The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-05
An IMPORTANT CAPTURE
Officers Certain That They Have
the Burglars.
ALL THREE IDENTIFIED
Mrs. Brooks and Her Daughter Positive
That They Are the Ones She
Saw in Her House-Gather-
ing the Evidence.

The capture by the police yesterday
morning of the three suspected burg
lars, turns out to be a very important
one, as the officers are very certain
they have the operators who have COM
mitted the most important of the nu-
merous burglaries that have been re-
ported during the past 10 days or two
weeks. The trio were captured in the
act of trying to enter one house, and
have been directly connected with two
other burglaries since their arrest by
people who saw them and have identi-
fled them.
The main credit for the capture is due
Officer Mike Torpey. officer Torpey
was patrolling his beat on East Broad
way yesterday morning when two men
and a woman passed him at the corner
of Broadway and Wyoming. There
was nothing suspicious in their actions.
but the officer. as he says, got a
'hunch'' all Of a sudden, that il might
not come amiss to keep an eye on them.
He accordingly followed at a distance
sufficiently remote To allay any sus-
picion that they were being followed.
and il was not long before his bunch
was rewarded. and he became salts
lltu ne ndu ubtlt WE'LL lot the lllO per-
ambulated about the town as no ordi-
nary people out for a stroll are in the
habit of doing.
The officer followed the three nearly
an hour about the street before they
concluded it was time to begin opera
tions. They then proceeded to the resi-
dence at 402 East Broadway, and while
the woman and one of the men stood
guard. the secon man went to a side
window and began removing a screen.
From his position officer Torpey could
see all. that was going on. and when
he saw the fellow put back the screen.
evidently frightened at something, he
concluded IL was time to act. He closed
in and took the man known as CARR
gar or kerrigan. alias Wilson, into
custody, but the other two got away.
The n captured was taken 10 Jail and
a few n later the other two were
arrested in their room in the bad lands
by officer Torpey. Captain Dawson and
Detective Murphy.
The officers searched the room, but
the only thing found was the metal
clasp of a purse. which had been
burned in the stove. Yesterday several
people called at the Jail to take a look
at the prisoners. Mrs. Charles Brooks.
proprietress of the lodging house at 500
North Alaska street. whose place was
robbed Wednesday afternoon. and her
daughter, identified all three. Mrs.
Brooks caught Kerrigan going through
a lodger's trunk. When he was discov-
cred he hurled a piece of iron at her.
which just missed her head. and he
then ran out. Mrs. Brooks had some
difficulty in identifying Brown, alias
Clark. at first as the other man she
saw in the house. as she said he had
worn n straw nat. When Captain Daw-
son put his straw hat on the mans
head. she at once said there was no
he was the man. The daughter
was equally as positive. The woman
Ruth Holmes. alias Fanny Curry. Mrs.
Brooks said. was the woman she saw
standing in front of the house just be-
fore the burglars We're discovered.
Mrs. Peter Ryan. whose lodging
house was robbed a few days ago, also
called at the jail. At the time of the
robbery a lodger's room was entered
and a purse containing s. was taken.
together with a number of other arti-
Giles. Mrs. Ryan saw the burglar as he
was getting away, and saw him ioin a
man and woman on the outside. She
identified Kerrigan. and said she
thought Brown n the woman il GUS
tody were the other two.
George Marshall. one Of the dodgers
at Mrs. Brooks house. identified Kerri-
gan as the man he saw leave the house
a few minutes before he discovered his
room had been robbed and a purse con-
tanning us taken. He identified the
clasps Of the purse found i'm the stove
in the room occupied by Brown and the
woman as belonging To his purse.
T. f. Riordan. another ledger at the
house OF Mrs. Brooks. identified Ker-
Tigan as the man he saw i'm the hall
way at the time of the burglary. The
police hope to gather still more Evil
dence. as other burgiaries have been
committed in which the robbers were
seen.
The trio are an interesting lot. The
woman is one of the notorious grafters
IF the bad n Kerrigan is known
10 be an all around crook. and Brown,
who was formerly a messenger boy. has
become a professional secretary and is
given the reputation by the police of
having been going to the a very
rapidly Of late. Their method of oper-
ating. according TO the information
that has been gathered. was to locate
their place and then. while the woman
stood guard to pipe of" the approach
OF danger, the two men would go
through the place.