The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-11-26
A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF BOOTY
A Search Warrant Brings to
Light Considerable Stuff That
Was Stolen From the P. 81
r. Q. g. I. Company.

Il %% thief they arrested
E% ~ Thursday NIGHT lust
after he had cleaned of a clothes line in a
dark and lonely section Of the town proves
to be an old offender and one beyond all re.
demption.
The man arrested was known to the police
as Simon Madalis, but his real name is Mike
Moieais. This name was found on miners
certificate granted on the Dist Of last May by
Examiners John McCutcheon, William
saeger and John II. Reese The certificate
was found in the prisoners trunk and he
claimed it as his own.
The arrest of this man will no doubt lead
to a solution of large number of mysterious
burgaries and robberies that have taken
place here during the past several months,
and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company is taking an active interest
in the case. Moleais is very short and heavy
built fellow with a most vllainous looking
countenance, which bears a strong resem-
blance to gorilla. The lower part of his
face is very prominent and slopes backward
to the roots of the hair. His nose is small
and fiat and his eyes very small, piercing
and deep-set. His whole appearance is that
of a desperate character, and from the man
ner in which he testified before Squire
Williams last night showed that he had little
respect for an oath and would slop at nothing
to get himself out of difficulty.
Yesterday afternoon the police searched
the house in the First ward at which Moieais
made his home. rich find rewarded them
for their trouble. In the mans room they
found trunk filled with most curious
collection of articles. Two bags full were
carried to the Justices office and spread ont |
The articles consisted of nineteen pair of |
mems drawers nineteen shirts, seven dozen |
towels and lot of other linen and canton
flannel pieces. The collection also included
collar buttons, lunches Of keys, half dozen
pocket knives, hatchets, hammers, punches,
avis, carpenters squares and chisels, lumber.
mems ca!ipers, such as are used at the
eollieries, padiocks, swtchlocks bearing the
monogram "P. & r." boxes of cans and
squibs, seven sticks of dynamite and an
quantity of other articles, large
and small, valuable and worthless.
When asked where he got the linen and
anton flannel articles Moleais said he
brought them with him from England
where he purchased them for his own use.
the man cannot sneak or
understand the English language (or at least
'retends not to- and the services of an in
erpreter were necessary for the hearing the
nan swOre that he resi- ed in England seven
Iears and this country four When asked
where he secured the carpenters tools he said
hey were used by him when he was car
'enter in England. lie was next asked
bout the dynamite, squibs and caps found in ,
his trunk and said he bought them at the I
suffolk colliery, where he was employed as
miner. Pushed on this question he swore
hat he has been a miner at that colliery for
he past two years; that he has breast there
nd receives 81 yardage aud 81 car. He I
tuck to this story notwithstanding some G
;. & R. checks but a few months old found in !
lis trunk showed that he was employed as
n outside laborer at 81 per day. He was 7
mart enough to tell the miner story in order
o account for the dynamite and other ex-
losives found in his trunk.
After an exhaustive examination Moleais c
'as committed to the lookup pending further I
examination and additional searches By the :
olice, who hope TO bring more stolen prop.
rty to light aud learn something that will
'ad 10 the arrest Of the mans accompliees.
Investigation at Suffolk colliery to-day e
howed that Moleais and his son have worked p
. that place as sub-conuaclols for Otto l
ioner since December last Boner win be at
he hearing tonight, He claims to have lost
number of tools.
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ry. Everything white and spotless. Lace
urtains q speciality. All work guaranteed v