Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-05
BOLD STREET ROBBERY.
a PURSE OuSrA,sINa $500 TAKEN
-FOUR surpic,ods strangers ARRESTED to. ,p,
fhot with most at tue miIiBu
Money ou Their p,r-oo

your snsp'o'oas strangers arrested for tue
fhoit with most at tue miSips
money on Their rsr-on,
Lust evening between 3 aud O'Clock II.
IN hei'er' grain dealer, was robbed of "A
pocket book containing over 5000 IN
money IN front Of the postoIlius ON North
Queen street. AT the time there WAS "A la,v,
crowd IN the street listening To tho band
that was playing at that point for 1T.
Miohacrs society. Mr.. Keller aud two
friends camo along tho street and had con.
siderable difficulty IN passing through tho
crowd to get inside tho poStoiloo. They
TOOK particular notice Of two mon, one of
whom seemed anxious to stand IN their
way ana while III the crowd both ju,tlcd
against MIR. Keller aud friends. il was
but u few moments after the latter had
made thoir way out of the thropv ,hn,
MIR. Keller found his pocket book, which
ho had been carrying IN his hip pocket,
missing.
Tho fact of tho robbery SION bccl ma
noised around town aud tho police officers
heard of it. Officers Barnhold Boas and
Bushong learned that several straure men
were III the city, and that suspicion pointed
70 them as boing the guilty parties, Barn
hold went iuto tho Schiller house. nftor
~ O'Clock, and saw four men, answering
the description of those spoken of. sittin,,
Ing their suspicion no at once left tho bn,-
room and went to his homo wber, n,
changed his uniform tor another suit. Io
aud tho other officers kept watching tbe
men aud saw thom together at several
places. They seemed To have plenty oi
money aud had several ton dollar hills
| changed. The stolen money consisted of
%, so and $50 bills
Finally all turned up at the 10 train
but kept apart from each other as though
they were unacqualnted. They all pur
chased tickets for Harrisburg, but secured
| them ut different times. Tho train was
twenty five minutes late, and the crowd
| IN the depot was much larger than usual
The men seemed To know that they yeSo
watched, and two walked nefyousIy
around the depot while u third pretended
| To be asleep. When tho train came in the
Tour attempted 10 get on at different
| points. The oil )crs assisted by Alderman
| Spurrier, at once took them Into custody.
They were taken out Of the train, and nil
went quietly to the station house. When
questioned they gave their names as
Charles Fisher, John Wclch, Charles +.
Taylo and Harry Young.
| Tho officers at once began "A search of
them. Fisher had $50 81, sOme of which
was III - aud 80 bills, Wclch had AZ u
aud Taylor $2.37. When tho officers
began searching Young, who seemed TO be
the leader OF the gang, he resisted and
showed fight. Alderman Spurr,er grabbed
| him by the neck, gave him a polite
Invitation u keep quiet aud ordered him
/ to take oil his shoes. ilo sulleuly BEGAN
to comply with his request and "a no
removed the first shoe ho was seen To
take something out OF his drawer leg aud
place 1t in his coat pocket. Officer Bushung
examined this aud found II 10 bo roll Of
money containing over $40, IN $2O, $40 aud
- bills, which corrospOndcd exactly with
that taken from Mr. Keller.
Alter the men had boen placed in cells,
the officers went back to the depot t. make
u search. Officer Barnhold bad taken
Weich into custody as he WAS boarding
the train at Christian street aud noticed
that he threw something away. Search
was made at this place with a lantern aud
| sJO in notes like those Of Nr. Keller
| wero found 10 4 roll on tho railroad track,
where they bad undoubtedly been thrown
| by WelCh lu all sl6i.OS in money was
found on the men aud IL currespondod
with that Of MIR. Keller. Taylor paid for
his railroad ticket with a $40 bill, but all
Of the change was not found on him.
THIS morning tho mou under arrest
| were taken before Alderman Spurticr who
| bithi ibl Athlllk uu Iluil,
They refused to talk "a great deal and
pretended not to know each other. Noung
gave his residence at J21 East Otls street,
Philadelphia. llo also gave the names of
several parties 10 this city with whom ho
pretended to DO acquainted. llo Ia a short
stout man aud rather iiue looking. All Of
them are we'll dressed aud talk we'll. At
the preliminary hearing Mr.. Keller idonti.
fled Young as the man who jOstIed against
him at the pOstOilice.
\ gentleman who WAS a passenger on
| the Reading train which arrived here at
| : 40 last evening states that WelCh aud
| Young, two Of tho men arrested, boarded
| the train at Mannheim aud Cams 10 this
city. Although they got on together they
did not appear To he acquainted. WelCb
carried q small black bag. Whether there
were any more in the party the gentleman
was unable to state ~ ho was in but ono
| car.
GA sunday night tho burglar alarm at
the Mannheim bank WAS sounded but
| nothing was taken. Since the arrest Of
these men it is believed that they belong
to gang of thieves who are operating in
different parts of the country, aud chat
they intended to rob the bank. The black
bag which WEIGH carried was missing
when he was arrested. aud what it con-
tained is not known. Tho four mon un'
doubtedly are tho ones who robbed Mr..
| Keller, aud their capture was pretty
clever piece of work ON tho part Of tho
officers and Alderman Spurrier,