The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
BURGLARS
 TAKEN BY
 THE POLICE Gathered In by Chief Dwyer Soon After the Shooting. Leroy and Seariqht the Ones Who Committed
 the Crime. One Identified by Their Victim as the Man Who Did
 L.
BOTH ARE OLD OFFENDERS
Their Arrest Due to Statements Wrung in the Nick of Time From
 a Former Pal.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, March 21-The two
 burglars who assaulted E. J. Croly last
 night have been captured, identified by
 Croly and w. H. Hanlon, and the prob
 abilities are that the one who escaped
 before his accomplice shot his victim
 will confess to the whole affair Leroy
 and Searight are the names of the as SalIantS, and both have unsavory pris-
 on records. MT. Croly was resting easier this evening, but his family and friends are still apprehensive of fatal results
 Chief of Police Dwyer lost no time after the shooting in calling upon of hcers and setting them to work to guard all avenues by which the burg lars might escape. Sheriff Johnson and several of his deputies also entered into the search
 The Chief and Officers Fisher and Fitzgerald went to the Lafayette sa- loon, where they took into custody young man named Darwin, whom they knew to be a dangerous character and who had been seen in company with two other men of equally bad character. They did wise thing in arresting Darwin, for through him the police succeeded in catching the burglars. Soon after the Chief began questioning Darwin he had him cornered. Darwin came here last Wednesday from Marysville, with Leroy and Searight, where they had served a term together in the County Jail.
 Where are those men now?" asked Chief DWyer.
 They went out tonight to do a job. They wanted me to go along with them, but I got a little nervous and would not "a Q nU fnC fn 6 n TIriT hO nci tion."
 Continuing Darwin said that when they came here from MarysVille Leroy had some nippers of the kind which burglars use. Since then, said Darwin, the two men had provided themselves with a revolver and jimmies with the intention of engaging in a general burglary business. Darwin told the Chief that Leroy and Searight had room A in the Vendome, a lodging Fourth. Chief Dwyer and Officers Fisher and Fitzgerald went to the room, but the men had not arrived. They waited for long time when the chief went out and summoned Officer Hardy to come and relieve Fitzgerald for a while.
 Just as Hardy reached the top of the stairs he met Leroy and Searight, who were coming out of room 29, they hay ing changed their quarters. The other | OHlCeTS were caHeQ ana the two men | were taken to the station house. Le- | roy had just shaved off his mustache | and the razor with which he had done | it was secured. The officers were un- | able, however, to find any revolver or burglars tools. This morning Officer Bailey found burglars lantern in Croly's yard.
 When Leroy and Searight were taken { to the City Prison they were so ner- vous they could scarcely speak or stand. They trembled like leaves in gale of wind. On the left side of Le- roy's face were bloody scratches as if they were made by the fingernails of some one. There was also a scratch at the corner of his mouth and scratches on his neck. Questioned as to how the marks came there Leroy said they had been caused by shaving. l Chief Dwyer, after having Leroy and his clothes thoroughly searched, had him dress himself again Then he and Officers Fisher and Fitz- gerald took the prisoner in a carriage 10 the Croly residence, to see if the wounded man could identify him. Although MT. Croly was in a very weak condition he raised himself up to look at the features of the prisoner. The Chief held a lighted candle by the side of the prisoners face, and Croly looked closely at the fellow. Presently he spoke, his voice being weak and scarcely above a whisper. ''I am quite certain" said Croly that is the man with whom grappled in the dark and who fired the shots at me-" Leroy was taken back to the City