The herald., 1895-02-11
He PURLOINED CLOTHING
Detective HaWiey's Long Hunt
for a Clever Thief
YOUNG ENGLiSH'S DOWNFALL
He Was Raised in New Jersey and Is
Now in Jail
de Is Charged With Stealing Twenty Over
coats. Besides rany Suits of
Valuable Clothing.

GEORGE r. English is locked up in the
city prison with about twenty charges of
petty larceny against him. About year
ago English arrived in this city from
Elizabeth, n. j., with several hundred
dollars, which he spent in a lavish man
ner, soon becoming impoverished. lie
made his headquarters around the Ma
deau Hotel and, by frequently telling his
tale OF woe to the tourists, he was fed and
assisted in various ways. Some OF his
clandestinc acquaintances shared their
rooms with him, and, between the charity
OF his friends and the kindness OF the
tourists, he managed TO exist He never
appeared to search for work and seldom
labored On two occasions he did odd
jobs--once upon a society book, which WAS
being published last fall, and again he
took charge of the great register at one
OF the precincts last election day.
For several months frequent reports
have been made to police headquarters by
people who had been robbed of their wear
ing apparel and Detective Hawley was
detailed to work up the case. He found
that twelve or fourteen coats had been
purloined from the public library, and
that six overcoats had been stolen from
the reading room of the Young Men 5
Christian Association. a gentleman who
has offices in the Stimson block lost
several expensive suits besides odd pairs
OF costly trousers. Hawley made
tour Of the various pawnshops
and recovered enough clothing to stock
a fair-sizcd store. At each place the
Same description was given OF the man
who had sold the garments and for sew
eral weeks the detective has been max
ing frequent tours OF the pool rooms and
billiard parors, which places are repeat
eddy visited by thieves, but he never
NA al
scripton which he had engraved upon
his mind. Last Tuesday, however, he
was very fortunate, for he stumbled
across English on Spring street. and with
glance he knew that he was the thief
he had been so long seeking. He ar
rested him and took him TO the police
station, and entered his name upon the
''small book, - and locked him up. En-
glish at first put on bold front, but fin
ally weakened and admitted that he had
stolen a few coats from the public library,
but denied that he had committed all the
crimes with which he had been charged.
He had not been in jail but few hours
when W. II. Greer, who lives at III IL
South Broadway, called at the police sta
ton and placed two additional charges
OF petit larceny against the prisoner. 1t
appears that Greer was English latest
victim, for about three weeks ago he took 1
compassion upon English and shared his /
room with him. He rewarded his kind |
ness by stealing two expensive suits of
clothes and two pairs of trousers, which |
he sold at a second hand store, rs he did
all the rest of the stolen articles
Englishs father is one of the most
prominent attorneys of Elizabeth N j.,
and his brother is IL very successful ply
stefan of the same place. They have fire. |
quently written to English since he has
been in Los Angeles and several times
have sent him some money, which he |
squandercd in drink.
His downfall will be a sad blow to |
young lady recently from Kentucky who
lives with her mother in this city Eng |
lish has been very attentive to her for
several months, and the first intimation
she had of his true character was when !
she was told of his several crimes and ar
rest.