The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-17
CRIME WAVELETS
OUT OF HOBOKEN
Wicked New Jersey City Sup
plies Arms for Two Bold
Bands.
ALL OF EN- ARE CAUGHT
HOldup Men Taken Before
Magistrate Before Business
Really Opens.

Just as New York Ia the lodestone
that draws young mon from other towns
with its larger opportunities In legiti-
mate business for piling up income
taxes. 30 Is it the Mecca nowadays Tot
youthful oesperadoes who aspire to
higher life in their chosen profession
the stickup game. Jefferson Market
court proved that yesterday with the ar
ralgnment OF Ave youths-each OF them
l7--who kept time from hanging heavy
on the hands Of Detectives Campbell and
Shevlin of the Charles street station
during the dull morning hours.
The two little bands Of shock troops
into which they were divided had both
purchased shooting irons in Hoboken, as
they confided to the police after the lat-
ter had shown they would stand no nom
sense. But did they confine their soar
ing young energies to Hoboken? AFTER
all, what Is Hoboken compared to Man
haitian, where man with a gun can
now get ambitious?
So John Cronin OF 354 West Eleventh
street and James Redden OF 76l Green
witch street, as their adventures were
set down later by the police historian
dropped over TO the stronghold or the
the spretzel on Saturday night to acquire
some of that plentiful hardware which
makes Hoboken the most heavily forth
fed city in the country.
Hoboken Their Arsenal.
According to their story to the detec-
t!ves, they picked up a couple OF revol-
vers in a clothing store. Realizing that
the ideal life of thrills for a lad of spirit
was no longer to be found in the West,
they came East and dropped into the
cafe attached to seamen's hotel at
396 West street, Manhattan. about mid
night in order to steady their trigger
fingers. After a couple OF glasses eome-
thing in the appearance of George Ros-
we'll a marine engineer staying at the
hotel. took their minds Off their work
"who are you lookin' att" they asked
George. who was merely talking to the
other dozen seafaring men in the bar
about what a relief it was to buck the
ocean after a few days in rough and
ready New York. When George an
swered Nothing" the youthful pair
seemed to feel this applied TO them. They
decided to finish their argument with
their revolvers. None of the bullets
struck Roswell. but he concluded not to
stay and strain his luck.
room one of the amateur marksmen got
the range on him. and he dropped with a
bullet in the right leg Meanwhile De-
tectives Campbell and Shevlin, block
away. had been struck with suspicion on
hearing the discharges that were reduc-
ing the cafes business to zero. They
ran up just as the last draft of seamen
tried to heat their neighbors to the
street. with Cronin and Redden we'll up
In the money.
The detectives gathered the youths to
their arms and relieved them of the re-
volvers for which Cronin and Redden
admitted quite simply they had no
further use as their programme for the
day had been shot to pieces. Inside the
detectives found Roswell lying wounded
| and sent him TO St Nincents Hospital,
while the youths were locked up charged
with felonious assault and carrying con-
! cealed Ioboken souvenirs.
Another Bunch of Marauders.
When the detectives had finished this
affair they went for little fresh air in
| Christopher street, Detective Campbell
| remarking After all. this town is a
| lively burg sometimes
Yes answered Detective Shevlin.
land here comes a bunch that look too
! darn interesting to be innocent"
Down Greenwich street toward them
strolled a trio OF boys. and as they ap-
peared altogether too artless and casual
| to be prowling around at that hour the
detectives backed them against a wall
! and extracted from them sundry articles
| and the following names: Nathan Roth
| enberg. 200 Clinton street Louis Step
/ pens. 1873 Zabrskie street. and Walter
| Boone. liz Jefferson street-all from
the burglars Beulah Land. Hoboken.
! The knicknacks the police took from
| them were revolver carried by Step
pens and two slungehots that were do
! ing duty as bracelets on the wrists OF
| Boone and Rothenberg. They told the
| following frank story after the police
performed a few mystic rites:
They had heard that Hoboken tailor
| with n shop Al First and Garden STREETS
was going home late Saturday nigh,
/ laden with the generosity of conscien-
tious patrons who had paid their bills
SO they followed him when he got on a
| Grove street car. and formed a rear
guard as he got of outside his home al
York street. Here the tailor developed
mean suspicious OF the world in genera
md these three in particular and lodged
inside his door, leaving them exasps
rated on the sidewalk without even com.
| pensaton for the car fare they had
| squandered on his account
Then. recalling the welcome" on s,
many New York doormatS. they came &c
this city to retrieve the family fortunes
But Detectives Campbell and Shevlir
proved too inquisitive for them. charged
them with violating the Sullivan law anC
sent them to bed without their supper IL
cell.
Together with the first two prisoners
this trio were held for further examina
ton in the Jefferson Market court wher.
they appeared with black eyes and otheI
blemishes on their countenances Yes
they confessed-one might cay their con
fessions were written all over thei
faces.
That Drug store Job.
Another person who has been readlu,
the papers lately is Paul Lowenthal
wAs~ has q .absg store at Tlefsyy-fi rs
street and Sixth avenue. and who feel
that he must respectfully disagree will
Commissioner. Enright's statement tina
there Is no crime wave, since he ha