Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-18
ROBBED BY BOY THIEVES.
FOUR LADS STEAL 500 FROM A
CAM STREET HOUSE.

A Bold Robbery in DayllRht-The
Thieves Pocket Their Plumber and
Crawl Through q window and Escape
Their Subsequent Capture and Arrest
One Of Them Gives Bond and the
Others in JaII-BeIieved to be Confed-
crates of an Organized Gang.
Quite a sensation was created IN the
southern suburbs of the city yesterday by
the rumor that the residence of Mrs.
Roach, widow Of the late Thomas Roach,
on Cam street, between DraytOn and Alb
ercOrn. had been entered and 800 in ten
and twenty dollar bills had been stolen.
When the report became known the resi-
dents in that part Of the city were prompt
to charge the robbery to Migrants or the
gangs of thieves which have caused so
much annoyance to property owners dur
ing the past two or three years.
Mrs. Roach reported the matter to De-
tective Julius Kaufman, who took the
case in hand. The officer learned that
Mrs. Roach's little girl had seen certain
parties in the rear of her house just before
dark on Monday acting in a suspicious
manner He FASTENED TO the house and
made a thorough inspection Of the
premises. its means Of ingress and egress
| front and rear, and while there heard the
| girls statement as TO what she had seen.
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in the habit OF selling milk to a number
of families. Being an industrious and
| economical person she had managed to
| save about $500, 500 of the amount being
in SO and $40 bills and the remainder in
| gold. This money was concealed in a
window frame, the part where the
money was hid forming box about Eve
| inches deep over one of the rear windows
of the house.
! ON Monday aftarnoon a number of the
/ Georgia Hussars were riding on the COM
mons. Among the spectators attracted
\ TO the vicinity were number OF men and
/ boys. Mrs. ROach's daughter was also on
the commons, but for the purpose Of driy-
/ ing up some of her mothers COWS and
/ turning them into the yard. While ap-
/ preaching the yard she claimed she saw
two boys, William Rushing and Charles
Beckett, crawl into the back window and
! that soon after she saw them come
| out again. She also saw George
| Rushing. brother of one of
them, STOPPING forward and looking
| through a crack in the fence apparently
/ at the boys inside. The Rushings live
| next door to Mrs. Roach. Young Beckett
also lives in the neighbOrhOOd, and an
/ other boy named James Hagerty, who
was said to have been on the premises,
| lives on Lincoln street, near Duty. The
| girl knew the Rushing boys, and hence
I when she saw them going IN and coming
out Of the window did not mistrust that
they were stealing anything.
! The detective also learned that three
other parties were with the boys. He
/ procured the services of Constables
| BOurke and James White to assist him.
| BOurke arrested Hagerty at the Cathedral
/ School, while the two Rushings and young
/ Beckett were found near where thecrime
was committed. They were arraigned
( before Justice Naughtin on warrants
charging them with larceny from the
house Of property valued over
! $50. Hagerty was admitted to
/ bail in the sum of S4OO
for his appearance for trial in the Supe-
I riOr Court. The other lads being unable
/ TO procure bonds were sent to jail to
/ await trial. All of them denied having
/ committed the robbery, but the officers
] believe they have sufficient proof to estab-
! lish their guilt beyond doubt. None of
/ the money was recovered. Geo. Rushing,
the oldest of the boys, is about IS years of
/ age. His brother William is about IA
! years, and Beckett is 10. 1t IS said
| that Mrs. Roach claims that some of the
bows have stolen other property from her
/ from time to time, but that she refrained
from having them arrested on account of
I their parents. The detectives were last
/ night searching for other members of the
gang, who are supposed to be the instiga-
tors Of The crime. and 10 have got posses
sion of the Doodle.