Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-22

SpoilS Taken From Country Storrs-Now
 They win Give Up Their witd Life and
 Ca to School.
 PARK RiDGE. N. ]. Aug. 22.-The Red Rangers Oi the Pa>Saic. or the Boy Bandits of Park Ridge, have be n brought to bay Their rendezvous in the forest has been destroyed, and sto,ekeepers here now breathe easier These young bandits had for their haunt a nook in the center of the forest. It was Il secluded spot, surrounded by a heavy growth of underbrush, through which it was impossible to penetrate save by single path cut in q tortuOus, round about way hs the bandits.
 Once inside the tcudefvons the boys had & meeting place as romantic us had those heroes of cheap fiction from which they obtained their ideas.
 They had cleared away a large space in which they had built hut and there they spent their spare hours reading dime novels and planning new raids on the stores and houses in this vicinity. They adopted a uniform costume, wore red shirts to symbolize the name of their band and met at stated intervals when they transacted business in the approved bandit style. They were armed and roam ed about their domains as did the heroes they patterned after.
 Warned Outsiders on. Throughout the forest they posted signs warning persons from intruding upon | their domain. No trespassing," printed as if by the owner of the forest. was posted at intervals. and they had guards sta l tioned to warn them of an approaching | foe
 But the Red Rangers came to grief. In some way they learned that officers Of the l law were on their track. and when tEe peace mintnns reached the rendezvous nothing was there save the b.ackened ruins of their hut and the ChArrrd remains of their plumber, interiuiugled with the half 1 burned remnants of dozens of dime novels. The boy bandits had scattered to their | homes, where they waited for the search to end
 They owed the discovery of their exist ence to an accident. Mrs. Shell happened to observe one of the Red Rangers trans | ferriug a bottle of sirup from a grocery store counter to his pocket while the pro prietor was not looking and exposed the theft This bandit confessed. and Justice w. B Smith sent officers of the law after the other culprits. They followed the beat | en path made by the boy bandits to their haunt, but their only capture was enough evidence to connect the young desperadoes with many articles whose mysterious dis |
 IL k supposed that the boys made off with mu,h plunder of which no account can be had. Their usual method in rob hinG stores WAS tO wait until one person was alone and then order a small quantity Of oil or ann: her commodity stored in the cellar. lhr!. while the attendant was pro curing the '.rticle they had helped them selves To whatever they wanted. | Frrdvr.rk (. l.inderman. shortly after \ Il
 for the arr. st Q. Carl Frohm. George Rerd
 Perry Brau~ grove. Frederick Van Bus. sum, Alhvr; Fruhn. Charits I.attermau and George Ackrrman, charging them Iwith stealing sirup soda, door. lumber IkCrn>enr, cigarettes. cigars, chewing to I haCCo. a bar ui iron, palls. cu~pIdurs, nails and other articles
 rutrrrd Many stores.
 | Among the ~turrS from which they pil
 fered were those ct Gerhard II Timeye1
 and William Ramps They were alsc
 charged with stealing from the New Jer
 sey and New York railroad. the Islanl
 park the co!orrd peoples picnic ground.
 and from the foreetrrs hall. None ot theS,
 complniuants hId any idea of how mucl
 had been stolen from them, but the,
 thought lt wL~ considerable.
 Justice Smlrh had all the boys bruugh
 before hnn. ~umv al them hviuE aCcompa
 uicd hy thrlr parents George Reed admit
 ted hat the hut had been built immedi
 ately Att,r >.h h"nl clu>,rd in the latter par
 of June, n..d the other boys told how the
 had pr cuIvt! many ut their supplies.
 Alth"u-h he justice had SIX witnesses
 he decided 10 let the lads of with a repri
 mand. wh oh he administered with a ia therly grace. They promised between sob to never r.n-r again.