The herald., 1897-10-14
PASADENA A

PASADENA, Oct. 13.-(Regular Corre-
spondence) James Brown, the burglar ar
rested by Night Watchman Frank Wright
on Orange Grove avenue on MONDAY morn
ing appears before Recorder Rossiter to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock for examina-
tion. Hitherto there have been only two
charges against Brown, namely, the bur-
glary of DIR. TalcottS house and the bur-
glary of Mrs. Watson's house on orange
avenue. Brown confessed to these, but de-
MED having burglarized Mrs. s. g. Reed
and Mr.. Libby's places on South orange
Grove and Grand avenues, respectively.
Today evidence was secured by Wright
which proves the third charge, that OF
burglarizing Mr.. Libby's barn, beyond
doubt Credit for a good bit of detective
work is due Wright. At the time OF Browns
arrest he had on pair of blue trousers.
Yesterday Wright, suspecting that the
trousers belonged to Miss Pearl G. Libby's
livered coachman, telephoned to the Los
Angeles police headquarters to have them
held for him. He brought them up today,
and they were fully identified as those OF
the coachman both by the coachman and
Miss Libby The Identification was made
by means of hole in the pants which
had been eaten by moths. The man to
whom was solu the harness stolen at the
same time the pants We're stolen, ana
marked with Miss Libby's monogram.
"P. G. L." saw Brown today in the county
tail, but failed to fully identify him. The
officers have evidence which will con-
meet Brown with the Reed burglary but
this evidence is not yet conclusive Browns
accomplice is also nearly identif1ed, ana
may be arrested soon.
The plunder which Brown secured has.
with the exception of only few small
articles been recovered, and is in the hands
of Constable Slater. From DIR. Talcotts
home a blue coat and vest, light brown
oyercoat tan shoes, pearl-handled twen-
wo-caliber revolver silver dollar, scarf
pin and three cigars were taken; from MRS.
Watson's an onyx clock, four dresses, TWO
capes, dress suit gentleman's bicycle suit,
lady's bicycle suit, two silver card trays.
four silver-backed brushes box of candy,
grip and house keys. In this house the
burglar overlooked 500 gold piece in plain
view in the buffers closet. where In fin
gering about he broke some chinaware. The
man got from the Libby place harness.
pants, green coat and horse clippers. The
last two articles have not been recovered.
The silverware taken from Mrs. S. G. Reed
has not been found.
From the quantity Of stuff taken by the
man it was assumed that he must have an
accomplice with wagon. Working on
this theory, Wright and cousin, whom he
deputized, '1aid for" the burglar Sunday
night. They had a code of signals. and
shortly after midnight Wright's friend.
near the south end of Orange Grove ave-
nue., signaled to Wright to stop party
in buggy. Wright saw the buggy coming
and watched one of the occupants get out
and act in a suspicious manner The dash
board Of the buggy seemed to be broken off,
which added to the suspicious appearance
of the rig. He stepped in front of the rig,
asked the party to stop. and at the same
time said, I'm an officer and I want to
speak with YOU" 1t was moonlight, and
Wright had on his badge. AS the buggy
did not STOP the occupants saying 1--WE live
here" Wright fired over 1t, he says, and
with no thought of hitting any one. The
party drove on uptown and informed an
officer that some had attempted to hold
them up. Wright feels that an injustice
has been done him in the report of morn
ing paper and has three eyewitnesses of
the affair, neighbors who were out with
him for the burglar. who cororborate his
testimony.
WOMAN'S MISSIONS
About one hundred delegates from this
state and Arizona and Nevada are present
at the session of the Pacific branch of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society,
which is being held in the M. E. church.
The session continues three days This
morning President Mrs. c. v. Hummer
called the body to order at $3.50. Mrs. L.
G. Spencer led devotional exercises. There
was roll call, address of welcome by Mrs.
G.. M. Parker response by Mrs. Jennie NJ.
Lombard: vocal solo. Mrs. Peck-Miller:
addf ess, by the president reports of Of
ficers and committees; address on mission
work in China. by Mrs. +. W. Walker:
Chinese song. by the Misses Walker. In
the afternoon reports were read; there was
paper, by Mrs. Marion Taylor; vocal solo.
by M. s,,J. G. Rossiter.
This evening public reception was given
to delegates. There We're recitations. music
by the choir, addresses by Mrs Hummer
and Rev. Crawford. The session continues
through tomorrow and for three days in
all.
THE FRUIT GROWERS
At the meeting of the directors Of the
Fruit Growers association in the office
of Wood & Church this afternoon officers
were elected as follows: j. Fl. Woodwork,
president; Williel Thompson, vice presi-
dent; j. Jones, secretary; and the Union
Savings bank treasurer NJ. H. Weight was
chosen delegate to the Semi-Tropic Fruit
exchange, which is composed of one dele
gate from each of the associations in
southern California. E. L. Farris and W.
T. Clapp, together with the president eX-
oifcto, compose the executive committee.
BREvITIES
The Pickwck club met this evening in
the club rooms for the transaction of busi-
ness, but owing to the absence of quorum,
no business was transacted. Instead, a
social time was enjoyed by the members
who braved the rain. An adjournment was
made until one week from tonight.
Two small runaways occurred this morn
Ing A horse driven in buggy by lady
on North Raymond avenue took fright and
ran south at a lively rate Of speed to the
alley below Allin 6 Reid's livery stable.