Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-30
Hls NOsE ~ a WISE.
Chntis why burglar Degnsn Eaiied
60 Escape,

60 Escape,
Now Yor. Herald
Patrick II. Clark. bartender, and his
{ wife. sleeping I'm the front room On the third
I Door ~ .In.cuh Wahle's clearinghouse. 40.
/ pa west Twenty. third street, were awaken
I cd iu-t after O'Clock last Wednesday morn-
/ ing nv crash ~ breaking glass. In a room
/ b1.k of That occupied bg Mr. and Mrs. Clark
we're sleeping JcJa Heating, Mrs. Carks
/ brother, and bis wife, who were on yisl.
from the country. Jane. Heating, sixteen
years Oh. another brother 81 Mira. Cart,
sept in q room back ~ Chat occupied by Mr..
and Nrs. keaIng. and back ~ that il the
kitchen. The doors coHnechngs the rooms
wcre oDen. when fr. Clark heard the crash
be thought t'c cat must have knocked dish
from the .iicben table, and he called out 10
Mr. Ec2fing:
".lohu. did YOU hear that noise?"
"Ycs; what wl, iff" repu.d heating.
Before Clark could reply Keotng heard
smother noise, IKE some one stumb'iug in the
hal. IN muGled voice be said, d" | believe
I hear some Que mOyln9 "a the back part OF
the fat"
TIE MASKED WAN is TIE rALL.
Meantime Mrs. Clark had arisen in her
niebidrcss, and the boy James also got uD.
They went tlrou,n % The Kitchen aud the
BOY opened Toe bah door,
A. De stepped ont closely followed by Mrs.
Clark. ue ran pump into man wearing a
black mask ana q hlack SLOUGH hat. The
mashed man Capped the boy by the wrist,
and mutiereJ ln bis ear:
" DON'T you make q noise. This j. life or
/ death with mc. open four mouth, d----n
y1u, and / viii Sin YOU ~
Mrs. C'ark screamed and darted back into
/ me kitchCn just As her husband and John
heaIng boiled intotla ball Clark WAS irst
tna be grsrp.ed With the masked man.
For second or two there was a sharp
l fu.se. but Clark Is a piucky fellow, aud
/ though hardly naf ~ big 81 hi, antagonist,
/ ue threw tue masked man against the stair
way railing and, a. the same time tearing
away the black mast, fastened his teeth upon
the inuudrr's nose
As Clark's tec,n closed ke wise on his
uasal0rgln the fellow roared Justify. and the
ha-der clark blL tae louder his victim BEL
lowed.
ANOTHER Man Is A CLOSET.
While Clark was thus engaged John Keat.
ing, hearing NOISE I'm q closet next % the
bathroom, opened the door and discovered
another masked man crOuching in the cor
uer. Heating seized TINS fellow, and they
were struggling l.ud-iO-hand when Land
lord Wahe and several dodgers from the
floors below-arou,ed by the bowls Of the
fellow whose nose CLARK was chewing
rushei upstairs bearing liehts.
Then Clark recognized this man as John
Dogpan, q plumber At sixtielh street aud
Tenth avenue, whom Clark had hired two
weeks before. Deguan was In the house tor
two days al that time. The man captured In
The closet proved to be Thomas Lively, a
tough associate Of Degnan.
Clark, Heating, and Landlord Wahlo lite
rally kicked the two burglars down the TWO
q ghts OF stars aud out into the street. Then
Degnpu aOd Lively ran for IL.
The breaking glass that aWoke the Clarks
vas found 70 have been pane OF glass which
one OF the burglars had knocked out Of the
ball door.
DEGNAN an EXCONYICT.
Mr. Clark notiG3d Inspector Byrues, and
Yesterday Cenlrll-Ohice detectives aud
Ward Detective Cary. OF the sixteenth pre-.
cinci. arrested both Degnan aud Lively. De.
ieciiye Cary recognized Degnsn az an ex.
convict who was discharged from Sing Sing
last March, after term for sneAk-thieviug.
Lively i also said 10 have a criminal record.
The prisoners were Arraigned ia Jefferson
Market Police Court and held by Justice
German for Erial on charge Of burglary.