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Show UK WKSr TO SM-KPs AndHlirn lie Awoka UN I0 0U IValrli wai )!lilig. Charlea Thlede la a ealoon Vfer and halls from Murray. On .Monday lost ho came to Bait I.aVo wllh one or twoold frlend,ntul Indulged loo freely In liquor. Among hla calling place! wa Ihe Cafe do Louvre, aaaloon and rrtlAUiant on Commercial Htreit, where ho made III nppearanco during thoovenlng. Ft-fllngs1eepy ho ro tiled to oue of theitlvate roouu, or boice, betwceii 8 nnd P o'clock, for tho urpoav of having, ai lie himself told it, "a llllle inooTc." While In was asleep, two young glrll of very iue tlonahlo rvputallou, named IleheccA Hanwii and limlly Anderon,weMseen by one of the waiters Hitting to And fra Ahiug tho iiassnge wlureln U.a boia am located. AnJerwn had a parool In her hand, and. golug up to tho sleeper, while her comiuanloii ro-inalued ro-inalued against the box dour, she began be-gan gently to ake at him with It. Aa lie awoke he stalea that he heard An-dersoii An-dersoii remark to the other girl, In tho HwriUah lenfruage, "I'vo got his watch." At Ihe tame lime sue had hold of tho end of the chain, which was hanging from till vent tucket. Aa Thlede roused, Iho two glrlamnuplheslalrcaso and Into the Blind by tho Kick way. Mr. Thlede followed, calling out to Frlta lUepvu, the proprietor of the tatabllahmrnt, that they ho I stolen hla watch. Hut Ibey managed lo caca. Information was given to Deputy HheillT(!le.-ason, who arrested one of Iho'uccused on Tuesday and Iho other realer day. Anderson At first dented having beeti near Commercial Btreet ou Monday vvenlng, but dually admitted that both alio and Hanson were then In the Cafe do J-uuvre. Hanson staled that Ander eon went Into the box whero Mr. Thlode waa Bleeping and pulled at Iho watch chain, but there waa no watch then attached. ' Thu foregoing facta camo out lu evideuco beforu Commissioner Norrell this morning, upon tho hearing of tho charge preferred agalnat tho girls of stealing the watch which, by tho way, hat not yet boon recovered. When called upon for her statement, Mlsa Anderson aald alio simply went Into tho "hot" and Inked "the stranger" with her parasol, "for fun," telling him to get up, Hho cover saw tho watch; It waa not attached to tho chain when she waa there. Hail-on said thai sho and her com I anion thought they would have aomo ''limit" with tho prosecutor, but they took nothing from him. The defendanta wero aeverely crost. examined by Mr. H. A. Ktuncr (who prosecuted), und asked why they ran away If they had done nothing wrong, they asserted that they wero scared "because tho geutlcn.au was tho worse for Urlnk." They had been In the Cafe do Ijoiivre beforo thla occasion. Commissioner Norrell observed that tho testimony against thedefeudante was such that liu thought, the gland Jury ought to pass Uii It. He required re-quired them to furnish bonds lu thu sum of foiw uach, otherwise to remain In the jieulleiillary pending Ihe grand Jury's action. The accused are good-looklnr; and well-dressed, their agea being rcsx-c lively aliout seventeen and twenty years. There can be no doubt, how. ever. Judging from their manner while In court, thai they are no atrangera to waya that aro dark. |