The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-05-20
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Bold Bad Men Bounced by the Watch
full Police.

AthAo"o
who have been hanging about the city
for years, broke out in a fresh place
on Sunday. They are old offenders,
and the bare mention Of their names is
sufficient to impress the reader with
positive evidence of their guilt. Tom
Regain Peg Leg Tom and Dan Tim
ony are their names, and now they
have a fair showing of boarding a year
or more down at Lincoln, Nebraska,
for the crime Of burglary. This is how
1t happened: On Sunday morning about
10 O'Clock, Moreland and Donovan,
proprietors of a shoe shop on Eddy
street, just north of the Senate saloon,
locked up their establishment and went
to the lakes near town, remaining I'M
til a late hour in the afternoon. Upon
returning to their shop about 6 O'Clock
they missed a valuable overcoat and
three or four pairs Of brand new shoes
1.-The outfit worth, perhaps, about $50.
A close investigation of the premises
revealed the fact that some person or
persons had entered by the alley, raised
a back window to the store, crawled in
and stole the articles. Officer Thorn
ason, who vas notified of the transac-
ton proceeded to unearth the rascals.
The overcoat and two pairs of shoes
were found hid away in the Star of
the West building, which is now va
cant. Tom Regan and Dan Timony
were seen to visit the building, the
former going in after the goods, while
the latter remained outside to see that
the coast was kept clear. One pair of
shoes vas sold by Timony to a half
grown ranchman named Beckett. The
coat and other pair of shoes were dis
posed of by Regain. The story told by
Regan and Timony to the parties who
bought their i'll gotten goods was that
the. articles had been given them to
sell. Beckett traded the pair of shoes
he bought from Timony to a pawn
broker for a better pair, giving boot.
The result was that all three-Regan,
Timony and Becket-were arrested and
locked up on the charges of theft and
burglary.
Regain and Timony were taken before
Justice Bean yesterday morning at IL
O'Clock for preliminary examination.
The proprietors of the shoe shop testi-
fed that the property belonged to
than Tho vo,,p0 mo Raolat ,pbo
had bought a pair of shoes from Tim
ony, testified accordingly. Regain, n
of the accused, was given permission
to make a statement in defense of him
self. He admitted to having disposed
Of the goods, but said they were
given to him by a man whose name he
did not know. He wa simply an agent
to sell the good. Timony, his accom-
plice, was permitted to make a defense.
He testified that Regan persuaded him
to sell the goods. Regain said to him:
''These things 1.-THE shoes I bought,
but they don't ct me. I'm lame, and
you amt. You n run around and
sell them in half the time I cam" 1t
was evident that the young man Bee
ket had nothing to do with either the
theft or the burglary. He was, there
fore, acquitted, but he had to turn rel
the shoes to the owner, and in the en-
tire transaction is out of pocket near
ly five dollars. AS he is a poor boy, the
loss fell heavily upon him. 1t will
probably teach him to be careful here
after about buying cheap goods on the
street from men about whose reputa-
ton for honesty he is utterly ignorant.
As for Peg Leg Regain and Dan
Timony, they were each held in the
sum of $500 for their appearance at
the approaching term of court to an
swer to the serious charges of burglary
and theft. These men have been a
nuisance in the community for some
time, and have ON several occasions
served short terms in the county Jail
for petty thefts. Regain vas one a
block Waterman. Too much ''budge''
put him where he now is. The same
may truthfully be said of Timony.
Officer Kipp succeeded in recaptur-
ing Thomas Whelan yesterday, but be-
fore he could be taken to the police
court for trial he managed to escape
again, and is now at large. The spirit
level which he borrowed from Mr..
Hurd and sold, was recovered yester-
day by Marshal Ryan. 1t was found
in a saloon in the northwestern part of
the city, where Whelan had sold it for
cigars and whisky.
James O'Neill was arrested yester-
day on the charge of stealing an over
coat and three boxes of cigars from
Lear's saloon on Eddy street. He will
have a preliminary examination this
morning before Justice Bean.
Harry Moran, Joseph Lowery and
Robert Sullivan were found guilty Of
vagrancy. They will each serve sixty
days in jail.
Dan Forrest, charged with being a
vagrant, Plead not guilty. His trial
was postponed until this afternoon, at
which time he proposes TO prove that
he has visible means of subsistence
John Sullivan and John Casey were
each fined five dollars and costs for
creating n disturbance on Sunday night.
The un~pleasantness occurred at Maud's
establishment, on Eighteenth, a
few doors east of Ferguson street.