The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-15
BANK SNEAK PRICE N4BBED.
wanted In Warrington for '~.sneakinE" 0 $50
In n Restaurant.

John Price, whom the police call one Of the
Cleverest bank sneaks in the country. was
locked up at Police Headquarters yesterday for
doing a trick" in Washington which Melted
him 81 $50. rs. The detectives have been on his
track since March 81. They ran him down at
127th street and Lexington avenue yesterday.
The superintendent OF the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company Of Washington drew the sum
above mentioned from his bank on March 80. and
gave 1t TO the cashier in q restaurant a few doors
below the bank to care for while he had his din
ncr. Upon the heels of the superintendent a
stranger had entered. He saw him give the girl
al the desk the satohel, and watched her after
ward so narrowly that she took notice oft. When
he noticed this he bought n cigar at her desk
and went out, ostensibly to smoke it. After n
while he came in and ordered half a dozen sand.
witches done up in paper. She turned away to
give the order. When she reached the desk
again the stranger was walking out.
He had not been gone two minutes when the
railway superintendent came for his satchel. 1t
was gone. Two walters remembered that the
stranger went out with a satchel. but they
thought II was his own. A wild chase up and
down the street ensued, but he was not found.
Major Moore. the Chief OF the Washington
Police, telcgraphcd to the police OF this city to
be on the lookout for Price. He knew that he
had been in Washington and recognized his
h~andiwork. Capt. OBrien told of Detectives
Samuel Price. Flayc. Fogarty. DAILY and O'Dono-
hue TO get the fugitive, but before they had gone
far in their search word came from Washington
that a lawyer, acting for Prices friends, had
offered the railway Company 81 200 OF the stolen
money IL they wonla cali it square and ask no
questions. Capt. o Brien stopped long enough
10 make sure that Price would be prosecuted IL
caught. and then went ahead. The chase came
to an end yesterday.
Price registered as IS years old Mt headquar-
i honEs H n h; W, a Gbha }ssI 10 hi himself i 81 ihc 3 go 46S
ont OF a safe in Augusta. Ga. Billy - Coleman
and Itufe Miner were with him. They were
so elatcd over their success that they talked aloud
about II on the train going ont OF the city. A
clergyman overheard them and told tho police,
Price got seven years In the pcnitcntiary. but
was pardoned after three years. On July II,
1888, he was arrest cd in this city for stealing a
WAS discharged. Four days later he was caught
in Albany stealing bonds worth $50. 900 from
the carriage of T.. *. Diderich. "A manufacturer
OF agricultural implements, in front OF the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank. For this he
WAS sentenced 10 nineteen years and three
months in prison. Gov. Flower pardoncd him
out in 1895. when lac had served one-third of the
sentence.
Price was a pal OF Little Patsie and Wylie
OConnor. who lately hold mp the cashier in tho
Sonkcrs bank. lie comes of a tainted family.
His two brol hers arc pickpockets. Capt. OBricn
thinks that IL was he who stole a bag contain,
ing $1,000 from the Broadway cable company's
treasure wagon at the Pacific Bank six months
ago, but he cannot prove 1t, for no one saw who
loaded AT the bank when that one disappeared.
Magistrate FlanlTner remain ed the prisoner
10 Police headquarters, and word OF his CAptur,
was sent to Washington.