The Newtown bee., 1895-01-11

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 Newtown Street had a lively sensation
 on Tuesday evening, when William
 Schulte was caught in the act of burglar
 izing the store of Edgar F. Hawley.
 Tuesday evenings the store is closed.
 Patrick Keane, a clerk in Mir Hawley's
 employ, had left the store and was at
 the barber shop of Mir Pitzschler. Mir
 Hawley and Arthur s. Hawley were at
 Dr k. M. Smiths at meeting of the
 mems club, while John Keane, another
 of MT Hawley's corps of clerks, was st
 his boarding place at the Grand Central.
 Several passing down street between 2
 and 8 o'clock had noticed this man stand
 ing on MT Hawley's stoop, but nothing
 further was thought of it.
 To Mrs John H. Blackman belongs the
 credit of discovering the burglar and giv-
 ing the alarm. Seated in front room
 in the dark she noticed the man, and ob- served that he appeared to be working at MT Hawley's front door. She kept watch and saw him go to the window on the north side where he smashed the glass ouN ShuOiCus III au iuSbdub buC thuA bhC dinner be l summoning Thomas Carlson, who was in Mir Griffin's harness shop. He at once notified Mir Griffin and sever- al young men in the shop who set about to rouse the neighbors.
 Lawyer W. J. Beecher was the first on the scene. Although unarmed he coolly entered the store by the broken window. In jumping in his toe caught on the win- dow casing, and he stumbled, but reach ing his hand forward he touched the counter and saved himself. The form of Mir Shulte was seen by Mr Beecher to loom up from behind the counter with a revolver in his hand. MT Beecher seized him at once, and. in less time than it takes to tell it, he had secured possession of Mir Schulte's weapon, and gave him knock on the head. The burglar was 2 lad to surrender. Others to follow MT Beecher into the store were Sheriff Quinn, k. $. Lowell, o. K. Griffin, John W. Webb and William Shepard.
 Meanwhile the word had spread and the store was soon surrounded bya small | army of men. Schulte insisted he had a 1 in the job but search did not re- veal the second man. MT Beecher's &C., ton in entering the store unarmed and | not knowing who he might meet was | in the highest degree, and | not many men would have dared to fol- | low his example. Sheriff Glover and | Blaekman were sent for and | iook the man to the lookup.
 On Wednesday morning Schulte was | brought before Justice Cavanaugh and | bound over to the Superior court. | 5chulte's action thoroughly surprised all l who have known him. He rents place of Mir Farrell in the South Center dis- ,rict, and has had the reputation of be- ng straightforward man. He has al- ways paid his bills and is we'll spoken of | oy his neighbors. It is believed by many that he did not realize what he vas doing. He had been drinking and his may be responsible for bis action. He has wife and a l3 months old baby, who must suffer as 8 result of his mis- Iced. MT Schulte had been to MT Haw- ley previously, and the latter was trying 70 arrange to get him farm in Bridge water.
 Some amusing incidents happened in with the case. One of the young men who had gathered after the burglar was secured shouted that he had discovered the second burglar, which proved to be bale of cloth projecting ut from shelf. Schulte had endeav- 'red to enter by the front door and had ucceeded in cutting away part of the wood and putty which holds the glass. dr Hawley wishes to thank all for their forts in his behalf on Tuesday evening. !