The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-28
CAPTURED IN VIRGINIA.
A NOTED NEW YORK BURGLAR
IDENTIFIED BY R. PINKERTON.


How Joseph Dollard Fled to England
After the Bridgeport Jewelry Bur
qlary and Returned at the Wrong
Time-A Dangerous Alliance for
Thieves.
From the Neto York World
Joseph Dollard, alias Joseph Murray, a
noted Few York safe and bank burglar,
nas,ed through the city Wednesday en- route
10 Bridgeport, Conn, in the custody of two
Of Pinkerton's detectives, who had brought
him from Norfolk, Va, where he had been
arrested with John Welsh, alias John Ward,
another New York safe and bank burglar,
charged with burglarizing the safe of Chap
man & Gale, jewelers. of Norfolk, and steal
ing from the safe its entire contents, consist
ing of money, diamonds and jewelry valued
at $4,000.
Immediately following this burglary trace
of the two strange men was obtained They
left a train near Petersburg, Va. On being
halted by the police they fed to swamp
Bloodhounds were pressed into the service
and police and armed citizens surrounded
the swamp. During the night the men
succeed in escaping unnoticed, but kilograms
had been sent all over the surrounding
country, and the next day two desperate
looking men were arrested while entering
the city of Richmond They were almost
Frustrated by exhaustion, their clothing
was torn and their hands and faces were
freshly scratched and Scared, as though
i they had been traversing the swamps. They
gave the names of Joseph Murray and John
Ward and were recognized as the two men
4 who had been arrested ten days previous in
Richmond as suspicious characters, acting
strangely in the neighborhood of jewelers.
store on the main street in Richmond.
On their second arrest nothing suspicious
/ was found in their possession, but Chief Of
Police John Poe, Jr, concluded to hold
them on suspicion Of being the men who
robbed the store of Chapman & Gale at
Norfolk three days previous.
Immediately on the burglary being dis
covered Mr. Chapman came to New York
and applied to the jewelers. Security
Alliance for aid; and although he was not
| a member and entitled to its protection,
they concluded to aid him by sending Pink
4 erton's detectives to Assist the local police of
Norfolk, who, under Chief of Police Row
land, had gone earnestly to work at the
4 case. Murray and Ward were sent back to
4 Norfolk from Richmond in custody of Nor
4 folk officers.
a Robert Pinkerton left New York by re-
guest of the jewelers. Security Alliance to
4 20 to Norfolk to see if he could identify
n Murray and Ward as any one he knew. On
arrival there ana seeing the men he at once
h indentifed Murray as Joe Dollard and
n Ward as Jack Welsh, two noted burglars
who have worked on both continents at
their profession, and both arrived in New
Il York from England last June, where they
had served five years for the burglary of
h jewelry store at Manchester
\ The evidence against the men was found
to be entirely circumstant1al and hardly
sufficient to hold them, but Mr.. Pinkerton
had not forgotten that Joseph Dollard was
one of the men concerned WITH John, alias
Kid McManuS, tie Grand street saloonkeep.
er and burglar, and George Fateh in the
burglary of George w. Fairchilds safe at
4 Bridgeport on the night of July 10, 1887.
n and for which burglary Faeth is now in jail
4 awaiting trial at Bridgeport, and John,
4 alias Kid McManls, is out on 200 bail,
put up by his brother, James Nc Manus.
Detective Pinkerton notified Mr. j. B.
Bowden, chairman OF the Alliance, who
directed him to get a requisition from the
Governor of Connecticut on the Governor
4 Of Virginia for Dollard. and arrest him in
h case he could not be held on the Norfolk
charge. This was done, and at the examln-
& alton of Dollard and Welsh on Tuesday for
the Chapman & Gale robbery both men
4 were discharged, the evidence not being
| sufficient to warrant their being held. Joe
4 Dollard was Immediately rearrested for the
burglary in Connecticut by Chief of Police
Rowland, who handed him over to Mr..
Pinkerton, who will deliver him to the
laior at Bridgeport to-day.
The trial of Faeth, Kid McManus and Joe
Dollard will occur next week, and Mr. Pink
erton predicts that all will be convicted.
Mr.. Pinkerton is now at work to recover
Tho - o ~ i
every hope of ultimate success
After the arrest of George Faeth and Kid
McManns for the Bridgeport burglary of
Fairchild's store, Joe Dollard went to Eng
land with his old time partner, Welsh. On
tbelr arrival in Liverpool they went to lodg-
mgs The landlady suspected that they
were dynamiters and reported them to the
police, who called and examined their room
andluggage. Fortunately for both of the
men they had nothing in their baggage but
a piece of pliable wax to take an impression
Of Keys on, and after satisfying themselves
mat this was not dynamite, they left the
men without arresting them, but Dollard
and Welsh became alarmed. They knew
That the laws of England provided that,
having been convicted and served a sentence
mere, II they were caught in the Queens
domain again and failed to report them
selves to the police as ex-convicts, and their
two and half years imprisonment. Being
AFRAID that the police would discover they
had been convicted at Manchester and
served five years and only released the pre-
vloua June, they deserted the apartments
hurriedly, leaving all their baggage, cloth
ing, etc, worth about $500, and taking pas
Ssage under other names, returned to the
United States, and being out of funds,
started at once into the burglary business,
Chapman & Gales being their first at
Tempt
Joseph Dollard was born and brought up in
sne Fourth ward and has been q successful
new York burglar for twenty years, work
ing with the best men in his line, but like all
u thlS class, he has never saved money, and
oetWeen providing for relatives, loaning to
liends, occasionally spreeing a bit and
smbling, has run through all his money.
ne and Welsh have been together as part
neIS, working with varied success for the
past ntteen years, and in that time have
gliy been convicted once in Manchester,
England. Dollard has an open countenance,
smiling face, large, mild blue eyes, is fine
iodIqred, and is the last man whom any one