The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-03
CAUGHT AND cAenD.
A Bold. Bad Burglar Ends His Thleving
Career.

1
For the las. twelve months u series OF
successful burglaries have been adroitly per
petrated in this place. and our citizens on
retiring at night did not know what mo
ment they would he aroused from peaceful
'slumbers to confront an armed and desper,
ate intruder. bent ON robbery or murder.
Our officers were ygilant and ON the alert
to detect and bring to punishment the per
petrator. but were baiied at every step
| Among the houses entered at different
times were Mr. G. G. Burnap's who had
some tools stolen Col. P. w. Alexander's
residence was entered on the night OF the
18th Of last March. his pants were carried
out doors and robbed of pocket knife,
eleven dollars ia coin and gold watch.
Mr.. G. c. Kiser's residence was entered one
night in April, his pants and vest carried
out doors, one dollar and half and store
keys stolen. his store was robbed, set on fire
and completely destroyed, consuming Capt
| Wilson's store at the same time, W. K
Montgomery, county clerk and treasurer,
at night had his pants stolen from his resi-
dence aud s. and bunch of keys appro
priated Judge T. j. Atkinson, few
nights later, suffered similarly from visit
from burglar, who carried his pants out
and took lherefrom S. Mr. NV Stange's
house WAS entered and 81 taken, Prof
! O'Connor had his slumbers disturbed by q
burglar in his ROOM The Professor shot at
the fleeing tibet and then went back 10 bed
and to sleep, but the burglar returned and
| stole clock and some other valuabes. DR.
]. C. Greer lost gold collar button by n
night prowler. Mr. Wiley J. MeChtchy,
boarding at Judge Testers, had silver
watch carried off one night by IL bold bur
glar Mr. H. Is. Owen lost silver watch
by midnight houaebreaker. Mr.. A. W.
York's residence was entered but the bur
glar was scared of Mr. Thos. II Cheeks
residence was entered at night, his pants
were carried out doors and rtied OF pocket
knife and $8. Thieves saturated Mr.. Chuck
Anderson's residence with chlorotorm. but
T. timely discovery prevented robbery. And
Dir. John Barrett's house was purloined of
some jelles and provisions.
From this array of robberies, it can be
seen our citizens had just cause OF alarm.
| But sooner or later the mos; successful vii
lain Is caught up with. On Saturday last,
our tOwnsman and ex sheriff. W. +. Steph
ems, now holding Captalncy of police at
the Exposition Grounds. came up from At.
lauta, and, with the assistance of w. I. Nc
CATCHY Esq arrested one Sam Edwards n
negro man engaged in carrying the mail
from Marietta to Powder Springs for j. T.
Motley ESD, and who formerly carried the
mail from this point TO Alpharetta Mr.
Stephens based the arrest of Edwards upon
ia formation he had received that Edwards |
had sold silver watch to y man In Alpha
retta for R3. and upon investigation he Sc
cured convincing evidence that it was Mr.. |
w. J. McClatchy's stolen watch.
After the arrest, Mr.. Stephens did not
search Edwards, but turned him over to |
Sheriff A. r. Coryell, who carried the pris-
oner to Jail. Before putting him in the iron
cage, the Sheriff proceeded to search Ed |
wards. From one pocket he got pistol |
and a pocket knife said knife had on the |
handle the letters, ''P.MB.Y. to P.W.A"
Up. NJ. B. Young to p. w. Alexander.) |
He also found sewed up in the negro's vest
fine gold watch. which was Unidentified as
Col Alexander's. Evidence of guilt had
accumulated so rapidly, that Edwards was
suddenly prompted by an impulse to escape
and Jumped from second story window OF
the Jail Sheriff Coryell jumped out after
him and lively chase ensued, other per
sons joining in the pursuit. Edwards was
Overtaken, brought back and put behind the
bars.
Sheriff Coryell and Marshal Banks mme
diately proceeded to Edwards house and
searched it, and found Prof OConnor's
clock, Mr. Montgomery's keys, DIR. dreer's
collar button, and some other articles. A
letter, which had been entrusted to Ed
wards for delivery. was found broken open
and the $780, which it contained at the
time, had been appropriated.
Edwards upon being questioned said he
had been the perpetrat0r Of the various bur
glaries from time to time without an &C
complete and that no one had knowledge OF
his acts but his wife. Subsequently he re
tracted his confession and said he had sew
eral confederates and gave the names OF
five colored men. Three of these were ar
rested Sunday evening, but one was releas-
ed Monday morning and the other two at
the committal trial Monday afternoon, the
warrants being Withdrawn, as there was no
corroboratiye evidence to sustain Edward s.
confession duplicating the parties Ed
wards however was remanded to jail.
The reward of $25 offered by Col Alex
ander, soon after the theft, for the recovery
of his watch, he says he is ready TO pay.
Our citizens feel relieved that the burglar
Edwards has been caught and jailed. II