St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-04
A THIEvINC OCTETTE
Nicely Rounded Up, With Ev-
idence Sufficient to Con-
Wet.
An Outfit Of Thugs Who Will
Soon Be Out Of
Sight.
Quick Piece Of Police Work in
Securing Thieves and
Booty.
Warming to Crooks to Avoid
st. Paul in Their Line of
Work.

The gang of thieves who have been
operating in st. Paul for the past week
have come to grief early, as do the ma
jority of crooks who undertake the
difficult task of working around John
O'Connor's men. As previously report
ed, A. 3. Wood, of the Dispatch. was
and robbed of a gold watch and small
sum of money at the junction of Third
street aid Selby avenue, but it has not
been generally known that about twenty
minutes previous 10 this the same men
stopped E. c. Phipps, of Eau
Claire, at the corner of Fifth and
Minnesota streets, and while one
engaged him in conversation other
members of the gang knocked him
down and took his watch and S35 in
money. Phipps was badly bruised and
injured in the encounter, and quickly
reported the matter to the authorities.
Chief OF Detectives O'ConnOr, through
means best known TO himself, obtained
clue to the perpetrators of the out
rage and set his assistants on the watch.
In the meanwhile Charles f. PuSch was
held up and this was also quickly
made matter of inquiry by the
detectives. About O'Clock yesterday
morning Officer McEllistrom found one
of the men who was wanted Sneaking
along on East Seventh street. and just
to prevent any misunderstanding took
him in out of the cold weather 1t was
the intention TO pinch the entire gang
at once, it being feared that if any were
taken the others would become alarmed
and decamp. 1t was not until
10 o'clock last night. however.
that the entire party was rounded
up and given quarters in the central
station. There are five of the men who
robbed Wood and Phipps. and in addi-
ton to these the detectives also cor
rallied the two men who are supposed to
have held up Mr.. Pusch. The quintette,
who will answer to the serious charge
of tampering with the exchequer of a
newspaper man and holding up citi-
zen of Eau Claire, are Henry Mil
ler, alias Harry Morton, John
Marx, John Lynch, Fred Everts and
Pat Hill, the last-named being recent
Importation from st. Louis, where he
has just completed a term of close appli-
cation to the rock pile. The one whose
name is given as Everts is we'll known
to the police by another name. Henry
Miller, or Morton. has relatives in the
city who are of good repute. The other
members Of the gang are tough enough
to suit the most fastidiOuS taste.
and all have police records. The
other two, who are supposed to be Mr..
PuSch's aSsailants, are John Lafond and
Nick GOnZem, two well known young
toughs who are as familiar to the police
station as Phil SchweitZer'S black cat.
They were also arrested last night, and
while the evidence against them is per-
haps not so conclusive as that against
doubt that they are the individuals
required to fill the description given
by Mr.. Pusch. Chief O'Connor does not
90 upon Rory O'Moore's theory that
there's luck in odd numbers" for in
connection with the same series of Of
lenses he surrounded number eight in
the person of Fred Smith. young thief
who sold Mr.. Woods watch to pawn
broker for trifling sum. At II O'Clock
last night Mr.. Wood was waited
upon by detachment of detect
ives with the watch, which, when
he had properly identified it, was
turned over to him. Mr.. Phipps' watch
has not yet been recovered, but now
counted for he will probably regain pos
session of his timepiece. The action of
the police authorities, everything con-
sldered, was very prompt, for III less
than seventy-two hours after the first
offenSe was committed a part of the
property was recovered, the entire gang
of thugs was in hook and valuable
lesson taught to all crooks aspiring to
operate in st. Paul. Emphatically, st.
Paul is a good place for thieves to stay
away from. 1t is matter upon which
thieves themselves agree that there's no
luck in st. Paul for them, and the
sooner they come to realize this and
stay away the better it will be for them.
The parties will all be arraigned
this morning, when as many of the wit
nesses as can he found will be put on
the stand. 1t might be we'll for any
citizens who have seen suspicious char
'acters lurking around to step into the
municipal court at 9 o'clock this morn
ing with view to identifying these