The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-08
They Robbed . Poor Laundry Woman
and Several Other Places-Con-
nected With other Crimes.

A nest of burglars and thieves was IN
earthed yesterday by Policeman NJ. Pow
ers, and ss a result three men are in Jail
charged with burglary and some of the
plumber was recovered. The men under
arrest gave their names as Sam Murphy,
George Hayes and w. r. Rush. They are
suspected of several burglaries but will be
arraigned today upon the specific charge
of breaking into shack on the Grant
street bridge Saturday night.
Saturday evening two men walked into
the residence of Mrs. Frank Granstrom, at
the corner of Seventh and Dearborn
streets. and helped themselves to five suits
of underwear which the woman was wash
ing. The underwear is the property of
two or three of Mrs. Granstrom's patrons,
for whom she does general laundry work.
An hour later the men appeared and
offered the clothes. which were still wet,
for sale. A man. who declined TO give his
name but who knew the garments were
stolen, gave the thieves nifty cents for the
piunder and Immediately came to police
headquarters. delivered up the goods and
gave minute description of the men.
1t subsequently transpired that after the
thieves sod the underwear in South Sc
attic they started back to the city, and on
the way broke into bachelors shack on
the Grant street bridge. stealing a shot
gun. a clock, razor, one silk handker-
chief. three sheets, several white shirts
and various other articles. They threw the
wearing apparel sheets. ETC., off the bridge
on the fats, where the clothing was recov-
cred by the owner late in the evening, but
the shotgun and clock were brought to
town and sold 10 secondhand store man
in the kinnear block, on South Third
street, near Main.
Last evening Policeman Powers, VINO
had been given a description of the two
men who sold the underwear, arrested w.
X. Rush in saloon on Main street on
suspicion of being one of the guilty parties.
1t was ascertalned that he roomed at SIS
Main street, in the Mutual lodging house.
and the officer raided the room and there
found Sam Murphy and George Hayes,
both of them in bed. The officer ordered
them TO dress themselves and so with him
to Jail, to which Murphy. who looked as
if he had been in a railroad smash-up.
coolly replied:
"All right So. It's no surprise party.
knew we'd have bad luck"
Where were you. all night last night4"
demand ed the officer
'Drinkin' an fghtin," was the prompt
reply.
And this was true, for the men ad been
in fights in several different saloons. At
police headquarters Murphy and Rush
were ident fed as the men who sold the
underwear in South Seattle, and also as
the men who sold the gun and clock taken
from the shack on the Grant street bridge
Hayes had hand in the selling of the
property to the secondhand man.
The room at Mutual lodging house, &C.
cupled by the men, was searched, and two
boxes of cigars were found and identified
as having been taken from a cigar store at
the corner of James and Twelfth streets.
The cigar store was burglarized week ago
and tobacco and cigars to the value of SIC
were stolen. The policeman learned that
the rest of the cigars and tobacco was in
the possession of Hayes and Murphy un-
til Saturday morning, when the men left
the lodging house with the plumber, and
it is presumed that they succeeded in sell
ing 1t. The three suspects are studiously
quiet. and Will neither deny nor admit
their guilt
The arrest of Hayes is an amusing
sequel to the arrest of W. s. Thomas, on
Friday night, for stealing thirteen chick
ems. The chickens were identified a hay
ing been stolen from a resident of Queen
Anne hill. but Thomas promised to pro-
duce the man from whom he secured the
fowls, and sentence was deferred until to-
day in order to allow him to prove him.
self an innocent party. if such he should
happen to be. 1t Is now known that
Hayes is the man who gave Thomas the
chickens to sell, but ii is claimed that
Thomas. Hayes. Rush and Murphy are pals
and that they all knew the fowls were
stolen. 1t will probably be difficult how
ever. to discover which one of the quar-
tette committed the theft.