The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, February 25, 1908, Page 3, Image 3
Wolf Admits Picking Pockets,
Brooklyn Rug Manufacturer, Again Arrested In a Car, Confesses
When Confronted With Records, Pictures and
Measurements From Chicago.
Arrested for the second time within
two months on a charge of picking
??ckets. Louis Wolf, the Brooklyn rug
Manufacturer, with lots of friends and
a good business, confessed that he was
a notorious western criminal. Con
fronted by records, pictures and 3er
tilion measurements from Chicago and
St. Loui3. Wolf said:
'Those records and pictures beat me.
If they hadn't come. I should have
beaten any case against me by appeal
ing to the grand jury, where my repu
tation as a respectable rug manufac
turer aud my word against any one
man would have been taken. There Is
no use of my denying my identity now
that you've got the goods on me."
Wolf's case Is one of the most re
markable in the annals of the Greater
?New York police force.
Two years ago Wolf came to Brook
lyn. He went Into the business of
manufacturing rugs with a partner,
and after a short time for one reason
?r another the partner got out, and he
51.50C bail. He believed that Wolf w*s
a real estate dealer.
Wolf was recently arraigned on the
Hieble charge. The case was post
poned, and he left the courtroom un
der bond. Forty minutes later he was
arrested In Manhattan in the Fourteenth
street subway station. Duncan Mc
Kinley, a real estate dealer. w?.s stand
ing on the uptown express platform of
the subway station. He had been
pushed around a good deal in the
crowd and had come to the conclusion
that one man in particular was doing
the pushing. He was naturally a little
suspicious, as twice during the past
year he has had his pocket picked in a
trolley car.
After awhile he felt some one lifting
up his overcoat and trying to get Into
his hip pocket, in which were two
pocketbooks and a purse. He turned
around quickly and saw Wolf. The
rug merchant tried to get into the
train, but a special policeman came up
in time to get him out and arrest him.
As he had at the time of bis former
A SPECIAL POLICEMAN CAME UP IN TIME TO GET HIM OUT
AND ARREST HIM.
had the business alone. It grew to
some proportions until he occupied a
Ug factory space at 2737 Fulton street.
According to the police, he had seven
teen employees and three trucks to
take care of his business.
In thi section, which Is In the East
?New York part of Brooklyn^ he soon
became a well known and respected
figure. He was generous to his friends
and with this quality did not have any
trouble making them. Everything was
getting along as well as any one
could expect when the first arrest
came. That was on April 15 last year.
Detective Reynolds of Brooklyn ar
rested Wolf and his partner, Wiliain
Wilmer, because he fell a hand in his
pocket while ridit.g on a Ralph avenue
car. The men told him he bad made a
mistake, und Reynolds was not dis
posed to press his complaint, but they
insisted that he take them to the po
lice station. They got bail and went
out with Reynolds. They easily con
vinced him he had made a mistake,
and the next morning he uppeared in
court and asked Magistrate Naumer to
discharge them.
On Dec. 10 last Franz Hieble of
Queens was on a Myrtle avenue car in
Brooklyn when somebody lifted his
pocketbook with $30 iu it. Hieble
poiuted out Wolf, who ran away. They
caught him, but the $50 was not on
him.
Wolfs friends up In East New York
lid uot believe that there was any
foundation to the charge against him.
and he had no trouble in getting bail.
They were bo sure of it that they even
complained to Deputy Police Commis
sioner O'Keefe that Detective Reyn
olds, who made this arrest as well as
the first, was trying to shake Wolf
down.
Meanwhile Hieble. the coinplainaut
against the prisoner, told the police
that he was being urged not to identi
fy Wolf as the man who had picked
his pocket when the case came to trial,
lie said that he was to meet the man
on the elevated station at Broadway
and Park avenue, Brooklyn, and that
the man was going to pay him $75 not
to testify strongly against Wolf. De
tectives were on hand and say that
they saw the money pass. The man
whom they arrested on the charge of
bribery was Euglchardt Hceuc, the
proprietor of a roadhouse at the corner
of Jamaica and Renn avenues In
Brooklyn and one of the wealthiest
Germans in Ei'st New York. He is
awaiting further examination under
arrest, he protested against being held
aud said that he was a respectable rug
manufacturer of Brooklyn. Mr. Mc
Kinley was absolutely sure that h?
was the man whose hand had been hi
his pocket, and he was taken to the
Mercer street station, where he gave
his name as Wolf.
When he was taken to police head
quarters to be "mugged" aud measur
ed. Detective Reynolds was there to
identify him. Wolf made no denial
that he was the man who was under
indictment in Brooklyn. When he was
shown the official records the Chicago
aud St. Louis police had sent on in an
swer to inquiries made by the Brook
lyn police after Wolf's arrest in De
cember he confessed.
The record of the police of St. Louis
shows that Louis Wolf was arrested in
that city on four occasions, as follows:
July, 1902, charged with petty lar
ceny, picking pockets, sentenced to thir
ty days In the workhouse.
March 0, 1003. petty larceny, picking
pockets, sentenced to three months in
the workhouse.
Nov. 11. 11)03, charged with carrying
concealed weapons, sentenced to thir
ty days in the workhouse.
June 8, 1904, charged with larceny
from the person after dark, pleaded
guilty to petty larceny and sentenced
to one year In the workhouse. The
larceny consisted of picking a pocket
on a street car.
His Chicago record shows that he
was arrested on six occasions, as fol
lows:
Nov. 25, 1895, charged with robbery
in holding up a map at 81 George
street and stealing $1.40 and a knife;
property not recovered; the prisoner
was fully identified by the complain
ant, but was uot prosecuted.
Sept. 20. 1898. arrested on a charge
of larceny, steuling $4 from a street
car conductor; sentenced to four
months in the house of correction and
fined $29.05.
April 14. 1900. charged with stealing
a pocketbook containing 90 ceuts from
a woman at n funeral; no disposition
of the case.
April 11. 19m. was caught with his
hand in a pocket of a street car con
ductor and wjis sentenced to four
months in the Louse of correction.
July 13, 1003. charged with snatch
ing a pocketbook from a woman at a
railroad depot and was sentenced t >r
six months to the house of correction.
Aug. 7. 1907. a:tempted to pick the
pocket of :i plain clothes man ou a
street car; no indictment.
Cow Abduots a FrenohmarTs Bride.
Precipitated with other guests dnr-, on its back, for the open country. Thon
began a pell me! 1 chase for the bride.
ir.g wedding festivities through
floor of a barn at Xoveiry, Franco, the
bride fell on to the back of a cow in
the stable below. Before her husband
could rescue her the animal broke its]her greatest grief beii
totV->r nnd stampeded, with the bride | dins- dress was ruined
who was ultimately discovered tramp
lug through the fields on her way bai l:.
She was more frightened than hurt.
that her wed
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