The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-09
HIGHwAYMEN UNDER ARREST.
The Men Who Robbed Mrs. Dancy
and Mrs. Bell CAPTURED.

ana Mrs. Bell Captured.
The two white men who robbed Mrs.
d. Y. Dancy and Mrs. C. G. Bell on the
Thunderbolt road Wednesday afternoon
are under arrest. Both are well known
in Savannah. They are Charles f. Marm-
elstein and Willie Wingard alias BOSS"
Tant.
Both have been in bad way for some
time. Wingard shot and killed his step
father Ed. Thomas, here about eight
years ago, for beating his mother, he
claimed. He was quite boy at the time.
He was tried and convicted and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary,
but was pardoned out after serving a
snort while. He has since become known
to the police as professional crook, and
is said to have done a lot of work in this
line in other cities.
Marmelstein has been in trouble with
the police before. He has been arrested
twice for forgery and once for larceny.
His family paid him out of two of these
scrapes, and in the third he served a short
term of imprisonment. He belongs to a
we'll known family and for their sake the
newspapers have here tofore dealt very
sparingly with his offenses. This is the
worst crime which has ever been charged
against him and it is likely that the law
will be allowed to take it's course.
The arrest of Marmelsteln and Tant is
due to some very good work on the part
of Detective Scully. The detectives had
no evidence whatever to go upon except
the description of the robbers given by
the two ladies', and by Mr.. Albert Wyly,
who arrived on the scene as the two men
were hurrylng away across a field Mr..
Wylly had no weapon and did not pursue
the men. The ladies were so frightened by
their experience that they were unable to
clearly describe the men, and Mr.. Wylly
was too far away to get a good view. Chief
McDermott determined that if possible,
the robbers must be caught and sent out
all four of the detectives yesterday morn
ing with instructions to follow up every
clew.
Detective Scully was on Broughton
street about 1870 o'clock when he saw
Marmelstein He knew the young mans
record and decided to watch him. It also
occurred to hira that the description of
one of the highway robbers fitted Marmel-
STEIN He found that Marmelstein had at
tempted to steal pair of shoes at H.
Wilensky's, on Broughton street, and ar
rested him on this charge. By the time he
had reached the barracks with the prison
err, he became satisfied that Marmelstein
was one of the men wanted Arriving
lllSIC lie lil4OlinCu Tie Citi6L VI HIS COHClu-
sions. The latter probed Marmelstein a lit
tie and secured a confession without any
trouble.
Marmestein said that he and Wingard
had only been in the city few days. They
hung around the election the greater part
of Wednesday and decided in the after
noon to go out ON the Thunderbolt road
and hold up some of the bicyclists On
their way out they stopped at a black
smith shop and armed themselves with
couple of wagon spokes. Near Oelschgs
place they stopped behind some bushes on
the road. Presently they saw two young
ladies coming along on their wheels and
agreed to stop them. AS the young Ia
dies came nearer, however, Marmelstein
recognized them. He informed his COM
panion that it would be bad business to
stop the young ladies or any other bicyc-
lists, as too many of them knew him.
After the bicyclists passed they saw
buggy coming with two ladies and decided
to stop 1t.
Wingard jumped out in the road and
seized the horses head while Marmelstein
demanded the ladies' money. One of the la
dies, Mrs. Dancy, promptly threw out
small pocketbook. Wingard left the
horses head and advanced on the other
lady with his stick, demanding her purse.
The lady was too frightened to move, and
the two robbers, seeing men coming on
the road, took fright and ran across the
fields. Mrs. Bell had 500 in the pocket
book, which, luckily she did not throw
out. The other pocketbOok only contained
$1.95.
Wingard was found by Detective Scully
at the Electric railway power house. He
did not know why he had been arrested
until he arrived a the barracks, when
he denied everything. He is expected to
acknowledge his crime, however.