Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-22
CHIEF HARRIS HAUL.
A Gang Of All Round
Thieves Caught.
"BIG LIVER POOL" ON <,
''BOstOn" and His Pals Landed III
the County Jail on Various
Criminal Charges.

Chief of Detectives, Emil Harris, his fda;
Achates, Theo. c. Metzler, and their able
lieutenant, Len Harris, head of the South
ern Pacific detective force, made one OF the
most important and clever captures last
night that has been chronicled for many a
long day. The officers have been dilig nj
of late in most maniul efforts to break up
one OF the worst gangs of toughs that has
infested the good City of the Angels for
many long day. Their appetite to flesh
their swords was made more keen by the
receipt of the following telegram d day or
two since:
DEAR SIR,-On the night of March 5th,
about q 40, this company's Office at Cotton,
San BernardinO county, was broken into by
burglars, and several vaIises and articles OF
clothing stolen therefrOm. The work was
done by two men, who were seen lurking
about the town day or two previous to the
robbery. The men are known as "Big
Liverpool and his Pal" Liverpool is des-
cribed as follows:
About six feet two inches high, has heavy
dark eye brows, blue CLASSY eyes, dark hair,
about 81 years of age, and had on when
last zen, a black dyed hat and dark pants.
His pal we have not description of, but
they will evidently be together when found.
The men are wanted in san Bernardino for
burglary, and l ask that you will kindly
furnish me with such information as you
may derive rs to their whereabouts, and
will telegraph the facts to proper officers at
San BernatdinO.
Yours truly,
w PRIDHAM.
The dispatch was sent to Tommy Botello.
Mr.. Pridham is superintendent of Wells,
Fargo d. 60. in tits southern end Of the
State. There has been number of bur.
glaries committed in this and nelghborlng
places of late, in all of which probably the
same gang has had hand. 1t is more than
be able to shed light ON some of these dark
transactions.
Harris and his men have been
ON the lookout, and early this
morning they. got sight of big fellow
as he hove in sight coming from Pasadena.
Metzler's eagle eye at once singled him out
as a likely man to follow. He is like Saul
among any army oi ordinary men, and was
easily kept in sight in the crowd by the de-
tectives following in his wake.
The tall son of Anak was soon joined by
two others-birds of feather, ETC.
Liverpool alias Henry Norton, and the
other fellow is Boston, alias Mike Sullivan
alias James Evans; the third is John oulli
van. Norton is a stage robher.- and has
served his time for such crime committed
years ago; he is also bu glar, and gar
roter, and the mischief only knows what
other accomplishments in the same line
he may be up in.
mike Sullivan has been behind the bars OF
the penitentiary four times pro bono
pubtico. The last term he did not serve out
fully. He was in Fo'som for nine years,
and in SS4, when he had served five years
of his time, he escaped, and up to this time
he has escaped the clutches of al bs OF the
law. He is an all-round crook, and knows
all the movements from cracking crib to
cracking skull. had him and a big gang
in San Francisco in 1877. When l knew
| could prove 1t on them, l went into
q dive on Pacific street where they
all were. l was disguised as a
sailor. But l was foolish to go there alone.
They broke away from me, and l gave chase
to "BOstOn." AS he fled down the street
fired over his head. He wheeled on me
and returned the fire. We exchanged sew
eral shots, and at last hit him in the tenn
pie. The scar il there yet. e lay iu the
hospital for weeks, but finally got we'll oh!
yes. he knew ME last night. John Sullivan,
the LAST of this interesting trio, is fifty to
ffty-fiye years old, and has served thirt,
of them in Jail. Mike is forty to forty-hve,
and "Big Liverpool is the youi ger, being
thirty-five to forty. He is powerful fel-
low, over six feet in height, and very heav-
lily built
twice, ferreted them cut again. But tell
you couple of amateur detectives
around the city came near giving the whole
snap away, and cheating the blind goddess
of her prey. We threw the apprentice
hands off the track, however, and
finally last night we ran the quarry to
ground in the "Toscano Hotel" place on
Upper Main street. not usually frequented
by tende. foot tourists-at least not by the
elite of that sort. The thrse now languish
in the county jail for brief period, aud as
some of them ''are wa ted' in half dozen
places at this blessed moment, it
win be luck for them if they
do not languish behind stronger bars
for longer period in short time. oh!
know them well, and know some of the
big cribs they have been in well enough to
think l have them up tree at last. They
are probably the leaders of the gang in
these parts, and l am astray if
their disappearance from the Ecene
of action does not break up
the whole business. This colo-ed cattls are
like their betters-without skillful and
courageous leader, they are nowhe e."
If the story of Boston Mike" is cOrrcc the
is likely to go back to Folsom to serve Oui.h
unexpired term with an unearned incre-
ment added.