Show S BROOKLYN THIEVES WORK CLEVER SCHEME NEW YORK YORE Aug 1 The I.-The The arrest of three men in Brooklyn at an earl early hour toda today disclosed the fact that the tho Adams Express s company has lost according according ac ac- ac cording to the police lice estimate through a series of trunk robberies in that bor bor- ough ought It is not known whether tho the plot to steal from tho the express com company any also extended to Manhattan and elsewhere The Tha prisoners who aro are in the toils of Brooklyn headquarters described themselves themselves them them- selves as Alfred Wilfort 20 years old a i lather lathor John S S. S Cook 17 Years cars old a apI pI plumbers plumbers' helper and Alfred Moule IS years a a driver These throe three men according to the Brooklyn headquarters aro are suspected of knowl knowledge d e of trunk robberies which total total to to- tal OOOO Three more drivers are bein being be be- in ing searched for b by the police According to detectives tho the Adams Express company has fans been robbed by a dover clover system o 01 of counterfeit checks and ta tags g made by a job printer who was in league with the gang of trunk thieves When a trunk which was as to bo be stolen was given to a driver at somo soma ono one of the express depots in Brooklyn tho the driver would put on the trunk tho the hous bogus bo ho- gus us check and tag He would then doliver do- do liver cr tho the trunk in question at the house of an accomplice |