The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-22
THEY MADE A SHOW OF FIGHT
We're OverpOwered and Are Now in
The County Jail..PrObably Impli.
Gated in Other Burglaries.. Rob.
berries, Sneak Thefts and Desperate
Assaults Have Been Very Numerous
During the Month.

They proved to be Michael Cadden.
aged 81, a plumbers apprentice, whose
home is on Scranton street, and Hugh
! Rush, a barber, who keeps a shop on
| the some street, near its intersection
with Seventh street
They gained entrance by breaking
| into the cellar through a rear window.
stealing couple of bars and forcing
| open the front doors. When the police
pounced upon them they showed fight
but We're quickly overpowered. They
had about 1925 worth of cutlery stored
about their persons ready to decamp.
Among the articles they had possessed
themselves of were eighty-one pocket
| knives, forty raZors five pairs of scis-
sors, four clippers and razor strop.
They entered a formal plea of not
guilty at the hearing before Alderman
Howe, and were sent up to the county
| Jail.
The police have been looking for
Cadden since the 23rd of June, when
". p. Connell & Sons hardware store
was burglarized in somewhat SIM
| liar manner of 1925 worth of like goods.
Cadden, who had been discharged by
the COnnells for dishonesty, was sus-
pected of the crime and an investiga-
| ton clearly fastened it upon him. A
warrant was sworn out for his arrest.
| but he could not be found having gone
| to Elmira, where he has a sister llv-
| inb, and where, it Is supposed, he sold
| his plunder.
| Cadden was married last week to a
young girl who worked in the Scran-
ton Lace factory. He was formerly
employed at Howley Bros. as well as
at Connell & Sons.
| OTHER BURGLARIES, ETC.
During the last month there have
been so many burglaries, robberies, des-
perate assaults and petty thefts report
ed that the public will welcome the an
nouncement that several arrests have
been made. On the night Of June 25
the hardware store of w. p. Connell 4
Son, on Penn avenue, was entered and
the cash box containing $50 carried Off.
The burglar obtained an entrance to the
building through the cellar and was
evidently we'll acquainted with the
building, q fact which leads to the sup
position that young Cadden, who was
arrested yesterday, knows something
about 1t.
| July . a young man named Weeks
was held up at o'clock In the after
noon on North Main avenue, near the
city line. and relieved OF his months
pay. $1975, which he obtained short
time before at the Leggett's Creek mine,
where he was employed. The daring
highwayman escaped.
On the night of July the store Of
Grass & Smith, of 4O7 Penn avenue, was
entered and large quantity of brass
and copper stolen. Henry Williams
and George Thompson were arrested
for this burglary. The same night Pas
qua Cambo was relieved OF $500 by his
friend. Vinco Mando, and three days
later a coat containing valuable papers
was stolen at st. Peters cathedral by a
trampish looking Individual who made
| good his escape.
| HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
| About II o'clock on the night Of July
Q another daring highway robbery Oc-
CURED at the city line in Providence
when John Logumsa and Steve Hervil-
lick were relieved of s23 and a silver
watch and badly beaten as well. On
the night of July 13 the home of Patrick
| Lynn, of Providence. was entered by
burglars who carried away valuables
worth SIS. Two nights later the stores
of Kresky. Bunnell & Co., and J. B.
| Doyle e. Co., of Main avenue, We're en-
tered and a large quantity Of goods
stolen from each place. There was no
clue to the perpetrators.
| Last Thursday George Lauder des-
poiled the Oriental Club house of Oak
ford court Of its valuafles and left for
parts unknown. Eugene Huff and Will
liam Wilson were arrested as accom-
plices and are now in Jail. On Saturday
Frank Ludy, of Newark. N. j., stole q
large quantity of carpenter tools from a
house on Irving avenue but was ar
rested while trying to dispose of them.
| Saturday night or Sunday the office
of Joseph Ansley & Son of the West Side
was entered and about $50 worth of
property secured. Two nights before
the house of Andrew c. Mitchell at l4lO
Washburn street, was entered and $25
in cash taken.
Late Saturday night Thomas s. Davis
of Aswell court, West Side. was held up
near the Delaware, I.ackawanna and
Western station and relieved of $3.50
by two we'll dressed young men. A
sneak entered the house of Lewis Grif-
| fiths on Eynon street Sunday night and
secured $40. He was evidently fright
ened off as there was several hundred
dollars within easy reach.