The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-10

NEW YORK. April IA girl Of thlr-
teen and her ten.year-old brother are
now locked up In Jersey City to await
trial for robblng children of tender
years. abducung them, stripping them.
leaving them naked in Railways and
then pa%ning their clothes to buy cam
dy, cigarettes and theatre tickets.
The boy added inll breaking to his
other exploits yesterday. and WIS cap-
tured by three policemen after long
run, which nearly carried him to SAFETY.
Tho girl planned the robberles and
schooled her brother until he was an
able lieutenant Her mind dominated
his. She Is pretty and intelligent, but
NATURAL depraved, and as sullen and
shlfty as an old time criminal.
These despoilers OF babies did not
stop at highway robbery. They care
RED OF carpets, furniture and other
goods from the houses Of the owners,
and even wheeled away baby carriages
which were left standing In the street.
One instance VIII suffice 10 show the
craft Of the girl, who Is the most won
derful youthful criminal arrested In or
near New York within twenty years
Her brother is small. Once when they
decided to run on with GSbaby carriage
and found that It contained an infant,
the girl lifted the baby out, placed II
In q hallway, put her brother In the car
rlage and wheeled him away, When
they were at a safe distance he alight-
ed They sold the carriage for fifty
cents and blew In" the money
brought Booty Home.
Captain Kelly, OF the Seventh avenue
station, Jersey City. whose men are
still at work on the list Of victims, be-
lleves that the children have been gull
ty Of more than fifty robberies. once
they bearded the police lion in his very
den and despolled the residence or PO-
lice Commissioner Feeney.
The prisoners are Mamie and John
Timothy. Mamie Is not yet thirteen.
John was ten on October 8. last. Their
parents, and four other children, three
OF whom are younger than John, live at
No. lI0 PaVoniR avenue, in q comfort
able four room hat. all the more COM
Portable, by the way, because OF the
mats and rugs the girl took home oc-
casionally when pawnbrokers and sec
ond hand dealers would not buy them or
advance money on them. The parents.
the police think, were ignorant OF their
Chlldren's crimes
The father Is q cook employed In q
restaurant in Franklin street, New
York. His wife works there with him.
For months past they have left their
home long before the children were up,
and returned In the evening, as the ell
deBt of the children, Mamie, was left in
charge Of her brother and sisters.
She neglected the girls, and devoted
herself to making John what he Is to-
day--a child with the education of a
clever thief. He needed practice, not
persuasion. Any easy way to get candy
and cigarettes and admission to the
wonders seen from the topmost gallery
Of the Bon-Ton Variety Theatre was
good enough for him.
He learned his lesson well. For three
hours after their arrest on Monday ev=
ening the children sat in the Seventh
avenue station, sullen and silent. refus-
Ing in all that time to say single word
IN reply to the captnin's questions, al
though they were both coaxed and con-
fronted with overwhelming evidence OF
their guilt. The boy fixed his eyes up
on the sullen girl. He trusted to her
discretion. AS long as she was silent he
was silent.
But at last the strain was too great
for her and she confessed.