known as Davis
and sometimes as Kelly. Yesterday q
Millville policeman came to this city
with pictures of the Millyille prisoner,
and the local police identified him at
once as q notorious yeggman. 1t Is
said he served q ten-year sentence in
New York after killing man in
~ Nrrl,a
robbing a safe there about fifteen
years ago.
Sailor jake who is only twenty
years old and inclined to be boastful,
told the Philadelphia police that he
had become the associate of two New
York gunmen after "the Newark
Spider got arrested. He said "the
Spider and the unnamed two planned
to go to Millville to hold up Wilbert
Goodwin, paying teller of the Millville
Trust Company, but that the two New
Workers had missed connection and
"the Spider" went along alone to be
caught in the act.
Says He Shot Newarker.
"Sailor Jake" also told the Philade1-
phia police that "the Spider WAS the
man who shot Sheridan in Newark.
This much was known to the Newark
police but they did not know "the
Spider" was the man being held in
Millville until they saw the pictures
Of him yesterday.
On Saturday night, February 6, "the
Spider" who was known in the neigh
borhood as Davis, sat in Films saloon
at Ward and Mechanic streets, this
city. Just what happened or how has
not been made known, but sometime
after midnight "the Spider was still
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twenty four years old, of II Ferry
street; William Arlington, of 20 Ferry
street, and Melpha Stevens, of 142
Mulberry street. 1.-THE Spider shot
Sheridan and disappeared. The bull
let entered Sheridan's left breast and
for a time it was believed he would
die, but later he recovered.
Elm, Arlington and Stevens are be-
ing held as material witnesses of the
shooting, having been placed under
arrest by Detectives Maier and Dom
nelly, Of police headquarters.
Sheridan was shot early on a Sun
day morning, and that same night
the reserves from the Eighth pre-
cinct were called to a burglar chase
on Montclair avenue. Sergeant Put
nam fired two shots at the man and
Patrolman Stichter fired three, but
the burglar got away, leaving a soft
brown hat behind.
A hatless man rushed into the
Newark station of the Erie railroad
Just after the police chase and
breathlessly asked the station agent
when the next train left. The sta
tion agent asked which way the man
wanted to go, and the hatless ons
rushed out without answering, but
not before the railroad man got
good look at him.
Mrs. William e. Pierson, of 127
Montelair avenue, who started the
police on the chase, saw a lightly
built, quick-moving man that night
trying to force the window of the
home of Joseph Swing, a neighbor.
and telephoned the police. That was
the commencement OF the burglar
stories. although breaks had been re-
ported to the police almost daily for
ten days before.
William Crawford, of 80 Montclair
avenue, had q talk with such man
as Mrs. Pierson saw Thursday night,
February 4. Calling out the window
to a skulker in the yard, Crawford
said: What do you WANT" and
the man replied: Maybe I'm look
ing for information, the same as
you" When Mr.. Crawford demand
ed to know "Who are you?" the man
in the yard said: "S-s-s-h, I'm a
burglar"
Both We're in Newark.
Whether this man was Sailor
Jake or "the Spider" has not yet
been learned, but both of them were
in Newark on and off at the time and
since
AS told exclusively in the Evening
Star last Saturday, Sailor jake was
in a Mulberry street saloon a few
nights before, when Lieutenants Pat
rick Ryan and John Harris entered,
looking for men wanted for another
lob. and "Sailor Jake said after they
went out, 81 had those two dicks
covered every minute" He meant he
had a pistol in his pocket and was
ready to shoot through his coat at the
officers had they attempted to arrest
him. Apparently, he was not known
TO them, being rather new In the busi-
ness.
detective murdered by Sailor Jake"
last Thursday night, was Billy Sun
aay convert a few weeks ago, accord
inc to Rev. j. w. Eichler, of Athens,
o.. who said yesterday that he had a
card signed by the detective at tho
sunday Tabernacle. Maneeley, how
ever, was not recently converted. as he
was for some time a member OF the
Richmond Presbyterian Church In
philadelphia.
Little hope is entertained for the re-