Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-29
FoOTPADs CONTINUE TO PLY THEIR
VOCATION WITH IMMUNITY.
LITTLE PLUMBER LAST NIGHT
ONLY TWO WATCHES AND $1.So IN
MONEY SECURED.
Three Suspected HiEhwaymen Ar
raigned Before Justice Walls
Yesterday and Held In $4,000
Bond Each-Thefts and
BurSlaries Reported.

Two more holdupS occurred last nlght,
despite the arrest last Sunday of three
men suspected OF being highwaymen.
E. Mattice, of olathe, Kas., was inter-
rupted by two men. at Sixth and Penn
streets, who ordered him at the
point of revolver to hold up his
hands. He complied and was relieved of
$l.25 and valuable gold watch. This oc
CURED about O'clock Mattice had Just
arrived from Olathe, but had read in the
Journal about the large number of hold
ups, and prepared for an emergency by
placing $50 in bills inside his hat band.
This the footpads overlooked and Mr.. Mat
tice was very Happy.
Another HOIdup.
w. H. Hubbell, living at 1929 Flora ave-
nue., was stopped by two footpads about
7:3O o'clock last night, as he was passing
along Forest avenue, near Seventeenth
street, and told to hold up his hands. The
men then went through his pockets, secur-
ing 60 cents and a gold watch.
Suspects Arrested.
At $50 officers McCosgrove and Nichols,
who We're working in citizens clothes.
went to the Last Chance saloon near the
Hannibal bridge and arrested Archie Frazier
and Marshall Biggerstaff, two toughs who
have considerable police fame, on suspi-
cion of being the men who held up Mattice
at Sixth and Penn streets half an hour be-
fore
They answer the description given by
Mattice, but he did not see them at the
police station. He will be given a chance
to identify them to-day.
Sylvester Hutchinson, a colored boy, and
John Lawrence white boy, were arrested
on suspicion of being implicated in the
holdups. There is little evidence against
them. Timothy McCarty, who claims to be
from "oyer the Rhine" at Cincinnati, was
arrested by Detectives Hayes and Halpin
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was
provided with an evil looking revolver and
a black cloth which looked very much like
a mask. He was held for investigation.
George Carey and George Simmons were
arrested on West Ninth street last night
al'out II o'clock by officers Morley and
Carey, of the st. Louis avenue precinct.
Roth men had revolvers and knives and
coat sleeve as If for ready action. He also
had a number of fine silk handkerchiefs
which he had evidently stolen from some
where. The st. Louis avenue police also
arrested several other suspicious looking
| characters and will hold them for investi-
cation.
Was Not Robbed.
At o'clock yesterday afternoon "Jim'
Ccle. an attorney, told the police at the
St. Louis avenue station that he had been
robbed in a saloon at Ninth and State
Line streets. Investigation proved that
Cole had not been robbed. Claud Garvey,
an cmploye of the Metropolitan Water
Company in Kansas City. Kas., was ar
rested with a revolver and $114.30 and IL
was thought he had robbed Cole in the
salccn. He proved his identity, however,
| and that he was going away to Arkansas
| and was released.
| At $50, while Charles Nuelle, butcher,
| at Third and Locust streets, was prepar-
| ing to close his place. he saw two men
| looking in a front window at him. He
| notified the police as soon as possible but
| before an officer arrived the men had
| gone. He could not describe them.
| Last night the superintendent of the
| Helping Hand institute at Fourth and
Main streets asked the police to rid their
| place of impertinent hobos, who We're rails
ing a row because they were not provided
| Will DeuS Wlieil llte mousse WdS Illleu seven
buns were arrested, and will be told to
leave town to-day. They were rough look
| ing characters.
| Henry Trott. who was assaulted Sunday
night in front of the high school building
at Eleventh and Locust streets and cut in
! the back of the neck. is reported at the
CITY hospital as doing nicely.
! The police Notwithstanding they have
made every effort TO avert the acts of law
| leSsress, seem to be powerless to accom-
plish anything aside from making a few
| arrests of suspicious looking characters.
! Inspector of Detectives Flahive in the alb
| senCe of Chief of Police Julian, who is at
Jefferson City on business of a political ma
ture. has been working his men night and
| day in citizens clothes, and has instructed
them to make every effort to arrest and
| take to headquarters all suspicious looking
| characters.