The morning news., 1894-10-22
A THIEF CALLED DOWN.
Stopped in His Flight by Detective KaV-
a1augh'S Shot.

/ Eddie Osborne andrwo Other Negroes
Discovered Trying to Get Into J..
! McLaughlin's Place on Bay Street.
They Refused to Halt and Were Fired
/ on-osborne Was Caught-Numerous
Burglaries Committed in That Neigh
borhood - Thieves Break Into A.
Ehrlich & Bros Place.
Detectives BosseI and Kavanaugh were
out for the sneak thieves and burglars last
night with a vengeance, and their efforts
were rewarded in the capture of Eddie
Osborne, colored, a notorious thief who
was shot in the right leg, just above the
knee, while trying to prevent his capture.
Sometime early yesterday morning the
store Of A. Ehrlich & Bro, on Bay street,
between Whitaker and Barnard, was bro
ken into by a thief The method used
was that similar to the robbery of W. A.
JaudOns store. The glass of the front
door was smashed in with a rock and
then removed. The thieves entered
through his hole. and went through all
the drawers, evidently in the hope of
/ finding money, but in this they failed.
The attempt to burglarize the store was
not discovered until this morning.
mere mas DeGn n SOtQ zeal OF NnlS WOlk
going on among the houses on the Bay,
and last night the detectives were on the
! lookout. About 1880 O'Clock they heard
glass smashed somewhere in the neigh
| borhood of Bay and Barnard and began
to tr| and locate the scene of the sup
| posed burglars operations.
Detective Kavanaugh was in Bay
street lane, and Deteo tive Bosseu was
over on the north side of Bay street He
! heard a noise down under the bluff appar-
| ently which he located at the door Of J.
McLaughlin's place which belongs to the
room just below the street. An investga-
tion showed that there We're three men
there tampering with the locks on the
door.
They evidently thought they were be-
ing watched, for they soon ceased their
| work and started off. This was about
the time Detective Bosseu started down
to get them. AS soon as they saw him
they began to run. He ordered them to
| halt, which they did not do, and no
fired. His shot was without effect, but
they evidently took the wrong direction,
| for near Barnard street Detective KAY
anaugh was in waiting and after ordering
them to stop he fired, striking Eddie
! Osborne in the right thigh. Osborne
turned and said "All right, boss" and
was sent into the police barracks, after
being taken by a physicians office, where
his wound was dressed. His wound bled
a stream and he claimed to have been
mortally shot.
Osborne said he did not know the other
men. One of them, he said, was Corne-
| lius, but that was all he would tell about
| him. He said the other man came from
Macon, and that he did not know his
name. Osborne is a notorious sneak
thief, and has been arrested several times
before for other offenses.
An investigation of the work the thieves
had been doing was made, and it was
| found they had opened one of the win
dows of the store up to which they had
placed a ladder. By this means they had
alrC st arranged a way to get in. The lock
on the door was broken off, but they were
working in the dark, and they evidently
| overlooked the fact that the door was
! double-locked, and that there were two
! to break before they could get in This
! probaly led them to try the window There
| is no doubt about the fact that they were
| after plunder. The detectives deserve
| credit for their watchfulness in preventing
| the burglary.
| Osborne was seen at the barracks. He
! claimed that he was merely waiting for
| the banana ship to come in, when he ex-
| pected to go to work for Kavanaugh &
| Brennan, unloading the vessel lie said
| he was coming up from the wharf when
he saw somebody coming toward him
| and was ordered to halt. He ran and was
! fired at, but kept on running. At the cor
| ner of Barnard and Bay streets he ran
! past Detective Kavanaugh, who fired, the
! ball striking him in the leg. Osborne does
! not appear to be over Is years old but
! took his arrest quite nonchalantly He
! did not seem to be seriously hurt A
! couple of paving stones were found in his
! pocket by the policeman who brought him