The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-12
CITY CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Daring Thieves-Arrcsted ON Suspicion |
owner Wauted-A MurderOus Assault |
"A PickpOcket-A Dishonest Fellow.

owner Wauted-A MurderOus Assault
"A PickpOcket-A Dishonest Fellow.
Yesterday morning at about hslfpast 8
O'Clock, two fellows stepped up to the carriage
of Dr. BournOnville, which was standing om
Sixth street, below Green, ald removed
package OF surgical instruments and horse
blanket They then started up Sixth to Green,
when they We're noticed by Policeman Stein
bach, who gave chase and captured them. The
articles were recovered. The thieves were
taken before Alderman Plankinton who held
them III $500 bail so answer at court. Their
names are Charles Bremen and George Reilley.
Mary Nofben was arrested yesterday az
Fourth anu Poplar streets with quantity of
butter ia her possession, which she is suspected
OF having stoien' The cause OF the suspicion
was the fact that she was Offering the article
for sale at very low price. After a hear
ing before Alderman Iolend she was COM
mitieu.
Francis Conway this morning jumped from
a cart aJ Third and Market streets. He had
with him an immense bag, which on being
opened revealed set of harness. The man
and the harness were taken 10 Jhe Uherry street
Station, the former for a hearing and the latter
TO await identification,
~Jol MucklOw anu man named duntle-,
got into row yesterday afternoon IN q Ia ,ern
on Juniper street which ended by NJ ,ctIovI
receiving very dangerous wound IN the head,
alleged TO have been inflicted Will hammer
by Huntey. He was taken tMto custody, and
he'd by Alderman Jones 10 await the result of
the injuries. Mucklow was removed to his
residence, No, ll22 South Fifteenth street.
Alderman Jones yesterday held William
Jones for trial on the charge of stealing horse
| from one Charles Davis, who resides at Tully-
"A negro was taken into custody this morn.
! ing, charged with picking the pocket OF a lady
! Of a portemonnaie containing $780, The robbery
! took place in the South Second street market.
Yesterday afternoon a cOuntryman was
! bringing to town TWO immense porRers and
! twenty bushels of potatoes, which had been
! ordered by two gentlemen in the city. He had
! lost the direction given him by the gentlemen,
| and on arriving at Frankfort road and Hart
| lane he accosted one Peter McKeeVer who said
he knew where the people lived. Getting in
The vehicle, IL was driven 10 York street, where
| the countryman got out and went into drug
| store. While there Peter took the reins and
| drove OIL While turning q corner few
| squares distant the wagon broke down. Peter
then disposed of the contents of the vehicle,
and was receiving the moaey for the articles,
when policemen stepped up and arrested
him. Alderman Helms sent him below for trial
MORTALITY OF THE CITY.-The number of
deaths in the city for the week ending at noon
to-day was 256, being an increase of IS over the
corresponding period of last year. OF these ll9
were adults 1877 minors; 20l were born in the
United States, 40 were foreign, were un-
known, 10 were people OF color, and from the
country; ll3 were males, l43 females: boys, 57
and girls, 49, OF the number, s died of conges-
ton of the brain, SO consumption of the lungs
13 commissions, dysentery, 4 diarrhea, is in
fammation of the lungs, and marasmus.
The deaths were divided among the wards as
follows
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