New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
POLICE TRAP 8;
SAYTHEY STOLE
FROM The MAILS
John Hahn, Alias Clark
Yale, Wife and James
Carey Caught.
SAVAGE BULLDOG
ATTACKS SLEUTHS
Chief Prisoner Related TO AS
semblymsn Vale, of Put
nam County.

Efforts 20 round up gang o. mai
thieves. chose specially has been the
forgery of checks taken from letters
lcd SQUAD OF city detectives, post
Office inspectors and PinkCrtons TO the
house q 1856 Lexington Avenue last
ich, After night they emerged with
three prisoners one q woman ana An
other. they say. an old acquaintance
now working new game
After = severe crilling a. tho IhUd
Branch Detective Bureau the prisoners
were separated. John Hahn. aged SIXTY
said hy poStoficc inspectors 20 be ozark
laIc and sometimes George Atwood,
maintained stesdfast silence. lie was
taken % Police HcadquartCrs.
The postofice inspectors say that
Hahn. or Yale, is relative OF As
,embIy1nan John Y. Yale, Republican
leader Of Putnam County.
Laura Hahn. VINO Is only twenty
cight. vas taken 20 Washington She rs
INC wife Of John Hahn. and the in
spcctors cav the name snc gave is her
real name and that her husband adopt
cd u when u suited his purpose. The
third prisoner. James Carey, Is said TO
no recent acquisition OF the alleged
.arr. lIc spent the night IN the East
>.N'.-seventh Street police station.
Hahn Fights Hard.
The arrest had several thrilling mo-
mcnts. After locating the Lexington
Avenue house. where two floors were
occupied by the party. Postoficc In
spector Jacobs. Of this city; Inspector
Rurlinrar,e. Of Washington; Charles
Donnelly. assistant superintendent for
the Pinkertons, and Detectives Skeily,
DIVER. Scott and Gallagher threw out
their net.
The woman was an easy victim. She
responded readily 70 a call from one
Of her future captors that she was
wanted on tho telephone. The raldlng
party then assembled the stairs 10 the
second floor and burst into tho room
where the elder man and Carey were
A vicious bulldog raced 70 meet them
urged on by Hahn Three nlchtstlcks
suppressed the animal. but Hahn was
not q prisoner until every bit Of the
energy he had conserved at sixty year.
had been e1erted I'M a losing night
against superior numbers
Carey merely looked on, as II he woro
. disinterested party. and went along
without q show OF resistance.
Inspector Burliugame was hrSt
brought into the search for the gang
iato in December. when a check for
$3.50 was cashod in Rosslyn. Va. Mrs.
Hahn. or Yale, as Burlingamc now
calls her. is said to have admitted to
him that she csshed tho check. II was
usyablc 20 L. i. Caldwell 4 Co., 30
West Fifteenth Street, and was sent
by Washington firm.
The Caldwell company never received
duo time II was
turned 70 the sender as paid. Accord
ING TO the detectives. the woman ar
rested last night said that she posed
as Nra. Caldwell when she csshed 1T.
While pursuing his clows he ran
across the PnFCrtons, VINO had been
retained by St. Louis banks whose de
po2ior- had long suffered from the
operations Of mail-thieylng gang that
added forgery 20 ITS accomplishment.
She name Of Yale was brought up, and
i' was recalled that such man had
been arrested nm Boston IN 1897 and
had been sent 10 PRISON for five years,
along with several associates.
Tho methods OF this group were sim
pie Posing a. letter carriers some Of
Tho members rlHcd mail boxes. Sew
cnty-hyc key. showed how easy this
part of the plan had been. Others con
'IlNNiC0 lntl Nt|II d. lb'StlN hNu a
third clique got cash for the checks.
Piukortons and Burlingsmc gradually
followed the trail until II brought them
to Sew York
Hahn. or Yale. was located and the
manner Of his meeting with Carey dis
covered II appear that Carey, who ls
an anacmic looking individual, was 4
hangcr-ou al an Eazt Side saloon when
he attracted tho attention Of the older
man. Having nothing else 10 do, the
detectives say. bee consented 10 become
part Of the machinery
Methods Of Gang.
Rurnngamc is authority for the
statement that he worked Iu complete
harmos.y with his chief and that they
found tho northwest section Of Wash
ineton fertile ground for their opera
tions. This ~ the way BurlinGamc dc
scribes their methods: Carey was the
lookout. while his companion did the
actual stealing Of letters. which were
usually taken from tho collection wsg
on while the carrier was IN An apart
ment house.
when they had accumulated sf-