Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-08-05
HOW SLEUTHS
COT EVIDENCE
Chief of County Detectives
Tells of Work Done Lead
ing up to Arrest in Case.
LIQUOR USED AS RUsE
Efforts to Get David Kron in
State Took Long Time, but
Finally Was Successful.

NEW BRUNSWICK. Aug. s.
Chief of County Detectives Richard
newspaper men yesterday after the
verdict in the r. & II. case was
given, regarding the. work of his men
in preparing the case for trial and
the conviction of Frank Jersey and
Ernest Tonghini:
Information was received at my
bffice which might be judged as a
clue to the solving of the $4,000
robbery. The facts were not COM
plete. We had no proof and of
: course the headway was slow. Some
Information was given out from our
office of misleading nature, and re-
suited In the Perth Amboy police
and the Pinkerton detectives being
put off the trail.
''The story which he received"
Chief Peltier continued, was sup
posedly investigated by the Perth
! Amboy police, but nothing came of
1t. The r. & H. company then took
the matter up with the New York
police and Captain of Detectives Sui
Ivan was called into the case to see
what he could make of the story,
and worked for a while with the
Perth Amboy police without success.
1--WE received a tip on the story
and Detective Ferd David was as
signed on the case and worked
night and day, getting the facts of
the case together. The first party
the county detective was in search
of was man named Benny Rosen-
thai. After a search of about
month it was found this name was
fictitious. After securing New York
City David heard the name Jersey
mentioned.
"Returning to this vicinity the
county detective followed Jersey TO
learn some of his friends David
heard mention of Dave the barber
and found that he kept shop at
Linoleumville. S. l., and that Jersey
had worked for him. The detective
paid a visit to Linoleumville and
found that Dave the barber who
turned out to be Dave Kron, an al
legged professional crook. had moved
TO the Brownsville section of Brook
lyn.
"The shop of Kron was located,
and the names of Kron and Jersey
were connected, and their meeting
In Snake Hill penitentiary was con-
Z nected David heard Kron talk to
other persons regarding the case,
and mentioned the names OF Tom
ghini and Jersey in regard to the
case The county detective contln-
ued his investigation and coneuded
that the story was perfectly true.
David returned to this county and
the two men were arrested charged
with the robbery by myself.
1.-THE next step necessary was 10
get Kron into this state. An inves-
tigation showed that the man was
interested in whiskey deals. and It
was at that time believed that some
whiskey deals might have been put
through by him in connection with
Jersey and Tonghini. We planned
a frame-up to get the man kron
into this county; this was the only
frame-up in preparing the case,
"a letter was written from this
Office to a man named William
Welsh, general delivery, NewaIk, anu
this comm dnication contained prices
of LIQUOR and mentioned samples.
Welsh has proven to be County De-
tective William Fitzpatrick. who wsn-
to Newark and secured the letter.
Welsh turned the buyer. third
party, whose name will not be
divulged, over to Kron and the
buyer got In touch with the Brooklyn
barber. The three parties, Kron,
Welsh and the third party became
interested in the deal.
1T was planned that the whiskey
was to be delivered in Carteret. About
q month ago everything was nicely
arranged, and Welsh went to Brook
lyn and met Kron and the third party.
The three came over to Carteret In
an automobile, where they went into
. q saloon where the deal was to be
pulled off.
"County Detective Ferd David
was in the saloon and placed all
three under arrest. the third party
was released in bail, and Welsh's
xrxk fol VIZ
heavy bail, on a charge of what he
believed to be Illicit dealing in whis-
key, but the county detectives wanted
him for information on the 'Roessler
& Hasslacher robbery
Immediately after being lodged in
the county Jail, David and myself
questioned the man, who seemed TO
be an unwilling party to the whole
thing. Finally Prosecutor Stricken.
County Detective David and myself
kept after the man for three days,
when he broke down and agreed to
describe the entire transaction and
serve as states witness.
"A dictaphone was in use while
the man was put through the third
degree, but he came through in such
fashion at the trial that it was not
necessary to bring it into use.
Tonghini and Jersey were suspected
nj the CRIME on account Oh not WOTh-
n ag recently. The first named was
s.lilding up two bank accounts and
Fowned an automobile. while Jersey
bought a poultry farm at South
Plainfield
IT hold high hope of returning
come of the stolen material to the
chemical plant very shortly, as I
have a man working on the case at
present"
The information given out by the
chief of county detectives shows
why the county sleuths succeeded
where others failed. County Detec-
tive Ferd David after months of
investigation among strange sur
roundings was finally rewarded with
success by the arrest of David Kron |
in Carteret. William Fitzpatrick, |
who at present is serving in the
capacity of acting county detective, |
also handled his part of the work |
in bringing the men to justice in a |
credible manner, and there Is every |
reason to believe that this work |
viii result in his being appointed as
a full hedged county detective. Pei
ktier says.
The Amboy police since the ar
fest Of the Tonghini brothers and /
Jersey were very open in asserting /
that the county detectives had moth
ing on the men. and that they had 4
been through them. Peltier claims.