Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-14
YOUNG TOUGHS.
THE BOY BURGLARS HELD 10 COURT IN
$500 EACH.
The Charge FslOa0uSy and BlghrOOSy Break
ing and Etenng-lszls Of the
Crime.


the two boys who looted Fred TreibeI's
confectionery early Sunday morning, were
arraigned before Justice Davis last eve
ming at 80 O'Clock. The boys were de-
Tended by Col. W. W. Arnett and Pros
eeuting Attorney Jordan appeared for the
State. After hearing the evidence, the
Justice held the boys in $500 each for the
Grand Jury. Terney gave bond, while
Hirseh went to jail
After a number of witnesses had been
examined, including Dir. Treiber and q
young girl who attends to customers In the
store. and who stated that Tierney had
come in the place Saturday and exhibited
a kew, saying be had broughtit from home,
and that he had fled it down so that It
would unlock any door, young Hlrseh
was put on the stand, and detailed his
whereabouts during the entire night and
the circumstances of the robbery. He
said that early in the evening he met
! 1ierney in the Mcclure House, and ran
about he streets with him and another
Young man, the latter taking the two
former into a restaurant and giving them
their supper. About midnight,
after the third party had lett
and gone home, Terney
made n ~prODOsiti on to Hirsch in the Me
Lure House, 10 90 down street and enter .
store. Hirseh asked how they would get
in. when Tierney replied that he used TO
work in the store. and had the key OF the
front door. He said he then agreed to 60,
thinking that if Tierney had the key he
must have right TO go into the place,
and the two started down street. Ar
irving at Treiber's place Of business, Tier
ney opened the door and the two boys
went in. Witness went to the rear of the
ROOM. at Tierney's suggestion, while
the latter went behind the counter
and cleaned out the money dawer. When
he came back. he said there WAS nothing
but ~cOppers' in the drawer, ard Tierney
then helped himself literally TO candy,
tigs, oranges. grapes. &c., inviting the wit
ness to do the same. After remaining in
the store for half an hour, the boys left,
locking the door behind them, and turned
up alley II to the cross alley which runs
out onto Fourteenth street, opposite the
| Public Library. They turned down Four
tenth street onto Market, up Market TO
Twelfth and up Twelfth TO Chdpline,
| where they went mp the stairs lead
ing to Col. Arnett's office, where
| they knew jeff Davis was asleep. They
tried to awaken jeff by kickingand ham,
| mering on the door, but JET WAS ObliyiouS
to everything, 50 the boys kicked the door
open, knocking the lock OF, and went in.
! The BOYS woke JEFF up, who asked where
| they got the stuff. Tierney said over the
creek" which remark, Hirsh said, brought
the idea first into his head that his COM
paniOn had no right IN the store.
JEFF, early the next morning, put the
| police onto the theft, and later arrested
| Hirsch and took him down 10 headquar-
tiers. where the boy cave the thing away
to Officer Junkins. JEFF said last
night thar he Thought Kris
| KrinkIe had come down the
chimney when he woke up in the law
yer's office, and saw the layout of good
things. He said he happened to be sleep
ing in the office through having an en-
g.gement To wash the windows Sunday
morning. and stayed in the office over
OlEnI - ludt tue JOp "oui''h HHp hA9
mind.
Young Hirsch is only thirteen years old,
while Tirney Is about seventeen. The
former, as was stated yesterday morning,
is something of 4 wait, but the latter has
4 good home on the Island. where he is
surrounded by every comfort. The
whole thing Is sad common
t,ry unon the growing negligence OF
parents in allowing boys OF from - to l.
wears Of age 10 roam about the streets all
hours OF the night, where they naturally
tall into bad habits and associate with de-
PRAYED characters of both sexes. Not 4
night passes but the newspaper men and
police see boys, often of respectable and
~well-knOwn families, upon the streets or in
saloons, aSSOciating with older companions
whose influence must necessarily be OF the
most perniciOus character.
The boys who find themselves in the
above serious trouble compose but a small
portion OF a gang which has been engaged
in petty pilfering for 4 year past. One or
two of the crowd have been dismissed from
situations they held in stores
for stealing cash and small articles
OF merchandise, aud others have offered
goods for sale upon the street which were
undoubtedly stolen. Two or three of the
boys belong 10 emineutly respectable fami-
lies, and have had the advantages of proper
training. There is a prospect that ut the
trial of Hirsch and Tierney a tale will be
unfolded which will carry dismay to the
parents OF several young Jack ~Sheppards.