The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-14
AUTHORITIES DECIDED THAT HE
MUST APPEAR AGAINST
THOMAS FUREY.
MUST WAIT FOR HIS MONEY.
MAYOR DORIAN WAKES UP TO THE
SERIOUSNESS OF THE SIT
UATION.
ST. PAUL HARBoRING THU
THIEVES.
An officer Says the Central Station
Could Be Filled With Crooks
in Two Hours.

The police department Is in the
throes of despair on account Of the
| high handed methods of the rapidly
increasing population of criminals
| whose bold depredations are terrorizing
| residents of the city. Scarcely day
passes without it's series of burgiaries
! or holdups, and confidence games are
| as regular as the arrival and depart
| ure of trains. The situation has as
| sumed such alarming aspects that
! Judge of the municipal court has ad-
vised the people to arm themselves in
protection against the outrages which
| the police seem unwilling to prevent.
! Strangers are beginning to fear a visit
! to the city, and merchants and dealers
| in all lines of business find their GUS
| toners frightened away for fear of
being robbed or victimized on some
confidence game. Thieves and crooks
, of every caliber are overrunning the
| city, and have been for months. There
| are burglars here from Chicago, conf
| dence men from San Francisco, and
safe blowers whose photographs adorn
| every rogues' gallery In the country,
| and the police know it. In the general
| carnival of criminalfty local thieves
| add to the CONSERVATION by plying
| their calling, emboldened by the sue
| cessful ventures of outside talent.
The condition of affairs can, in a
measure, be realized from the. follow
ing remark of a member of the police
department regarding the bold $500
robbery of George Roebuck, Thursday:
1.-THE town Is full of thieves They
are met at all hours of the day and
night. and If a policeman looks at
them crosswise. they laugh at him.
| They come here from all over the
country, looking for a soft snap which
| they have been told exists here. In
two hours the central police station
could be filled with crooks rounded up
on the business streets, every one of
whom ought to be in states prison.
Instead they work at will both here
| and in Minneapolis
"Why are they not arrested?" was
asked. The only answer was shrug
| of the officers shoulders.
| Mayor Doran is also evidently desir-
| Gus Of having this question answered
! for he has had two long consultations
with Chief OF Police Goss and Chief
of Detectives Schweitzer since the ar
rest of Thomas Furey, for robbing
young Roebuck. The frequency of like
affairs has caused the mayor no lit
tie annoyance. and he has taken per-
sonal supervision of this last robbery
with a view of setting an example to
! other crooks by securing Furey's con-
viction. If possible. and likewise to get
an insight into police affairs in gen.
eral.
Furey was arraigned in the munich
pal court yesterday on the charge of
grand larceny. He desired his case
again continued, but Judge Twohy re-
| fused the request, as 1t was then sup
posed that Roebuck, who charges
F'urey with, taking $700 from him,
would leave on an afternoon train for
Alaska. The court stated that it
| would be travesty on Justice to al
low Roebuck to depart without testi-
| flying, after the charges he had made
against the prisoner, and declared that
the state might put in its evidence at
| that time. With this decision Furey
| the grand jury in $4,000 bail The $3.50
missing from Roebuck's money belt
when it was recovered has not yet
| been found. At the conclusion of the
hearing Judge Twohy said:
eff the story of this affair as re-
lated by Mr.. Roebuck is true, it is the
most outrageous defiance of law I have
ever come in contact with. The idea
that citizens cannot go about the most
frequented thoroughfares, in broad
daylight, without being held up and
robbed is a condition of affairs calling
for the most strenuous action. In sew
eral cases recently alleged confidence
men have escaped trial by having their
cases continued until the victim was
compelled to leave the city and, if it
| has come to that pass where people
are not safe from outrages such is