El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22
THE RUBBERS TRACKED.
Five of Baud of Burglars and I'll ieves
In jail,

In jail.
For several weeks there has been
gang of burglars and sneak thieve:
working toe town and the police force
have been after them continually. The
robbers we're spotted and closely watch
ed but moth ng c1uld be found tina,
would be direct evidence against the
parties 50 there were no acreSts.
The leader of the gang was a mar
who went sby the name of McManu
whose lieutenant was a negro. These
two parties lived togetner up at Fort
Bliss aid Tony Sierra, who is watch.
man at the o!d fort run them away from
there several times, but when Tony
found Ou, tnat the twain were being
wasched by the police, he made friends
with them aud trie 1 10 find out all he
could. A week or SO agJ he walked in
Oh the n-g who was ciean,ng up fine
Colts p st /: and a other time he found
the Iri hman, McMano, sharpening q
very ugiy looking knife. Tong then
told the n they had better move their
beds from Odd Fort Bliss, and they
moved to a culvert on the Southern
Pacific road where McManu and the ne
gro nave slept since.
On the night of Saturday the 18th
inss., the drug store OF Feisst, at the
corner OF Utah and san AnLopio street,
was burglarized, and about 5000 worth
of tine Gu tlery was stolen. George
Herold was put on the trail and has
been Keeping a strict watch on the sus-
pected parties ever since. Yesterday
morning Toy Sierra and A. L. Roy
notified George Herold that it was time
to be doing something as McMaun
wrs apparently getting really to make
a move. So Herold, Sierra and Roy
started out together and so)n arrested
McMann. They then Sc lrched the cul-
vert where he bad beeu sleeping, but
found nothing. They then took him
up the railroad track across the line
into New Mexico, and about ten miles
up the road they searched q cave
wnere McMaun aud the negro had
been seen. Still they fouud nothing
They then returned towards town with
their prisoner and just this side of the
smelter they met four buns v no were
carrying a sack. Herold called on
them to stow him what they had
in the sack. They threw the sack
down and came down to where the
party with Nc Mann stood. Herold
looked at the sack and found it filed
WITH pocket knives, razors, scissors
and other CUTLERY. He then searched
the four parties who were together
with the man carrying the bundle and
found several other smaller packages
of cutlery. The parties were all ar
rts:e1 aud brought to town and locked
up, and hunt was then made for the
negro aud another man, who have b. en-
with the gang. but who have not been
arrest. ID up TO this writing.
The s,o en- cutlery has been recog.
nized by Mr.. Feisst as the goods stolen
from his drug store on the night of the
18th inst, and be values the outfit at
about 5000 and thinks it very nearly
covers the whole amount stolen from
him. The negro wanted was seen last
night in Ju4rez and is being watched
closely and in all probability will be
arrested.
The other party wanted is white
man who is said to have been sleeping
around the Santa Fe stock pens and has
been working that end of town as q
bum. He goes around the houses late
in the evening and asks for something
to eat and sizes up the situation while
there. He is still in this city or Juarez
and it is said he slept last night near
the Santa Fe round house. He does
not go around much in day time and
generally makes a tour around late in
the afternoOn. He is said to have talk.
ed to .veral children and asked them
questions about certain people and
found out all be could about houses
and people in the neighbordood of the
Santa Fe rOun1 house and other parts
of to Tn. He is pretty slick in keeping
out of sight Of the police and will be
the hardest one Of the gang to catch.
Four of the parties arrested yester.
day were recognized by the city iailos