The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-04
THREE MEN CAUGHT.
Clever Capture of the Safe
Blowing Burglars.
SUCCESSFUL DETECTIVE WORK.
The Robbery OF the Standard Oil Com
pany's Safe Traced to Notorious
ThIeves-AIl Now In Jail.

The burglars who cracked and robbed the safe
in the Seattle Office OF the Standard oil Company
on the morning of October - are ia jail, ana
have msde fun confession. The Job was
d9ae by three men. the leader OF whom was
Frank Adams He was assisted by Harry Con-
molly, alias "DeAiy," boy about % years Oh,
aud John J. Mccarthy, we!i-Enown tough
character in the city. The detectives did very
effective work In spprehending the burglars.
Within twenty-iour hours after the safe was
blown open they had Mccarthy and Connolly in
jail aud three days later Adams vas arrested IN
Tacoma and brought TO Seattle and locked up.
TIE prisoners were not booked aud great
secrecy was observed in keeping the arrests
from the public in order that the web Of evil
aence might be wound around the suspects.
The three men viii be srrAigaed for hearing
on a charge OF safe-biowing this afternoon be-
fore Justice Won Tobel
For some time previous 70 the crime Chief OF
Police Rogers had reason 10 suspect that John
J. Mccarthy was contemplating some crime,
and he watched him closely. At O'Clock in
the morning of October . Detective CudIhee
telephoned to the chief that safe had just been
blown open in the Office OF the Standard Oil
Company The chief thought second; an
idea. accompanied by conviction flashed across
his mind, and he said;
"We want Mccarthy
Mccarthy was found the same day and was
landed in iail s'Deafy" was also suspected, and
being chum OF McCarthy's, was easily found.
They were put in separate portions OF the jail,
away from other prisoners, and even yet one
does not know that the other has been under
arrest The chief would first take one man up
and eross-aueStion him for an hour, and then
the other one would come up and be subjected
20 a severe questioning. Ia this way the stories
were compared, the defects asceriained and the
thread OF evidence wound around them. Every
faC FpaT
out gathering up the evidence until last even
ing, when the case became complete and the
evidence conclusive.
Detective cudihee arrested Adams in Tacoma
an hour before he shou Id have taken the North
ern Pacific train for the country south. The day
following his arrest he was pumped" ne
yielded some valuable information and the tools
which the men used were located and are now
IN the hands of the detectives. The outfit,
which consisted of dark lantern, three yards
of slow match fuse, a well-made Racket drill
and two l4-ineh steel bits, were found under
ihe sidewalk in front of the Kentucky saloon on
Main street near the corner of Third The
money, fl00, which was taken from the safe has
also been recovered.
Harry Connolly has lived in Seattle about a
year and has several times been under arrest.
With two other young men he was jailed a few
weeks ago upon suspicion of being implicated in
burglary, but the evidence against them was
insufficient and they were released.
John J. Mccarthy has lived in Seattle num-
Der of years and is &c years old. lie was a
second in the prizehght which took place in
the Peoples theater last winter between Charley
Doyle and ''Billy' schaefer, wherein the latter
died in the ring, after terrible beating, from
natural causes" For bis share in the fight he
was sentenced to six mouths in the county jail
Frank Adams has several times been arrested
Last spring he bunkoed man from Tennessee
out OF 500. Ho was aided by another man, who
claimed to be his brother. Both were arrested
by Detectives Cudihee and "Dutchie' Brown
and were each placed under 81 600 bonds for
trial in the superior court. Frank Adams gave
cash bail, bought the complainant off and the
case was dismissed because the prosecuting
witness could not be found.