The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-03-24

5lattery begged him to go away and offered ]
lim fifty dollars to say he found nothing in
the house. Boland declined the offer and
took Mrs Slattery to Squire Williams Office,
Upon Constable Bolauds report Grocer
Bowman sent his wagon for the goods that
had been found, The magnitude of the haul
can be measured by the fact that the wagon
made three trips between the Slattery house
and Bowman's store 1t would be impossible
to enumerate the haul, These are very
few items 46 pounds of coffee, 27 pounds of
tea, 277 pounds of -four, 80 pound.packages
of starch and corn starch, 1Ol pounds of hard
tobacco, 81 pound-packages of soft tobacco, 3
boxes of clothes pins So different kinds of
canned goods and 500 paper bags The list Of
articles recovered fills four legal cap sheets of
paper, but Bowman says the recovery is far
from complete,
justice Williams concluded to hold Mrs |
Slattery under bail, on the presumption that
she had knowledge of the robberies. The
woman declared that she was entirely limo.
cent of any of her husbands transactions.
At about 8 O'Clock last evening, while Mr..
Williams was having hearing, word was
received that slattery was at his home
Constable Boand and Dando went to the
house. Danao went to the front and the
former to the rear Of the house. Boland
found Slattery shivering behind the door in
the water closet. Slattery had neither coat,
vest, hat or shoes on, and on account Of the
trouble he had caused in the afternoon by
running away the officers reused to allow
kim to enter the house to put ON the things
They were sent for after the delivery Of the
prisoner at the 'squire's Office.
| Slatbery was very cool. He was told Of the
charges and pleaded guilty at once He said
he got into the store through doorway
that opened on porch ON the second story at
the rear. He also claimed that lhe door was
also open when he made his visits and ad-
mitted robbing the warehouses in the yard
frequently, but.2enied that at any time he
had used keys Mr.. Bowman declared that
the warehouses were locked every plght. The
grocer became very much excited and said,
1.-TWO thousand dollars will not cover my
losses. Here have been struggling for two
D y
| until am almost ruined"
/ "There is ne occasion for all this farce,
Squire" said slattery. This is unnecessary
Y Justice Williams fixed $1,000 bail for
4 Slattery ard $500 for his wife, which was
X offered by John Slattery, brother of the ac.
\ cused, but the Justice found upon referring
l to the District Attorneys printed orders that
I bail could not be taken for slattery, as he was
charged with night burglary. The brother
I then refused to furnish bail for the wife.
This, it is said, was due to family difficulties
Slattery spent the night in the lookup and
| the wife and her son stayed at Constable
Boand's house.
Constable Boland says he also found in
lslattery's house about 1000 pairs of boots,
shoes and uppers and large quantities. Of
leather and other materials used in making
shoes This stock is supposed to belong to
the senior slattery, but thus far he has
declined to take any steps to prove ownership
or to prosecute. He also declined to llok for
bail for his son, or the wife.
qhis case is one of the greatest Of sur
priees to the people. Although Dennis slat-
terry had been wild in his time, there was not
one who believed he would become a burglar
Some of his friends say he must be a
I kleptomaniac, while others express the
4 opinion that he was encouraged in his work
by his wife. This latter theory is no doubt
based upon the inability of those who hold to
] il to forget the wifes former life.
About five years ago Slattery's wildness led
him to become patron of the fast houses in
P6ttsville During this career he met and
became infatuated with a woman at a
place called the Flower Garden" This
woman was Annie Ickus and left her home
in Danville to lead the life at Pottsyille,
Slatterys visits to the woman became fre-
quent and he layished money upon her.
Finally Slattery took the woman to Rlngtown
and supported her there until his funds com
menced to run low, when the woman, still
under the protection" of Slattery, came to
town and entered the then notorious Max
well house subsequently Slattery married
the woman and they have since been living
together in a handsomely furnished house on
South Jardin street, where the stolen goods
were found.
Notwithstanding the previous career of
Mrs Slattery and the fact that friends Of
Dennis lay his downfall at her door, there are
many who speak well of her, so far as her
married life is concerned. 1t is said the
couple led a happy life and the influence of
the wife has been such that since their
marriage she has induced slattery to abandon !
all his former reckless habits. Through her /
influence, it is claimed, the husband has
become strictly temperate and bas given up
the use of tobacco in all forms, Still to all |
this Slattery's friends say But she did not |
stop the burglares" One the other hand |
the woman says she knew nothing of them.
slattery was employed in the eobbling shop |
connected with his fathers store and it is said |
he made good wages.
1t was stated last night that Slattery has re-
peatedly expressed anxiety to go to Blue
field, West Virginia, and embark in some
business and it is believed that the burglaries ,
was part of systematic plan for q start
Dennis slattery and his wife were take n |
to the Pottsville Jail this morning, after |
several Intellectual efforts were made to secure
bail for the latter.