Wichita eagle., 1889-01-25
IMPORTANT ARREST.
GEORGE TANGsLEY, ANAL AROUND
THIEF IN CUSTODY.
Strong Circumstantial Evidence That H
Knows Much of e. T. Browns
Murder-AClew to the Loca-
ton of the Body.

| DOuy. dlu also VI lQe arrest ana cODVlcUlOn
Of the perpetrators Of the crime. AS early
| as Wednesday morning the EAGLE was
able to announce to the public there was a
| strong suspicion attaching to party, who
is known as an all around thief and hard
character and that this person was sup
posed to have fed the city for a locality
known to the officers. This morning the
EAGLE has the privilege of announcing
| that yesterday afternoon in this connec-
ton, there was made, what promises to be
A MOST IMPORTANT ARREST
by the McMahan Detective agency and the
prisoner, is none other, than the party al
luded to by the EAGLE as having been
seen at three different times, on
Saturday evening in the near vicinity OF
the scene of the assault on Mr. Brown at
about the time the same must have oc-
CURED. On the evening in question at a
short time after dark, as Mr.. and Mrs.
Hale Cowley, of this city, were driving in
the north part Of the city, they passed up
Waco avenue and when north of Sixteenth
street saw the prisoner coming
from the direction of Seventeenth
street bridge. Again on returning
they saw him near the corner of Thir-
teenth and Wichita streets. Another per-
son, who had been hauling lumber up to
that portion of the city, also saw the same
man, whom he knew well, as did Mr. and
Mrs. Cowley.
As soon as Mr.. Cowley learned of the
murder he Immediately recalled the cir
cumstance of having seen that man in the
vicinity at or very near the time indicated
He then communicated his suspicious to
Sheriff Hays the chief of McMahan's De-
tective agency and to an EAGLE reporter.
The result was that all facts in connection
with the suspected party and his associ-
ates or supposed associates in crime, were
thoroughly canvassed and the conclusion
reached by each was that the man they
wanted at least knew something of the
Brown murder, and that there must have
been others in the affair.
GEORGE TANGsLEY
was the person wanted. He had only a
few days before been arrested by the police
for some stealing which had been going on
in the city, but while in the city calaboose
he had been given something with which
he effected an escape. His escape was
effected on last Friday night. 1t was pretty
well understood that Tangsley had been
connected with more or less of the bur-
glarizing which had been in progress in the
city for some time and when ex-Constable
Doc Worralfs house was broken into some
time in December, during his absence in
the Territory, the latter Immediately laid
the matter before Detective McMahan and
has since continued to work with him on
the case, which Yesterday afternoon at
at his home which is little frame shanty
located on the alley between North Main
and North Water and Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, a short dis
lance north of the Twelfth street
depot of the Missouri Pacific railway
THE ARREST.
Even aside from the important bearing
this arrest promises to have upon the solu-
tian of the Brown murder, it is very
beneficial one to the city in general, as the
prisoner is believed to be one of an organ
lied gang that has made a business of
breaking into houses when the occupants
are temporarily out of the city. He con-
f. sses to having committed no less than
nine of these himself during the past ten
months. The case had been worked
up by four of the Mcmahon
detectives, one of whom, is Doc Worrall,
now connected with that agency Yester-
day a search warrant was sworn out for
the purpose of searching Tangsley' sIhouse
and when the officers went there they
found quite large supply of stolen silver
ware and many other things that belonged
to parties whose houses have been burglar
lied. When the search was being made
'trundle-bed" was drawn out and there
was Tangsley, himself, whose presence
was considerable of "a surprise, even to the
detectives, but more so to the
newly made prisoner, who was
then taken to the McMahan Office and
there confessed to all of the thefts indi-
Gated above, and also made a clean breast
of the business by telling how, when and
to whom, he had disposed of the balance
of his plumber to parties in three different
towns in this portion of the state. He
tried to shield his pals in the work by in
sisting that he had no assistance in these
but this part Of his story is
no: believed for he is known to have
been associated in a number of rather
crooked transactions, with others who
have been limited at in the EAGLE during
the past two days and other arrests will
follow.
THE DETECTIVES OPINION.
As soon as the newspaper man asked
Mr.. McMahan if he thought that Tangsley
had anything to do with the murder of
Mr.. Brown, he positively refused to ans
wer any questions in that direction and
said that all he could be induced to say, |
was that he thought the arrest might have |
bearing on the Brown mys-
terry and that had it not been for the |
latter occurrence the arrest would not !
have been made just yet.
When asked what there was new in the /
Brown case, he said: You may quote me /
rs saying that without a question it is /
,ase of murder, and | am now working |
md have been for the three days, upon a
,lew which believe beyond doubt will |
result in the finding of the body of Mr..
Brown in a very few days. do not care |
20 stay about who l think had hand in 4
he affair, but may be able to tell you I
alter"
After Mr.. McNahan had finished his ex-
animation of Tangsley, the latter was
AIKEN to the county Jail at about o'clock
asst night
The PRISONER,
Who is man five feet, eight inches in
height, OF medium build and would weigh
perhaps AS TO $50 pounds His hair and
which latter he wears full eN-
ept a streak on his chin. are dark brown.
lis eyes are blue. Forty-nine years old is
he age he gives Ohio is his native state,
,ut after serving three years in the union
army he ramoyed TO Illinois about 1864 |
where until 1850 he resided in Morgan
md Greene counties when he removed 20
Kansas. When the Frisco railway was