The Portland daily press., 1895-10-17
CURIOUS CAPTURE.
Deering Burglar Came To Police
Station For Lodging.
OFFICER PHILLIPS NOTICED THE
ODD SHOES.

Confessed the Crime-Also That He Was
INST Out of Concord State Prison-He
Belonged in WestbroOk-His Name is
Thaddeus Ingraham.
Il Sometime Tuesday night thief per-
petrated an interesting burglary at Wood
fords. He smashed the window of the
Deering shoe store, and reaching through
took six Shoes 1t happened that four of
these shoes were odd ones, only two being
mates, and as ill-luck would have it,
one of these shoes was dropped little
way from the store, leaving the burglar
with five odd shoes. These, as has since
been asertained, were taken up the rail
road track as far as Oak street. There
the burglars evidently tried the shoes on,
and selected the two that came nearest
to going we'll together and fitting Then
he left his own shoes and the three new
ones in an old sack. This sack has since
been identified as one formerly belonging
to Matthews g. Houston.
somewhere.
This is the second burglary at Wood
fords Corner within few days. Last
week the fish market was entered. The
city marshal and one of his officers came
near catching this burglar, but he fitted
away, shouting back in tantalizing
way: Not this time.
Last evening, just before supper,
Deputy Sheriff Firth came to Deputy
Marshal Sterling and said that there was
young man there who came to him and
wanted to give himself up.
The young man put in an appearance
and Deputy Sterling asked him what he
meant by making such a statement. He
said that he supposed if he came to get
nights lodging he'd be put in Jail The
deputy informed him to the contrary and
when he said that he hadn't had any
thing to eat for two days, sent out and
got him good supper
Before going to his own supper the
deputy as usual, called the roll of the
night police, and instructed them
preparatory to their going on duty. He
told them to look out for the man who
had stolen the shoes in Deering the night
before and mentioned that the shoes were
odd ones
At this officer Phillips remembered that
he had noticed the Shoes of the young
man who had come in to apply for lodg-
ing. Turnkey Emery's attention was
called to this fact. He had the man in
the lodging room. He went in and found
| that he was wearing new shoes and that
they were not mates He took the shoes
off and put the man into cell.
On Deputy Sterling's return from
supper he took the man into his private
office and after about a. half hour Of lying
and equivocation the fellow was forced
into confession that he was the man
who committed the burglary at Wood
fords A little later Marshal st. John
and Officer Haskell of Deering, came in
after the prisoner He was brought out
before them. He was rather thinly clad
but was not an Unlocking young man.
His face showed signs of drinking and of
vice and misery, but under favorable
condition it would have been rather a
progressing face. He seemed very much
cowed and very wretched and kept his
eyes on the floor most of the time.
In reply to Deputy Sterling's questions
he told the follwing story
He said that he committed the burglary
in Deering. He stepped up to the
window between one and two o'clock
Wednesday morning. He broke the
window with piece of board. He took
six shoes and three umbrellas. He sold
the umbrellas at the Union station yester-
day. He got 20 cents piece for two of
them and 90 cents for the other.
"Have you ever been in prison" said
Depu ty Sterling.
"It is just a week since l got out of
| prison at Conord, N. H. He served
there two years for burglary at East
Kingston, N. H., when he stole $40 in
money from the Boston and Maine depot
| He was arrested nine hours afterwards
Before that he was arrested for deserving
from the United States army. He en-
listed in 1891 and served four or five
months. Heswas in service at New York
His home was in Cumberland Mills He
left Cumberland Mills on New Years
day. 1891. His father was then rs years
old. His mother died in 1893
On the night Of the burglary he went
to Deering on foot from Portland. He
had been in Portland three hours. He
came by rail and paid his fare from Bos-
ton. He declared that he had been drink
ing hard, lately. Nobody was with him
in Deering at the time of the burglary
He said that he was 26 years old and that
his name was Thaddeus Montgomery
Ingraham.
"Didn't you suspect that if you broke
in there, you'd be captured
81 thought nothing about it. I only
thought of getting in"
He said that he was born in North
Windham, that he had lived eight years
| in Westbrook. His occupation was that
of waiter. He was bell boy seven years
ago, at the old City hotel in Portland.
He had also worked in the Portland
House at Boston.
| Officer Haskell took him out to Deering