Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-12-13
HOId-Up Man Boarded
At Lookup Is Held
For = Jobs I'm City
Man Who Has Been Telling
Hard Luck Stories
Comes to Grief
HELD UP BANKER HERE
Is Identified-Is Also Blamed
for Robbing Coal Com
pany Office Here

Hard luck stories have been saving
Thomas Wilson, twenty-five, a fire.
ouent lodger at the local police
headquarters, for some time but his
undoing was brought about at 2;45
o'clock this morning when Lieuten-
ant John E. Morris in his hourly
tour of the lookup discovered the
man on top of one of the cages
cleaning a revolver containing two
bullets.
Wilson was arrested by the lieu
tenant on a charge of carrying a gun
and later this morning Lieutenant
Detective Joseph Gutowski connect
ed him with the robbery of. the
Rymsha & Company coal Office at
989 State street, and the attempted
holdup of the foreign bank and
steamship agency of Louis j. Horkay
at 31S Maple street.
When the lodger was arraigned on
the criminal charge of having the
gun in his possession he maintained
that he purchased the weapon in
Philadelphia for Sc. He was given
sixty days in the county workhouse
by Recorder Harold E. Pickersgill.
Detective Gutowski set to work
and first visited the Rymsha coal
office where the owner identified the
revolver as one taken from his place
on the second of two visits made to
the establishment. Rymsha was
notified to appear at special session
of the recorders court to sign a
complaint against Wilson.
Identifies Man
The proprietor of the foreign bank
and steamship agency came to head
quarters ard Wilson lost no time in
admitting that he had attempted the
hold-up of the Horkay place on
Wednesday night. Horkay signed
a complaint for attempted holdup
and Rymsha for breaking and enter
ing. The prisoner was held in
$4,000 bail to await the action of the
grand jury and when the county au-
thorities are through with the man
on the two charges. he will be given
an oppoctunitv to serve the sixty
days at the workhouse on the origi-
nal charge.
about the manner in which the hold
up man entered his place and or
dered him to throw up his hands.
Horkay was behind one of his cages
writing out a check. with his back to
the door and after facing the revol-
yer. thought for a second or two be-
fore comDlving with the order. In
stead of forkinp over any money.
II oav E1l
and walked to the gunman. During
this space of time. the holdup man
apparently lost his nerve and low
cred the gun. AS he did so, he told
the banker a hardluck story and was
given 81 for a meal The hold-up
man made his getaway from the
scene before = police officer could
be summoned.
Chiefs Order
As a result of the finding of the
gun by Lieutenant Morris last night.
chief Niels ]. Tonnesen this morning
issued Order No. 81 requiring that
the lieutenant in charge of the desk
see that all dodgers are. thoroughly
searched from this date on. The
chler makes known that it has been
Drought to his attention that lodgers
have been allowed to go into the
lookup with revolvers and razors in
their possession.
Wilson has been in this city for
some time, he has informed the po-
nee, having worked at an outer
state street plant and boarded on
state street. Some time ago he made
MS first visit to police Headquarters
ana after telling the man in charge a
real hard luck story. was fed up fine
and then given a soft bunk. He has
neen coming quite steadily ever since
Ihe man halls from Cleveland.