The herald., 1896-04-01
A GANG OF BOY BURGLARS
RevoIyers, shot2uns, Watches, jewel
Harness, Chickens, Clothing.

RevoIvers, Shot2uns, Watches, Jewelry,
Harness, Chickens, Clothing.
Three youthful marauders are now be-
hind the bars of the city jail charged with
burglary, placed there by Detectives Auble
and Hawley, who have for some days been
looking them up. The boys are Fred
Spinks. l 3 years old Eddie Whitson, aged
~. and Frank Steiner, l | years old. All
are young in years but old in vicious ways,
Fred Spinks having been up on November
z, 1894, for grand larceny, and the Whit
son boy had three charges of burglary
against him dismissed something over a
year ago on account of his tender age and
the pleadings of his mother that she be al
lowed to take him out of the state. This
was done. and the family have only recent
ly returned from Colorado. Whitson lives
with his mother in a tent at the corner of
Third and Wall streets, the father being in
the Soldiers home. Fred Spinks resides
at Eighth and Lemon streets and the
Steiner boy at Peru and Sixteenth streets.
This trio has been committing thefts
without number and in all parts of the city.
Spinks and Steiner we're arrested Monday
while Whitson was captured yesterday
morning. From Spinks was taken an ugly
looking bulldog revolver and Whitson was
loaded with an old-fashioned powder and
ball Colts revolver that was over foot
long and must have been a formidable
load for small boy to pack around. No
less than eight cases of robbery have
already been traced directly to them, with
plenty more to follow.
For some time the gang has been very
successful and have plundered indiscrimi-
nately, taking everything that came their
way, from suspenders and chickens to
guns, watches. harness and jewelry. From
house on Seventh near Pearl they got q
watch and a pair of pants. At Captain
Carr's place, at Central avenue and Pico
,fr nio Gvn hI,ro< n
Cochin chickens which they sold TO COM
mission man on Main, just below Fifth
street for 81 cents apiece.
Another henroost on Fourteenth street
was also despoiled. On Third street they
got a suit of clothes and an extra pair OF
pants from a room. From barn in the
alleyway between Ninth and Tenth streets
they stole set of harness, which was sold
for little or nothing. In shed in the rear
of house on Ninth street they found a
coat, which went with them, and in a barn
o. Tenth street a bonanza was struck in
the shape OF a lot of books, which we're
carried off.
Their last burglary was committed Sun
| day evening. when they entered a house al
| the corner of Tenth and Grand avenue and
made away with a revolver, a breech-load
ing shotgun, one watch and chain, a lot o1
old coins, pair of shoes and last of all q
| pair of suspenders. Much of their plundel
! ltaS Uccu uISpObSQ VI ~ private poEticS hiO
not to secondhand stores, which makes it,
tracing and recovery difficult matter.
| The cases above mentioned are not al
that the young rascals have engaged in
and the officers are now looking for othe
stolen stuff which passed through thei
hands. A complaint, charging them with
i burglary, was yesterday sworn out, ane
the precocious trio will face Judge Morri
son today for arraignment. There seem
no doubt that the whole outfit will be sen
! to Whittier for their minority.