Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-21
HOUSEFUL OF THUNDER
Family of Thieves Run Down In
 New Jersey.
TWO WOMEN ONLY WERE CAPTURED

The Men, After a Desperate Fight With | the Constabies, Who Had Set a Trap For
 Them, Escaped-A Box Filled With Gold
 Among the Booty Captured. TRENTON, Aug. 2l.-The Clark family of Glenmore, N. J., a pretty village in Mercer county about five miles across tho hills west of Princeton, owed 1t wholly to their nerve and the rapidity and excellent | quality of their shooting that they are not all now behind prison bars. They have | just given the constablcs and a posse of men two excellent opportunities of judg- ing of their abilities in these directions, on each occasion escaping after an excit- | ing encounter.
 As it is, Mrs. Clark and her daughters were taken and arc now locked up in the Hopewell jail. The father and son escaped. The Clarks, it was recently discovered, are 0 family of thieves. They lived by robbing houses in towns all over the cen | tral portion of New Jersey. They have | lived quietly in a small house in Glepmore | for the last two months, and it is only re- gently that the character of the family ! was suspected. Their house was found to be full of plunder, and box containing 1 sl,07o in new gold eagles was taken.
 MT. weart. Wanted Revenge. l Dtth ESCGhtlg EGpOELCo from all over that section of New Jersey, but the perpetrators could never be traced. The country affected is the ridge of hills | lying north of the Pennsylvania railroad | and south of the New Jersey Central. It Is dotted with small towns, of which | Princeton and Pennington are the largest. | There are farmhouses everywhere, and the citizens are many of them wealthy.
 Perhaps the largest part of these rob- , berries occurred about six months ago near i Metuchen. The summer house of Spencer | Wearts, corporation counsel of Now ter ! sey, was entered, and articles of value about 60 in all, were taken.
 MT. Wearts Is not a man to be imposed upon, and as the village authorities were wholly puzzled at these and other robber- ies he took matters in his own hands and became his own detective. He spent con- siderable of his leisure time in following up clews and last week he got upon the hot trail of the robbers and followed them to Glenmore. They proved to bo the Clarks.
 Counselor wcarts arrived in town last Saturday. He had located his prey and was prepared to make n capture on the spot He came armed with warrants and was accompanied by three constables-Phil- lips. Perrinc and Jones.
 The party wasted no time They drove to the farmhouse and boldly entered the door.
 But the Clarks were not to be taken so easily as that. They had seen the party.and were prepared. \ buggy hitched to a fast horse was all ready. As the four men burst through one door tho four Clarks fled through the other. The young man whislScd his sister into the waiting buggy and drove rapidly away.
 Mrs. Clark made n dash for the railroad track, which was close to the house, and ran down toward Pennington. Clark himself plunged into the woods.
 Fired on Their Fursuers. For a moment the pursuers were dash ed by this division of forces. But they had noticed that Mrs. Clark labored under
 booty, so they gave chase 10 her and soon caught her. All the others escaped. , But one of the constablcs ran down to the road the buggy dashed away and
 fired n shot from a rifle, with the hope of , , bringing the party down. Young Clark, however, wheeled around in his seat and
 rcturnod the fro with revolver with . such excellent aim that the constable re- treated, narrowly escaping.
 The woman was brought into the house
 and the box opened. It contained Sl. 050 a in brand new gold eagles. Then the house
 was searched and was found to bo liter o ally full of plumber.
 n . were articles thcre of every description. j all of which arc believed to have been q stolen. Mir. Wearts was delighted to rec
 ngniZo many of tho articles which had
 been taken from his country house in
 Metuchen. X carpet was also recognized n as one stolen from the house of a professor > in Princeton college, which was recently n entered.
 ]. Thero were also large quantities oi c clothing. harness and iewelry and boa n after box of goods unidentified, but be
 lieved to have been stolen.
 Two Women Captured.
 Only tho woman had been taken. how ever. so n council of war was held to dc |, eide what next to do. It was finally de !, termincd to set a trap for the others Th' :, woman was to be the bait. It was hoped :, that if she were given her freedom other
 of the family would venture to return anG
 might thcs bc taken. She was first placcC
 under arrest and taken out of town. Ther d she was liberated
 ,T Of course n strict watch had been SC around tho house. and Mrs. Clark wheI ,s set free was shadowcd True to expecta ?, tions, she made q beeline for the farm
 house at Glenmore This was on Sunday
 The trap was well conceived and wei
 laid. A few hours after Mrs. Clark TO In turned to the house those on watch sav ,r the son and daughter rcturn also Clark ,t the elder, 1t seems, had already sneake' of back in the house.
 ss As soon as the son and daughter reach
 cd the house the signal WIS given, an'
 tho posse moved upon them. Tho youn
 man saw them and shouted, and his fa III ther ran out armed with q club Consta ie ble Phillips ran up to tho elder man [ <e arrest him, but was beaten back violent ie ly with tho club.
 Young Clark meantime had drawn hi
 revolver and covered three consi Riles wit
 1t the constablcs foolishly having lof es their rifles n distance back So the eide m Clark, having beaten of Perrine with hi co club, had n free field before him and ra as to the buggy and leapod in. They escaped
 firing as they rode at the constablcs. Tn
 two women are now in prison. of The authorities are now puzzled as { IS what to do with the captured gold. The To | arc content to set no further traps for th to two men, hoping that they will be recos a. nized and taken by police authorities els 10 where. They arc now engaged in sortin
 over the immense amount of booty foun
 in the house and trying to find frol
 whom it has been stolen. The chance
 are thero will be many claimants for DO M tions of the property, as robberies haN been very frequent over that portion
 the state. and 1t is now believed that Il ', Clarks were the perpetrators of nearly a I'D of them.
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