Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-29
BURGLARS ABROAD,
A Main Street BO0tand Shoe House
Raided,
Aad Several Hundred Dollars Worth OF
Goods Taken---Two Horses and
a Buggy Stolen.

A5ou. midnight Wednesday night or ear
Is Yesterday morning, three busslars ct
s-c,gd an entrance into the retail boot and
shoe house OF Eaoch Ball, No. 1889 Main
street, aud carried oil a considerable
snouut Of goods aGd several dollars IN
cssh. which had been allowed to remain n
the money drawer over night.
No one sleeps IN the store and the
thieves carried out their plans without zeal
If detection. Ascending a short pair OF
stairs in the rear o. tie store to q small
landing. they placed q board from the rail,
Ing OF the same to the window sill, and
Gated upon the plank, one OF the trio cut
a hole ia the shutter LARGE enough TO ad
mn, a hand aud aru. This done, the tas
teniuy OF the shutter was opened ard IN;
window pried up with some IRON lmpIe
lpenr. through This window ths burglars
Stepped into tue rear Il The store room
and AZ once began 20 selec; as much plum
der SO they could carry Oh.
Evidently they were good judges o
shoes. Tor they went carefully over the stock
selecting tine handmade goods, and reject
ing r~nachlRs-male articles. Mems shoe!
we're mostly taken, only q teS pairs o.
!ad,es' shoes being missed. After takIus
what they wanted, the burglars broke oPer
the money drawer aud robbed il, and ther
tried their hands on the safe, but here they
were rolled, aud were forced to retire With
out obtaining an entrance.
A clerk In the establishment informed {
! REaIsrgR reporter yesterday that the los:
xoulI be somewhere between $500 AM
500. but that il could not - yet be def
lnitely fixed. 4 neighbor heard a noise
bout II o'clock on Wednesday night
whjch ia supposed TO have been made Oy
the burglars. but this il not the only ciu'
a. 20 the time. OtHcer Dunlap, shorlly
ager Y o'clock, observed tgo men stand
ing a, the corner OF Main street aud Mar
let alley, one ct them carrying q larg'
auudle. On observing the officer they ral
Cf
Ac,iay on information aud suspicion
Chief OF Police Smith yesterday cause,
rsrr,r.s 20 be ssorn out before justic.
IS. II Davis for Harry alias Poodle
Price. aud two well huo"u character
named ueilay and GrseUsr, and armec
with this document the Chief, ConstabiD
Love. lad Officers Carney, Duly BIZ
Srgeus raided one Of the nest OF bon
houses 1T the mouth OF The creek in searcI
Of the stolen properly. Halt ndozen pair
OF iqe shoes we're touni. and identified o,
VIZ. Bali US his property. Some sHsPer
l-vs, = quantity OF nv rope ani other ar
tic,ss. eyideutly stolen, were also coute
c,tpl b, the officers and taken TO head
quarters.
The officers then went 10 e house o.
Seventeen street, in the rear Of Smith
hre sery. where u relative OF Poodle
Prices lives. Poodle VAS not there, bu
while the officers were E arching the prem
.aes the = hey we're looking Tor pass,
along the street, and taking the alarm, roD
down Seventeenth street to Eighteenth
through Boiirg's factory, and on toTaE.
he MARI. s.ree, bridge The officer
ave chase. and soon al tha, end oil IOsI
was 10 a state Of excitement. The polio
chased the fugitive across 10 the Soa'f
SIDE. where he go: away and up to late
hour last night had aot bsen captured.