Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-08-06
LANDED IN JAIL.
Sudden Termination of IA Vacation Which
Was Spent in FreeIand.

Joseph Horwath, Gus Horwath and
Frank Smith are trio of New Workers
who came to spend their two weeks
vacation in Freeland, where the Hor
wath boys father resides. All three
are yet in their teens and cut quite a
SHINE when they appeared in town a
short time ago. The Horwaths, up TO a
few months since, were employed in
Philadelphia but found the old Quaker
City entirely "too slow" for their prog
ressive nature, so they emigrated to
New York, where situations were Sc
cured as hash-carriers in a Bowery
restaurant. One of the acquaintances
formed there was Frank Smith, a youth
of dubious reputation, who hailed origi-
nally from Danbury, Conn. He taught
them the run of the town and under his
guidance frequent trips were made to
Coney Island and other neighboring re-
sorts. When vacation time came around
Frank was invited to elbow it inn at
Freeland, where he was promised a
loud time by his boon companions.
The boys were no way punctual as to
hours and promenaded the streets when
they should have been in bed. On
Tuesday evening of last week they were
out
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and when returning home after enjoy
ing quiet game of poker the valuabes
in the jewelry store of w. j. Getz at
tracted the attention of Smith, who saw
an opportunity to make haul. He had
little difficulty in persuading the others
to assist him, and an entrance was OBJ
tained by one of the numerous keys
carried for such purposes. Placing
little Fred Horwath on guard the youth
full burglars went inside, eXtinguished
the light which Mr.. Getz has burning
every night and began their work. Not
wishing to create an extraordinary SEN
sation they satisfied themselves with
much less than they could have taken,
fearing they might be detected when
leaving town with the booty, which
they proposed to convert into cash at a
three-ball establishment near their city
residence.
When the robbery was discovered the
next morning Mr.. Getz began vigorous
search for the guilty parties, but nothing
was learned further until Thursday
evening, when he was informed that
articles answering the description of
THE MISSING GOODS
had been seen in the possession of
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warrant on Friday Constables Sault and
Quigley called at the residence of Joseph
Horwath, Sr., on Centre Street, and
found there considerable quantity of
the stolen property. The following day
Smith and Gus were arrested while re-
turning from Hazleton, where they had
been seeing the sights. A search of
their'persons brought forth more of the
articles, which they claimed were given
to them by Joe Horwath, who had made
good use of his time by skipping back to
New York. He not only deserted his
colleagues, but robbed them also, taking
S29 belonging to Smith before he went.
No trace of him can be found.
The other two were given a hearing
before Squire Buckley and committed to
the county Jail to await the action of the
grand jury. Their vacation was limited
to two weeks by their New York employ
er, but it will undoubtedly be extended
to an indefinite period. On Smith was
found a small memorandum book, con-
tanning complete
INVENTORY OF THE ARTICLES
taken. The list was as follows: u
pocket knives, l carving set, ] dozen
silver-plated knives and forks, dozen
silver sugar spoons, oxen table spoons,
B single spoons, Is tea spoons, 3 har-
monicas, l violin, | jews-harp, silver
cups, l flute, gold watch, silver watch
and l diamond ring