The San Francisco call., 1896-04-29

In the daytime they prowl around the
vicinity OF the wharves and steal whatever
they can lay their hands upon and at
night they frequent the gallery of a cheap
theater and then return to the wharves.
where they sleep covered with an old sail.
1t is difficult for the police TO find any
evidence against the boys owing TO their
watchfulness and natural shrewdness.
Some OF them have been sent to the Boys
and Girls Aid Society, and after spending
some months there have been released
and have Immediately returned to their
old haunts.
Six of these boys alb out clock Sunday
morning committed a robbery on Union
and Front streets, and five of them are
now in the City Prison. Their names are
Frank Marshall, Is years of age: Daniel
McEvoy, 15; Charles Bona, 15; Willie
Latimore, ID, and Louis Uphouse, IA. The
four first named were booked yesterday
morning for robbery and Uphouse Is being
held as a material witness. The sixth,
Frank McEvoy, has not yet been arrested.
John Lundquist, carpenter on the ship
Eversham Abbey, had taken too much
waterfront whisky on Saturday night and
on his way to the vessel he fell at the cor
ner OF Union and Front streets and fell
asleep.
The six boys were prowling around and
came upon the PROSTATE form of Lund-
quist. They Immediately proceeded to
roll him, as it is termed IN police cir
cles, and the only things they got were his
watch and chain.
Policeman Dwyer saw the boys robbing
Lundquist and hurried to the scene. AS
soon as they observed him they ran away,
with the exception of Uphouse, who was
arrested by Dwyer.
Dwyer and Policeman George Brown
were detailed on the case and Monday
night they arrested Marshall in his
fathers house on Green street. A few
Latimore asleep under an old sail on Fish
erman's wharf and took them to the City
Prison.
Marshall is apparently the leader of the
gang and according to the police it was
be that took the watch and chain from
Lundquist. His elder brother, BLACK"
Marshall, who was in the same line of
business, is now serving six years sem
tence is San Quentin for grand larceny.
About seven months ago he stole box of
opium. valued at $500, from an express
wagon on Battery street.
Detectives Egan and Silvey made the
arrest, and when they were searching for
him his father, who is a longshoreman,
told them that his boys were too smart to
be caught by any policemen.
Marshall, when spoken to yesterday,
denied any knowledge of the robbery. III
was arrested in bed in my fathers house."
he said, land don't know what for. l was
at home Sunday morning and know moth
ing about ships carpenter being robbed.
Why, I've worked for living in George
Tay's tinshop on Battery street. Yes, 1
know some of the other boys. but wasn't
with them Saturday night
Eva, Latimore and Bora made a similar
denial, but unlike Marshall, they smiled
when they made it. Latimore said his
father was dead and his mother, who lives
on Vallejo street, had tried to get work for
him, but had failed.
He is an innocent looking boy with big
blue eyes. Bona said he had been en-
ployed in the Columbia fish market on
Ninth street. He had never gone to school.
McEvoy was surly and did not care to
say anything. He is hard looking boy.
Latimore, Bond and McEvoy have served
terms in the Boys and Girls Aid Society.
The four did not seem to bother about
their arrest and laughed and chatted
among themselves while Marshall occa-
slonally gave them a warning look when
they seemed inclined to talk too much.
The boy Uphouse told different story
from the others. "The six of u.s." he said,