The herald., 1897-01-29
LIVELY MIDNIGHT EPISODE
CODstables Catch a Pair of
Young Criminals
FUN WITH A STOOL PIGEON
Rival Officers Who Were Trying for the
Same Game
An Escaped Inmate of lone Who Is a
Desperate Young Tough-His Com
panion Charged With Larceny

Two very bad boys were neatly and
completely caught at 12:3 last night by
Constables Joe Mugnemi, John Mansur
and Tom Quinn. All day long the three
officers had been watching the Chicago
house on Main street, between First and
Second, to corral a brace of tough
youngsters for whom the prison walls
are waiting-Bud Lovett and M. Has
kell.
Lovett is an escaped inmate of lone
school and is a desperate young fellow,
ready for anything. The usual reward
of $25 for the capture of an lone fugi-
tive hung over his head and made him
a prize to any constable. The other fell
low, Haskell, is charged with commit
ting larceny from the person of Ger
man in this city short time ago.
The constables located their game and
waited until half an hour after mid
| night, when they laid siege to certain
room in the Chicago house. They found
it necessary to break in the door.
| On entering the apartment their dark
| lanterns disclosed Lovett covering be-
meath the bed and Haskell upon it. On
| the officers commands and threats Low
! ett came out and Immediately showed
| fight He had previously boasted that
he would kill anybody who attempted
| his arrest, but he was thwarted by the
quickness of the constables. Mugnemi
had occasion to use his club on the des
| perate young criminal and the weapon
glanced in such a way that it gave a
pretty good blow on the right eye of
Constable Quinn.
| After some trouble Lovett was hand
cuffed and rendered harmless. Haskell,
| who had not made any resistance or at
| tempt to escape, was similarly treated,
and both were soon safely behind the
! bars. Lovett's desperate character can
| be appreciated when it is known that
he was armed with revolver, razor and
| pair of iron knuckles. He was not given
chance to use any of these weapons or
| the result of the raid might have been
| different.
THE MAN WHO ESCAPED.
| The constables had resorted to sub
terfuge to effect the capture of the two
young fellows. A man in their en-
ploy, said to be named Bill Lowden, was
used as a stool pigeon. Lowden was
with the young fellows when arrested,
! and he was taken away with them as
| though he too. were criminal While
! the officers and the three prisoners were
| going toward the police station Lowden
made a break for liberty and ran from
| First street toward Second.
! One of the constables fired shot and
pretended to make pursuit, but gave
up the chase. Lowden ran until he was
headed off by Jim Fisk and captured in
stairway. Fisk took his captive up to
First street, where he found Policemen
| Henderson and Fay, and to them he de-
! livered his prisoner.
| The policemen gave Fisk the laugh.
| They told him that it was intended the
man should escape; that he was stool
pigeon helping the officers. Fisk felt
chagrined over the part he had played in
| the farce
| 1t appears that the policemen and the
constables were playing at cross pur-
poses. The former were after Haskell.
who is wanted for crime committed in
| Los Angeles, and the latter wanted the
lone bird, for whom reward was Of
! cred The rival officers were watching
| the same nest but the constables were
| first to catch the birds.