Show PICKPOCKET IS CAUGHT IN ACT Pair of Dips Operate in Plain PlainView PlainView PlainView View of Two Detec Detectives Detectives tives fives STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY J C WARD OVERPOWERED OVERPOWER D AND TAKEN TO HEADQUARTERS Emboldened by success the pickpockets who have infested the city for several days past took up a stand at the corner of First South and Main streets yester yesterday yesterday day afternoon and commenced an an active campaign against the purses of ot visitors to the state fair who had assembled at the lorner corner to get cars out to the fair grounds Their very boldness was their undoing Two of the thieves were overtaken red handed hande i One was safely landed in the city Jail but the other after a desperate struggle made his escape i Early in the afternoon Benjamin Hy Hymas Hymas i mas of at Treasureton Ida went to pollee police headquarters he and reported that his pock pocket et had been picked of ot a purse contain containing containIng containing I ing 40 He said that he had been waiting I for a car when a man rushed against i him as though excitedly striving to board I one of the cars Hymas did not feel the tho mans hand in his pocket but a moment discovered that his purse and money mane were gone Caught in The Act that the pickpockets might still linger at the busy corner of First South and Main dain streets Detectives Wheeling and Howell hurried to that point They stood at the corner for a moment surveying the crowd All at once two young men walked briskly from the curb and roughly Jos Jostled jostled I tied Simon F Beck who with his wife was waiting for a car The detectives say sa they saw sa one of the men put his hand into Mr Becks pocket and draw out what appeared to be a purse The detectives sprang upon up n the men Both struggled led fiercely to escape Detec Detective Detective Detective tive Howell knowing that the man held by Detective Wheeling was the man who had the purse released his captive until prisoner was reduced to submission In the tho moment during which the attention of the detec detectives detectives tives was centered upon the more important important tant taut of the cutpurses the second man mart mingling with the crowd disappeared One Purse Identified The captive when taken to the city i jail gave the name of J C Ward He Be had two purses one containing and the other 1775 Other articles were found in his pockets including a soft hat and a cap which the police pollee believe he used as disguises changing his headgear from time to time during the day so that the descriptions of his victims would be of little use In tracking him Most persons in giving a description of a man manhave manhave manhave have a clearer remembrance of his hat than any other portion of his attire Mr Beck who lives at Spring City but butis butIs butIs I is stopping at the Independence hotel called at police pollee headquarters later In the afternoon and described one of the purses found upon Ward rard as his property The police pollee believe bellee that they have made madean an important capture Other cities will willbe willbe willbe be communicated with to determine whether Ward has a police record in any other place |