St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-26
STILL NO ARRESTS.
Burglars Continue Their Pic
ME, and No One Is Gath
cred In.
all Parts Of the City Are In
vaded in Rapid Sue
eeSSion.
Hon. j. D. Humphreys House
Was Sized Up by the
Robbers.
The MeQuillan House Invaded
by the Porch Climber
Last Evening.

And still the reports of burglaries
continue to come in to the chief of de-
tectives, and still he and his force con-
tlnue to not arrest anybody. The chief
of the detectives is SO busy trying to
find out where the GLOBE gets its news
OF the event that he has no time for any
thing else. and will not have this year.
1t will take him until the end of the
year to learn that he cannot find out.
lie has been indulging in suspicious
that some of the men under him were
giving out tips, but, of course, was as
wide of the mark as usual. Then it was
surniSed that the GLOBE was running
a private detective agency, and this
comes nearer to the fact which is that
the GLOBE has a staff OF editors and re-
porterS each of whom has nose
for news and can scent it i'll
the air. Then they are quick
at following up the scent, so that they
often give the detectives the first init
nation. through the paper, that the
force receives of a crime. If the force
doesn't catch somebody pretty soon, the
GLOBE will have TO assign some of Its
reporters to that line for the protection
OF the people of the city.
a few days ago the GLOBE reported
the manner i'll which number of buSi-
ness men were worked on the forged
check racket, and told how Saloon
Keeper Schmidt was worked by fellow
drawing cheek in his place for S25 on
the Capital bank, where he had no
funds. The publication stirred up
Schmidt to 90 and look for the fellow
himself, and he found him on the street.
The FELLOW, George Underwood, was
paraded as the man who did the forging.
aud he was
Charged With Forgery
on the tab at headquarters. Now it
turns out, as predicted, that he is not
the fore er, and the detectives will have
to continue 10 not find the forger. Un-
derWOOd simply signed his own name to
check on bank where he had no
funds. This is not forgery, for man
cannot forge his own name. Then, too,
the check was given Oh the nth but
dated the 18th. thus making Schmidt'S
complaint to the police premature. as
Underwood might have had funds in
the bank by the l9th-though, of course.
the chances are that he would not. He
can probably be held on the charge of
simple larceny for stealing the grip
from Schmdi's brother.
The forged checks were passed on
Nico!S d Dean, Z. {. Narney & Co.,
Edward Kelly and others by one man,
according to their descriptions. One of
Narney's clerks, who look particular
notice OF the check man. has looked at
UnderWo0d carefully, and says that he
Is not the man that got the check
cashed there. He says that Underwood
is larger and darker than the other
man. and not Sc smart locking. Under
wood is common dub, while the other
chap, who will not be arrested, is a
professional. No Cub can forge check
TO fool ShreWd business men, and even
get copy OF firms rubber stamp to
complete his work.
But to return TO the burglars. Here
are more jobs the workers OF which
have lot been bothered. William
Hendricks has an office in room IL
National German American bank build
ing, and lives at I'll Lincoln avenue.
Saturday evening last about 7:330 he
heard a racket i'll front of his house and
stepped out to see what it was about.
He found his dog at the foot of the
steps hanging on to mans leg. The
man asked him 10 call his dog off, and
said that he was passing the house and
tue dog rushed out at him. He tried to
dodge the dog by
HOiIig Toward fI,e Ezouse,
but the dog was TOO quick. and grabbed
his leg, letting his teeth in good and
hard. Hendricks knew that the dog
had been let out of the barn few min
uteS before and did not doubt the story.
He therefore took his cane and beat the
dog of and then apolOgiZed to the man.
''He was gentleman" says Hendricks,
"ior he accepted my apology and said
it was all right, as he was not
hurt much. | went back into
the barn, and few minutes later
my wife called me up stairs to see that
the screers had been cut out of the Win
dow, and the bureau drawers pried open
and ransacked. l then saw that at once
that the dog had caught the fellow as
he slid down from the porch, and went
and apOlOgiZed TO the dog for whipping
him."
Did he accept the abology?" was
asked, and Hendricks replied:
"Oh, yes. He is a smart dog and
knows wheS you square yourself"
Mr. Hendricks says the robber got
nothing for his pains, for since his house
was robbed last winter he doesn't keep
anything of any value in bureaus. but
has hiding place thet no burglar can
find
The next victim is James ID. Hum
phrey, who lives on the east side of
Central park in the large house No. ga
Central park place. Mir. Humphrey
he was worked, and is very desirous
that the newspapers say nothing about
his burglary. This peculiarity of Mr..
Humphreys is well known, and the re-
porter got friend, who is a private de-
tectlve i'll a certain bank block, to 90 up
and interview him. Mr.. Humphrey
started in to tell a theory he and his
vile have about the burr larry, based on
the fact that for month or more peo-
pie have been coming to the house Oc-
casionally. asking if Emma Johnson
lived there. Last Sunday afternoon, a
little before the burglary occurred, two
women
Called for Emma johnson
and would hardly believe that she did
not live there. Then two weeks ago
two men called and acted very much
astonished when that Emma did not
live there. The spokesman was heavy
man with light Overcoat, silk hat and
description of the detective who was
questioning Mr.. HUMPHREY Then
Mrs. Humphrey came in and asked if
the visitor was reporter. This scared
the old gentleman, and. despite the
visitors denial, lie closed up as tight as
clam, and refused to say any more.
He had already intimated that he didn't
know of the burglary until it was all
over, and that the haul was quite heavy.
Again the Porch-CIEmber.
The porch-climber got in his good
-. work again last right. He has no re-
gard for the widows and orphans, and
his operations last evening were at the
house of Mrs. Louisa McQuillan, widow
of Phillip McQuillan, 397 East Tenth
street. While the family were at tea
about o'clock he went into the house
by the window over the side porch aud
helned himself to breastpin with two