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Postal Inspectors Round Up'Alleged Burners'’ inNew York State,jNEW YORK. Sept 30.—^'—The ! .arrest of eight men heTe and upstate is believed by postal in-, ppectors to have broken up a gang that In eight months has robbed, :Janks and postoffices in New York, ; Massachusetts aDd Pennsylvania,! of more than a million dollars. f | Four of the men were arrested, at the Ccdarhurst Inn, Westand Lake, £.e3r Troy, described by ' postal inspectors at a yeggman’s hangou*.” Three more were ar-i rested here and the eighth was ar- ‘ rested in his home at Delmar. ;Postal Inspector Charles H. 1 Clarahan. who directed the inves- \ | tigation that led to the ar.esi; ■ 'said the eight were inspected of;1 j the theft of a half minion*’ in'stamps in various cities, and also;1 of postofflce aad bank robberies in; i ! three states. |1The men were described by the! Investigators as burners,*' the : ; term being cpplied because of their ; use of acetylene torches to gain entry into banks and postofflcei| safes. 1Those arrested at the inn were , Charles Dean, Frank Nolan, Michael McCambe and Charles Moffltt ;They described themselves as salesmen. They were specifically charged with having burglar tools In thetr possession. The three arrested here were Joseph Blue, Thomas Reilly and Joseph McCar-i thy. The eighth man was Joseph Garibaldi.Postal Inspectors said all have criminal records. The arrests were made yesterday, but not made public until today to prevent leaks.” Reilly, described in a bill of complaint as “Thomas Reilly, alias; -I Thomas Stratton, later was held ■ by U. S. Commissioner Garret W.f, Cotter In $100,000 bail pending pro-j; ceedlngs to remove him to Los An- ; geles, where he was indicted in J July, 1923. for a mail robbery per-., petrated November 3, 1921. iBlue, described in a complaining affidavit «t» “Joseph Cameron, alias ‘ Joseph Blue, alias Kid Norton, alias Joe Collen,” was also held in ' j $100,000 ball, charged with prying; la lock from a mall truck in On-,1 , cinnati, 0., on March 7, 1921. ;
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Findlay Morning Republican
Findlay, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 01, 1926
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