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Show ATT IMPORTANT CAPTURE. . ;, I While Utah ha-s enrju-d some xlm notoriety during tho Wt .few.weekK-by .few.weekK-by the capture of Bonder, the atrocious atroc-ious murderer, Colorado got somewhat some-what envious and set to work to mil-, distance us if P'-lo, and Mat enterprising Territory has been, wc ,ro ploascd to acknowledge, decidedly successful. Thedctcetivesthp.ro havo not captured ft murderer; but they have got hold of a thief who six years ngo stole half a million dollars, which ut the present scarcity of money, and the small price paid for cutting threats and cracking skulls in big cities, is equal to a yrcut many murders. We congratulate Colorado. The eld thief, with four others, committed the robbery at Petroleum Centre, in Venango county, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, in SGS, and has bn filed the best detective skill in tho United States over since, and finally got captured, cap-tured, last Sunday evening at Denver, through the aid of Mrs. Gus Potter, a good lady of a restaurant in. that city. Bennehoff, the wealthy man who was robbed, was with hu family at supper ono evening when "Jim" Sae-gcr Sae-gcr and four others entered his houso and demanded the key of his safe. Unable to resist tho argument of pistols, the key was handed over and tho half million was taken. The money was put in a place of concealment, conceal-ment, and was to rest thre two days; but Sacger's cupidity spurred him onward on-ward ahead of time, and ho secured se-cured tho whole of it and left his "pals" to get along the best way they could. Two ol them wcro arrested, tried and sentenced to five and seven years in the Suite's prison; the third and fourth were never captured and the fifth, and fortunate thief of the band, has now been reached. Saeger has been traveling under the cit(.v of Thomas L. Mngeo as a cattle dealer in Texas for the last tbree years, where he thought he was safe from detection. The fir.it three years after the robbery he was on the wing, visiting in his rambles Mexico, Cuba and the Southern States, and was frequently within reach of tho detectives but he always managed to escape. Last Thursday niht he entered the Totter restaurant and asked for oysters and the voice attracted at-tracted the attention of Mrs. Potter. Alter a sood prying look at tho stranger, Mrs. P. saluted Uta" as Sacgcrand enquired afterhis health. The robber by this unlocked for recognition, rec-ognition, and that too of a woman who was no detective, tbr. w h,iri oil his guard and he answered to his name and became familiar. Th; landlord Gus. Potter had an old "grudge" against Sat-gcr lor Pome wrong that the latter had done to one of his relatives,iiany years bt'fore,and he immediately gave information of the robber's whereaUaits to Detective Cook, chief of the Itucky Mountain Detective Association, which led, ' ae before stilted, to liU arrest on Sunday evening, through the wiles ol professed profes-sed friendship on the part of Potter and a good deal of whisky. ' Haegerhas confessed unreservedly and tells his dory liko one tired of being hunted. Me is rich in cattle; numbers tbein by the oO.OOO or moro but lie will not tell where ho has his money. He claims that he always intended to repay Beunehotf when he had doubled the amount; but he had had aome bad streaks of luck, and eo deferred the settlement. Bennehoff Ben-nehoff being still a wealthy man offered of-fered 100,000 for the apprehension of Sacgcr.eo Mr. D. J. Cook, who arrested ar-rested him, will pocket that nico little sum. Mrs. Gus. Potter will, doubtless, doubt-less, be "remembered" when the greenbacks are counted out. |