Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-04-26
PALMER SAYS
HE'S THE Thief
WANTED HERE
Man Arrested in Hoboken Ad-
mits Robberies in This
City.
OPERATED IN FOREST HILL;
ELUDED THE POLICE OFTEN
Local Officers Identify Him as
the Man Chased Many
Times.

| FRANK rainier, arrested yesterday
IN Hoboken, was positively identified
by Newark detectives as the man de-
clared responsible for scores of rob-
berries in this city during the past
| five months and the man who sew
eral times had narrow escapes with
victims and with police detectives.
Jewelry found in his possession is
from the home of Herbert S. Fisher,
! of 179 Brunswick street. Mrs. Fisher
4 is a niece of Captain John Caffrey
of the First precinct.
| The police say that they also found
in his possession a card belonging to
| Mrs. Marion Walker. of 306 Woodside
avenue. A pocketbook containing
some of her cards was stolen when
the Walker home was burglarized
several months ago.
Lieutenant Julius MaieY, of police
| headquarters, identified Palmer as
| the man whom he fired several shots
| at in Elizabeth avenue ON the same
| night that the Fisher home was
robbed. Lieutenant Maier was with
in few feet of Palmer in a yard in
| Elizabeth avenue. A few hours later
| on the same night six police detec-
tives came upon the youth in Bruns-
wick street.
Plainclothesman REILLY, who crossed
the street to question Palmer, slipped
in the snow, and the man escaped by
taking to his heels. The six detec-
tives gave chase and followed the
man through streets and over fences,
firing shots as they went. Palmer
outdistanced them. Palmer is the
30
that he runs like a deer and climbs
fences like a cat"
Only Twenty-Five Years Old.
Palmer, who is only twenty-five
years old, was also responsible for
the NUNS the word order adopted
by the Board Of Police Commission
ers two months ago. A newspaper
published an article stating that an
extra force of detectives were looking
for the man. The police board imme-
diately blamed the newspaper stories
of tipping off Palmer that the police
were looking for the man who had
been committing burglaries in the
section. The board then ordered that
no member of the police force might
speak to newspaper reporters. The
order was rescinded week later
Palmer is declared by the. police to
in the Forest Hill and the RoseVille
sections, and to be the man RESPONSE
BILE for the epidemic of burglaries in
the city. AS there are several very
serious charges against him in Jersey
City, it is probable that he will not
be brought to Newark.
Palmer was arrested yesterday near
his home at 1875 Bloomfield street, Ho-
boken. He was taken into custody
on a charge of assault and battery,
but the police soon discovered that
they had a much-wanted prisoner on
their hands. The police say that he
is wanted in Jersey City on serious
charges preferred by the mothers of
several young girls. He is also said
to have committed number of bur-
glaries in Jersey City and in Ho-
boken.
Identification Positive.
Captain Tuite, of the local detective
bureau, with Lieutenant Maier and
Plainclothesman REILLY, questioned
Palmer at Hoboken yesterday. Maier
and REILLY positively identified the
man as the one whom they chased on
the night of January 6.
Lieutenants Ryan, Harris and Far
rell, of police headquarters, ques-
toned Palmer today, and the man is
said to have confessed that he COM
mitted about twenty purglaries in
this city. He gave the detectives no
addresses, they say, but told them
that he robbed places in the Forest
Hill section and in the southern part
of the city
He worked between I and 10 o'clock
at night, he is said to have told the
detectives, and always gained en-
trance to the houses by forcing side
or rear windows. Palmer formerly
lived in this city, at an address in
Emmett street, and was very familiar
with the back yards and possible hid
ing places in the southern section of
the city, where he Is said to have done
most of his work.
He called Captain Tuite, who lived
in that section for number of years.
by name, and also knew other mem
bers of the force. Palmer Is only
twenty-one years old very well built
>and good-looking. He had many re-
markable experiences during his al
legged work in this city. On one occa-
sion, in the Forest Hill section, police
detectives were near enough to him
to secure his hat
Palmer told police detectives that
he once entered an apartment in this
city and awoke man in a bedroom
The man told him that he had no val
uables, Palmer said. Palmer then left
sum of money to pay for breaking
the window. He is also said to have
told Newark detectives that he had
sold all of the jewelry which he took
from houses in this city and could not