The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-13
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FH1 ADVENTURES OF COUPLE OF YOU'VE BURGLARS
-FHARFuL, AND PERHAPS YATAL vALL-AN In.
rnHBSTINd CASE OF JUVENILE DnPRAvIfY.
couple Of youthful burglars, named Timothy AcGrash
and Joseph ooarhy met with rather inderent luck on
Sunday afternoon, while attempting 10 carry or pro.
perry from he building 80 Chambers street. Ono Of Thorn
(AcGiah) was nearly killed BY falling through the sky.
igh wbe bis companion met with bat little better luck
for he wH c,pturcd BY The police few hours snsr the
burglary WAS psrpetrsted. the ors In question
cupied by Nor on levitt Buxby, hardware merch ants,
on the nrA and basement floors, while ths upper part Of
The promises rented By AsssYs Rom Balls d, whole
sale desles In clothing Tho boys got upon he Or
me store By climbing through unfinished building next
door, and attempted 70 eject entrance by forcing of
suite. Bat In this they unsuccemful They then,
with the aid Of some old too which they found upon the
roof broke Cd the skyga ana prepared % make the hs
shs cbarces Of falling 70 the basemeut beneath were
decidedly In favor Of The person making the descent
Ing the experiment. Accordingly he lei himself do "a
thFout Tie opening and swnGpg biz body for ward with
sad . ~ q s y me &
been snccessfoly accomplished the fellow the ro,f
handed him TIE Tools and With their aid MCCARTHY
rcmov I'd the obstinate scue and thus made for No
Grath 70 enter The building The clothiug OF
Ross Ballard wereshsn ransscked and the boys picked
ping but on seoosd Thought .hsy pu. on taes oh attire
and packed up the new olsthes n . bundle Hsving
strong dssrs rot into the hardware beneath
atemps msde 70 force Tho door Leading do
stas, but failed. They then resored 70 the kyugh,
sssn and made preparations % descend By m ans Of
upper ofs. Nsoarhy nrss ied the experiment AMI was
susoessfu but bis comrsds vas moi quite 20 fortunate
n %asiss 70; as.c,s SS :o2s y, Is:so. s9s yss
mept beneath distance or thirty fees wnere, tum
bling upon quantity Of hardware article he sut aud
thIcvrg operations 70 stand stu KoOarAy q 10 re-
paired the asisisnos Of bis oonpanion and By da OF
Ss p into sn 70
then carried him 70 tho Of the sore and oudea ored
70 cheer up b. ,prS b: ~. xs. me escape Of the
mp stairs to Ihe roof the door upon the second ory
locked. However, plan devised 10 apo oy
ossasd in forcing open he rosa ooo door 40 on -.
first floor leading 70 ne yard, ami By this means
". enabled 70 convey ne wounded ava, % VIA, Ls
however Aohrtny helped hmsof 70 o,upc OF pistns,
some knives and gold pens which he found ia the o,e
II better oause, Mccarthy carried his wounded
every step OF lhe way dee In Water street, where he
but ~ here their S.d ooI es n.no,d Tss
police discovered she bu gary and In few hours Alter
wards kcCaTsny was locked up In NE rombs, while
The prisoners frankly admitted that they had
the burglary, and related Inc circumstances attending
thsw ut misfortune detailed above. Toe prisoners
both quite Dung. NcGrah II but IL old, while
Mccarthy but TIVE years bi senior. TIE latter talked OF
bis adventure with sppArcn. unconcern, ~ was IN
fore Justice Osborne the Lower Police Court he made
the following statement Ia relation 10 the burglary
ate ndAIt circumstADees -
Ny name Jcseph Nc carhy was born In hi, city,
.a sss ny 80 ,ss s.ys men be
school since little boJ read aud writs
ws Abt at and stos nj ot
nrppe, In Pearl street AL ~orih aooui IS div ded
among and share brought about coli.r;
fourd out and was locsA up 10 the Tomss about hree
wcekn, and faihsr had IS get OF TIE
scvspe; after thai three aud broke
into Mr. woods and stole lo o. copper which took
OF aud sold got % for pAr found out and looked
again; com Mite ms burssry BY dsygb, Sunday,
got INTO the store By breaking Through window;
hept r prison about three weeks, whcu Mr. wod cane 70
and said would tel Al sbou, II he would lei on
owned all sboti and testified Ia souvt sinst he
ohers srres1d by got cut OF hist serape;
acquainted with Megrafh In Madon street, prdig
went into Horton Jcwea Buzbys hard ware and
knives VIII N wanted 81 We laid plsn for
the burgay Friday niEs we played cards and be said
bic would whip him for being out late he
home; with him and slept In cellar; did
Saturday nigh and have NOD been hose since vrdsy;
getting TIE knives yes erfsy took hc0rAth bach
and carries home; 90 of hnIves and
saloon and had stew have been W theatres
good DEAL nsed hrst and meant 10 re, enough
70 20 again; somewes my mother let me sometimes
Mt without her kpogtng ~