[Wanted Poster] Headquarters of the Police Department Boston, Mass, U.S.A. WANTED FOR BREAKING, ENTERING AND LARCENY Harris Rothstein alias "Kovak the Smith"; Jacob Goldberg alias "Itschsky"; Joseph Goldberg alias "Joe the Red"

Edité par Boston Police Department, Boston, Massechusetts, 1910

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Single Sheet, printed on one side only. 40 x 21 cm. (16 x 8.5 inches). In acid free Mylar envelope . . . ?In February 27, 1910, the jewelry store of Samuel E. Ullian of this city was entered, a hole cut in the back of the safe. . . watches, diamond rings, etc., value at $15,000 were stolen. These men are expert safe burglars and generally operate in retail jewelry stores. They may be found in Jewish restaurants and gambling houses or associated with Jewish peddlers. . . They were arrested in New York City for this department, gave bail there, and when the case was called for hearing they defaulted.". . . The August 14, 1911 issue of the New York Times has an update on this saga: "ROTHSTEIN BROUGHT BACK. Had Jumped His $5,000 Bail and Was Found in Trieste Prison. Harris Rothstein, a safe-cracker, wanted in Boston, who jumped his bail a year ago and fled to Europe, is one of the passengers on the Russian-American Line steamship Kursk, which will dock at her pier at the loot [sic] of Thirty-first Street to-day. . . Rothstein will walk down the gangplank handcuffed to Inspector Thomas H. Lynch of Boston, who went to Austria for him several months ago when it was discovered that he was in a prison in Trieste. He will be taken to Boston immediately for trial. . . In March 1910 Rothstein, together with Jacob and Joseph was. . . arrested after a club and pistol fight . . . Magistrate Barlow, who held them in $10,000 bail each . . . several days later. . . Barlow cut their bail in half. . . : They posted bail, disappeared and property pledged for the $15,000 bail yield $139.? NY Times 27 Nov. 2912 page 8: "INVOLVES POLICE IN THIEVES' ESCAPE. Affidavit of convict regarding jewel robbery presented to Curran Commission. The property pledged [as bail] yielded only $139." According to the N.Y. Times, D.A. Whiteman charged Magistrate Judge Barlow but the Appellate Division dismissed this. At one point, according to the NY Times, it was thought that Rothstein died in a fire in Houndsditch, London, England at the site of a murder. It seems that both the police and the judge, who took expensive vacations, were on the take. And one of the cops got a months' long trip to Europe on a steamship to bring back one of the burglars. I did not research tis further to determine whether there was another months? long trip to Europe to bring back the Goldbergs who were in prison awaiting extradition. Based on the NY Times articles and testimonies it quotes, it appears that the burglars were actually led by the police to specific targets and paid the police a portion of the spoils. Does this affair have the making of a movie?

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• Titre: [Wanted Poster] Headquarters of the Police Department Boston, Mass, U.S.A. WANTED FOR BREAKING, ENTERING AND LARCENY Harris Rothstein alias "Kovak the Smith"; Jacob Goldberg alias "Itschsky"; Joseph Goldberg alias "Joe the Red"
• Éditeur: Boston Police Department, Boston, Massechusetts
• Date de parution: 1910
• Reliure: No Binding
• État de l'article: Very Good