The New York herald., 1922-09-06
|DE LUKE BURGLARS
WIFE GETS SURPRISE
what Do You Know About
Thatv She Cries as Craig
Admits More Thefts.
NEVER KNEW HE STOLE
Perfect Gentleman Tells
Orange Police He Also
Stole Motor Cars.
ARVERNE SAFE LOOTED
ARyERNE SAFE LOOTED
Bandits Operate 20 Feet From
Police Booth and Get SIS, 900
Cash and $4,000 Gems.

| SdSH duu p-sUOO QCLlS.
Ten more homes were added last
night to the long list which Hugh
d. Craig, called the perfect gentle
man burglar by the police of the
Oranges, admits he robbed during the
last years Craig. who was arrested
Monday and confessed at once to
twelve burglaries was taken last night
from East Orange to Orange and ques-
toned until he recalled robbing four
Ridge and three in East Orange which
were not on his original list.
! Craig also admitted, according TO
the police, that he stole many auto
mobiles. When he was arrested he
was riding in an automobile which is
said to have been stolen on August II
from r. D. Miller of II South Mum
avenue, East Orange. Craig lived at
that address before Miller moved there
a month ago. Since then he has been
living in 500 a month apartment at
| 191 Elmwood avenue, East Orange.
He said yesterday that though he was
able to pay, he had avoided rent so far.
| Besides Craig's neighbors, all of whom
| liked him and believed he was lin the
automobile business" perhaps the most
| shocked person in East Orange yester-
day was Craig's wife, who returned
from vacation to Atlantic City with
Ler small child.
Wife Never Thought 1t.
| ''Well. what do you know about that y
cried Mrs. Craig when told OF her hus-
bands arrest and his subsequent con-
| fessions. Il never thought that man
| was burglar. He never, never stayed
| out late at night. ! thought he was
a perfectly respectable automobile
dealer"
Craig in his cell easily explained tina.
away by saying that ne carried out most
| OF the burglares during the early part
| o. the evening while families were
away. The police, however. remember
ing that In the raid on Craigs apart
| ment they found an elaborate assort-
n.ent of burglars tools are unable to
understand how his wife, II she was at
lone much of the time, could keep from
krowing.
Chief of Police Mcdonnell said that
| Craig had told him much about his
methods of carrying out burglaries and
about the extreme care he used. One
OF the jimmies found in his apartment
was wrapped with tire tape. Craig said
he wrapped 1t so that IL he ever dropped
T. while he was robbing a house II would
rot make clatter. He said according
tc the police, that he got most of his
income from robberies, but that he stole
many automobiles as a profitable side
| line. He had changed the numbers of
the car he stole from Miller he said.
end had painted some red rings about
the wheels With these slight changes.
h, said. he had been able TO deceive
Miller to the extent of driving by his
house several times day.
| Craig will be taken to Newark to-day
| for further questioning and after that
| lie probably will be taken to Montclair.
Loot sRfe I'm Arvernc.
In spite Of the fact that there was
police booth less than twenty feet
away burglars broke into the restau-
rant of Arnold wetzler, In Sixty-seventh
street and the Boulevard, Arvernc. early
yesterday and carried a big safe out the
back door. Then they dragged 1t two
hundred feet through an alley into the
kitchen of an abandoned chicken market,
where they ripped the door off and stole
| $4,000 in cash and $4,000 worth of
| jewelry.
| Beside the safe the detectives found
kit of burglar tools wrapped in a
brown newspaper This led Wetzler TO
| believe that the robbery might have
been committed by two men who came
| into his restaurant shortly before 3
o'clock in the morning. One of them
used the telephone. while the other stood
in the restaurant and even then at
| tracted the attention OF Wetzler by the
manner in which he glanced around.
| This man carried a parcel wrapped In
\ brown paper.
The burglars entered the restaurant
| through a back window. The police be-
l.eve that they intended also to rob the
restaurant OF Harry westrich. at Sixty
ninth street and the Boulevard. Five
rren entered the place at noon on Mon
day and went into the kitchen. saying
they wanted a towel. After they had
gone he noticed that the screen OF one
~ the windows had been ripped or.
Finds House Looted.
Joseph III. Wise and his family re-
turned to their home at 10 West Sew
cnty-fourth street yesterday after spend
irg the summer in Maine. to find that
during their absence burglars had got
ir.to the house and looted X Of silver
ware and other property worth at least
10000 Mr.. Wise reported the robbery
IT, the police, but will not be able to give
the detectives list OF the stolen prop
erty until no has made an inventory.
Tho burglars seem to have spent some
time In the house. They ransacked
every closet jimmying the locked doors,
fpped up rugs and carpets and tore
down pictures looking for valuables.
The house was in such condition when