Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-02
LOOK OUT FOR THIEVES.
The Gold Weather Makes Them
Active
Ladies' Objection to Appearing in the
Police Court IN Argument in Favor
of Magistrates Courts.

inspector Hollinberger of the detective
corps favors the magistrate system with
the Police Court to hear appeal cases With
such an arrangement, he thinks. more
thieves would be apprehended and punished.
Many ladies, he says, have a horror of
going to the Police Court, whereas to the
magistrate system they would not have so
serious an objection. For fear of having IN
appear in court, the inspector thinks that
many OF them refrain from reporting their
losses. Then, too, the police would have
more time to patrol their beats and Dor
! lions of the city would not be left unpro-
tected so often.
Ihieves are beginning. to get more active
as the cool weather approaches and the
ponce are also active. While there are many
tneIts being committed. the officers are also
arrestlng many thieves and the jail cells
are rapidly filling up for the winter There
are numerous thefts however in which the
perpetrators are not caught and in which
the goods are not even recovered.
Today in the Police Court there wore
several cases of theft. In one case three
negroes, William Ford. James Matthews
ana GEORGE Smith. were convicted of n
clarse OF visiting A. Cohens store and car
Tyihs OH shirt and jacket and were given
SIX months each. In sentencing them the
court said that these store thieves or shon-
nIters would have to cease their Operations
I
get every one of them
mere was charge OF larceny from the
person against Andrew Reddick, and the
T G went over until Saturday William
tb usn IVA was charged with petty larceny. and
the case was continued for one week He
was arrested on complaint by Detective
tarter Bush had charge of the house Of
I 1ne late Caiver T. Sampson, 17i3 Rhode
80 sahu avenue: Mr.. Sampson and his wife
iert the city for the summer and went to
NoIth Adams, Mass. Some weeks ago thev
uieuahd both on the same day When mem
peas,, OF the family looked over the house
taken. eNe@'e hau peeh
W nen the officer arrested Bush. who Is a
,ha. il S man, the officer was Informed
,t push was to have been married this
ii 10 young woman The news of
,n,, being married seriously affected the
souns woman Some of the alleged stolen
drucles nave been recovered
Mary Bailey. a colored servant twenty
Years old. was arrested at the Baltimore
anu fotomac depot last night as she was
a a!s 70 leave the city. Her trunk was
also captured and sent to Headquarters
Mary had been employed as a domestic in
the mouse of eN-City Postmaster Conger
and later she was employed in the house of
MT. Lanerty on 18th street She was not
an honest girl. so 1t is charged and when
arrested she told where she had put articles
belonging to Mr.. Conger. Some of the
goods taken from Mr.. Lafferty's house. 1t
Is alleged. were found in her trunk. The
case VIII be tried tomorrow
Yesterday clever sneak job was COM
mitted at the Wallack School building in
East Washington, two of the teachers
being victims. \ colored girl had been
seen lettering about the building, and she
also called at one of the rooms and asked
TO see one of the boys and delivered a mes
sage. The message proved to be fictitious,
and the girl went about her business. She
is now suspected of having walked off with
two coats. One of them was a blue beaver
and the other tan colored. Both had mink
trimmings.
Last evening a sneak thief entered the
house of George Maddox. No. 102S Trinidad
avenue and walked off with an overcoat.
A double breasted sack coat stolen
F street yesterday. John Leonberger has
complained of the theft of solitaire dia-
mond ring.