The morning times., 1895-12-26
ARRESTS OF high GRADE
Detective SuttOn's Haul, Tuesday
Night, a Great One.
TRIO OF SAFE CRACKERS
Meant TO Do Business In the City II
An Opportunity Presente d-Have
Record Out west-One of the
Three Talks Freely-Is IA Cool One.
Have Been I'm Several Penitentaries.

Frank Allen, Richard O'Neil and Jack
Langen were arrested at midnight Tues
day by Detective Sutton on suspicion OF
having robed the postOffice at Madison,
s. D., In October last, as announced In The
Times of yesterday. The men were lodged
at police station No. l, and the arrest
promises to pan out OF more consequence
than at first supposed.
1t is thought in police circles that Sutton
has not only Landed the right men for the
robbery mentioned, but has caught trio
of the boldest and most skillful safe opera
tors in the country. Sutton spent most or
last night with the men aud did his best
at sweating them, but O'Neill and Langen
were taciturn, though damaging admissions
were wrung from Allen.
Allen confessed to having been at Mad
ison in October last al about the time that
the robbery was committed and seemed
to know considerable more about that Job
than an outsider would be apt to have
learned. Allen also said that he and his
companions had done time for service as
cracksmen, and at the time that he was
in Madison he had but recently been re-
leased from the penitentiary of South
Dakota for having cracked the safe OF
postoffice in small town in Nebraska
HAS SERVED TIME.
Exactly why he should have served in
a Dakota pcnitentiary, for job done in
Nebraska, he did not make clear, for 1t
is understood that Nebraska has a pen of
its own. He says that he and gang
OF pals touched off a safe, and did one
year and one day for it. He was released
on the first OF last October and Oh his
way to other parts passed through Madison.
Allen also admitted that he had been
implicated in the burning OF a reform school
near Boston some years ago, and stated
cody that though no lives were lost In that
fire, il was through no fault OF his. He
admitted that he took especial pride In
the fact that he was first-class man In
the business, and hinted that the Officers
would have a tough job in proving his
connection with the affair at Madison.
The detective played off O'Neill and
Langen against Allen and provoked him
into talking with comnendable fluency.
He stated that the men named were good
cracksmen. and had done time for the com
mission of very handsome safe burglaries.
When asked If they were in Washington
for the purpose OF touching anything here,
he replied that II an opening had presented.
they would not have turned it down. They
had formed. he said. a plot to rob the
post-office at Aberdeen. Nd. but that after
looking over the ground they had concluded
that there was not enough Doodle IN il to
warrant the risk that would have to he
incurred.
HAD THE KIT.
The men with fourth member of the gang
had been in Washington about two weeks
and the fourth man had the kit This is the
man whom Detective Sutton wants very
badly and though he has probably taken
fright at the capture of his partners and
Jumped the town, Sutton knows which way
he has flown and has forwarded a descrp-
ton, on which it is very likely that he will
be landed by the detectives OF another city.
Sutton made bold effort TO capture this
man here, but the news of the arrest of Allen,
ONeill and Langen leaked too soon and
gave-the other his cue TO skip. Alien says
that the kit is one of the finest that can be
made, and is warranted to do exquisite
work in the hands of competent manipula-
tors.
Detective Sutton yesterday notified the
post-offiCe inspectors of his find and rep
of that branch of the postal
service will be at the station today for an
interview with the men, after which they
will be turned over to the United States.
Allen is a small man OF well Knit figure
and is well musoled and of keen intellect.
He is a smooth talker and looks his man
in the eye with steely gray gaze
though comfortably dressed.
The three men had very little money on
them when searched, and several pa wn tick
cts of brokers in Western cities. O'Neln
and Langen admit having an extensive ac-
quaintance through the West. Detective
Sutton is being congratulated on his catch.