The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-30
LIGHT AT LAST.

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| as to time remain yet involved in mystery-the
| house No. 1G0S North Eleventh street was en-
| tered and robbed of goods to the amount of $500
| in value. In casting about for the partiers who
might have engaged in this depreciation, the
suspicious of the Twelfth district police settled
upon the denizens of a building at the corner of
| Girard avenue and Sartain street, between
| Eleventh and Twelfth streets, kept by one Kate
| Allen. This house, it is said by those who live
in its vicinity, is far from enjoying fair
| repute, and events which have just come
| to light confirm the bad impression
| in the public mind regarding it. Sergeant y.
| G. Schuler procured q search warrant, and with
! posse of officers of the Twelfth district force
| yesterday searched Miss @ Aliens house, and,
| much to her chagrn and to the terror of her
boarders, found basis for his suspicious in the
! presence of twenty-four boxes of cigars and
box of Monitor chewing tobacco, which had
| recently been distracted from the premises of a
| Mr.. Sharp. and concealed III a chamber of Miss
| Aliens residence. The officers, notwithstand-
| ing the anguish of the young ladies that their
| innocence should be impeached and the iudig-
| nation of the young gentlemen, took promptly
! into custody Misses Kate Allen, Kate Moresle,
| and Mary Winters, and Messrs James A. Hes
| son, Henry Smith, Edward Leddy, aud Anthony
! Winters, and placed them behind the bars of
| the station-h house cells.
| The prisoners having been locked up, the
Sergeant and his coadjators retraced their steps,
and careful scrutiny of the then tenantess
dwelling discovered in the kitchen one burglars
! brace, one bit, aud two immies that had appa-
! rentlv seen good service, and in a chamber in
! the third story found one small piece of cloth,
! one elegant dress pattern, one box of ruilling
! for shirts two silver shirt studs, eleven rolls
chewing tobacco, and one empty cigar box that
! had been stolen (when filled) from the store of
| William II. Kaeler, at Thirteenth and Cass
streets, on the 21st of January.
Kate Moreste, who has the alias of Kate Will
! liams is well known-perhaps not SO well in
criminal in the theatrical annals of Phila-
! delphia. She has at various times, ever since
the development of the spectacular shows that
| have been put upon the Philadelphia stage,
! been engaged in the capacity of f3urdnte or
| COryphee, or 0dnSeuSe. She, however, like
many others, descended the scale until she be-
came one of the dancers of the cdn-can in
| low saloon on Chesnut street, beneath, almost,
the very nose of his Honor the Mayor, and
| where, ever since its establishment, she has
| been dancing.
Miss Moreste has the reputation of being also
| a shop-lifter; for when she arrested on
| Saturday night week she chased into yard
by an officer, when it was discovered that she
had thrown away a roll of black cloth, and also
capacious lift pocket, big enough, as the
officer said, "to hold three bushels of potatoes"
| A Gift pocket is one that a female thief
attaches to the under side of a skirt, where she
| may conceal what she has stolen. In addition to
| the charge now preferred against Miss Moreste,
| there is another wherein she is alleged to have
| stolen one skirt, one piece of black cloth, aud
| one piece of blue navy cloth. On this she is
| held in $500 bail.
| The prisoners were brought down to the Central
| Station this morning, and will have a hearing
| this afternoon.
| REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.-OnF Friday after
| noon a horse attached to sleigh took fright on
| North Broad street and dashed madly off, rum
| ming down Broad street to Thompson and along
| Thompson east. At Ninth and Thompson streets
| a train on the Philadelphia, Germantown and
| NorTistown Railroad was passing, and the horse
| in attempting to cross the track jumped on the
| COW catcher of the locomotive and was carried
| some yards before being discovered then the
| fireman passed to the front of the engine aud
| caught the horse by the head, holding on until
| the train stopped. The animal was then taken
| off. 1t was found that the beast had only re-
| ceived slight cut on the leg aud was otherwise
is good condition. The sleigh was of course
| greatly damaged
| SERIOUS CHARGE.-Mchael Garvey and John
| Foley are alleged to have gone into a public
| house at Second and Spruce streets on Saturday
| night and after assaulting the proprietor,
robbing him of his watch. Lieut.. Haggerty was
| sent for, but the parties in the meantime had
escaped. Later in the evening they returned to
| the premises and were in the act OF practising
the house when arrested by the Lieutenant and
one OF his officers. The prisoners have been
held for further hearing by Aid. Delaney.
THE ENGLISH SPARRows.-There having
| been good deal of anxiety expressed lest the
little strangers among us, the English sparrows,
| should starve to death this snowy weather, we
| take pleasure in calling attention to the fact
| that they have been taken in charge by the
| Women's Branch of the Society for the Preven-
| tion of Cruelty to Animals, and are fed regu-
larly by the agents belonging to the association.
| Nevertheless, would not dissuade private
individuals from throwing food to them.
| ASSAULT AND BATTERY CAsE.-Two men,
| named James Walker and Thomas Flemmiug,
| went into the beer saloon at Thompson and
| Mascher streets yesterday, and without any
| proVocation assaulted the proprietor. They
| also damaged the furniture in the place. The
| police were notified and the disorderly charac-
! ters were taken into custody. Defendants had
| hearing before Alderman Shoemaker and were
held in $1,000 bail to answer.
| ANOTHER INCENDIARY ATTEMPT.-Last night
another attempt was made to fire the school
house on Seventh street. below Catharine. A
| fire was kindled in one of the apartments, but
| fortunately, the flames burned out without
| doing any damage whatever. This makes the
third attempt to burn this building, A few
mornings ago several parties were chased out of
| the building.
THE CHEsNUT STREET SKATING RINK, at
! Twenty-third and Chesnut streets, is now in
full operation day and evening. The ice is in
| splendid condition, and skaters can ENJOY them
selves without impedment. Another grand
coterie JdntdSttque will be given this evening,
| which will undoubtedly be a grand affair. Ali
the best skaters in the city will be present.
TAPPED A TILL.-Andrew jackson (colored)
was arrested on Saturday night by Policeman
O'ConneT, of the Sixth district, upon the charge
of tapping till in the market-hOuse ut Sixteenth
and Market streets. Andrew had a hearing before
Alderman Jones, and was held In $oOO ball TO
answer.
LAMP EXPLosIoN.-Last evening a coal-oil
lamp exploded in the private office OF Lieuten-
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