The New York herald., 1921-12-13
Frank Calabrese Identified by
Driver Of Truck Robbed
in Leonard Street.
EXPOSED BY WOMAN'S TIP
Jealousy Said to Have Prompt
ed Letter to Postal Inspec-
tors Which Gave Clue.

His troubles with women resulted
yesterday in the arrest of Frank Gala
brese, 32. of 623 Monroe street. Ho-
bolSen, charged with the holdup Of a
mail truck in Leonard street near
Broadway on the night Of October "a
when four registered mail pouches
containing money and jewelry valued
at 100000 were stolen. This is the
first arrest in the big mail theft
None Of the stolen articles has been
found.
Calabrese was held on the accusa-
ton of postal authorities who said
positive Identification Of the prisoner
had been made by Frank Havernack,
driver of the mail truck. Bail was
placed at $4,000 by John W. Queen,
United States Commissioner, in Jersey
City. Calabrese was locked up in the
Essex county Jail to await hearing
next Monday.
The postal inspectors acted on in
formation in an anonymous letter be-
lleved to have been written by a for
mer sweetheart who was jealous of
Calabrese's devotion to a Jersey City
girl. Several women have been ques-
toned for days in connection with the
affair and their relations with the
prisoner. Two other women were
freed after they had convinced the
authorities they had no part in the
case
The arrest was made just as Caiabrese
was being liberated from the Hudson
county jail on $1,000 bail in another
case. He had been locked up since
November on burglary charge. while
the postal inspectors and police were
searching for information and identin-
cations limited at in the anonymous
letter.
The first arrest was made on Novem-
Der 1 when Calabrese was riding i'm
Hudson Boulevard. Jersey City, with
Michael Arhesi of Hoboken. who was
dismissed. At about the time of the
arrest, the postal officials received the
letter which gave them their first i'm
portant tip in relation to New York's
HioSt udtihb hOiuup.
The writer said she had been in love
with man who might know something
Of Importance which the officials would
like TO learn. Calabrese's name was
not mentioned. The letter has not been
made public. but It is understood other
names were mentioned In some way
which directed attention to Calabrese.
The Jersey City girl who has been
under police eyes for many days is
said to have received numerous valu-
able articles Of jewelry within the last
few weeks. She was taken to New
York with the jewelry, but the Maiden
lane firms which lost diamonds and
other iewelry in the mail robbery were
not able TO identify her gifts as their
il st articles.
4 few DAYS after Calabrese's first
arrest. Havernack, the mail truck driver.
went TO Jersey City with the postal in
spectors. He was unable at hrst to
identify any of the fifteen men who were
lined up before him as the suspect who
had pointed a revolver at his head and
ordered that the truck be driven into
quiet Leonard street.
A week ago Calabrese was ordered to
put on thick tortoise shell glasses and
TO take his place in line with nine other
men in the Jersey City Police Head
quarters. all Of whom wore some kind OF
eyeglasses. This was an entirely differ
ent setting for Havernack, who in his
first narrative Of the holdup said that
one of the bandits wore heavy glasses.
Havernack again went before the line
and this time without moments hesi-
tation picked Caiabrese. On that identi-
hcation the formal charge was lodged
and the arraignment was the result.
Postal officials admitted that their case
against Calabrese rested almost COM
pletely on Havernsck's Identification.
Calabrese has been known in recent
years ne one of the "swells' in the
Italian section. where he lived i'm q good
apartment with bis wife and two chill
dren. TIe appeared to be supplied al
ways with money and little is known
about his work. II he did any. He drove
a. Hudson automobile.