Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
MAN HELD Up
IN HIS HOME
Four Colored HighWaymen
Rob Charles Jackson of $05
in Cash at Midnight
AT POINT OF REvOL YER
Try to Escape in Automobile
Which Contained Woman
Arrested Later by Police
AT POINT OF REvoL YER

AT the point of a revolver, three
colored men, giving New Bruins wick
addresses, visited the home of
Charles Jackson, also colored, at
335 Prospect street. at midnight last
night and robbed him of sS5 in cash
and a gold watch.
The three holdup men after the
robbery, left the Prospect street
dwelling and escaped in an automo-
bile containing another colored man
and woman. Margaret Good, color
ed, of 335 Prospect street. came to
police headquarters and notified
Lieutenant William Calvin of the
robbery.
Officer Michael Fitzpatrick had
been watching the occupants of the
automobile bearing Pennsylvania Ii
cense 934,985, about Smith and Pros
pect street. and later saw the car
start in the vicinity of New Bruins
wick. When notified of the rob-
berry, he reported to Lieutenant CAL
vim the suspicious actions of the
occupants of the Pennsylvania car,
and the police patrol with Sergeant
Frank Kasprzak and Chauffeur Emil
Koyen aboard, picked up Ofieer
Fitzpatrick, and the chase after the
holdup men was started. 1t was at
first reported that Jackson had been
taken by the holdup men,
The New Brunswick police were
notified of the robbery, as the men
were said to have resided at the
county seat. Officers John Coleman,
Jr., and James Hardy. OF the New
Brunswick force, were detailed TO
the Albany street bridge. After quite
wait, the Pennsylvania car was
halted and the five occupants ar
rested.
The people arrested gave their
names and addresses as:
Alex Reynolds. twenty-seven;
John Butler, twenty-one; William
Brown, twenty-three; William Mar
fin. twenty-nine, and Hortensia
Brown, twenty-six, all of New
Brunswick, t.,
They were returned to this city
and lodged in jail over night. rms
morning they were arraigned before
Recorder Harold E. Pickersgill on
robbery charge, and the four men
we're held in 81, 900 bail each on the
charge. There was no evidence on
which to hold the woman Later
this morning, Detective John MURRAY
md officer William Buchan, TOOK
the the men to the county Jail in New
= When the car was halted in New
Prunswick. the two police officers OF
.1.a+ nlace found a revolver in the
ea,. and $50 on one of the occupants
IN the report made TO the local po-
lice following the holdup, II wa
aaid that one of the men in the hoiu,
IN nartv. was known as Lightning
apd resided in New Brunswick
While Sergeant Frank Kasprzak'
Chauffeur Emil Koyen and otllcer
Michael Fitzpatrick. were out on d
chase after holdup men about I'Su
O'clock this morning, Lieutenant
William Calvin received telephone
coll from a Mrs. O'Brien in the VI
cinitv of Hall avenue and Atlantic
aven1le. that five men dressed IN hu
Klux Klan regalia, were firing shots'
making it impossible for anyone 10
sleep. e.t,,o+,,
Was detailed with the police touring
car with orders to pick up several
yoen along the line. Officers Joseph
Dwver, Louis Hansen and Henry
Zanzalari, were picked up and when
the nolicemen reached the section
terrorized by the revolver shootlng'
in the vicinity of the Alpine ceme-
terry. they could find no garbed per-
sons.
The woman making the report
told the officers that the noisemakers
had started in the vicinity of Hail
and Amboy avenues. but the police
men were not successful in finding
anyone, anywhere in that section.