The evening times., 1897-08-30

Five youthful burglars are locked up at
the Sixth precinct police station today as
a result of some keen detective work on
the part OF Detective Hartigan and Police
man McNamee. of the Sixth.
The arrests are regarded as the most i'm
portant which have occurred in some tinr,
as the youthful offeaders are members of
q gang which has been responsible for
bun gla ries innumerable during thr past few
months
Just how many burglaries they have COM
n.itted are at present un known. but their
own confessions iniplicate them in some
ef the most daring housebreakings which
have taken plac, i'm this city.
The names of the young burglars are
FJhs Kane. " hite, Frank Williams, coloretl,
william Brennan, white, Wallace Maurer,
wsite, and JaIuer Walton. colered The
method 10y which the thieves gained access
to stores and hogses was principally 10y
crawling through transoms. Two of the
boys, Maurer and Kane, are small in
stature, which enables them 10 pass
through an opening OF exceedingly small
Dimensions. 1aey were accordingly used
Ia gain an entrance To the place selected
and, af.er securing goods or money. to
pass them 10 their pals on the outside.
The roundup and arrestof the gang was
brought about by :he arrest, at an early
hour Sunday morning 10y Policeman Nc
Nance. OF Kane and Villains. McNamee
saw tie two boys early int The evening near
Seventh street. lie took a good look at
them, ana later, when he saw hem with q
large bundle, he determined to place them
under arrest. They broke and ran, but
he got Williams, although Kane escaped
However. the officer caught sight later on
OF the boy skalkiRg along aud he placed
him under arrest also. He did not have the
bundle then.
Wien the boys were locked up they at
first denied all knowledge of the bundle,
bsd later tley broke down and said they
tad stolen some clothes from Tennille,
the clCthier, of No. 709 Seventh street
Kane went with the officer and showed
him where the bundle was hidden, at No.
933 street northwest There were three
suits OF clothes, valued at $50. The boys
HAD treated themselves to an entirely new
outfit OF underwear while in the store.
Detective HartiEan at oice set to work
sa the case and he SON had enough evi-
dence ~ conymce him that the capture was
a most important one, aud that the yeunE
raS ais Were members OF a gang which has
been operating on an extensive scale. This
morning he had secured enough evidence
60 warrant the arrest OF Walton, Maurer
and Brennan.
The hOys. were Piled with questions as to
their operations until they finally gave up
and admitted that they were members of a
gang organized for the express purpose OF
burglary. They talked i'm the most non
chalant manner of the way in which they
got into the stores and houses, and told Of
the various sums OF money, with other
articles, which they had. Maurer is scarce
ly more than child, yet his conversation
showed hun to be old in the ways of in
iquity.
20 far the buys have confessed to the fol-
10 sying Eurg Iaries: Ferd's Iunchroorn,
corner OF Seventh and streets, entered
through the transDm; S. and a lot OF
cigars We're stolen frnm there; Ford & Gra-
hams lunch-roorn, on Fifteenth street, en-
tered through transom; So and a hot OF
cigars was the haul there.
r. Gloss, the Saloonkeeper on the Ave-
nue., between Ninth and Tenth streets,
was the next victim. They secured a sum
Of money and a lot of cigars here.
The Log a bin lunchroOIh on + street was
also entered. They got lot of cigars
and some money there.
Eauffman's dry goods store on Seventh
street suffered to the extent of half a
dozen pairs of trousers Kane had pair
OF these trousers on when captured.
They also admitted having bro ken into a
shoe shop on Vermont avenue and stealin;,
a number of shoes.