Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-26

lhsFu sIIhpF Wls o. had hasn IONS pes
thefb,. The VAtebbRh Wsht out and
tapped for help, and vas Ioinea bv q
policeman. A part Of the heating an
paratus in the cellar is a coil of pines,
enclosed in masonry and pierced by a
shaft which admits the cold air to be
heated by the pipes and sent through
the house. Under the pipes and in
the brick compartment enclosing
them there is room for several men to
hide, but to get there they must lie
fat down and crawl through the small
aperture. The district watchman had
looked in there once, but on his second
inspection, when he looked again, he
saw that at least one man was there.
Mr.. Frederick Bonner was armed and
so was the watchman. One of the latter
called to the burglar to come out, but
got no answer. at 3
"Then," said Mr.. Robert Bonner,
recalling the circumstances yesterday,
Il informed the man. or men, did not
know which, how strong we we're in
numbers and in arms, and said that if
they did not come out we would shoot
them. Then two men crawled out,
When the first appeared my son or
dered him to hold up his hands, &C.
companying the demand with a threat
and displaying his revolver. Both men
complied sullenly. They were young
men and evidently desperate. They
looked like hard characters, and their
speech showed them to be as they
looked. Do you take us for a James
brothers gangP one of them asked,
and both were impudent and careless
in their replies to the policeman. The
policeman searched them. One had a
jacknife. Hidden under the others
waistcoat was very long knife. One
edge Of the big blade was that of a
knife, and the other was nicked so
that it could be used as a saw. 1t was
with this that the hole in the cellar
door was made, the purpose being to
make an aperture through which
hand could pass to draw back the bolt
on the inside On the way to the sta
tionhouse one of the burglars broke
down, and said that he and his con-
federate had entered by the coal hole"
Mr.. Frederick Bonner went to the
Fifty-frst street stationhouse with the
policemen, Minnick and Adams, who
took the burglars there. He made the
complaint upon which the men were
locked up. AT that time one gave his
name as John Grady, Of 507 West
Fifty-fifth street, and the other said
he was Henry Larkins, of Thirty
ninth street, between Ninth and Tenth
avenues. Yesterday morning Larkins
gave his name as Robert Donohue,
Justice Otterbourg held them for ex-
animation. The knife found upon
them has a blade sixteen inches long.
Detective MCGOWAN noticed the
similarity of the work at Mr.. Bonner's
and that by which the house of Mr..
Price, of % West Fify-second street,
was entered and robbed week ago.
One of the burglars in that case was
arrested but the other escaped, taking
with him several shirts. Yesterday
the shirt worn by one of the burglars
caught in Mr.. Bonner's house was
identified as one Of those taken from
Mr.. Prices. 1t is the opinion of the
Waterman that the burglars were
led to visit Mr.. Bonner house in the
hope that the many costly presents
made to his daughter upon the occa-
sion Of her wedding few days ago
might yet be in the house. Mr.. Bon
ner says. however, that the thieves
would have been disappointed if they
expected to find many valuables, for
it is not his practice to keep them in
the house.