Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-04-08
THREE FREED
IN "H0LD-UP'
Federal and County Authori-
ties Follow Up Action in
Alleged Robbery
PROBE IS CONTINUED
Are Charged With Illegal
Transportation of Booze
Heavy Bail Fixed

All six men arrested by the police
Of Perth Amboy and Woodbridge in
connection with the whiskey truck
holdup at Sewaren early Friday
morning were held under bail TO
await action by the federal an1
county authorities. Three of the
sextet were able to furnish the re-
Quired bonds and have been freed
temporarily but the others are held
at the Woodbridge police station
and will be taken to the county jail
at New Brunswick this afternoon.
Chasxed by the federal authori-
ties with illegal transportation of
intoxicating liquor in violation CT
the Volstead act, Frederick and
James Acerra, of 10 Bridge avenue,
Red Bank; Vincent Albino. of Lo-
Gust avenue, Red Bank. and Edward
Dietzel. of South Amboy. were ar
raigned before United States Com
missioner John A. Delaney in this
city~vesterday afternoon and placed
undel&$ 900 bail each for the fed
eral grand jury. The same men are
also under $1,000 bonds upon
charges made by the Woodbridge
authorities. The Red Bank men
furnished their bail but Dietzel re-
4 bondsman today.
William f. Jewell, of 31S Market
street, Perth Amboy. and James
stanton. of New York. who were
captured by Patrolman William
Peterson while a half dozen local
policemen were securing the Maurer
section of the city for the men be-
lieved to have come this way from
Sewaren, were before Recorder Ash
lev and were held without bail ac-
cused of highway robbery. Commit
ment papers were made out this
morning and these two men will be
taken to the county Jail to await
grand Jury disposition of the case.
The federal charge against the
Acer-as and Dietzel is the result or
the discovery by the police that they
were on the truck alleged to have
been running the whiskey from Red
Bank to Tony Zullo, at Port Read
ing. Albino is believed to have been
In the touring car driven by Zulio
and his capture came when ne go,
out of the machine during the faxed
holdup and was abandoned by Zullo
when the Woodbridge police arrived.
These four men were captured as
they were standing in the road al
most Immediately following the
holdup.
1t is said that a confession has
been obtained from Jewell and
stanton giving full details of the
attempted double cross" suspected
by the police when the booze was
later found in Zullo's barn at Port
Reading. They are declared to have
implicated Zullo and accused him
of bling the instigator of an attempt
to stage a 'frame-up" on the whis
key runners. Zullo. however, Is still
at large.
Another development in the case
Is the declared statement by the
prisoners that the only two men In
the holdup party who carried re-
volvers threw them into Woodbridge
creek as they fed. This explains
why no guns were found on the
men when they were taken. jewel
and Stanton are said to claim ignor'
ance of the identity of the Other
men in the gang of bandits. The
number is now put at five instead
OF eight.
The booze holdup in question oc'
Cured at o'clock Friday morning
when a bakers delivery truck carry
ing whiskey valued at $500 wa'
stuck up at Sewaren. The liquor
was taken from its custodians ant
removed to Zullo's barn where 1
was later found. Notified of th'
holdup by a telephone message from
q house near the scene the Wood
bridge police arrived in time to cap
ture four men. Two others wer'
taken by Ofiicer Peterson two hour
later when he saw them crouched II
= ditch beside the railroad tracks IL
the rear of the Maurer postoffice.