The New York herald., 1922-09-05
RICH BURGLAR HAS
TOOL SET De LUKE
Lives in Costly Apartment
With Family and Has
Automobiles.
CONFESSES TO POLICE
Takes Ride With Chief and
Points Out Homes He
Looted in Orange.
THIEVES BLOW SAFE OPEN
Get 1000 in Lofts Candy
Store at Newark-Holdup
in Saloon.


avenue, East Orange. ". j., took a
motor ride yesterday with Joseph Nc
Gonnell, Chief of Police of Orange. and
pointed cut more than a dozen homes
in the four Oranges which he said he
had burglarized during the last year.
Besides the costly variety of loot taken
from these places, he is said to have
confessed to the theft of several auto
mobiles. which he had left in a garage
at SO1 Central avenue, Orange, to be
disposed of.
Craig has been living with his wife
and child in a costly apartment and
when the Orange police arrested him
Saturday on suspicion, big Hudson
touring car, supposed to be his prop
erty, was parked in front of the house.
Prisoners in whose pockets pawn
tickets were found had told the police
that the tickets were bought from
Craig. When the apartment was
searched large Saratoga bag con-
tanning an elaborate set of burglar
tools and accessories was found. The
outfit included large jimmy and a
smaller tool of the same type, pair
of kid gloves. which are used to BATTLE
finger print experts, a searchlight. a
time clock and an assortment of rags,
gun cotton powder. fuses and rail-
road time tables.
Despite the finding of the tools, 1t
was not until yesterday tnat the pris-
oner confessed to the burglaries The
hcmes which he pointed out to Chief
Mcconnell included those of Harvey
Thomas, on Hamilton road. South Or
ange: w. T. Palmer on Berkeley ave-
nue.. Orange; Henry Berg. Jr.. on Hey
wood avenua. Orange; Joseph Lucking.
on fremont avenue, Orange, and Fred
n. Veder. on Grace road. South Orange.
In most instances. 1t was said. en-
trance to the houses was gained by
"jimmying" doors and windows None
of the goods taken from the homes has
yet been recovered and the police be-
leve 1t was the custom of Craig to
pawn the stolen articles as soon as he
got possession of them and then sell
the pawn tickets.
Most of the automobiles which Craig
is said TO have confessed he stole are
believed to have been owned In New
ark. Besides the cars that were found
in the garage the police found two bills
OF sale for motors and number of au-
tomobile licenses in the possession of
the prisoner.
stolen JeweIry Found.
Part of the jewelry stolen last Sunday
morning from the home of Mrs. Cath
crime Irene Sweeney in 1916 Avenue n,
Brooklyn. where the bandits attacked
lier when she entered the house with her
niece. Mrs. Catherine McNaught, and
her chauffeur. Benjamin Fein. was re-
covered yesterday. IL was picked up
on the north side of Avenue ". near
the Sweeney home by Joseph Cook, a
fcurtcen-year-old delivery boy of 134
Elm avenue. Brooklyn. who was riding
his bicycle along the street. He turned
the jewelry over to the police OF the
Parkville station in Brooklyn, who asked
Mrs. Sweeney to see If she could iden-
tify ii.
Mrs. Sweeney went to the Sheepshead
Bay station last night and talked for
more than an hour with Acting Captain
George Busby Capt Busby said after
ward that there had been no new de-
velopments in the case. He said that
Mrs. Sweeney had told him that the
jewelry found by the Cook boy was not
all that she lost. The recovered iewelry
was valued at about s2s5. while the
bandits stole about $500 worth liz all.
The safe OF the Loft candy store at
157 Market street, Newark. was robbed
of $1,000 some time between Saturday
night and yesterday morning. Miss
Mary McQuillan. day manager Of the
store. discovered the burglary when she
went to work yesterday and notified the
police.
The police are searching for the two
burglars who piled up several thousands
OF dollars worth OF silk In the shop OF
the Nassau silk undergarment Company
at TT Seventh avenue Sunday after
noon. ready to cart away. They were
prevented from stealing II by George
Toner of the Unique Slide Company, who
went to do some work in his studio and
discovered he had left his keys at home.
He went into the office of the other
company, saw that the desks had been
opened and that the floor was strewn
with bolts OF silk and notified the police.
Four men entered Henry Huy's sa-
loon at SS7 Brook avenue, The Bronx.
last night and asked the bartender, John
Peute. to bring them some ginger ale.
He started for It. when one OF the men
Knocked him down Two went to the
front door and the other took $40 from
the cash register. Huy entered the sa-
loon as the four men left and chased
them, firing two shots from a revolver.
Half block away Patrolman Mcguire
caught Joseph Palmer of 1417 Segal