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Show have been confined in the county jail aud serving sentence for petit larceny, gave the laugh to the lock-smith at some hour last evening and took their departure de-parture throngh a window on the third lloor. There upon a small offense, the prisoners were allowed tho ordinary latitude in such cases, and it was while the back of the turnkey was to them that they made a chain'of blankets and dropped themselves into the lap of liberty. lib-erty. They lost no time in putting a gap between them and the sheriff's corps. It would be an economical point for the county if they were never found. Stole the KnadiUr. When John Beck came down from the otliee of tho Bullion-Beck at Q o'clock last evening he found his horse and buggy that usually awaits his clucking pleasure gone. He had always al-ways taken pains to secure the roadster with a good strong manilla rope, and is satisfied thet the horsethief has paid him his respects. The auimal is blind in one eye and bears the brand of J. B. K. on the hip. Kent l"P 'or Vagrancy, John Doe who testified to having been working in one of the suburban brick yards until recently but whose legend was not borne out in the palms of his bands was last evening sent up for thirty days. The fellow was not found in possession of any burglar's tools, explosives or Bafe-blowing implements. imple-ments. He was convicted. THE SAFUIMRS. The Damaging Chain of Circumstances That Hi Been Collected by Sight and Day. WATSON WANT3 TO SQUEAL And Take the Sacrificial Alter in Behalf of Hii Pals Pickings from the Police. The safe blowers about whom Marshal Mar-shal Young and his sleuths have spun such a strong chain of circumstances had their hearing ou the first count that which alleged burglary yesterday afternoon and slipped through a narrow nar-row technical loophole. They have gone through the preliminary skirmish however, and were not, as was announced an-nounced with fiendish exultation by the Suarler that was scooped ou the arrest, ar-rest, discharged. On tie coutrary they were to have been tried this afternoon on the charge of having burglars' tools and A Safe mowing Kit. in their possession, an offense for which the legislature, foreseeing such cases, has provided a maximum penalty of six months in the county jail and a tine of &HKI, all of which, in default of the line, is equivalent to eighteen months confinement. About no culprit has there ever been woven a more damaging dam-aging chain of circumstances, and cir-cunibtancial cir-cunibtancial evidence has swept many a man into a felon's grave. That two unsuccessful attempts were made in a single week to crack as many safes is A Matter of Criminal Ul.tory, J That Watson alias Ransom was an accomplice ac-complice aud a self-convicted cracks-mau cracks-mau is established by the letter found upon James Young upon the night of the hitter's apprehension and arrest with tho tools in his possession. That Holloway was another link in the conspiracy con-spiracy was revealed when in his gripsack grip-sack a complete burglar's outfit was found. The same may be said with reference ref-erence to Grouberg alias George Wilson Wil-son No. 1, while Paul Tullev, alias Georgo ilson No. 2, tipped his nefarious nefar-ious palm when he visited Percy Hollo Hol-lo way's lodgings and Wltb a Pal Demanded of the landlady admission, to Hollo-way's Hollo-way's effects, urging that there were things within it that would send Hollo-way Hollo-way over the road. And yet the Snar-ler's Snar-ler's omniprescent emissary abandons himself to rapturous exultation because he could detect no evidenoe of guilt. Strengthening this damning chain which the officers have put together link by link, and for which they have labored by day and by night, is the perfect per-fect correspondence of the holes in the safe and the drills that were found in the haunts of the prisoners. Every Detail Tallin, and it is doubtful if a stranger case was ever prepared under the direction of Byrne or Piokerton. It is now revealed that J. B. Watson, the author of that letter of which Jim Young the crook was relieved, a copy of which was produced in these col-! umns, is anxious to have the charge of having been found iu possession of burglars tools and to take his mediciile for that offense. The officers are doubtless staggered by this self-sacrificing admission ad-mission but what comfort would tho banker or the merchant derive from the reflection that their vaults were at least I Stcare for a Few Days. Watson is shaky. He wants to assume all the burden and permit his confederate confed-erate to go. To this Mr. Eichnor, who is conducting the prosecution, will hardly allix his consent. Neither will Marshal Young nor Ollieers Jenney and Randolph, who trailed tho nefarious horde through sinister haunts before entrapping them. The Snarler, for the first time in its record of lurid hate, has been forced to profess a sensation of pity that it might carry out its unbroken un-broken record of hate. No one can persuade the public to credit that ih Snarler loves a thief, but it bates the police department. One. to Jail. Dan C. Chapman, whose case wa s taken under advisement by the police court several days ago, has been disposed dis-posed of. Chapman was arrested on complaint of his mother, who cited the stealing of a watch chain and a few dollars in silver. He probably wanted to enforce the collection of tho legacy before it was due. At all events the court, after considering the corpus delict de-lict for several days has adjudged him too husky for the roform school and in lieu thereof has given him ninety days in the county jail. He will go to work but his wages will be paid in jail hash. Through, a Window. John Adler and Frank Myers, vifhr |