The Portland daily press., 1895-07-16
MAINE BURGLARS.
A Brace Of Young RascaIs Captured
in 0ldtoWn.
OTHER HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
IN OUR STATE.

immortality and Untruth-Strike Still
Continues at Lewiston-Hon. Frank
Jones as Fisherman-Portland People
Visit Rangeley Lake-The Old Orchard
Camp Meeting.
Bangor, July 15.-The men, who have
been burglarizing and terrorizing the
country merchants in the up-river towns
for the past few weeks, have been appre-
hended and arrested and are now in the
clutches of the law so that they will
work no more harm for while and the
merchants can enjoy good nights rest
once more as far as these menEare.con-
cerned
Last week stores at Passadumkeag,
Costigan and Montague were broken into
and robbed Of more or less and the work
was thought to be that of gang of
tramps, but it was mistaken idea as
the guilty parties are boys about II years
of age named Albert w. Whiting and
Frank A. Clapp, both of Montague.
Since the burglaries have occurred Off
GERS have been on the outlook for the
guilty parties but it was the fortune of
Deputy Sheriff Lancaster of Old Town,
to make the capture.
Saturday Sheriff Lancaster was called
to Greenfield on civil business and on the
road he met a peddler who knew him
and told him of meeting two suspicious
looking boys going towards Hancock
Tannery, the peddler's suspicion being
arO1,cad bv q haavv avtapc;op COCO xubiol,
the boys seemed to be guarding with
more than ordinary precaution.
Sheriff Lancaster did not wait for any
thing further but started on track of the
boys and as he went along gathered fur.
ther evidence. He ascertained tina t the
boys had got team of Mrs. Clark at
Greenfield to take them into the tannery
and in offering to pay her they wanted
her to take it all in coppers.
The sheriff thus tracked the boys to
Hancock and on making an inquiry at
the store he learned that two young men
had been in the store and exchanged 200
coppers for larger money and they had
then gone to the boarding house. Sheriff
Lancaster then went to the boarding
house and found that the parties he so
much desired to see had just gone to their
room and he ordered the proprietor to
show him up. This the proprietor seemed
a little unwilling to do at first. but did
and on reaching the room the sheriff Or
dered the door open. Not knowing what
awaited them the inmates obeyed and
met the officer face to face
| Sheriff Lancaster stepped into the room
and gazed around him and spread upon
the bed and floor was the booty for which
he had been looking and for whichBsev-
eral merchants were mourning.
| Getting his eye on box which he
Sheriff said, E'That is just what have
been looking for - AS he said this
Clapp knew he was an officer and that
| they were in the clutchhes of the law,
but with one more chance for liberty
| Clapp made jump for an open window
and got all out but his feet when Mr..
Lancaster caught him by the leg and
drew him back, but not without a vigo-
rous kick on the part of Clapp and it
took couple of light, blows from the
officer to subdue the man so he could get
him in the window.
| On being pulled back Clapp looked up
| into the officers face and remarked,
You're smart aren't you; you ought to
go to Chicago and join the Pinkerton de-
| tective force. -
| No time was lost in placing the young
man under arrest and after Stacking
their hands and tying their legs together
Sheriff Lancaster obtained team and
started for Old Town with his prisoners
where he arrived about o'clock and
placed them in the lookup and kept them
over Sunday.
| The stories of the burglaries as
| they occurred were given last
week and will not be repeated at this
writing as the readers of the paper are
| familiar with the accounts
1t is understood that Clapp has 'sdone
time" in jail before and was really the
leader in the burglaires. Witham is a
young looking and rather pleasant faced
man and does not appear like one who
would do any great wrong. When ques-
toned the boys have nothing to say about
their doings
The parents of both boys were in Old
Town this morning to see their boys
and the officers and to attend the hearing.
1t was expected hearing would be-
given the young men before Judge Whit
ing this afternoon, when they would be
bound over to the August term of court.
THE VICTORY is SURELY COMING
Rev DIR, Rates Predicts That in Fifty