Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-10-16
Arrests Made in Elizabeth of
Men Who Held Up Liquor
Truck Near Metuchen.
TRUCK ON STATEN ISLAND
All Being Held in JaiI--Posed
as Dry Agents in Daring
Daylight Hold Up.
BY STAFF Correspondent.

by stan correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 16. -
Twelve men are under arrest, in
cluding one said to be the ring
leader. as a result of quick work
upon the part of the police and de-
tectives in running down the
perpetrators of the daylight holdup
near the Hotel Pines on the Lincoln
Highway yesterday morning in which
a motor truck loaded with booze
valued at $4,000 was stolen and the
three men on the truck carried to
Dayton by some of the holdup party.
Five of these men are in the Middle
sex county Jail here in New Bruins
wick and the other seven are in the
Union county Jail in Elizabeth.
In addition to the arrest of these
twelve men word has been received
by the Middlesex county authorities
that the booze has been located in
Elizabeth and the truck has been
found on Staten Island.
The alleged leader Of the holdup
gang which, according to the story
told by the driver of the truck yes
terday, numbered about forty men,
is Dominick Porello, twenty-three
years old, an Italian living in New
ark. The man is known as ding
bat" in the underworld section Of
Newark in River street, it is said.
Porello was seen passing through
Metuchen about $3.50 o'clock yester-
day morning by Chief Hutchinson
the yellow roadster in which he
was riding at a dangerous rate of
speed narrowly averting several co =
lisions. Chief Hutchinson 'phoned
to the Railway police to stop the
man on a charge of reckless driving
and bring him back to Metuchcn.
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turned to Metuchen and in the
meantime word of the holdup had
been received by Chief Hutchinson,
who had Porello taken to the coun-
ty seat. Here the driver of the
truck identified him as the leader of
the gang which had held up his
truck and driven it away.
A charge of highway robbery has
been preferred against Porello and
bail has been set at $4,000. The
owners of the whiskey. Bornbush a
men who were on the truck, were
going through Linden In an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon when
the driver of the truck noticed a car
which he said resembled one OF
those which had taken part in the
holdup. The Linden police were
told of their suspicious and the car
Stopped. -Four men were In 1t, one
OF whom admitted taking part in
the holdup.
This man gave his name as JOS
eph A. Clark, twenty-one years old
of All Plane street, Newark. A
charge of highway robbery was
made against him and he was
brought. together with the other
three men, to the county Jail at New
Brunswick.
There was no proof that the other
men had participated in the robbery
4 so a charge of having been in a
q machine thought to have been stolen
was preferred against them.
These men gave their names as
Harry Holzhous. twenty-six years old.
of Tillinghas street, Charles Nor
riarty, twenty eight, of 3S Eckert
street. and Mike Novak, twenty-five,
of 326 Sixteenth avenue, all of New
ark. No bail has been fixed in the
case of these three men but If they
apply for same and It is furnished
they will still be held as material
witnesses.
Three Newark detectives, Messrs
Harris, Bell and Kinney were assign i.
ed to the case and they arrested the
seven men in Elizabeth. Detectives
Peltier. David and Fitzpatrick. OF
N1iddlesex county. have also been
working on the case. No. fedora
action will come of the holdup as
the booze was being transferred
under a legal permit.