The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-04
FOUR YOUNG THIEVES
ADMIT THEIR GUILT
fiaendiges aud Mclean and the Bar.
rett Girls Plead Guilty.
WILL BE SENTENCED TOMORROW
Case Of Tax Collector r. T.. BoIaud
of Duumore Again Up for Trial.
The Clark summit Eiopement and
Larceny Case.- Brock Charged
With Heinous Crime--Must Pros-
ecute Emma Joues--The Dav a
Lively One in Criminal Court.

Two pair of youthful defendants, two
boys and two girls plead guilty yester-
day OF the Wholesale thieving of which
they were accused.
The boys are Charles Haendiges and
Harry Mclean, sons of eminently re-
spectacle families, who risked their
reputation, liberty and ii might be said
life to get money with which to sat
isfy their craze for the theatres.
Last December they were captured in
the act of burglarizinS Liebeck g. Cor
ms Leader dry goods store and when
taken to the station confessed to hav-
ing entered and robbed five other plac-
es, Millar & Peck's china store a. G.
Nettleton's shoe store. l.. Il. Powell &
Co.'S music store, Martha Perrv's no.
ton store and the Scranton Public Ii
Drary. All the booty excepting the
cash, which was not of u very large
amount, and some few articles were re.
covered Yesterday the boys plead
guilty to all six charged and were re-
manded until Saturday for sentence.
The Earrett sisters, Maggie and Eth
ell, are the girls who made confession.
They, it will be remembered, were cap
turd by Chief of Police Robling, while
they were carrying away a weeks wash
that had been stolen from his clothes
line. The hill" for weeks previously
had been the scene of almost nightly
visits from thieves who made Off with
anything of value that could be found
loose. Clothes lines were stripped,
back-porch refrigerators and unlocked
cellars emptied and veranda chairs,
hFa, ,1,,,1v., aI.
by the wholesale.
The people of the district in which
the thieving operations were carried
on were crying out in unmeasured
terms against the police because of
their inability to apprehend the thieves
Every house had its own private ar
senal a el the women folks were filled
with fear and trembling.
CAPTURED AT LAST.
Chief Robling in utter dismay at the
failure of the fortune of his officers
and the private watchmen to discover
the marauders went out himself to
hunt them down. Night after night he
patrolled the disturbed district or hid
in backyards or alleyways III the hope
of encountering the prowlers.
Early one morning as he was skulking
along side street near his own home
he met two girls carrying a clothes
basket between them. The youth and
innocent looks Of the girls were suffice
lent almost to disarm suspicion but the
chief was suspicious of everything just
at that time and he halted them. They
We're taking Mrs. SO and Sos wash TO
their home that their mother might do
it up, was the explanation they gave.
This was natural enough, but the chief
was not satisfied and proceeded to
delve further. Imagine his surprise
and ii might be added joy at discover
ing upon removing the cover of the
basket, q hunting shirt of peculiar pat
tern which he Enthusiastically recoSniz-
| cd as his own.
The girls We're taken into custody and
when their home in DunnOre was
searched a couple of cart-lOads Of sto-
len goods were recovered. The thiev-
ing ceased with the capture of the girls,
making it tair to presume that il was
they who had been doing all the work.
| Their father was an invalid unable to
leave his room and knew nothing of
the night prowling Of his young daugh-
ters.
When they threw themselves on the
mercy of the court, yesterday, the
younger sister, Ethel, was allowed to
make plea of not guilty, District At
tOrney Jones stating that she was in
Auenced by the older sister and should
not be held accountable. Maggie was
renanded for sentence tomorrow.
The re-trial of the case against Tax
Collector Il. T.. Boland, of Dunmore.
was begun during the afternoon before
Judge Edwards in court room No. ..
Judge Gunster having gone to the main
court room after disposing of the mur-
der trial. Assistant District Attorney
| W. Gaylord Thomas and John +.
ScragG appeared for the prosecution.
Hon. John p. Kelly, Hon. NJ. f.. Nc
Donald and George 5. Horn are attOr-
neys for Mr.. Boland. jeremiah Nc
Peek sat as prosecutor.
There was great care exercised on
both sides in choosing jury and after
nearly an hour had been thus consum-
ed the following were selected: Charles
| BlOssins, hOilermaker Scranton: :. j.
| Cook, farmer, Scott; Hubert V. Downs
| labOrer, Scranton; James $. Evans,
miner Taylor; George Lowry, grocer
Scranton; Richard Reese, miner, Arch
| bald: James Winston, miner. Oily
! phant; Henry Schultz, laborer, Scran-
! ton; G. T.. Richards doctor, Ransom;
! David j. Powell. b. T. Daniels and
! Clark Lowry the last three having
| been drawn as talesmen,
THE BOLAND CASE.
Mr.. Boland is accused of embezzlng
$3.50 in county taxes. The allegation is
that he turned in items to this amount
on the eXoneratiOn list and afterwards
collected them. His defense is that he
| turned in his eXOneration list but il
was not approved for some time. In
| the interim he was in the county COM
| missioners office casually one day and
Clerk Wagner suggested that the dupli-
| cate ought to be settled and asked him
to check off such of the items as he
might have collected since the list was
turned in.
He had not data AT hand but from
memory went over the list and check
| ed off all, as he supposed, that he had
collected. He afterwards discovered
| that he had missed some and when
making his next return to the county
treasurer he turned in the $3.50 differ
ence.
A jury was out at adjournment de-
| hberating in the case of James Brock
charged by Albert Henne with at
tempted criminal assault on his five
year-old daughter.
The case of Walter Wilcox against
his wife, Lena Wilcox, and William
Andrews was called just at adjourn
ing time and will be tried TODAY. The
| defendants are the pair who ran away
| from Clark's Summit and We're cap
tured in New York. They took Will
cOx's team with than, and ha bad tban,