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Show THIEF MAKES A DESPERATE DASH Snattks $201 From 3 Tourist's Hand. He Discloses Hiding Place to Escape Prosecution. Prosecu-tion. Culprit Is an Honorably Discharged Soldier, With Good Record in tho Philippines. I WITH $200 In greenbacks snatched from the hand of u tourist,, Fred Copeland. a veteran of tlio Phil ippine war, led a wild chnso through alleys, barnyaids and residences, and was finally captured In tho rear of a stationery store on West Second South street. It was one of tho most exciting lnci-dfnts lnci-dfnts that has occurred in tlio city for weeks, and one of the boldest robberies on record. . J. AV. Kllpatrlclc a member of tho City Council, of Atlantl, Gn.. entered the Itio Grande "Westorn ticket of lice. In tho Dooly blocki nbout C o'clock last night, to transact trans-act some business relating tb his transportation, trans-portation, being en route with an excursion excur-sion to the Pacific coast. v After finishing his business ho sat down in tho window-M.-ul and began to count a handful of bills. Copeland sauntered up beside Mr. Kllpatrlclc Kll-patrlclc and suddenly grabbed tho money. In an instant ho sprang through the West Temple street entrance and lied south. Harry Ciishlng, one of tho clerks at tho ticket ofllce, witnessed the robbery. He cleared the counter at a bound and ran after tho thief. The Chase Begins. Copeland turned Into the alley which runs back of the postofflce. followed Its devious windings, and came out on Picr-pont Picr-pont street. Seeing Cashing at his heels, ho jumped a fence and entered a back yard south of th Smith boarding-house. Running breathlessly in through tho back door of the residence, he hurriedly explained ex-plained that he was looking for a thief who had stolen some, money. Without waiting for permission, hi- looked In sev eral rooms, remarked that the robber was not thorc, and went out tho front ooor and across West Temple street. Mr. dishing had encountered Patrolman Patrol-man Cllve, and the. hitler Joined in tho chase. They paw Copeland como out of the dwelling-house and pursued him across tho street. The fugitive ran through an Italian fruit store on tho cast side ot the street. Cllve. who wui) mounted, mount-ed, knocked down a fonco and rodo to the Interior of tho block. Copeland had run through Tom McCoy's corrnl. Me-Cov, Me-Cov, who was working there at tho time, ma'do a swipe at hlin with a big utable broom, but did not land. How Ho Wns Caught. From tho stable the thief ran out the driveway to Second South, and vanished. Officer Clivo was close on his heels and decided that ho had gonn Into one of the little stores in that vicinity. Assisted by Jacob Greenewald, tho officer began a search of the stores. Mr. Greenewald entered Barrow Uros.' stationery store and noticed a suspicious movement of the curctalns at the rear. Pulling the draperies dra-peries aside, he found Copeland cornered at last. The surveyor of the port dragged his prlsonor to the sidewalk and turned him over to Officers CHvo and Simpson. The tlUcf waH carefully searched, but no cash was found. When Mr. JCUpa! rick called at the police station to ask Copeland about his money the thief refused to tell where It waa, but agreed to go and get It If Kilpalrlck would not prosecute him. Tho Southerner South-erner was obliged to leave with IiIh excursion ex-cursion at 7:20. so lie readily gavo tho required promise. Copeland went with tho officers to the residence on "West Temple where ho had pretended to hunt tho thief. In tho pantry of tho house he opened a tin bucket nnd took out tho missing greenbacks, which he handed to tho owner. Copeland Has a Record. Copeland carries an honorable dlschargo from company I, Thirty-fourth regiment. United Stales volunteers, which shows that he served from August. 1S&0. until April, 1S"J1, In the Philippines, and was appointed corporal. He was with several expeditions and In one or two engagements. engage-ments. The discharge describes his character char-acter as "excellent" and' his ser!cos as "honest and faithful." Ho Is nbout 30 vears of age -and is not a bad-looking young fellow He was a shoelaster when In- entered the army,, but lias been a gambler slnco he left It. Copeland was locked up on tho charge of robberv. Although Mr. Kilpalrlck will not appear against him, Mr. Cushlng witnessed wit-nessed the then and will 1k ready to give testimony If tho case comes to trial, it was undoubtedly Mr. Cushing's quickness quick-ness that resulted In tho enpture of the thief and tho restoration of Mr. Kilpat-rlck's Kilpat-rlck's money. The employees of the ticket ofllce ay that Copeland had been in and out of tho office all day. evldenlly watching for Just such an opportunity as the one of which he availed himself. |
