New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-21
MORE PRICED PRISONERS.
POLICE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
THE NOTORIOUS "DoC" BLISS AND OTHER GRIM

THE NOTORIOUS DOC" BLISS AND OTHER GRIM
INALs NOW BEHIND PR ON-BARS.
Inspector Mclaughlin and his detectives yester-
day continued the good work which they began
on Saturday night in the raid on Charles Will
iamss den Of thieves, AZ No. 42s Sixth-ave, by
the capture of five more Of the gang. Two Of the
prisoners are women. When the twelve prisoners
captured on Saturday night had been safely lodged
in Police Headquarters, the Inspector instructor
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Armstrong and Downing 10
keep watch on the house and arrest any one VINO
might enter WiIiiams's rooms
The Inspector had particular regard Tor DOC
Bliss one Of the mos. dangerous and most success
full sneak thieves in the country, and inc ue>
tectvcs were told to every possible enorr 10
get him. Shortly before midnight there appeared
on the scene less person than Frank Living
ston. better known as "Sheeny Frank" who has
served several terms in Sing Sing ana o'ier
prisons, and occupies a prominent niche in S"perin-
tendent Bvrnes's GALLERY of fame. He had no
stolen property with him. but merely wanted 10
nav a little professional courtesy TO Williams.
whom he and other crooks" know as James
Seaton Having sent Mr.. Livingston under sale
guard to Police Headquarters, Armstrong anu
Bowling about O'Clock started on s'liI huht
for Bliss, leaving other detectives on the wa,ch
at Wiliamss house. Sarah H. Byrne, uie pIy-
sicians widow with whom Bliss had hved a' NO.
so2 parkave and who was one of those seized on
Saturday night, had given false address. Arm
strong and Bowling, however, quickly found iler
fiat M No s23 Parl-ave, and at 3 o'clock in The
morning were rewarded with The sight OF their
quarry comfortably mnfleA in an ulster. cigar III
hand and placidly srolling into the fiat, blSsiuy
unconscious of the fate that had oVer'aKeh HIS
PARTNER When Armstrong and Downing ran "l'or
a gE.a1
take n walk TO Mulbcrry-st. he showed no aston
jshment and took his arrest with accuS ohleu
philosophy
Yesterday. at the Tombs Police Court, Inspector
Mclaughlin applied TO Justice Grady for REMAND
in order that he might be able TO secure evidence
regarding the ownership of stolen proprty. Inc
prisoners were accordingly committed for iur'hef
examination.
David Bliss. or doc" Bliss, as the criminal
world knows him. is a man of fine attalnments
who long ago disuraced the old Southern family
from which he came, and adopted a lie Oh
DEGRADATION. His particular department oil pro-
fessional work is sneak robbery, IN WHICH no
probably unequalled. He was once pnysioian
in good practice and was graduated from uieu
on, college in Cincinnati But he was tliicl
nv instinct and by taste, and having been driven
out of the city in which he had started practico
as a physician made roguery the sole occupation
Of his life. =, ooaoa moro than
ortmatched the police, although he has served TWO
terms in prison. In Decen Der, leoQ, ne was a.. a.,
rested in company with Matthew Lane, az .He
Fall River pirr. while leaving the steamer froV-
dence which had Just arrived from Boston II,
mail valisa Bliss carried slverwarc TO the VaIue
Of So 400 the proceeds Of several HAT To0oeIles
in Roston Having been taken back 70 B Gs
Tho mariners received ten-year torn, Dltss
,nost notable achievement was, perhaps, the uheIs
in MAY. 1888. of $4,000 in bonds ana sVochs
from an office at 40 757 Broadway. On ms way
downstairs with the bag containing the STOCKS ~
Stenned into a room on the lower Moor ana helpeu
Impself 10 81 90 in bills which were lying on
desk In this case, also, he was sent 10 p'lsoN
ANY one entering Inspector McLaughIlhs room room
-, police Headquarters just now wouiu imagine
that the Inspector had opened genera iei .be
dise store. Strewn over the chairs ana ABOUT tne
room were three Photographic lenses worm ~. ~
e. M. opera glasses a full set of burglars TOOLS
two rolls of dress goods, bronze sPhhA; caiIaSo
,obas three umbrellas, a dress, silk handKercheis
silyer-headed canes, lawn tennis shrlS 'apicMH'c
q HOY containing canoes and amethysts, roil OF
black silk lace curtains, ana SET Vi M -I"l
saws All these things were found IN NliIlamS
rooms. and all, excepting the PROFESSIONAL 'oo''
await the arrival Of Their owners
4 letter found in the drawer OF Wlillamss
writing desk was as follows
Charle-We are dead broke and lust got TINS sup
nosed stolen property Send us $40 for this ana 10y
telegraph that we may get II right away Auuieso
IT, Freeman No. Lowering Place, BOSTON