Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-29
CHARGE MAN
IS SP|CKPOCKET
Say He Robbed Man on Fer
ryboat Here Ran Off the
Boat
ARRESTED AT TERMINAL
Police Looking Up His Record
in New York--HeId in Lock-
up Here
AT TERMINAL

Harry Miller. thirty-six years old.
of Main street, South Amboy, who
was arrested in the ferry house yes
terday Afternoon on suspicion of
having picked the pocket of ferry
passenger. was arraigned before Re-
corder Harold E. Pickersgill in the
police court this morning and re-
manded to Jail pending, further in
vestigation of the case by the au-
, thorities.
Patrolman John Riedy made the
arrest at AIS o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon she rtly after Miller had at
tempted to get through the ferry
gates and was halted by Superinten-
dent Thomas McKeon when the
ticket chopper aboard the departing
ferryboat shouted to him from the
ferryboat. Miller had been aboard
the boat, but made his way ashore a
few seconds before she left the slip.
When McKeon refused to let him
through the gates into the city.
Miller is said to have tried to hide
himself in the ferry house. but
Riedy arrested him and took him to
headquarters. The complainant In
the case is Steve Szarka. of South
River, who alleges that a wallet con-
tanning money and papers, were
taken from his pocket. Captain
Lawrence A. Long is in New York
today in an effort to learn whether
or not Miller has previous record
as pickpocket.
Captain Lawrence A. Long. of the
local detective bureau, today secured
from the police department of New
York City the criminal record OF
Miller who is also known as Harry
Cohen, Phillips, Wagner. Malkin and
"The Crabber." His picture in the
gallery is No. S552 and identified
tion was made by the mans finger
prints.
The New York police records show
that Miller was arrested twelve times
prior to 1905 and about thirty times
since then. Among the charges
made against the man in New York
are pick-pocketing, larceny, felon-
ious assault. suspicious person. dis
orderly conduct. vagrancy and grand
\ larceny. In addition to being ar
Srested in New York City he was
taken into custody on various charg-
es in Boston. Waterbury, Conn;
Newark, Brooklyn, Woonsocket. X.
J.. and Worchester. Mass.
In 1906 he was sentenced to nine
months in the penitentiary on a
lrrceny charge. In 1908 he was
sentenced to the workhouse on two
occasions and fined in addition. Il
1909 he was given four years in Sine
larceny charge. In 1914 he was sen.
to the workhouse for five months
and in 1915 again sent to Sing Sing
this time for three years on two
charges of grand larceny.
Fines amounting to $40 and two
workhouse sentences of one month
and six months were also imposed
by the recorder upon prisoners ar
rested over the week end.
Niels Petersen, fifty-seven years
old, of 473 Division street. was
fined SO for driving an automobile
across the Hayes Park tract. The
case was unusual because of the way
in which Petersen appeared in court
Petersen. several days ago. drove his
car across the park not knowing the
regulation prohibiting it's use as a
thoroughfare. Children playing In
the vicinity warned him of the Law
and he turned his machine and
went back the way he had come.
Recorder Pickersgill heard of the
incident and learned that the mar
was an employe of Ira Grouse and
when the judge happened to meet
Mr.. Grouse he informed him of the
incident. Mr.. Grouse promised tc
: find out which of his men ha6
Idriven across the park and thi.
Z morning Mr.. Petersen appeared In
court and informed the recorder
that he. Petersen, had been guilty
of violating a city ordinance. II
accordance with his usual custom
the court imposed a $40 fine. which
Petersen paid without a murmur
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