The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-23
A CARNIVAL OF CRIME.
Sin and Satan Held High Revel in
This City Last Friday and
Saturday.
The Consequences of (which Mere
the Police Court was Unusually
Busy Yesterday Morn
HONEY DRAWS THE FLIES.

IKE That which a fair. or race, or reunion
brings together, affords the very best Of OPP
portunities for sneak thieves, pickpockets,
gamblers, bummers and rifira6 generally,
and this gentry never fail to1ake advantage
Of anything which may turn mp. Last Friday
and Saturday were field days for them, aud
the unusual numbers robberfes petty lar
cenies, and smaller crimes which were crowd
ed into the forty-eight hours composing
those two days attest beyond
THE PROBABILITY OF A DOUBT
that the light fingered class was not asleep
and that they didn't let anything pass which
they could catch sight Of There have,been
larger crowds in Leavenworth than taat
which gathered here on the two days men,
toned, but never before in the history of this
city, even when the metropolis was the
headquarters for the West of gamblers and
thieves, when steamboating was in its PALM
lest days, and hen the plainsm N came here
to rendezvous, when there Were
THREE OR FOUR REGIMENTS
at the Fort, was there ever known to be q
worse crowd Of professional cracksmen than
were In the town during the latter part of
last veek. The police received orders TO ar
rest any and every suspicious character met
with upon the streets, whether engaged in
plying his trade or not, and to keep a sharp
lookout for any games which they might
Seek to put up on any unwary victims. Yet,
Notwithstanding
ALL THESE PRECAUTIONS,
pocketpicking was the order of the day, and
many an excursonist went home with a
light pocket and a heavy heart. The Union
Depot was the vineyard where the harvest
was ripe, and many crop was safely housed.
for the reapers were many. Several Of the
thieves were captured, one, on Saturday at
tefnoon, after a sharp chase up the railroad
track northward ofthe Union Depot, after he
had relieved a lady Of her pocket hook. The
attention of
THE LIGHT FINGERED ONES
was more particularly directed to visitors, as
they were not SO liKely to make the fact
known to the police as a citizen, and would
not be here to prosecute. In the police court
yesterday morning, clear cases We're proyen
against but two, who were sentenced to six
months in the county jail, with payment of
costs, the remainder being senG up for sne
hundred days.
POLICE PI(KINGs.
Two hundred and thirteen dollars in fines
were assessed at the police court yesterday |
Several cases Of drunkenness, disturbance |
Of the peace, and charge Of a lighter charac-
ter were disposed of in the customary man
ner, by fine and commitment.
James Mahoney, a vagrant and a suspicious /
character generally, was given sixty days
upon the rock pile 10 mediate upon the ways
Of the world.
John Barnhardt, who undertook TO inter-
Iere with the police officers in the discharge
Of their duty, who, in fact, drew a pistol to
prevent arrest, was fined slO for his
Frank Barns, who was arrested with three
n four others on a charge of larceny, was
held over on a general suspicion of va.,rancy,
$ the first charge couldn'tDe proven conclu-
lyely.
Joseph Lewis, who used language unbe-
Ching a quiet citizen, was released apon
ayment OF a fine OF 81. |,
John Harper, Abel Lagdon and Pat Rur-
by, three hard cases, were fined so each, or
ne hundred days each upon the rock pile in |
he city's service. they are sneak thieves
nd pickpockets of the most dexrerous class
nd while The police well knew what they
re, and what their record Is, nothing coz.
usive could be proven against them so they !
ent up on the charge of va 'rancy. Good
ire will be taken OF them during their stay, I
nd pains taken TO see that they earn their c
bard. iC
Pat Clacey, another bad egg, against |
HON there is a charge of petit larcesy, will
ave a hearing on Che 2srd. r
Charles Ready and John Clacy, who stole e
me clothing from Tom Dougherty, a brake c
IAN on the Kansas Pacific, at Lawrence, 4
ere given six months each IN the county
il, together with the payment of the costs d
the case. a
Paul Roberts, who was arrested at the same
me as the two gentlemen who are named o
/ the preceding paragraph, was discharged. 81
avins been found In bad company be- p
" his only fault
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