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Show CLEVER CAPTURE OF TWO CHICKEN THIEVES Skeleton Key and Robust Club Great Aid lo the Officers. With the co-operation of the Western Poultry company, 129 West .First South street, and through tho versatility of l'a-trolmnn l'a-trolmnn Carl A. Carlson nnd his familiarity familiar-ity with a. skeleton key. the pollco Wednesday night captured two of the gang of chicken thieves and grocery store burglars who have boon exceedingly active, for the last two or threo months. The suspects gave the names of Frank Hutchinson, L'3 years old, and James La-molne. La-molne. 25. Hutchinson says ho Is a common com-mon laborer and Lamoine says be Is a cabinet worker. A large pinntity of stolon stuff was found in their possession. Two mon offered sevornl chickens for snle to tho Western Poultry company at n ridiculously low figure Wednesday aflor-noon, aflor-noon, and the poultry company, instead of buying the fowls, notified the police. Patrolman Pierce tracked Hutchinson to the residence of Bertha Curtis, at Sixth West and Seventh North streets, and Lu-molne Lu-molne to the residence of .lano Curtis, the girl's mother, at Twelfth West and Twelfth North streets. Being refused admission ad-mission to cither house, lie called for help and Detectives Sheets and Burt and Patrolman Pa-trolman Price rushed to his aid In the patrol pa-trol wagon. Upon being denied admittance to the house In which Hutchinson wits in hiding. hid-ing. Detectlvo Sheets became resourceful and Policeman Carlson turned burglar While Sheets engaged the woman in conversation con-versation Carlson got busy with a skeleton skele-ton kev nnd broke into the house. Ho found Hutchinson concealed In a clothes closet on tho second tloor, but tho fugitive fugi-tive refused to go with him unless he produced a warrant for his arrest. The patrolman could not produce a warrant, but be produced something equally as effective ef-fective a robust club and- Hutchinson, like other wise men, changed his mind and went with bis captors peaceably. In a search of the house the officers unearthed an Iron bedstead, believed to have been stolon; twenty bars of soap, stolen, with fifteen chickens, from George Allgood's residence, 3G Glendnle avenue, Sunday night; a wash boiler, stolen, with eJght chickens, from Mrs. .T. Ijltttewood's residence, lln North Tenth West street, the same night; a case of eggs, a flfly-pound flfly-pound can of lard and a quantity of canned goods that dlsapjvearcd from Ben-nott's Ben-nott's grocery store at Eighth ISast and Klghlb South" streets, July S. No trouble was experienced In the capture cap-ture of Lamoine. Hutchinson, It appears, bus been living with tho Curtis girl, who says that sho owns tho house hi which he was caught. The police are searching for a third member of tho gnng. |
