Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-07-26
THE ixHss SAFE BURGLARS.

They are 0tvsa Heaping and Held
IN o., eoo Eaeh u Answer AZ Court
They are Tshen q 0serGetewn this
Mesntng.
Fssa 1vssy ~vsnias nd cosnaseoa OF S'idN'
Yesterday afternoon the men arrested
at tho T., W. 4 B. depot on suspicion OF
being the Lewes safe burglars, were given
hearing at the City Hall before Mayor
whitley.
The men gave their names as Charles
Taylor, Harry Wilson and Walter Q.
Wedges. One Of the prisoners is large.
fine looking man, and il evidently very
powerful. His companions are OF about
medium size, and both have rather
intelligent appearance. Immediately after
! the arrest of the men yesterday morning,
and their Identification as the strange men
who were in Lewes at the time OF the
burglary, Mr.. Msull, the gentleman whose
store was robbed, was telegraphed for.
He arrived about o'clock and the men
were given hearing.
Captain Adolph Couturier, who had
charge Of the sloop in which the men went
to Lewes, and who is not entirely clear OF
suspicion in the matter, was brought up
from Lewes yesterday, where he was
apprehended. He WAS used AZ witness
and testified that few days before the
burglary was committed the prisoners
came to him in Philadelphia and said that
they had hired boat to 90 down to Lewes
on fishing cruise. They wanted him to
take charge of the boat for them, saying
that they didn't know how to manage it.
They offered to pay him literally
and he consented. They arrived
at Lewes and the men went ashore,
promising TO return, but they failed to do
no and that WINS the last he saw of them.
He did not know who the men were or OF
whom they had hired the boat He
made preparations To return to Philadel-
phia to hunt the owners of the boat but
before he left Lewes he was arrested upon
suspicion Of being one Of the burglars.
He recognized the prisoners AZ the men
who engaged him TO take them to Lewes.
Mr.. F. q. Maull, of Lewes, the gentle
man whose store was robbed, testified to
the fact and also to having seen these men
about the town the day before the
burglary.
A. L. Benter of Lewes, testified that he
in company with others, chased the bur
glars through the woods around Lewef
into the swamp. He identified the
prisoners az the men whom he had chased.
Adelph H. Nizen, of Lewes, one of the
party who chased the burglars, csrrob
GRATED Benter's testimony and recognized
Wilson as one of the robbers.
Captain Lubker, of Lewes, identified
the prisoners and Captain Couturier as thu
i four men whom he had seen in sloop a
, Lewes harbor the day before the burglary
He did not zee them about on the day fol
lowing the robbery.
This was the sum of the evidence, ant
the Mayor held Taylor, Wilson and Vodge'
+ each in the sum of 80, 900 to answer tn
charge at the next term of the SUSSEX
3 county court, and Captain Couturier h
+ held in 81, 600 bail to appear at the tria
: az a witness.
, In default of bail the four men wer
committed to the City Hall cells, wher
q they were confined until this mornin
q when Sheriff Truitt, of Sussex, who ha
{ been notified of the result Of. the hearing
r arrived and took the prisoners in charge
o leaving here for Georgetown on the 9.3
a a. ~ train.