The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
PRODUCES IN CRIME.
Little Children Who Stripped Other
Children of Clothing.
From the Philadelnhia Press.

Il AOiiA NAAS AA4AiASil1Aild ItSS.
Jersey City, April I'm the line OF
prisoners in Police Justice Potts court
this morning were two children, Mamie
Timothy, 10 years old. and her brother,
Johnny, 10 years old. They were charged
with larceny.
The police of Jersey City say that for
months these very youthful thieves have
stolen more than even their elders in
crime could have done in the same length
of time. Their methods, too, have been
unique and ingenious. The Timothys oc-
cupy a comfortably furnished fiat at No.
40 Pavonia avenue. The father is cook
in restaurant in New York city. His
wife is also employed in the kitchen IN
the same place. They leave home early
in the morning and dc not return until
late in the evening. Mamie is a pretty
child, rather large for her age. Johnny
Is not so preposSesSing, but he possesses
an equal brightness. Although only 10
years old he easily devises means to elude
parental watchfulness and punishment.
Johnny is NAMES favorite among the
children. Once in a while, however. she
becomes angry at him, as happened last
Thursday when she threw a stick or
wood at him. The billet flew wide ana
broke window glass Wen ooth be
it," Johnny retorted, land III tell pap"
NO." said Mamie, Tets go out and see
about having a pane of glass put In
Not far from home they found 5-year-old
Loretta Casey playing on the sidewalk.
They induced her to walk few blocks
with them and then taking her into a
hallway, stripped her of her coat The
garment was worth 80 and on it Mamie
obtained 50 cents from a pawnbroker
1--WE need it for food at home" she
told the clerk in the pawnshop. The 80
cents was taken to the glazier, the broken
window was rehtted and Mamie and
johnny triumphantly awaited their par
ents' Homecoming.
Meantime, however, their victim had
told her mother of the hold-up and Mrs.
t.ca had n apfA
lice station. Il didn't do 1t, 1 didn't, I
didn't" Mamie screamed. when the DO
liceman arrested her. Then when She
was taken to the station house, this 49,
year-old child became logged and silent.
But Johnny, after he had been separated
from Mamie. broke down. Then it all
session of the full story of these children's
criminal career.
It began when the family moved to Jer-
sey city last summer, when Johnny was
only 9 years old and Mamie H. From
the mass of detail that Johnny gave him
Capt Kelly was able TO trace more than
thirty robberies, and he believes that he
will be able to sift out more than three
times that number before he is through.
A. fair sample Of the operations of these
old Florence French, daughter of John
French of No. 37S Grove street They
took her into a hallway, and while
prevent her making an outcry Mamie
deity stripped her of her clothing. NOT
content with taking the cnild'S hat. coat
and dress, the juvenile highwaymen even
robbed her of her undergarments her
stockings and shoes, leaving her naked
in the cold.
That same afternoon Mamie and Johnny
robbed Margaret Wilson, 81 years old 81
Seventh street, In much the same way.
Johnny told Capt. Kelly that ali he and
his sister got for these two robberies was
II cents, which was all a second-hand cloth
ing dealer would give them for the chill
dren's garments. Still, that was enough.
he said, TO pay his way into a theafer
Mamie had candy that day, too.
A favorte plumber Of ahe children was
a baby carriage. Many Of these they
found in areaWays End halls. They were
easily disposed Of from 80 cents 70 81 al
secondhand furniture stores On one oc-