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- . Charles Parents: Father (Unnamed) born New York, & mother (unnamed) born New Hampshire. Ref: 1900 Census Ann Arbor, Mi.
. Andrew Oliver, proprietor of the Turkish Bath House, Saginaw City came to Saginaw in 1878 & took charge of the bath rooms which had been established by Chas. G. Carrao. His baths are very curative in their nature & have proven better than any medicine in hundred of cases. Chronic disease are speedily cured at his bathrooms. This bath consists of 2 epicardium rooms & 1 manipulating room, besides a large cistern or vat for plunge bath.
Ref: History of Saginaw County, Michigan, M A Leeson.
Jackson Citizen Patriot Newspaper, Michigan:
. 1884 Jun 1 - Charles Carrao is ill.
. 1892 Feb 6 - The S S Society held a social at the home of C L Carrao, 612 Francis St. last evening. Cards & games were features of the evening. A pleasing lunch was also served.
. 1892 Jun 16 - Central City Brevities: The KOTM banquet ...Mr. CC Managed the affair, assisted by various members of the order, to who the credit is due for the success of the banquet & celebration.
. 1893 May 5 - A suit in chancery has been commenced by Charles L Carrao VS. Freeman W Wilcox, growing out of the sale of the Model restaurant. The complainant asks for an injunction restraining the defendant from disposing of certain property.
. 1884 Jun 1 - Charles Carrao is ill.
. 1894 Feb 5 - Accused of Till Tapping. Wm. Shirley, an ex-Convict, again in Trouble. Shirley was discharged last July & Secured board with the family of Joseph Scott. One ay when the family were absent he stole a quantity of potatoes from the cellar, brought them up town & sold them. He was sentenced to 45 days. Early Sunday morning he entered the restaurant of Charles Carrao, on N. Mechanic Street. He hung about the place for some time. Finally it was discovered the cigar box containing change was empty, was a quantity of cigarettes & cigars were mission.
Shirley it was suspicioned, for early in the evening he was given a 'hand out' for a nickel, but later he appeared to have plenty of money. He was subsequently arrested & jailed & will have a hearing Tuesday probably, as Mr. Carrao, the complaining witness, was called to Detroit on business today.
. 1894 Sep 29 - Grand Opening Tonight. Bartholomew & Carrao have taken possession of the store 116 E. Main St. & fitted it up as a first class restaurant & sample room. They invite their friends to an elegant free supper this evening. Come & enjoy yourselves & bring your friends with you.
. 1894 Dec 18 - At the new European restaurant, 116 e Main St. Messrs. Bartholomew & Carrao serve free oyster soup with every drink. Also free clam coder Saturday night.
Ref: Jackson Citizen Patriot Newspaper.
. 1896 Jan 18 - Society Notes. Last evening a pan cake social & dancing party was given at the Maccabee hall by Maple Leaf camp Modern Woodmen of American. Over 100 couples. Pancakes were served under the able supervision of Charles L. Carrao.
. 1896 Jun 2 - The last regular meeting of the Haven Chantauqua was held at the home of Mrs. Ransom Ford, last evening. Supper will be served at 7 o'clock under the supervision of Charles Carrao, to be followed by music, toasts & a pleasing comedy.
. 1896 Jun 6 - Chautauqua Workers, Annum symposium of the Haven Circle ...held at the home of Miss Emma Barrett, last evening, the house was gaily decorated with flags & bunting while sweet scented flowers scattered their fragrance everywhere. Supper was served at 7:30 under the able supervision of Charles Carrao, of the Portland cafe. The tables were decorated with roses & other cut flowers. At each plate was a pretty rose & a dainty souvenir of the occasion. 50 were seated at the tables.
. 1896 Aug 11, Tues. - Charles Carrao is at Ann Arbor.
Ref: Jackson citizen Patriot.
. 1897 Sep 14 Charles Carrao, who conducts a hotel at Clark's lake, was today apprehended by Dep. Sheriff Frank Harrington on a charge of welling liquor with a license. The accused was arraigned before Justice Wood who set the examination for Friday.
. 1898 Jun 27 - Charles L. Carrao has leased the Riverside Hotel at St. Clair Flats.
. 1898 Jul 26 - Port Huron - 6 liquor dealers waived examination in the Polce Court today for violating the liquor law & will have a trail in the Circuit court. 3 were resort proprietors at the St. Clair Flats, Joe Before, Gus Strantz & Charles Carrao, who who are shared twitch selling liquor without having paid the state tax.
Ref: Detroit Free Press,pub. 1898.7.27.
. 1899 - Ann Arbor Restaurants: Carrao, Charles, 120 E Huron. Ref: Mich. Co. Histories & Atlases.
. 1901 Feb 11 - Charles Carrao has returned to Ann Arbor.
. Police & Criminal: Charles Carrao, who conducts a hotel at Clarke's lake, was today apprehended by Deputy Sheriff Frank Harrington, on a charge of selling liquor without a license. The accused was arraigned before Justice Wood, who set the examination for Friday.
. 1903 Nov 30 - Ann Arbor, Mich. Nov 30. - the Rachel Lewis Dramatic Co. is stranded here & the members of the troupe are sending home to "papa' for money to get out of town. Manager Davis, who left for Kalamazoo in the company's car Friday night, has not been heard from & the actors were unable to give a performance Saturday. Charles Carrao at whose hotel the troupe has been staying, has gotten out an attachment on what stuff the actors have in their possession.
Ref: Saginaw News.
. 1903 Ann Arbor City Directory - Chas L Carrao, (Rebecca) Saloons, 204 4th Ave. North, res. 415 Main S.
. 1904 Ann Arbor City Directory - Charles L Corrao (Rebecca), Proprietor Charlie's Hotel, 209-211 4th Ave. North, Tel 607.
. 1905 Ann Arbor City Directory - Corrao, Charles L (Rebeca) removed to Jackson.
. SCHEMES TO DEFRAUD. Two Men Held For the Action of the Federal Authorities.
Baltimore, June 3 Charles Carrao, alias "Flandls, alias "Harper & F. Q Harris, alias Edwards, charged with devising schemes to defraud & using the malls for the purpose of defraud ing the public, were held by Commissioner Rogers for the action of the federal authorities In Ohio. Most of the alleged swindling in which the men are said to have been engaged took place in Cleveland, O. They were arrested in Baltimore on May 13.
Ref: The Evening Bulletin Newspaper, Marysville, Kentucky, published 6.3.1904.
. 1904 Jun 29 - POPULAR IDOL CAUGHT After Breaking Scores of Hearts Gay C. H. Carleton Is Arrested by Sleuths. Carleton was a great favorite with impressionable & unsophisticated young women wherever he went. At Mont Rio, It is said, he mowed down the girls by the Cozen. The prisoner declined to speak of the charges against him & threatened to fight the removal proceedings, which will be begun in the Federal courts within a few days. His ball was fixed by US Commissioner Manley at $2000, In default of which Carleton was lodged in the City Prison. He said he had $1500 with him. but that $2000 was beyond his reach. The name under which the prisoner & his confederates operated was "C. C. Lawrence & Co.. bankers & brokers, Schofied building, Cleveland, Ohio." Connected with him were Charles Carrao, alias C. A. Flanders & George Harris, alias G. G. Edwards. These two fled, but were arrested by postoffice inspectors in Baltimore, Md. & placed In jail at Cleveland, Ohio. The complaint charges the prisoners with having secured from 5 or 6 victims $7500 through false & fraudulent representations made through the mails. Two weeks ago Inspector O'Connell trailed Carleton from Kansas City to Los Angeles. Before O'Connell reached that city Carleton had come to San Francisco & roomed on Post street. Then he went to Duncan Mills & later to Mont Rio, where there are hearts that bleed with chagrin & disappointment.
Fashionable people at Mont Rio camping: grounds on the Sonoma coast were shocked & grieved when Post office Inspector James O'Connell I & Deputy United States Marshal R. de a Lancie arrived last Monday night & took Into their rude hands the Idol of the camp, handsome C. H. Carleton, alias C. C.' Lawrence, alias Elmer R. Chase, alias Joseph B. Kaufman. The glided youth with many aliases Is wanted by the Federal authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, for using the mails for the purpose of defrauding the gullible portion of the public with a fraudulent banking & brokerage scheme.
Ref: The San Francisco Call Newspaper.
1917Aug 30, Thus. CARRAO TELLS NAMES OF 4 IN PAYROLL CRIME, Speedy Capture of Bandits Promised by the Police. admissions made by Charles Carrao, when questioned by Chief of Detectives Mooney & M F Sullivan, acting state's attorney, are expected to result in the speedy capture of the bandits who shot & killed Barton Allen & Louis Osenberg in the $7,722 pay roll robbery at Windslow Bros. plant.
Carro, who has been identified as the leader of the robbery quintet, was reported to have made a full confession in the state's attorney office & to ave named 4 accomplices, all of whom, it is said are Italians. Carro was identified by Kit Lewis, the third money guard, who saves his life by dropping his revolver & throwing up his hands at the command of the bandits.
"Carrao is the man who killed Allen with a load of buckshot fired from a sawed off shorten & caught up the bag of many as it dropped from his hands. He picked up my revolver & carried it off", said Davis.
A dramatic scene occurred in the state attorney's office at midnight when Carrao was proved a bigamist & was renounced by his second wife, Elsie Griepke, 215 W Chicago ave, in those home he was captured. She drew from her handbag a marriage license which showed she & Carrao had been married in Hammond, Ind. Sept 16 last. When told that Carrao had a wife & 3 children when he eloped with her she burst into tears. He has deceived me but I do not believe him a murder. Give me the proof that he committed this crime & I a through with him forever" she said. She was led in to where Carrao sat. He smiled at her. She stood cold eyes. Kit Lewis was ushered in and repeat I saw that man killed Allen. You murdered shrieked Miss Griepke. I never want to see you again. You betrayed me & I might have forgiven you, but now, never" And she stalked from the room.
Wm. Gilmartin identified Carro as the mane saw standing by the bandit car a few minutes before the double murder. A third link in the chain of evidence fastened about Carrao was the identification of the revolver discovered in his automobile when the machine was fund in a westside garage by the police. It was the same gun with a permit that has been issued to the Brinks Chicago City Express Co. Carrao is notorious on the west side levee. He has been arrested several times n charges of pandering & larceny.
. 1917 Aug 29 - ARRESTS MADE IN 1 CHICAGO ROBBERY. Six men & a woman are in custody today suspected of complicity in the robbery & murder yesterday of Barton O. Allen & Louis C. Osenberg, messengers for Brink's Chicago City Express Company as they were about to deliver the weekly payroll of $9,100 at the plant of the Winslow Foundry Co., on the West Side. The robbers opened fire as the messengers approached the foundry gate, took the money & fled In an automobile. Acting upon information obtained from an anonymous telephone call, which identified the automobile used by the robbers, the police last night arrested Charles Carrao. president of the Chicago Street Cleaners Union. Later 5 other men were arrested after a fight In a saloon & are being held for investigation. A woman, the companion of Carrao, Is also being held.
Ref: Virginia Chronicle Newspaper, Roanoke, VA.
. 1917 Aug 31- SPECTACULAR FIGHT WITH EX-CONVICT
Man thought to be payroll robber taken at Chicago - Others are under arrest - over $1,000 in gold found in barricaded House, 500 police held off for 2 Hours:
Chicago, Ill., Aug 31 - with 3 of the said to have been implicated in the pay roll robbery at the Winslow Bothers' plant here Tuesday, when 2 express messengers were killed, under arrest, police said today that they know the names of the remaining 2 men & expect to have them in custody by night.
The arrest late yesterday of Edward Wheed, ex-convict & counterfeiter, clears up the matter materially, they said. Wheed was arrested after a spectacular battle in which he opposed, singlehanded, nearly 500 policemen for 2 hrs, finally surrendering when he ran out of ammunition. Three policemen were wounded in the exchange of hundreds of shots. After the arrest Wheed, $1,010. in gold was found in the house were he made his stand. Several hundred dollars is also said to have been found wrapped around his legs. Wheed said that the money had been handed to him by an ex-convict who asked him to keep it for him for a few days.
In the search for the bandits, the police have arrested more than 50 men, many of who they say, have criminal records, Three of these, Wheed, Charles Carrao & Anthony Cosotino, are charged with murder in connection with the death of the two messengers.
. Armed men barricaded in a house at 2633 Thomas St. with 500 policeman, who closed in on them. Hundreds of shots were exchanged. The first volley brought down 3 detectives of the North avenue station. After 3 hours' of battle, one of the robbers was captured shortly before 5 o'clock. Edward Wheed darted out of the cottage & tried to run the gauntlet of the police which were thrown about the building. He didn't have a chance & was caught after he had run a few yards. ... 2,000 cartridges hidden by the gang. The dept. crack shots were posted to concentrate on the task of nipping the barricaded men.
Ref: Daily Telegram Newspaper. Abbreviated version in Saginaw News & in the Flint Journal.
. 1917 Aug 31 - Chicago, Aug 31. The Chicago police today began the greatest offensive against organized crime in history of the City. Ed. Wheed, ex-convict in the $8,100 holdup at Winslow Bros. factory when 2 employees ere murdered. More than 50 men & a dozen women already have been arrested in the crime drive. Many of these are said to be wanted for "jobs' executed years ago.
Three are in total, Wheed arrest is said to account for 3 of the 5 bandits who escaped with the payroll. Wheed is alleged to have identified by Kit Lewis, who accompanied Allen & Osenburg (security guards). Others identified by Lewis are Charles Carrao, alleged owner of the bandits' automobile & Anthony Cosetino (said by police to have been liberated from an Indiana prison a week ago). The later is said to have some of the loot in his possession. Part of the Winslow payroll was recovered in Wheed's home.
Ref: Grand Rapids Press & Flint Journal.
. 1917 Sep 2, Photograph, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune: small profile photo taken at a table in the court room. Dark short haired man in a suit, tie, & tall hat, large dark eyes.
. Hold Seven Persons as Robber suspects, Chicago police make round up of 6 men & one woman.
Aug 29, Chicago. Six men & a woman are in custody today suspected of complicity in robbery & Murder of All & Osenber Brink's messengers. ... Acting upon information obtained from an anonymous telephone call which identified the automobile used by the robbers, the police last nigh arrested, Charles Carrao, president of the Chicago St. cleaners' Union. Later 5 other men were arrested after a right in a saloon. A woman, the companion of Carrao, is also being held. Ref: Ohio Repository Newspaper, 1917 Aug 29.
. 1917 Aug 28, Chicago, - Charles Carrao, was arrested tonight. The police seized Carrao's automobile. Anaconda Standard, 1917 Aug 19.
. 1917 Sep 1. Ed. When who stood off 250 policeman for 2 hours in his mother's home Thursday, calmly confessed today that he led the gang of auto bandits who robbed Winslow Brothers Co. The confession, according to the police, involved CHARLIE, THE CADET, Carro named Guy Ascuito & another man as occupants of the murder car. In the face of Wheed's statements, Carrao stubbornly denied his guilt through a long night of examination. Weed said: Talk, Sure I will. what not? I was in that job, all right. that guinea was in it too, he added, pointing to the next room where Carrao was held. He'll swing for it just the same as I will.
Just as soon as Hoyne is ready, I'll tell him everything I know. They've got the goods on us anyway. The guinea, Carrao, can deny it if he wants. I can prove that he was in the job. Chief Detective Mooney announced: My men say Carrao is not confessed yet & he never will.
When Carrao heard of Weed's confession, he said: Why, Wheed must crazy. That is all wrong. You Can't get me to talk anyway. Go as far as you like with your court case. You've got it on me, I guess, but I'm not going to squeal.
Ref: Rockford Republic Newspaper, Illinois.
. 1917 Sep 1 - Aug 31, Chicago - Chicago Bandit tells of plot to blow up chief Mooney. With 3 of the men implicated in the robbery, police known the names of the remaining 2 men. Three policemen were also wounded. One of the 3 prisoners is said to have admitted to the police that they had planned to lure Chief of Detectives Mooney to some lonely spot by a pretended robbery & then blow him to pieces with a bomb. This was to have been done in revenge for the arrest of Charles Carrao, the first suspect taken.
. 1917 Oct 2 - Murderer to Plead Guilty. Edward "Ammunition" Wheed indicted on 2 charges of murder in connection with the Winslow Brothers payroll robbery has announced to Judge Sabath when he appeared to have his case set for hearing, that he would plead guilty. Wheed it was declared, says he expects clemency through his plea of guilty but assistants in the the office of State's Attorney Clydne asserted today that the death penalty will be demanded. Charles Carrao & Walter Therein, indicted with Wheed, announced they would plead not guilty.
Ref: Illinois Republic News.
1917 Sep 10 -7 Bomb outrages laid, Witness knifed, the Asciuto was connected definitely by police with 7 dynamite bomb explosions which have wrecked buildings in Chicago in rent labor troubles. Charles Carro is alleged to have been concerned in at least one of these outrages. Police believe when the full truth is known these 2 men will be found to have figured in a number of other bomb explosions which have caused a property loss of thousands of dollars, injured & endanger many persons in the last few months: 4 barber shops & Carrao is asserted positively by police in the explosion at Jacob von Heuben's home on 1537 Glenlake Ave. July 12th. Von Heuben is the proprietor of the Great Northern hotel barber shop. Asciuto has been business agent of Barbers' union. Ca . rrao also has been connected with this organization. Carrao formerly owned barber shop in Halstead street, which he sold to Asciuto. The bomb explosions were incidents of the war waged by the union barbers upon ships which refused to employ non labor only.
Ref: Chicago Tribune Newspaper, Illinois.
. 1917 Dec 7 - Thee holdup men are out of the way for some time. Chicago, Dec 6. - Ed. Wheed, a series of vicious holdups, murder, punishment was fixed at hanging [When Wheed was being led to his cell after the jury had returned its verdict, he attacked a guard in desperate attempt to escape, but was overpowered]. Charles Carrao, was convicted of manslaughter with an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary, Walter Therien, murder, sentence to life imprisonment.
Ref: Anaconda Standard, Montana & Rockford Morning Star, Illinois.
. 1924 Dec 28 - Charles Carro was sentenced 6 years in the payroll robbery.
Ref: Chicago Tribune Newspaper. - - -
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