New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-06
Youth to Claim
ssO,OOOReward
In Bond Theft
Lone Hand in His First
Biz Case Credited With
Landing Band of Crooks
in s2,OOO,O00 Robbery
Rail for Each sl25,OOO
NIAGARA Hold-Up Led Nc
Carthy to Trail of 3 Held
IN s2.OOO,000 Robbery

rruent. American Railway Ex-
nd Wall Street rewards said to
p...,s more than $4,000 will be
'',..a within a few days BY Gordon
w.c,,,hv. a youthful detective Of
s~s,lo for his work in rounding up
=. alleged perpetrators Of the $1,000
"a ali truck robbery here last 0c-
..s,r and that Of an American Rail-
yxnress truck in Niagara Falls in
December.
v,c.r,hy, who for long time
-,...a rraetieally lone hand in trac-
=, a, alleged thieves and who finally
80. about their arrest. is not old
:. -. hu,iness. In fact, the case was
=, sr.t big one and postoffice in
..,,ors who worked with him call it
-, luck Of the Irish" that young Nc
o..sy has cleaned Up small fortune
= his first big work. The rewards
Iii h. paid on conviction Of the men
80 urder arrest, and the conviction
I, ,,rarded by United States District
..orneys as almost certainty.
Charges Filled Against Three
All the accused have long criminal
,,,orS,. Three Of them formally were
,,,,vsd with the mail truck robbery
..s.,rday.. They are Gerald Chapman,
ir.oroe Anderson and Charles Lambert.
4, additional charge of jeopardizing
,Is lie OF Frank Havernack, Of 1896
Webster Avenue, Long Island City, the
i,,rs, Of the New York truck, was
si,esd against all three. On The first
,t,rge the men can be sentenced TO
.sn wears and on the second maxi
run Of twenty-five years in Federal
Dtnitentiary
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
David Cahill. Assistant United states
District Attorney. who was present
with Postofice Inspectors James Doran,
Joseph Wick and Mccarthy, the latter
az special agent for the American Rail
way Express, addressed the Commits
sioner
"These men" he said. "are accused
~ the most extraordinary crime ever
recorded in New York City, and ] am
asking for the highest bail bonds pos
sible.'
III could would hold them with
out bail" replied the Commissioner,
"but owing 10 the provisions cannot
do this. will FIX the bond at s125,000
in each case"
Records Of the prisoners were made
available TO the Commissioner. These
records show that the trio have been
convicted and have served sentences in
various peni.eniiaries for robbery,
working confidence games and on other
charges They we're identified by
Hayernaek, the driver, as the three
men who held him up. Postoffice in
ptctors have admitted that nm en-
Yyee Of the City Hall postorfice,
Trough whici the Wall Street BUSH
res passes. is under suspicion and
nsy be arrested soon.
Luck and Design
The detection Of the crime, in which
tie youthful Mccarthy played such a
prominent part. was a combination Of
accident and design. Mccarthy was
assigned TO clean up the Niagara Falls
truck robbery, in which il is charged
the robbers stole $4,000 worth Of
travellers checks.
Mccarthy had no idea that the men
he wanted also were guilty OF the 81
100000 truck robbery. On March a
last Mrs. Martha Fuller, rooming
house proprietor, presented a stolen
and forged travellers check to Altman's
in payment for purchases. This store
and other concerns we're on the look
out for just such a check and Altman's
phoned The express company. Nc
Carthy got Mrs. Fuller's address from
the store and located her. She was
taken to Buffalo and detained for sew
eral weeks, when it was proved that
she was an innocent figure, having
rented room TO Chapman, in payment
ior which she said Chapman gave her
he cheek.
Information given by Mrs. Fuller led
70 Mccarthy meeting the trio now
under arrest. Mccarthy posed as a