The record-union., 1898-02-28
A Thief NEATLY TRAPPED.
CHIEF DIVER DOES A LITTLE
DETECTIVE WORK.
Arrest Of Daniel Lynch, Who Stole
$1,000 From a San Fran
cisco Firm.

| Chief of Police Dwyer is pretty good
detective himself He was the means
OF the arrest in this city yesterday morn
ing of a man named Daniel Lynch who
had been giving the San Francisco Off
GERS a merry race.
| Detective Gibson of that city came
| here on Saturday night with a warrant
for Lynch's arrest on charge of having
robbed the firm by which has was en-
ployed of some 81 900 When he showed
| Lynch's photograph 10 Chief Dwyer and
asked him if he knew whether or not
/ such person was in the city, the Chief
replied, Yes, sir; / saw that man this
morning"
! The Chief and the detective took a
/ stroll up the street later on, and While
conversing in the doorway of Hammer s
drugstore, at Fourth and K streets,
| Dwyer nudged Gibson and pointing to
a man who had just passed them and
turned toward j street, said, There
! goes your man now!"
Detective Gibson did not think so, but
they followed and watched him. The
man entered a saloon in the ST. George
I building, but soon came out, crossed
the street and went up stairs in a lodg-
| Chief Dwyer insisted that it was
| Lynch. and at his suggestion Gibson
went to the lodging house, engaged a
room, and resolved to watch the suS-
pect. Chief Dwyer arranged to meet
him there at an early hour in the morn
! ing. and the officers separated for the
night.
AT the hour agreed on, yesterday
morning, Chief Dwyer was at the lodg-
ing house, accompanied by Officer
Maley. and they did not get there any
too soon, for Gibson was in danger.
Just as they were going UP stairs Lynch
emerged from his room and was con-
/ frented by Gibson. who told him to con-
slider himself under arrest. Lynch was
about to show fight when Chief Dwyer
and Maley walked up the hallway and
that settled it. The Chief collared him,
and Maley stood ready to lend hand if
Lynch continued to show fight, but he
didn't
Lynch was locked up till afternoon,
when Gibson left with him for San
Francisco. In the meantime the pris-
oner admitted he was the man wanted,
and he told the officers a story about
how he came to rob his employers.
1t seems that he was bookkeeper for
a large firm, and according to his story,
was about to be replaced by relative of
one of the firm. A customer came in
late on his last day of service and paid
a bill of $500, and this he concluded to
keep for himself. Then he thought Of
another department of the business
where considerable money was some
/ times kept, and as he was already lin
for it, he concluded to try and get more
money
After much labor ne succeeded In
gaining entrance to the Office and event
ually got the safe open. There was
81 600 there, and he took it all. He then
locked everything up, threw away the
keys and decamped. He knew that a
good part of a day would be lost before
the safe could be opened and in the
meantime he could get we'll out of the
way.
Lynchs mother lives in San Jose, and
thither he was traced, but he became
suspicious and left there, finally coming
to Sacramento. 1t was learned that his
mother received a letter dated in this
city, SO Gibson was sent here to look
fol-, Lynch, with the result stated.