The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-12
VERHBIN And His CONFEDERATES.
More IlI-Gotten Plumber Surrendered
by Them.
The Gold Dust Den Ordered Closed
by the City Trustees
Yesterday.

D6siO6s W. ii. 6rn6l0, al dcCUuut VI
whose arrest and exposure in connection
with the secretion of articles stolen by
burglars in this city recently were pub
lished in the RECORD UNION yesterday,
Officers Pennish and Logue have also
arrested Fred Ingham, Joe Dolan and
George Brady. attaches of Nerhein's late
Gold Dust den, for completely in the
crooked work that has been going on
there.
Yesterday Verhein urged Brady to tell
the officers what he had done with the
elegant silver pitcher stolen from Under
taker George Clark. Brady finally ac-
companied the officers to China Slough.
where the pitcher was found. a package
of other stolen articles, he said, had been
thrown into the water.
There have been any number of
drunken men robbed in the dive. only a
few of whom cared to report their cases
TO the police on account OF the notorlety
that would follow, Nerhein appears to
have become alarmed, however, at the
facts that are coming to light, and yester-
day he surrendered to the police gold
watch and chain that had been taken
from drunken victim in his dive.
4 man named Wagner has also been
arrested in connection with the Gold
Dust robberes, and before the officers get
through with the den there is no telling
how many crimes that are now shrouded
an mystery may have the light thrown
upon them.
THE DEN ORDERED CLOSED.
BY request of Trustees Davis, Bragg
and Devine, special meeting of the
Board of City Trustees was held at z. VI.
yesterday, at which there were present
Lawton, Bragg, Leonard, Davis, Devine
and Tozer. President Lawton presided.
The Chair stated that the object OF the
meeting was to act upon the proposition
TO close the Gold Dust saloon dive al 3l5
X street. The Chief Of Police had re-
ported it to be fence" for thieves.
where stolen property was brought and
purchased by the proprietor OF the place.
Besides IL is the resort OF low element.
Davis said he owned the property, and
had leased it 10 Frank Ruhstaller. de
had heard complaints OF the place, and
went long ago to Ruhstaller's tenant and
told him frequently that he must keep a
decent place or he would have 1t closed
up. Last August he heard new COM
plants, and went to RuhStaller about
the matter. 1t was agreed TO put in a
special officer to watch the place DUR
ing or about fair time, aud that was done.
Then the saloon WAS run pretty close TO
now known that the keeper OF the saloon
has been receiving stolen goods, and the
place should be shut up. He Davis
would rather the property should remain
vacant every day in the year than have
such place kept there as Is reported to
him, and he wanted the board to close VI
the saloon.
Devine offered a resolution revoking
the license and lnstructing the Collector
10 at once cancel the license, pay to Will
lam erheln the sum represented by the
unused period of the license term and re-
quire MIN 10 shut up the saloon. Adopted
unanimously and without debate.
Leonard said it had been reported to
him that many places, saloons and other
resorts, do a pawnbrokIng business by
evasion. The regular pawnbroker has to
pay license and keep books prescribed
by the law. These books are open to the
police at any time and the penalties for
violation of the law are heavy. There are
other places that keep no books, but they
lend money by pretended sales.
He had talked with the City Attorney
about 1t, and that officer thought the
State law ample to punish offenders, but
he tLeonard wished the matter exam
ined into by q special committee, to re-
port an ordinance IL necessary. y license
lee of $50 might serve to check the illegit-
innate practices. He moved to appoint a
The motion prevailed and the Chair
named Leonard. Wachnorst and Davis.
The Chair said that Sanitary Inspector
Herr had brought suit against the city for
his salary for SIS. The papers had been
served on him as President of the board
and he had referred the same to the Cor
poration Counsel with instructions to file
an answer.
The board approved the action of the
Chair and adjourned.
LATER-ANoTHER RECOVERY.
Officers Taylor, Logue and Pennish,
having become satisfied that Mrs. Ingham
had in her possession a valuable diamond
pin stolen from Miss Genevieve Green's
room at the time Mrs. Barretps house
robbed, they last night obtained a
warrant to search Mrs. highlands room.
In the meantime they called on Miss
Green. and TO their surprise found the
pin had just been delivered to her. but
she declined 10 tell who it was that re-
turned IL.
When the officers afterward called on
Mrs. 1ngham she admitted that it was
she who had returned the pin 10 Miss
Green. She said she got it from a man
who said it had come from san francisco.
The description she gave OF the man an
swers that of one of the gang for whom
the officers have been searching.
THE KERRY WOMAN"