Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-19

ing expedition, and went into the Handel
house and bought some cider He espiea a
pair of Cape Cod fishermans wcolen stock
ings hanging in the fireplace. These he
bought OF Edwin Warren, and Mr.. Albert
Monde, a citizen of Chestnut Hill, subse-
quently identified them as his Warrants
were at once produred for the arrest of
Phillips and Edmund Warren, and Constable
Barstow went after the men, He found
them in new resort, the Simon Woodell
house, an isolated habitation in Killingly
He peeped in through torn window cur
tain at midnight and found the family roi-
stering over some good things taken from
James Burlingame.
He went in and arrested Edward, "Capt
Josiah, Ed Mofitt and wife, and others OF
the Clan Warren just at the moment they
were planning how to dispose of Burlingame's
milk cans in Rhode Island for cash
The prisoners were being shackled together
when Edward complained that his haadcuffs
hurt his wrists, and while tho humane con-
stable was loosening them, and his posse
failed to look after all means of exit, Capt
Warren fed through the back doo-, took to
the pines and escaped to hiJ Iaosl Island
hovel He yelled back as he ran that no
him. But the plucky constable hung ON to
the case He discovered PHILLIP and Edward
Warren prowling about thicket in the pine
woods near the Hill few days later laid in
wait for them, and captured them both single
handed, after severe fight. He secured
large bunch Of keys from them, including
three which unlocked the Handel house.
Capt Warren was subsequently cap
tured last week by the constable and three
assistants at the back of his hut after strug-
gle, during which the willy fellow attempted
to escape, and would have succeeded had he
not stumbled in jumping a stone wall.
Once captured, the Warrens and Phillips
confessed their crimes, and thu captain"
agreed to return to Connecticut without
requisition The captain and Phillips will
have to serve long terms in Wethersiield
state prison for breaking and entering, while
the others will go to Jail They consented,
after good deal Of third degree work. to
disclose the places where they had hidden
their booty and the people thereabout have
been almost paralyzed with amazement ever
since at the variety and number of theirex-
ploits New owners are turning up for the
property every day, and the officers are put
on the track of some fresh exploit or unvis-
tied cairn of stolen property every time they
visit the prisoners
Edward Warrens 12-year-old son revealed
the presence of large dugout in the garden
of the Handel house, which was completely
filled with stolen farming tools, with their
handles painted red so as to disguise their
ownership.
The woodshed Of the Handel house was 50
ingeniously partitioned off as to conceal a
hidden chamber, accessible only through n
trap door to which access was had by a lad
der. Here were vast quantities of stolen
plunder of all sorts-enough to start series
of second hand stores, including vegetables
in large quantities and utensils of various
sorts. Behind the partition of am attic room
were found sixteen wood saws and sixteen
axes
Under culvert half mile from Ballou-
vile they had hidden four large feed sacks
full of clothing and big wash tub of it,
which they had taken from James Welsh.
The thieves delivered no the keys to
Mitchell's grist and saw mill, where they had
been in the habit of going and helping them
selves to grain. All oi them agree that the
captain" did the planning.
Certain other well known thieves who
have been acting in concert with the gang,
carrying their plunder to the east aud north,
are now being looked after by the authori-
ties. 1t is known that the pests are not en-
tirely exterminated, but the authorities are
satisfied that their palmy days are past, and
that soon all of them will be safely set to
work for the state.