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Show TWO MORE OF THEM. Ocagen and Casey the Carter Burglars Bur-glars Run in by the Officers Saturday Night. The city police entertained some very serious suspicions, Saturday evening, that the several parties arrested for complicity com-plicity in the Carter burglary were not the actual guilty ones, and to confirm this, officers Adam Paul, Hilton and Bateman planned a little scheme for the capture of the worthies who had secreted the plunder in the D. & R. G. Hotel. Mr. Paul arranged with the proprietor of the house for the occupancy of the room in ' which the stolen goods had been stored, and he at once repaired the lock which had been broken in forcing the door open. This was done in order that the thieves who still retained a key to the apartment might find nothing to arouse suspicion should they return. Late in the evening Mr. Paul went to bed in the same couch which had been used as a receptacle for the plunder, and officers Hilton and Bateman took up a position in the room opposite. About 2 :30 o'clock a rattling sound roused the officers as the parties inserted the key and the next moment they entered in full view of the bed and its apparently slumbering occupant. Mr. Paul waited until they had reached the opposite side of the room from the door, when he raised up in bed and said: "What the devil are you doing in nivroom?" This completely threw the men off the scent as had been desired, and before thev could find time to take in the situation ue piacen mmseit against the door and co erecl the burglars with his gun. One of llwm was so close to him that the officer grasped his arm and as he did so policemen Hilton and Bateman rushed in and took hold of the other one. Mr. Hagney, the proprietor, also arrived at this juncture and he and Mr. Paul remained re-mained with the prisoners while the other officers went in search of the third party, who was on the former occasion seen at the hotel. The search was re-sultless re-sultless and the two captured criminals were taken to-the City Hall and safely lodged in jail. At 10 o'clock this morning James Reagan Rea-gan and Mat Casey, these two worthies, were arraigned before-Judge Pyper and I bound over in $3,000 bonds to await the action of the Grand Jurv. Of course the rjait was not furnished, and they will therefore linger in the city jail pending further action. If was rumored that they had been recognized as two horse thieves from Nebraska, but there was little stock taken in the story. Certain it is that they. ?re hard and desperate looking cases and should be kept securely ironed until their case is disposed of. |