National Republican., 1883-07-12
BURNS AND LoGUE.
What Has Been Learned OF Them nnd
Their Actions while Here.

Their Actions While Here.
The two men, Burns and Logue, who were
arrested for supposed participation in some
of the recent robberies committed in this city,
but who were released because nothing was
proven against them, have got into difficulty
in Baltimore A REPUBLICAN reporter has
been investigating the movements of those
men while they were in the city aud has as
certained the following:
Before their arrival here man giving the
name of Hill went TO tho house on Seventh
street. over Wade's tailor store, aud said that
he expected a couple of friends who were
coming on to secure n patent, and no wanted
to secure n room for them The room, it ap-
pears, was not vacanthand he went away,
promising to call again. This man said that
he was clerk in the land Office and that
he came from Iowa. lie callod q
second time and said that ho was from Ohio
He didn't appear at the house again, but the
two friends of whom he had spoken, who
proved to be Burns and Logue, arrived and
took the room. They were known to be
crooked men, and many years ago were ar
rested by w. p. Word, when he was chief of
the secret service, for showing counterfeit
money. Burns is said to be one of three
brothers. John, Pete, and Joe, all ofwhom were
at one time crooked. 1t is said that Pete
Burns and James Logue were the men who
years ago, which is well remembered even
now. They induced one Perkins, who was
known rs the Boston Pet" to dispose of
some of the bonds. He took two 81 900 bonds
to q prominent broker in New York, aud,
representing himself as living in Pennsyl-
vania, sold them. About two weeks afterwaid
he took two more bonds of the same denomi-
nation to the same broker, but this time he
gave different name and different resi-
dence. Although he had changed his appear
anoe somewhat the broker recognized him,
and having in the meantime received the
numbers of the bonds taken from Constructor
Hanscom, and finding that those offered
corresponded with those on the list, he called
a detective, and had "the pet" arrested, who
was brought on here and served one year in
the penitentiary for having committed the
robbery, although it is said he had nothing to
do with it.
The story goes that Pete Burns realized
$4,000 out of that robbery, and that he won't
to London aud deposited the money in the
Bank of England. He then went to Italy
and attempted to swindle the Italian govern
ment, but was captured and died in prison.
Before he died. however, he made confes.
sion that he had committed the Hanscom
robbery, and telling of the money in the
Bank Of England. Joe Burns is said to have
reformed, and to be living respectable life
in Philadelphia.
1t will be remembered that these men,
John Burns and James Logue, were suspected
of having committed the Prud'homme rob-
berry. The indications which pointed in that
direction were, first among the burglars
tools found in their room was chisel or
bureau jimmy" which fitted exactly the
marks upon the bureau at Mr.. Prud'homme's
house, where the drawer had been pried open.
Then, again, little colored boy who was
playing in an adjoining lot, and who was
driven out by the burglars, gave a descrip-
tion of the two men who drove
him out, which exactly Tailed with
the appearance of these two men.
There was also colored girl, who looked
through the fence from the next yard and
saw the men at work at the window of. the
Prud'homme house, and her description of the
men corresponds with that of Burns and
Logue. This girl is down in the country, and
yet it was not deemed of sufficient import
ance by the authorities to detain the mon
until she could be sent for.
1t is believed that there we're two others
who assisted these men, the man who gave
his name as Hill and another, but who they
were is not known. Itwould seem that even
the facts which are stated above ought to
have furnished sufficient cause for their de-
tention until further evidence could be Sc
secured and the clews followed out.