The morning times., 1896-02-04
BUBB's ROBBER CAUGHT
Monroe Shank Arrested for the
lexington H9ld-Up.
CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK
He Is un Ex-Conductnr of the Road
ana Left Many Clues-TeIl-Taie
Ashes Containing Tickets Found
He Was Followed to w inchest er and
with His Wife Is Locked Up.

| The higlwayman who held up the night
| watchpan OF the lexington aud Soldiers
Home railroad and secured $3.50 by the
daring deed has been captured.
| The arrest clears up n mystery which has
| troubled the police, ana relieves Night
| watchman Bubb of the suspicion which
! rested on him. The rapture is due to the
! skill of Detectives Boyd, Helan ana Lacey,
who were detailed the case. Policeman
| Cochran, OF the Second precinct, also
| aided in the capture.
! Monroe Shank, alias Monroe Gooding, is
the man arrested. He and his alleged wife
are locked up at Winchester, Va, to which
town they fled Sunday. william Roberts,
| who is suspected Of completely in the crime,
| is locked up at police station No. 6. Shank
| is an ex-conductor OF the lexington line.
! lie resigned from that company July 2,
| 1895.
i Charles W. Bnbb, night watchman of
lexington railroad reported Saturday
morning that man bad entered the office
OF the company. covered him WITH =
! pistol, pocketed $3.50 in cash and tickets
| and escaped.
| The story sounded Improbable, and the
detectives suspected that the alleged hold
up might not have occurred. They ques-
toned Mr.. Bubb critically, but without
disturbing his story.
Ills FIRST CLUE.
Saturday Afternoon an ex-conductor of
| the line mentioned 10 Policeman Cochran
that Shank had given him So in coin. This
man commented on the generosity OF Shank.
| He said that they had been comrades on
! the lexington line, and that when Shank
/ struck oil, he did the proper thing by his
| former partner. This set Policeman Coch-
ran TO thinking. lie communicated with the
detectives who had been assigned 70 the
| lexington hoid-up case.
BOYD, Lacy aud Helln located Shank at
( q clearinghouse on street, between Sixth
and Seventh streets northwest. They made
a curSory examination OF the room, which
| the landlady said was occupied by Mr.. and
1 Mrs. Gooding and William Roberts OF
| Philadelphia. Tue description which the
Iantilady gave of Mr.. Gooding corresponded
/ with that given of Shank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gopdiug had been In during
the day. They left the house Sunday
morning and took trunk with them. The
landlady said that Mr.. Gooding had settled
his bill on Saturday and appeared TO have
good deal Of money. On that day he had
| bought suit of clothes, overcoat, hat
! and many other things.
! Mrs. Gooding had invested i'll Il new out
fit. All this increased the suspicious of the
detectives. and led them to believe that
! they were on the right track
They set n watch over the house Sunday
night, but no one whom they wanted en-
tered or left it,
STORY IN THE ASHES.
Yesterday morning they searched the
room. Boyd went into the back yard
and examined Tie ashes which had been
taken from the stove in the Gooding's
room. Ia the ash dump he found fra gmenls
of many lexington car tickets. They had
been badly burned, but here and there could
be found corner or an end of a ticket.
Little bits of the canvas bags which
I contained the change and tickets We're
found. A number of the small copper
clasps used to fasten the sacks, were also
dug ont of the shes. Helan and Lacy were
going through the ashes in the stove and
they. TOO, found pieces OF charred car tickets
and remnants Of the sacks.
Roberts WAS located and arrested. He
said that on Friday night he had visited his
girl at Takoma Park and had left her at
|
during the remainder of the night. When
pressed upon the point he stated that he
had 'strolled around"
He said that Mr.. and Mrs. Goodng had
been flush on Saturday and that Goodiug
had bought suit OF clothes. He did not
know where the couple had gone.
The detectives then began the work of
tracing the trunk, which had been shipped
1
of the wagon who had hauled it and soon
learned that it had been checked from the
Pennsylvania station to Baltimore. This
driver had also driven a man from that
number Sunday to the Baltimore and Ohio
| station, where he bought ticket for Har
per's Ferry.
| WHERE THE ARREST WAS MADE.
The detectives sent Policeman Cochran
and a man who knew Shank to Harper's
Ferry.
From the baggage people at Baltimore it
was learned that the trunk, which had
been traced to that city, had been rechecked
to winchester, Va.
Policeman Cochran telegraphed that
Shank was not at Harper's Ferry. He was
directed 10 try Winchester
He reached that place yesterday afternoon
and found Mr.. and Mrs. Gooding registered
at the best hotel in the town. GoodnS
denied that his name was Shank or that he
had ever been employed on the lexington
railroad.
He was identified by the man who ac-
companied Policeman Cochran. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gooding were arrested. Detective
Boyd left for Winchester last night and VIII
return with the couple today. Inspector
Hollinberger congratulated Royd. Hean
and Lacey on the work and will probably
recommend that Policeman Cochran be
promoted 10 tho first vacancy in the de-
tective corps.
The highwayman left behind him in the
railroad office walking stick. This was
shown to Roberts in his cell last night and
he Identified it as belonging to Shank.
He had not seen Shank use it since Thurs
day.
Mrs. Shank is said by the detectives 10
have been employed as a chambermaid
at Wilards Hotel She is a tau, slender
brunette.
PRISONERS BROUGHT BACK
Policeman Cochran arrived with his
prisoners unexpectedly at police headquar-
, tiers at O'Clock thismorning. Mrs. Shank.
. whose maiden name was Grace Gooding.
said that il was Roberts who had worn
the wig and false whiskers of the highway
man. and it was he. she thought, who did
the work He had been poor till the night
of the hold-up after which he displayed
considerable money and gave her some,