The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-09
THE DETECTIVES ON THE
LOOKOUT.
Several Notorious Cracksmen Ar
rested.
Discovery Of Burglars Tools.
Particulars and Incidents.

Particulars and Incidents.
The frequent burglaries and attempts at
house breaking which have lately occurred in
the city, have tended to stimulate the police
force and cause them to be constantly on the
lookout for the gang Of thieves implicated in
these burglaries, as the similarity OF the en-
frances made were SO striking as to fix it in
the minds Of the detectives that they were all
committed by men of the same gang.
For nights past Capt. Malone's force of
specials have been constantly on the alert
and watchful, for fear that their birds might
get wind of their intentions and fly the coun-
try. As will be seen by the following, their
vigilance was at last crowned with success:
Having received several ''good pointers"
they went in different directions in search of
their prey, which resulted in the arrest of
Harry Clifford, who served in the Missouri
and New York Penitentiaries; Thos Moran
alias Teddy Monahan, who served in the
Illinois and Missouri Penitentiaries; Jack
Hartwell, in the Louisiana Penitentiary; and
Jack Williams, alias O'Brien, who served in
the Louisiana as we'll as Illinois Penitentiary.
Monahan was arrested by Capt Gray, of
the First Precinct, on the 9Th inst, who also
overhauled Hartwell at the fire on Lafayette
street on the morning of the 9Th inst
Specials Pierson and Deve' eaux took Clifford
and Williams was taken by Tennessee and
Bray All of these gentry of the night hawk
fraternity were captured in different portions
of the city, but by CONNECTING links, were
identified as belonging to the same gang.
They are all young nen and notorious
Western cracksmen, who have been operating
in this city for some months past with the
brace and bit. They are all desperate and
determined men, Clifford having been ar
dangerous and suspicious character, and
while under arrest knocked the officer down
and made his escape, but was subsequently
captured, taken before the Superior Criminal
Court, pleaded guilty and sentenced to sixty
DAYS in the Parish Prison, in which place he
served his time
Moran, alias Monahan, was arrested several
months ago by Special Devereaux, and also
made his escape; was fred at by Devereaux,
and was found afterward lying wounded at
the corner of Lafayette and St. Charles
streets, by patrolman, taken to the Charity
Hospital, where he remained under q strict
watch, but succeeded in making his escape
as soon as he could walk, and has ever since
been at large.
The young man Hartwel was arrested and
taken before Judge Evans on the 18th of May,
1875, on charge of dangerous and suspicious
and carrying concealed weapons, and while in
the First Municipal Courtroom jumped from
the window into an adjoining yard, distance
of some forty feet or more, and succeeded in
making his escape.
Monahan has been identified by Edward
johnson as one of the men he saw coming out
of Finlay's drug store, corner of Julia and
Camp streets, on the morning Of the I'd inst,
when this store was entered and robbed. The
detectives following the trail, discovered in
the house 2Ol Julia street, lot of burglars
tools, such as cold .chisels, screw-drivers, jim
mics, any augers. The latter were
taken and compared with the boring
%ssd a. Lees 9' grocery III Brenns
street; Rupert's shoe store, 16 Annunciation
street; Bogel's drug store, on the corner of
Felicity and Magazine and several other
stores; and the augers corresponded exactly
with the holes made. The tools and thieves
were taken to the Central Station.
Last evening, Capt. Gray, Of the First Pre-
cinct Station, brought the thieves from the
cell and exhibited them to the night police
force about to go on duty, and in few very
appropriate remarks told his officers of the
character of the men before them, and eau
toned the police to watch for them on all &C.
casions.
The finding of the tools at POI Julia street
is due to the energy and shrewdness of
Special George L. Cain, who having been
called to court, was unable to follow the mat
ter up and turned it over to the other officers.
Captains Malone and Gray and all Of the
specials connected in the ferreting out of
these notorious thieves, deserve the highest
commentator, as their exertions have been
untiriDg.
At late hour last evening Specials Hen
nessee and Bray traced up another set of
burglars tools in Strouds marble yard, cor
ner of Girod and st. Charles streets; the
same having been stolen from the cooper shop
on Front Levee, between Julia aud Lafayette
streets, with which Jack Williams, alias John
O'Brien, attempted to commit burglary on
the corner of Bank Alley and Natchez streets
on the night Of the Sd inst, when Ward, q
opal of Williams, was arrested by the pri-
vate Waterman.