The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-28
BOYS. CONFESS BURGLARIES
FOUR NOV UNDER ARREST SAY
 THEY COMMITTED FIFTEEN.

Have Operated-They Are Twelve and | Fourteen Years ofAg Age-PIayed Hockey and spent stolen Money-Hid In Sugar | Barrels While Groceryman Was Looking for Them.
 Three boys, who have since confessed to having committed twelve or fifteen burglaries, were arrested Saturday af- ternoon by Patrolmen Trainor and Roche on the charge of having bur- glarized Smoloff's grocery store at No. 65 Grand avenue, The three boys are Matthew Conroy, thirteen years old, of 42 Haven street; Henry Conroy, four teen years old, of A Haven street, and Timothy Ryan, of Ill Saltonstall ave- nue. Officer Trainor saw Matthew Conroy coming out of an alley way next to Smoloff's store, and being sus- picious of the lad, arrested him. A lit- tie later notice was sent to the Grand avenue station house that Smoloff's store had been broken into and fifteen dollars, some candy and other small articles stolen.
 Young Conroy was then accused of the burglary and finally confessed it. He said that he and two other bows went into closet in the rear of the store and from there threw a brick through rear window of the store. Then waiting and seeing that they had not been heard by any one, they climbed through the broken window and took fifteen dollars from the till and several small articles. Later in the afternoon the boy confessed to sergeant Hayes that he with two other boys, Henry Conroy and Timothy Ryan, had committed in all about fif- teen burglaries, and as he could think of them, he named them to the ser geant.
 Young Ryan was arrested later in the afternoon, and after being closely questioned he confessed to having been implicated in the same burglaries men, toned by young Conroy. All the bur- glaries which the boys confessed to have been reported to the police, and so there is strong evidence that they told the truth. Some of the burglaries were committed six months ago, and in each place ten or fifteen dollars was taken, besides small articles such a candy tobacco, etc.
 The burglaries which the two bows confessed to having committed are as follows: Thanksgiving day, Croft & McKay's market 751 Grand avenue; Nov. ?, main office at the rolling mill; Nov. 21, second office at the rolling mill; about six months ago, Spier's coal office on Railroad avenue; Nov. IA, Henry Balds grocery store at No. 204 Peck street; Nov. 20, grocery store near Evergreen cemetery. At this lat ter place the boys gained an entrance through a cellar window, and while they were in the store they were heard by the proprietor, who lived over the store. He went down to the store to see what the noise was, and the boys hearing him coming, jumped into sugar barrels and pulled the covers down. here they hid until the proprietor had looked around the store without find- ing them and gone back up stairs Then when all became quiet again the boys climbed out of the barrels and ransacked the store, taking five dol lars in money from the till and some candy.
 Another of their burglaries was at a saloon at the corner of Grand avenue and Haven street, where the cash reg ister was taken down cellar, broken open and about twenty dollars in mon- ey taken. Next they entered the Moonlight saloon at the corner of Franklin and St. John streets by cut ting the putty away from and taking out three window lights. Here a small sum of money was taken. Other burglaries which the boys said they had committed were at Henry Fyles' store on Wooster street, at house on Wallace street, where a bunch of Reyes was taken, at house on IYnst street where several small articles were taken, at the round house in the Belle Dock railroad yard, where a clock was stolen and the pockets of train men were gone through and several articles of clothing belonging to small change, tobacco and pipes taken.
 Young Conroy also said that they went up on CnurcH street ohe udy ana stole a bank book from a carriage which was standing at the curb in front of a store, and that they went to S. M Munsons pie bakery and got pies, which they had charged to the accounts of different people who were in the habit of trading at the bakery. The three boys are now locked I'D at police headquarters charged with bur glary, and will probably be in the city court this morning.
 Late last evening another boy, Will liam Condoc, of 137 Saltonstall avenue was arrested on the charge of being implicated in the burglaries with the three boys above mentioned.
 BASKET BALL AT YALE.