The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-27
CONSTABLE RurnERFoRD's CHEW.
4 Track OF Bran Leads him 60 make an Ar
rest that Surprised PRrkVile.

Parkville, Long Island, has suffered much
OF late from the depredations of thieves. Tho
summer residences Of city families and the
dwellings Of the villagers have been entered and
robbed at different times. Some railroad prop
erty was also stolen. Efforts were made 20 dis
cover the thieves for a long time, without
success. Finally an arrest was made
on Monday that startled the villagers. On the
night OF the l4th inst. the summer residence Of
Parkvile. was robbed. Two servants were in
charge OF the house. The thieves got
noo 10y mans s%'s o clo,bss 7e two SGyT When
wero OF velvet five large American
hngs and "A r srnel neS. several ring
bran The then 81 the bran was not much
thought OF by the servants. hut when Constable
James Rutherford after three or four days
uselrss labor on tho case, learned that the bran
had been stolen, hc found he had tho key OF the
mystery. Constable Rqihcrfori mad eniertain,"d
whose father. well-to-do nlRchinst lives in n
large house between New Utrecht and Park
Yille on account oi the young mans assoca-
lions. Tho constable rs soon as r. heArH %,
the stealing Of the bran. rocoll"cted that no hhl
seen some bran that had evidently been spit
on tho ground near Johnson house Ne
followed the clue. and found traces OF
Iran on the ground oil the way from
Wc'sh's house 10 Johnson's. Young johnson.
who runs tn house in his fnther's Hhsencr, his
Erut two COWS, whose milk he sold. and Con-
an explanation Of why the bran was taken.
The constable then procured from Justice
Mcmahon a warrant to search JOhnston's house
on tho strength Of his suspicious. Armed win
this Rutherford visited the house on Monday
afternoon. His knock WIS not answered. but
he was convinced that young Johnson was
within. SO he walked away with an AR Of un-
concern. He. however. kept an eye on the
| house. and presently he saw Johnson and q
| friend come out. They overlook rutherford,
| and JOhnsOns friend said:
" | hear you are after somebody this wayP"
" Then you hear wrong; I'm not" REPLIED
! Rutherford, who did not want JOhnsOn's friend
! 10 know what he was after
The young men then turned, and Johnson
! entered the house. while his friend went away.
! No sooner was the latter out of sight than Ruth
! erford hurried to tho house and served the
search warrant on young Johnson. In
| JOhnsOn's room he found some SOAP
! three gold rings. which Jacob Henn"r
! identified us his q stove that had heen stolen
| from Nag house of the Manhattan Beach RAN.
road. and n pocket knife that Mr.. Pieinrr OF
! Foster avenue, whose house was robbed ot s3OQ
| worth Of lcwelry some time ago, rocognized
| on tho Prospect Park and Coney Island
| Krilroad was also found. The result OF the
! search was the arrest Of Walter Johnson and
! his committal to Raymond street jail The ar
! rest caused considerable excitement, ns john
| sons family Is well known and respected.
! The prisoner was before Judge Pratt on
| "Wednesday on a writ OF hHheas corpus, and ne
| was examined by Justice VI cMahon on Thurs
| day. who committed him TO Raymond street Jail
| again. whore no remains, awaiting the action OF
| tine Grand Jury.