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Show PIRATES' HOME IS RAIDED Loot to Value of $3000 Is Recovered and Three Men Arrested New York. March 3. A house which the police say has been the headquarters headquar-ters for a gang of Long Island Sound pirates, waa raided last night at the entrance to Flushing bay. Three mon were arrested Ernest Kraux and his two sons. Max and William. They were locked up, charged with burglary and grand larceny. Suspicion was directed toward tho house several days ago, and as soon as the police were convlncod that the mon wore Inside, the ploe was raided. raid-ed. The three accused men drew revolvers re-volvers whon the police appeared, but a show of force caused them to submit sub-mit to arrest. In the house was almost al-most everything that goes to moke up the outfit of a pirate yacht, from a brass cannon to a rope's end. A rough estimate of the value of the loot is $3,000. Organizations that have reported re-ported losses of property from their boats are the Williamsburg, ' the Knickerbocker, the Bayside and the Manhassat Yacht club. |