The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23
TOUGH YOUNG RASCALs
Half a Dozen Captured by the
Officers.
IT BREAKS UP THE GANG
The Youthful Criminals Had Long Been
a Terror to the Citizsns of Cen
tervlle = They Left
Trail of Blood.

The sheriff S officers yesterday captured
half dozen young criminals in Center
vile, and the gang of tough young ras-
calls who have been terror to that COM
munity for some time has undoubtedly
GERS get through with them. What result
ed in the fortunate arreses was burglary
of the small grocery store of T. j. Moran
on Main street. in .Centerville, between II
and IL o'clock Tuesday night. On Missou-
la avenue a short distance from Moran's
store is a cabin occupied by a young man
named John Foley. On Tuesday evening
Foley. Dan Dunn, Henry Roach, Mike
Driscoll, Jakey Sullivan, Jerry Driscol,
Fred Woodcock and William Grant were
in the cabin drinking wniskey from gal
Ion dug which they had secured from
somewhere. After the whiskey had been
consumed Woodcock and Grant went
home and Roach and Mike Driscoll went
out to forage some more liquor They
went to Morans store and Roach broke
in the glass door with a revolver, and in
smashing the glass he cut the knuckles of
his right hand very badly and left trail
of blood all over the store. Roach and
Driscoll entered and took several bottles
of whiskey, lot of tobacco and some ci-
gars and cigarette papers. They also
broke open the cash drawer and found
about $3.50. of which Driscol got rs cents
and Roach the rest. The young burglars
returned to Foeys cabin and told the
gang there what they had done. Roach
gave Foley s1.25 in dimes and nickels of
the money stolen and gave Dunn so cents.
Driscoll also gave Dunn 25 cents. The
gang then drank up the stolen whiskey
Between or o'clock in the morning an
other rail was made on Moran's store and
| 10 or II more bottles of whslSey were
stolen. 1t is not believed, however. that
Roach and Mike Driscol were in on the
second raid, as Drscoll had gone home
before l o'clock and Roach was helplessly
| drunk. The officers have pretty satisfac-
| tory evidence as to who committed the
second burglary
The matter was reported to the sheriff
| office yesterday morning and Deputy Sher-
| lift Sidely was sent to Centerville to in
vestigate. He soon learned of the drunken
| carousal in Foleys cabin and he went to
| the place and found Dunn and Foley there
asleep and placed them under arrest.
| Some of the stolen tobacco. the sacks of
| which We're covered with blood, was also
| found. The deputy also learned that
Roach and Driscoll had passed the{night
| there, but had left for home about 8
o'c1ock-in the morning. After Dunn and
| Foley had been taken to the county Jail
they squealed and informed the officers
| who their companions of the night before
| were. and Deputy Sheriffs ONeil, Evans
| and Sidely were sent out to gather them
in, with the result that Mike Driscoll,
Roach. Sullivan. Woodcock and Grant
! were also arrested, but later the last two
named were released, as the officers be-
came convinced that they had no hand in
| the burglary. Roach who is about 10
/ years of age, lives with his parents in
| Walkerville. When the officers called at
| his home and inquired for him his mother
told him that she had sent him to Butte
on an errand, but the deputies did not be-
! lieve her story, especially as there We're
no footprints leading from the house in
| the fresh snow. A search of the house
was made and the young burglar was
| found in bed. At first he denied that his
| name was Henry Roach. His right hand
| was badly cut and his clothes were bloody
| from it, and he claimed he did not know
how he got the wound. but denied ali
| knowledge of the burglary.
The young criminals were taken before
| the county attorney and confessed, except
| Roach, but he was implicated in all the
stories told by the others. Last week he
stole sos from his brother and divided it
| with Dunn and Mike Driscoll. and the
three CdlHe " Ioulle, DouSHl d gun each
| and then started out on a rip-roaring
| time. There are two more fellows belong
| ing to their gang who will be arrested to-
! day.
While the deputy sheriffs were out to
| break up the Centerville gang yesterday
| they arrested a 14-year-oid tough kid
named Mike Shea, who is accused of hav-
| ing last Friday night burglarized a saloon
conducted by Dan Council.
The sheriff has determined to put an end
| to the depredations of the Centervllle gang
of toughs, who have been making life a
burden in that community, and beginning
| with to-day an officer will be put on duty
| there. For a year or more the young
criminals have stopped at almost nothing,
and person was not safe to venture out
| on the streets at night. They have gone
SO far in their deviltry to attempt to
throw street cars, loaded with passengers.
off the high track by placing Instructions
| in their way, and have committed all
sorts of crime, but it is likely that the
| careers of some of them will now be
| checked
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