The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-26
MARTINS FERRY.
A Bold Burglar Caught In Pittsburgh Ate
q Lively Chnsc,

u Lively Chase.
Plenty otbarSalns are still TO DO had at Julius
Jacobs. -. eE1,g PTS alIIls.
Flowers arc blooming in J. Il. Mon,gomery's
yard on broadway.
w wS S,s, live boy, to sell daily papers at
Mrs. VIM. Knelr, OF stcubcnvillc, IL visiting
Mrs. Sarah Daylcss at tho Daylcis House.
Council met on Monday night and ordered the
interest on the Water Works bonds paid. 90
Tho n. 4. church will DO lighted by electricity
and an Iron fence Will DO put III front OF the
church aud parsonage. Tsaar1
Mrs. Capt II. W. Smith has received a package
o. orange blossoms, roses aud other choice
flowers from Pasadena, Caliiornls, lent by Miss
Eliuise Gray OF this city. 'LH
This evening at s o'clock, In tho Y. N. G. A.
parlors, superintendent sparks will deliver n
lecture on When. What and How TO Read
a point to DO present and 10 bring with him some
young gentleman friend. 1#E...r-
Last cyealng Mr.. and Mrs. N. +. Pugh cele.
erale,l their tin wedding at their residence Oh
Fourth street, very pleasantly. large number
oil irlehIs were theie AMI many presents were
received. Choice reircshmontI were served
about II o'clock aud all those who attended 70.
port agood time. ~
Abe Boston, n well known character, who has
been wanted BY tho police OF Wheeling and
Martins Ferry for soinp time, was arrested In
Pittsburgh yesterday for u burglary III Martins
Ferry, In january, 1852. 1t will DO remembered
tina. the iewelry store Of Lambrecht & Co., on
Hanover street, Martins Ferry, was broken Into
aud robbed Of 500 worth Of Icwelry, between ~
and !? O'Clock on the night OF January q. 1850.
Mention OF this was made IN the lSrELiiGEScER
nj tho time. The officers had no clue Some
time later, however, they picked up some infor.
nation which led them 70 believe that Boston
was tho man wanted, aud considerable OF the
lewelry wat found; ~ tho meantime Boston
skipped. Nothing wax heard OF him for q month
or more. when he secured u job In gla,s works
Mt flndlay. Learning thar he was there the
Martlus Ferry authorities caused his arrest,
hut lIostOn was too sly for tho FIndlay police
mud got away from them. llo told them that he
was not the mGn they wanted, as also did several
glass workers there. who were friends OF boston,
and the Fladlay blue toats were foolish enough
TO believe this and let him 20. lie left Findlay
on tho first trnln aud wns located IN Cleveland
about thrco weeksngo. Boston caught on 10 tho
fact that the Cleveland police had him spotted
and lett immediately. lilo and his brother and
two friends appeared at the Dlthridgc glass
there Abe went TO Pittsburgh, where he was ar.
rested ind locked up yesterday and Il telegram
was received by Marshal Turns, to this effect.
The case appears TO be q clear one against Dos.
ton, aud It Is said that the authorities arc In pos
session Of sufficient evidence TO convict him Tor
70 )Ding Robert Galbsaith's residence about tho
same time Of the I.ambrccht burglary. lie was
arrested for the Galbraith burglary, but released,
tho evidence al That time being insufficient to
hold him. Boston has served term In the West
NlrslAla penitentiary for arson, and Is well
known In Wheeling, lie Is n married man, hnv.
Ing married II Martins Ferry girl. Is about -
years old aud Is as sharp as steel trap.