Show CHAPTER mouse house breakers shop lifters robbers the police are arc being bein kept on the qui 11 vive there can call be no doubt bay day after aj day tho the criminal element is on the increase and the tide of lawlessness lawle siness is swelling scarcely a day passes nowadays but what we have ha ve the disagreeable duty of recording si some dine open of lenses against a the law and some infringement ement upon the property or person of citizens today to day our chronicler has to narrate three cases which indicate the insecurity of the residences residence a and persons of the t people after sunset on the night of saturday last im f the residence of W P P st clair clai r agent of the U P R aco R co was ii sited by burglars who effected their felonious entrance through a front window ransacked the promises and escaped through the rear door their plunder cons listing in cash and a gold watch and chain it appears that the same parries panties had paid a similar visit t to the residence of mr badum on ath street where they abstracted a quantity of valuable clothing A portion of this thi s was found early on sunday morning by mr alma gibson on an franklin street near fourth and this eitleman ent leman gave pvc the alarm mr J gentleman t clair notified the police lice authorities who after considerable able search succeeded in capturing two individuals against whom there is said to bo be conclusive evidence they are now flow in limbo awaiting a preliminary bez hearing ring on sunday morning worn in there arria t ail 41 in this city mr C W W peck an ci extensive stockman i from rom gentile valley va ey lie I ae had sold a flock of shee sheep to G Grcen re enwell well son and came h here to deliver I iver the animals and receive his pay pt ty during the day he be was in the company of friends late at night he be was retiring to his lodgings lod I in i n the chamberlain house on fifth F fifth street and was passing by the tho globe hotel I on the corner of that and young streets when he lie felt himself suddenly surprised by a vigorous blow or two skillfully fully and powerfully directed in his face and on his head ho he was stunned and fell unconscious to the ground when he came camie to himself he mt only found himself bleeding from his bruised forehead andrut and cut lip but also robbed of all the money and valuables he had ou hu person about in cash and several checks check s I after groping his way wax for some time in a deml semi u unconscious n conscious condition i bo he was discovered by the police who took charge of him mr peck looked not a little the worse this morning for his night adventure the perpetrator or perpetua orators of the dastardly deed are yet at large but tho the police are making diligent and we hope successful search for their whereabouts where abo ats to give them an opportunity to do penance for their misdeeds and spend bend the winter where the rude blasts b as ts of december storms will not chill their bones an unconfirmed report this forenoon was to the effect that a young man had been knocked down and an despoiled ofa pretty sum jofs andu lies ond evening last week but prefers to keep keen the matter shady until further developments another case of crime against property took place on thursday consisting of shoplifting shop lifting and b burglary it appears that three boys ur boys belon belonging ging to families of this city on the afternoon of the da day mentioned effected effiec ted an entrance through through the rear of the music temple of mn mr H C and while business was being done in the front part of the store they or one of them managed to dodge and skulk around the machines and organs to the safe which was standing open and to abstract furtively over in cash elated by the success of this feat the mouths returned to the scene of action in tho the evening evenin when they depleted the till of what small cash it contained and filled a large sack with french harps and similar small instruments they escaped with their moneta ry mur musical booty aa as unobserved as they had entered and mr ward lei leibli gh in the morning was as wi surprised stion as puzzled in finding the con of things it seems however that the youthful burglars aro are not yet hardened in crime somehow or other their consciences must have smitten them for ere 24 hours had elapsed they made penitent acknowledgment know regretted tho the error of their ways and promised restitution for the stolen goods which they partly made and partly their parents arents guaranteed erst first of odthe the boy burglars mr declined je to further push the matter and we hope ho e the future career of the boys ato who have had their first bitter taste of crimo will justify him in his leniency |