The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-15
POLlCEMEN'S BUSY DAY.
Several Important Cases Worked Up
By Them Yesterday.
A HOTEL EMPLOYE GETS INTO
SERIOUS TROUBLE.

Stock of siIyerware Found in His Trunk
| A Cow Purchased by a Cape Elizabeth
Farmer Turns Out to Have Been Stolen
A Till Tapping Case on Commercial
Street.
| Petty crimes, like fires and accidents,
are apt to run in threes Days will some
times pass without the police records
showing anything more serious than a
| drunk. Then the drouth will break
and there will come flood of police bust.
ness.
| Yesterday was one of the busy days in
| the police department.
EARLY in the day Thomas Tuttle, an
elnpIoye at the Congress Square hotel, IN
formed the police that his overcoat had
BEEN taken from his room. He suspected
| that it had been taken by q fellow-em-
ploye. The officers who worked up the
| case searched the room Of Patrick Scott
kitchen hand, and were doubiy re-
warded. Not only was the overcoat
located in his room, but the search
brought to light nineteen silver spoons,
knives and forks belonging to the West
End hotel, where Scott had been previous
ly employed. E&R
| When asked how the tableware cane in
his possession, he said he had worked on
ME-. Cashiers farm, and that he had
found the articles in the refuse matter
which had been hauled there from the
hotel.
| He was taken into custody and passed
the night in the police station.
SOLD HIS MOTHERS COW.
Mrs. Margaret Hayes of 157 Green
street, is the owner Of a cow. Monday
night the COW was missing from her ac-
oustomed haunts, and Mrs. Hayes jumped
at the conclusion that her son, Hugh Gill
more, knew what had become OF the
animal. Under pressure of an official
thumb screw Gilmore admitted that he
had sold the COW to farmer at Cape
Elizabeth. With Gilmore as guide
trip was made to the Cape, and the COW
was found in Fred Wormell's barn. MIR.
Wormell had bought her of Gilmore, who
had represented that she was his own
property. The price paid was sS5. Gill
more couldn't remember what he had
done with the money. He will be given
an opportunity in court today to refresh
his recollection.
LOOKING FOR CASH.
During minutes absence of the clerk
in Frank FL. Little's store on Commercial
street, yesterday, tramp improved the
opportunity to make hurried search for
cash. He succeeded in opening the cash
drawer, but before he had time to help
himself to it's contents the clerk returned
and caught him in the act.
At the police station the tramp regis
tered as Thomas Ryan of Springfield,
Mass.
A KNOCKOUT BLOW.
Thomas Fltzsimmons and Roberts Fin
nimore were discussing the Spanish war
and other up.to-date topics, on CONNER
cial street, about six O'Clock last evening,
The argument became SO heated that the
pugilistice propensities of the pair as
serted itself, and Fitzsimmons landed a
knock out blow just below Finnemore's
belt.
Finnemore didn't recover his wits till
some time after he was transported to the
lodging room of the police station. When
he recovered consciousness six stalwart
officers were standing over him, their
com bined strength having been mar
shalled to prevent his doing injury to
himself, While he was in the midst of an
inquiry as to how it all happ ened, he re-
lapsed into another period of commissions
He had almost fully recovered late last
night Somebody who witnessed the as
sault informed the officers that Fitzsim-
mons kicked Finnimore, but the accused
assailant declares that it was misguided
blow with his fist that did the mischief.
The conflict of stories regarding the as
sault will be Strengthened out in Judge
Robinson's court this morning