New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-27
Chase After Burglars-One is Brought TO
by n ShOt-AnOthep Gscapes-An lime

Chase After BurgIars-0ne is Brought TO
by n ShOt-AnOthep Gscapes-An lime
pOrtant Arrest.
Directly after one O'Clock yesterday
morning, Madison Brown, an energetic and
intelligent colored man. attached to the
household of Mr.. John Finney, an old
member of the legal fraternity, No POI st.
Joseph street, between St. Charles and
Carondelet, heard some one in the yard, and,
first calling to know if it is was Mr.. Fin
ney then, getting no response, asking
"Who is there ?"0 was somewhat aston
ished to see two men scaling the high wall
and rush into the street.
Mr. Brown, with commendable courage
and promptitude, threw open the gate and
rushed into the street after the fugitiyes,
who turned down Carondelet street, closely
pursued by Brown, shouting, Watch
Watch9 Stop him Stop that manl''
The taller of the two, when on Carondelet
street, near julia ran behind gallery
post and pointed frighttul looking Colts
revolver at his pursuer, which so far intimi-
dated Brown that he started to- run the
other way.
The burIy burglar thinking the coast clear
did not fire at Brown, but rushed still fur
ther down Carondelet and turned off on
Julia street, heading for the New basin.
officer Jenkins, who heard the shouts of
Brown, came up at this juncture and fired
shot at the fleeing burg lar, whoimmediately
halted and threw away his owR revolver.
Officers Jenkins and Creagh took the bur
glar into custody and picked up his re-
Yolver.
Brown, who was in for the chase with
hearty good will, and was elated with the
success of his pursuit, insisted that the
prisoner should be taken up to Mr. Finney's
house on st. Joseph street. which was done,
but without entering the premises, and from
thence he was taken to the first precinct
station.
The prisoner, ealf, athletic fellow,
dressed in overalls and a flannel inside
and outside shirt, gave the name of VIII
liam Carroll. Neither the clerk or the turn
key at the station, or Corporal Kennedy
recognized the prisoner, who had the ap-
pearance Of and talked like PROFESSIONAL"
though the corporal kept insisting that he
had seen him somewhere. After the pris-
oner had been in the cell awhile, he was in
terviewed, and it was found that his hands
were soft and velvety, and that under his
blue ogeralIs were pants of nice fabric.
! He said he belonged in New Orleans, and
| when asked in what part ef the city he
lived, replied the easterly part. Being
asked where that was, and if he meant
! Girod street. he said yes. In the same con-
versation he said he had been in the city
| three weeks. The prisoner, sharp in his
answers and keen in his watchtulness,
| finally inquired of his interrogation, "Haye
you any more questions to ask me!'
Yesterday morning he was taken to the
office of the Superintendent of Police, and
there identified as Jim f. Hickey, the party
who, on Saturday, the tenth of August,
| passed at the office, No. I75 Common street,
five city appropriation certificates aggre-
eating $3.50 a., which were ascertained
| atterward to be 4orgeries. He was ar
| raigned yesterday morning before Recorder
| Houghton on three affidavits,, the first
charging him with burglari0usly entering a
dwelling in the night time, armed with a
deadly weapon; the second with carrying a
concealed weapon, revolver, and bur
| glars tool an outsider" and forgery. He
was remanded without bail on the first
charge, to answer tomorrow. The bond in
the forgery ease is fixed as $4,000; in the
other $500.
! 1t is q matteg Of regret that the other
fleeing burglar escaped when he ran down
Julia street, having fred on his way two
shots at Officer West, who fred one shot in
return.
Mr. Brown is entitled TO credit for his
hot pursuit of the fugitive burglars at
that hour in the morning, and alone. As
they were both armed, it is probable that
| their fears of the police alone deferred the
! burglars from quitting q bullet through his
head.
Hickey is an OLD ssager, ana mas been
spoken of in connection with the notorious
! y3oryesteS and the SCOOTER robbery.