The herald., 1897-09-12
MORE BAD BURGLARS
AM SAFELY BAooED BEHIND
THE BARS
Large Amount Of Stolen Property Re-
covered-Active Careers Nipped
After They Had Budded

The two burglars who for the past two
weeks have been terror to the south
western part Of The city and had sue
cessfully evaded the police are now safe
ly behind the bars at the city prison.
Between $500 and $4,000 worth OF the
property stolen from different houses
has been recovered and most of this has
already been identified by the owners.
The plunder consists of gold watches
and other articles of jewelry, silk
dresses, sealskin capes, dress suits, etc.
1t is believed that the two burglars cap
tured are responsible for at least seven
of the burglaries reported within the
past two weeks. Articles taken from
the following residences have been re-
covered: S. v. Landt, 2131 Estrella ave-
nue.; ]. L. Patterson, 2715 Orchard ave-
nue.: Otis E. Tiffany, 1854 West Eleventh
street; j. Drew, S51 Burlington avenue;
d. F. Donnegan, 1926 Bunker Hill avenue;
Amos Raymer, S11 West Pico street;
Joseph Scoder. 1908 West Seventh
street.
The credit of the capture is due to De-
tectives Bradish and Steele, who worked
up the case against the men, made the
arrest, and afterward recovered the
stolen property The prisoners give
their names as c. NJ. Scott and James
Clifton Scott is about 40 years old,
and an ex-divine of unsavory reputa-
ton. He was arrested by Detectives
Hawley and Auble about year and
half ago and turned over to Stockton Of
ficials, who wanted him for embezzle-
ment. Little is known of Clifton. He
Is about 20 years old. and came from
Butte, Mont.
About three weeks ago Scott appeared
at the home of pous old lady, Mrs.
Anna Shinkwin, 1908 West Second street,
and asked for place to stay few days,
offering to do odd jobs to pay for his
board. Scotts experience in the min
,istry had taught him how to look sancti-
monious. The good lady gladly opened
her house to him. Scott was good
enough to work about one hour per diem
for favors received.
About a week ago Mrs Shankwin be-
gan to miss articles from her house
Last Thursday she decided to report the
matter to the police. After listening to
her story Detective Bradish asked who
were staying at the house. Among the
inmates the name of Scott was men,
toned. The detective seemed to find the
name familiar. His suspicious were con-
firmed by search, for he found in the
closets and elsewhere most of the plum
der stolen from the Schoder residence.
He promptly placed Scott under arrest.
The prisoner has refused to make any
statement.
Mrs. Shankwin remembered that an
other young man had frequently visited
Scott. The detectives located his friend
at a lodging house at II East Second
street. On his return to his lodgings
he was placed under arrest and searched.
A 3S-caliber revolver an da quantity of
burglars tools were found in his pockets.
With the two burglars safely locked
up the detectives set about finding the
stolen property. A great deal of this con-
sisted of silken garments of female wear
ing apparel, and most of it had been
disposed of among a class of sporting
women. The thieves had gone around
with the garments, representin6 that
they were acting as the agents of some
misfit clothing parlor.
All the parties whose houses were
burglarized were notified yesterday, and
they called. at the police station and iden-
titled their property. The burglars were
also identified by several people who hal
seen them hanging around the burglar
lied houses.
When arrested Scott was wearing
pair of gold cuff buttons which he had
stolen not more than twenty-four hours
before from the Schoder residence.