Evening journal., 1895-02-18
THIS WAS QUICK WORK.
Two Men Rob the Residence
of George Hillsley, Last Night.
IN A uBLL INLBss THAN AN HOUR

Arrested In Niue Minutes After the Alarm
Is Sent out-They Are Old Offenders and
Are Held for the Upper Court-ohlcken
Thieves In Quod- other Municipal
Court Gases.
One Of the quickest pieces of police
work ever done by the department was
that Of the arrest Of two burglars which
occurred last night George Hillsley,
manager Of the Arll gton Mills, resides
at No s West E,esenth street. His
brother ia Law Noble #. Hadley, lives
with him Last evening about $3.50
o'clock Mr. Hadley, and q daughter OF
Mr. Hlllsley left the house to
attend church and shortly after
IL o'clock the balance OF the
family started out on the same errand
locking up the house, and leaving one gas
ct burning In the dining room. When
afr Hillsley returned about . 80 the house
was all lighted up and a window close by
the front porch was open. A brief search
showed that the house had been entered
aud about $200 worth OF silver stolen.
The dining room was turned upside down
and lights were burning In parlor and
dining room and In the Sitting room
above.
Mr. Hillsley at orce went to police
headquarters and reported This was
about 925 o'clock He remembered
having met a man by the name OF
William s. Harris. a former workman of
his, and known to the police as "Bnntie"
Harris, on Market street near Eleventh
street. and Captain Chambers at once
suspected him aud his chum William
Dutton OF being implicated, as the two
men had been seen together during the
day Detective Witsil was sent TO the
house to investigate and telephone mes
sages wers sent ont to the officers on
their beats to bring the men In whenever
they could be found
In nine minutes after the alarm was
sent out Officers Maloney and Christopher
Shields had the two men in charge. and
all the stolen property was recovered.
The officers met Dutton and Harris on
Front street betwesn French and Walnut
streets, on their way to the + W. a b.
depot, where they intended to take a train
for Philadelphia They were taken to the
patrol station and sent In
On arriving at headquarters Harris
took a quantity of spDons from his
pocket aud threw them in the air. re-
marking to Captain Chambers: There's
the stuff you are locking for The
articles scattered over the floor Or
searching the men, silver spoons, forks
napkin rings, etc, were found. all o.
which WAS later identified by botl
Messra Hillsley and Hsdley, Among
, the plunder were half dozen spoons
Of solid silver, which had bsen in thl
, family for over 100 years and werl
valued very highly
, The thieves entered the house by pry
ing up the front window and, afte
4 entering, had opened a rear window 70
q the purpose Of covering their retreat
: Is supposed that after gathering tn
silver thev went 10 the sitting rooE
Z above, from which meerecheum pipe
imported from Germany and valued a
I $40, was taken.
About s 30 Mrs. Jonathan George, re
I siding next door, went to the door TO pu
/ out her milk can, and made considerabl
noise In closing the door. 1t is though
/ this noise alarmed the burglars, VIII
I fled
l This morning In Municipal Court th
/ two man we're srrRigned They ha
! nothing to say and seemed perfec.l
. Indifferent to their predicsment. Bot
. Messrs. Hillsley and Hadlcy identified th
' articles, and Captain Chambers an
Officers Maloney and Shields told Of th
Q capture Both men we're held for th
!. upper court in ST. 600 bail.
John O'Day. was arrested by Office
!, Finn at Front and Poplar streets, yer
drunk. He was fined & and costs.
William II. Stevens. eolored, wa
Z Rrraigned on charge OF having assaulte
!, his mistress Hannah Laws. They live /
\ the rear Of Decatur street. The evidenc
! showed that IL was a sort of all aroun
a quarrel aud William was allowed 10 3
on payment Of costs.
a Officers Lucas and Davidson we're mott
d fied early yesterday morning that chicke
3 thieves had been at work over the Chris
a tiRnR bridge at Market street, and wei
on the lookout for suspicious character
About s o'clock they sawa colored Ia
crossing the bridge with a covered bsskl
on his arm They stopped him and Q
y Investigation found six chickens insid
He said that another colored man name
y John Evans, who was walking few fel
P ahead. bad given him ten cents to carr
d the basket. Both men were arrested ar
At this morning we're Arraigned In Municip
N Court As the Identification Of the fou
e, had not been done q continuance was BIZ
Q, until 90 clock to morrow, both men beir
as placed under 5000 ball each