Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-22
Great Credit Given Prosecut.
or Stricken and Judge DAILY
Getting Machinery Busy.
NO RED TAPE TO HINDER
Stricken Praises Excellent
Work Of Milltown People,
Deplores Lack of Police.

BY STAFF Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. ~. -
Frank Sailor" voorhees,. OF tnis
city. and Walter Watson, alias Cliff
ford jackson, of Melrose. Mass. the
two men captured early yesterday
morning by a posse of citizens OF
Milltown after they had been dis
covered looting vault in the First
National Bank at Midtown, are to-
day serving their first day In states
prison, Trenton, on a term from four
years eight months to seven years
Prosecutor Joseph Stricken ordered
speed" in the case when he re-
ceiyed word of the attempted rob-
berry and detailed county detectives
on the case. and 1t was speed"
that featured throughout the case.
rhe t:J men, who were seen
standing guard at the bank while
the other bandits were in the vault
securing the valuables, were seen BY
Herman Willenbrock. night watch-
, man at the Michelin plant. and with
in the shortest possible time, the
alarm had been spread and q posse
| OF residents organized who succeed
ed in capturing both Voorhees, and
| Watson.
! Not long after their arrest the
| two men signed written allegations.
They were brought before Judge
/ Peter +. Daily yesterday afternoon
to plea. As result Of their pleas Of
guilty, sentence was at once imposed
| upon them. They were taken to
| prison this morning.
In statement this morning
Prosecutor Stricken s aid:
when the report of the Mill
town robbery was called to my at
tention early yesterday morning. l
decided to bring about speedy trial
! and IL the defendants who were
sentenced had not pleaded guilty. =
meeting of the grand jury would
have been called today and the In
dictment moved for trial either to-
morrow or next Monday. The evi-
dence against the defendants was so
conclusively that they decided not to
go to trial whereupon they were
brought into court immediately,
plead guilty and were sentenced.
Great credit is due the citisens
of Midtown who SO speedily Or
ganized q posse which Drought
about the arrest OF two OF the four
enlnrit. But the incident ernpha-
sizes the necessity of establishing an
adequate police patrol in commun-
tiles which are without it."
Prosecutor Stricken has advocat-
ed police patrols in rural commune
tiles for several months and en-
phasized this need in several
speeches before grand juries. Mill
town, he points out. is an example
of such a community which has no
such patrolling police protection. II
i, had not been for the alertness ana
quick thinking of the Michelin night
, watchman the men in all probable
ities would have been able to com
plete their work and make their
getaway il is DOinted out.
No additional arrests had been
made up until noon today. although
II is believed that the information
given the county detectives by
, Voorhees, and Watson will result
in the other two robbers being
caught. AS result of the sudden
appearance of the posse OF Mill
town residents led by their mayor
Christian Kuhlthau. the men in the
vault disappeared without taxing
with them any of the $4,000 loos
in silver and liberty bonds which
I had been removed from safety
deposit boxes and placed on the
/. floor of the vault. prior to being
. carried away.
Voorhees, and Watson were mad
: ready for their trip to Trenton thi
morning and left New Brunswick oi
a the 1:16 Pennsylvania train. Eacl
: man was handcuffed to one or tn
= assistant Jail wardens as was Johl
;, Dofan. the Dunellen man sentences
to from fifteen to thirty years in pri
son on a second degree murde
charge. Accompanying the part
was Warden Alfred Puerschner VIII
has been in the Jail almost continual
ly since the arrest of the men. Al
!, precautions were taken to preven
= any possible efforts to escape ON tn
y part of the prisoners or attempts b
: friends to free the men. With tn
two men safely in the Trenton Jai
o officials around the county jail her
:, are breathing easier" and hav
c said they are glad the men are ou
of the way.
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