The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-26
CLEVER THIEF DORSEY CAPTURED
Run Down After n Long Hunt by the
Detectives.


! The cleverest thief who has invaded the
\ city for some time has been landed in the
1 police barracks by the city detectives. He
| is wanted for multiplicity of offenses.
both against the state laws and those of
the United States. His name is Anthony
Dorsey (colored). The doors of the peni-
tertiary were only opened to him two
months ago, after a confinement of five
years on conviction for highway robbery
in this city.
Strange, as 1t may seem, Dorsey had not
been released a month, when he returned
to Savannah and committed exactly the
same kind of offense as that for which he
had been imprisoned. This fact has been
particularly noticed by Chief McDermott
who thinks it rather remarkable that the
Imprisonment should have such little eff
feet on the man.
Dorsey's operations have been kept quiet
by the police for the reason that it was
known he had come to Savannah and to
catch him would require the shrewdest
of detective work 1t was necessary to
keep the complaints under cover as much
as possible, and this accounts for so little
being said about the recent robbing of a
girl in Lovers lane, from whom Dorsey
took several dollars. Later on, negro
working for a wholesale firm reported a
theft, two bicycles We're reported stolen
and several violations of the federal laws
were reported. Some houses had also
been entered and the police were satisfied
the work was being done by Dorsey.
The detectives were soon on to the tao
tics by which the negro was getting bicyc-
les He would watch for boys on wheels,
hail them and then proposed for them to
run an errand somewhere. He would
say Take this quarter and bring me
bunch of laundry from around the corner.
Just leave your bicycle here until you
come back. I'm take care of it,"
The boy would run away, but on return
ing would find Dorsey and his bicycle
gone. The first bicycle taken in this city
was at the corner of Oglethorpe avenue
and Bull streets, and the second at Hab-
ersham and Perry streets. Later they
were recovered by the detectives, one at
James McBride's saloon, on the Bay,
where Dorsey had left it as collateral.
and the other near Huff's drug store at
Oglethorpe avenue and West Broad street.
Fear of detection is thought to have
prompted Dorsey to leave it there. The
delay in capturing the thief was because
of his disguise, every body describing him
at little clean-shaved man, in knee
breeches, when his appearance was the
opposite.
ed States Commissioner j. f. Lewis, charg-
ing Dorsey with defrauding different peo-
pie Of money by representing that he
would get them government jobs in return
for it. lie claimed to be deputized by the
government to get a number of men for
the service. but said a small fee must be
paid in advance. All sorts of cunning
methods were used to defraud and there
will be eight or ten cases against him.
In talking to Chief McDermott al the
barracks yesterday afternoon, Dorsey ex-
pressed the wish that his operations would
be sufficient to send him back to the peni-
tertiary. 1t is understood they will do
it, as the warrants charge him with high
way robbery, larceny and cheating and
swndling.
After the trial before the recorder this
morning, Dorsey will be photographed, and
his picture placed in the rogues' gallery
at the barracks. He is % years of age
and said to be well educated. The catch
is regarded as an excellent piece of work
by Chief MeDermott, in view of the fact
Dorsey was caught in the face of the
shrewdest tactics to evade the officers