Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1900-03-30
A Burglar Captured.

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Keytesville to come to see some mem
Der of his family. Mr.. Coleman
lighted his lantern and in company
with Mr.. Cavanah went to his store
where the telephone was located.
In the post-o office department,
hidden under the counter, was man
over whom Mr.. Coleman stumbled
and upon whom he admins
tered several vigorous kicks, and then
se1zing him by the collar threatened to
shoot the burglar in case he offered
resistance. The fellow begged for his
l1te and redily consented to be march
ed to Mr.. Colemau's residence, where
ne was searched and a pistol taken
from him. Mr.. Coleman telephoned
Sheriff Dempsey Immediately after the
capture and in few minutes Deputy
| Sheriff Embree was on his way to
Chraneville and brought the prisoner
into town and landed him in Jail
shortly after midnight.
The man captured says his name is
Ed Jones that he was raised in the
eastern part of Illinois, but has been
in Missouri for quite a while with
other members of a band, breaking
open dwellings, depots and banks and
appropriating such things as they
wanted. He says he assisted in
boring the holes in the safe of the
Bank of Keytesville, which NJ. w.
Anderson, the cashier, says was done
in October, 1898, but failed to get
into the safe.
Jones, as he calls himself, also ad-
mits that he assisted in breaking open
the safe at the Keytesville depot the
night of the roth of last May, but got
no money.
Jones says, furthermore, that when
he was captured in Coleman's store
Sunday night that there was another
man with him; that he, too. was in
hiding, but that Coleman overlooked
him. If so, the other man came out
after the capture of Jones and locked
the door after him.
Jones vows that they would have
shot Coleman had they not believed
there was sheriff. posse On the out
side where they heard some persoas
talking.
The captured burglar had several
burglar tools with him, lnclud-
ding powder and fuse; also the two
bits with which, he claims. the holes
were Lored in the safe of the Bank, of
Fayetteville.
Among other things found on the
burglar was list of articles that he
intended to take from the store, in
Guiding shoes of different sizes
There was a railroad detective here
Monday, who, in connection with
Prosecuting Attorney Collet and R.
A. Coleman, had Jones in the sweat
box for over an hour, but what revela-
tionS he made we do not know. AL
together it was pretty clever capture
on the part of Coleman. He was not
armed when he threatened to shoot
the burglar, and seems to have ex-
hibited GOODNESS and bravery to the
fullest extent. Some of the boys say
"Oick" never got scared until he heard |
there was another fellow hidden in the |
store who was desperate character |
and heavily armed.
Jones will be held in jail, with or
without preliminary trial, until the
grand jury convenes at the May term |
of circuit court. Every indication
points to his being a tough character,
and an old hand in ways that are dark
and dishonest. He is S feet 6 IL
inches high, dark hair, grayish brown
eyes, dark compleMoned, has star
tatooed on back of right hand and
American coat Of arms tatooed on
inside of right arm about half way be-