The Portland daily press., 1890-07-29
A BRILLIANT PIECE OF WORK.
Two Portland Burglars Arrested by
Deputy Doughty.
Gallant Conduct Of Two Gentlemen
In Gray village.

The Gray correspondent Of the PRESS
speaks as follows of burglary in that vii
lage with a use of firearms. which occurred
early yesterday morning:
"This village is in high state of excite
ment over the burglary of j. T. and w. l..
MerrlPs store, and the capture Of the burg
lars later. About 1.30 a. m. Monday, July
28th, Mr.. G. {. Hall was awakened by the
crash of window glass. He Immediately got
up, dressed and proceeded to the house Of r.
9. Hall and alarmed the household. Jas.
b. Hall handed double barrelled gun to c.
q. Hall, and took revolver himself. They
went to Mr.. j. b. Halls store an found
everything all right and then started to in
vestigate the other stores. j. b.. Hall dis
covered light burning in MerrilpS store and
also saw man coming through the window.
The burglar jumped into a carriage that
stood in front of the store, in which was a
pal. Mr.. James b. Hall said to Charles
stop them" and at the same time discharged
his revolver at them. The burglars returned
the fire. and at this time Charles G. Hal, who
was near the pest Office (the team going
towards HIM brought the gun into service,
but instead of the occupants of the carriage
getting the contents Of the piece, the poor
beast got all in the neck, but did not stop
until he got to the foot of Weeks's hill OPP
p0site Mr.. Haines'S the horse dropped dead.
The burglars fled on foot.
BY this time the citizens were pretty we'll
aroused and on hand. Deputy Sheriff
Doughty and Mr.. Eugene Hall started In
pursuit and finally located the burglars In
the house of George Meserve at North Gray,
where they were arrested Coin, to about
the amount taken from MerrilPs store, was
found on their persons, and revolver with
some of the chambers empty. One Of the
party is said to be barber having a shop on
Green street, Portland. The other is I'M
known at present. The horse was a grey,
weighing about $50 pounds, and the carriage
top buggy made by Martin 81 Pennell of
Portland.
The people of this village are much pleased
at capturing them, as there have been so
many robberies here in the past few years
s sns a DUE IF Mr. Mr. and
Mr.. win Chapman for their prompt assist
ance to the sheriff"
Yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff Dough-
ty telegraphed from Gray to Sheriff Webb
and City Marshal Green of the affair. 1t
was then asceItained by the Portland officers
that Sunday morning Albert A. Traves.
well known barber of this city, much given
to drink, went to W. A. Briggs's stable ON
Chestnut street and hired grey horse and
top buggy for the day. He did not return at
night, but Mr.. Briggs did not worry much
about the team, thinking Traves would bring
it back all right.
At noon Deputy Sheriff Doughty arrived
from Gray bringing the two burglars, one of
whom was Traves and the other man
named Louis Swan, of this city, whose
father is in jail for drunkenness. Both pris-
oners were taken to the Jail and claim to
have no knowledge of what took place after
they drove out of Portland Sunday. A revolt
yer and large lot of cartridges were found
in their possession.