Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-02
TELL-TALE TICKETS.
Two Men Captured With Over 100
Pawn Checks in Their Possession,
MANY FOR GEMS AND WATCHES.
Valuables Worth Thousands of Dollars
Hooked in Four Cities.
DETECTIVE WITCHES CLEVER WORK.

The police bureau made another import
ant capture yesterday afternoon. and showed
two New York young men that Pittsburg is
a good place to stay away from, especially
when they want to do business with pawn
brokers. The two men are now ruminating
behind the bars. and will probably be sent
to New York, where Inspector Byrnes will
do business with them.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon De-
tective McTighe, who is now known as
Little Pink" the latter an abbreviation Of
the name OF the great Chicago detective,
was standing at the corner of Smithfeld
street and Diamond alley waiting for some
thing to turn up. He spied a suspicious
looking individual in front of pawnshop
nearby and concluded to watch him.
In few minutes the detective found
that the suspicious young man had
a partner who was in the pawn
shop negotiating for the "soak" Of silver
watch. McTighe sauntered In and engaged
the man in conversation about the watch.
The stranger offered to sell the timepiece for
SS and McTighe offered S., with the inten-
ton of leading the man into conversation.
He invited the stranger outside, and as they
were walking down Smithield street the
young man winked to his partner, and the
latter began to play the ''capper" act.
WORTH A LITTLE MORE.
He became interested in the ssle, without
showing he was acquainted with the man
who wanted to sell, and told McTighe it was
a good watch and worth more than S.. As
soon as he got them close enough together
the detective grabbed the two men and told
them to accompany him. They did not
know where they were going until Pink
turned into Diamond alley, when they saw
they were going to the police station.
One OF the men tried to wrench his arm
loose from the detectives grasp and get
away, but did not succeed. In the scuffle
he put his hand in his coat and, pulling out
a pocketbook, tried to throw it away. While
holding onto bis prisoners the detective also
got the pocketbook and marched the two
men into the Central station. There they
gave their names as William Travis and
John Temple and their residence as Detroit.
1t was found out afterward, however, that
they lived in New York.
In the pocketbook which one of
them tried to throw away were over
100 pawn tickets on New York, Brooklyn,
Detroit and Pittsburg pawnbrokers. Nearly
every one of them was tor diamond, watch
or piece of jewelry. The stuff pawned
was worth thousands of dollars, and it is a
wonder to the police officials where all the
stuff was obtained. The detective secured
one gold and one silver watch pawned in
this city. The former was new timepiece
worth $50. and on which the broker had ad-
vanced S35. The watch was a Walthan
movement and had evidently been stolen.
A VALUABLE LENS.
In addition to the hundred or more other
checks, there was one pawn ticket for
photographers lens pawned at the store of
John Simpson, No. 81 Park Row, New
York, for S415. There was also found a cir
cular of graveyard" insurance company,
giving details of the business. The pawn
tickets were dated from January to April of
the present year, showing that the stuff had
been "hocked'' recently.
The two men stated that they boarded at
No. 1112 Muriel street, on the Southside,
and gave no reason for the large number of
pawn tickets in their possession. Assistant
Superintendent o. Mara last night wrote to
Inspector Byrnes, and an answer is ex-
pected this evening.