The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-22
YOUNG RoBnER LADS CONFESS.
Three Boys Had a Hand in the Giles
ME BURGLARY.

Three other arrests W re made by De-
tectives Garrity and Stark yesterday in
connect on with several bJrglarics that
have occurred recently in the Southern
part of the city The prisoners were
Robbie Cleland. Allen Keith and ice
Givovich, all white ard aged respective
~ 9, II ard years.
The boys were arrested primarily in
! connect ton with the robbery of Mr.. J. R.
Misoally's house, which took place Sat
urday. To this they confessed, several y,
duplicating each other and later owned
to having gone into Mr.. Gllespie's house
on Friday.
The detectives did some very clever
work in getting on the track of the
youngsters; after they once got them in
custody the rest was easy. as each boy
tried to make oIt the other to be tn
most guilty, and they thus told the
whole story of both burglaries.
The frst clue to the identity of the boys
was given by a gentleman who had been
in Mr.. St j. r. Yonges drug store on
the afternoon of the robbery of Mr.. Mis-
callys house, and had seen the three boys
run from the lane. One. who was a Grip
pie, had come into the store for a drink
of water while the other two stood on the
corner opposite.
The detectives were put in possession
of these facts and Immediately started
to look for a crippled boy answering the
description of the one that had gone into
the drug store. They found him in the
person of young Givovich. He readily ad-
mitted his identity aud told who were his
companions on the afternoon of the rob
berry. These, when secured. a first de-
MED that they had entered the house, but
admitted that they had been in the yard
for water. They We're taken to the house
and Clarity then asked which of them
had been on the back stoop when they
were in the yard. Givovich gave away
the snap by replying Not me, cause
l told EN- | was lame. and if they were
caught in the house, couldn't run as well
as they could"
Then Keith accused Cleland of being the
one that had opened the window and that
started the ball rolling for Cleland came
back with a counter accusation, saving
that If he had been the one that opened the
window he had been assisted by Keith
and then together they told how the Job
had been done. They took away, they
said, only pistol and pack of cards but
neither have been recovered nor have the
detectives been able to locate them Civ
ovich being outside of the house had no
hand in the spoil. The other boys ac-
cuse each the other of having taken the
articles.
Givovich was released upon the promise
of his father TO bring him to court when
ever he should be wanted, but the other
boys were taken to the station house, ana
afterwards turned over TO their parents
promise similar TO that given by Civ
ovich.
While being taken to the Barracks Gar
rity asked the boys if they had entered
any otehr house. The Keith boy imme-
diately spoke up saying What you mean
the one on Duffy street, second door from
Drayton?" Then he continued mo, l
wouldn't go there, because my aunt lives
there" AS the detective had mentioned
no particular house he thought the specific
mention of the house sufficiently peculiar
to warrant further questions and in
short time the boys admitted that they
had been in the yard of Mr.. Gillespie's
house for the purpose of getting pears.
Then the same desire of putting each his
own case in the best light that had actu-
ated them 10 give each other away in the
case of the Miscally robbery got the bet
ter of them again, and through their re-
examinations the detectives were put in
possession of the details of this job. The
boys wound up their stories by the naive
statement that anyhow they hadn't TAX
en- anything" Givovich was not impli-
Gated in the affair.
The boys will be given a hearing be-
fore the Recorder this morning. They
will be represented by counsel. The Keith
lad told his attorney yesterday afternoon
that the story of the robberies he had
told the detectives were not true, but
had been drawn from him by the threat
that If he didn't confess he would be
sent 10 the chaingang. This statement,
the detectives say, is absolutely false.
The boys, they say told their story of
the robbery of Mr.. Miscaly's house in
that house, and in the presence of Mrs.
Miscally, and that neither threats nor
any effort whatever 10 frighten them were
made Mr.. Miscally was seen last night,
and said that his wife's story to him of
the scene in the house bore out in full
the detectives statement.
on account of the lads youth they are
not amenable to the law, and even should
they be adjudged guilty, their greatest
punishment is likely 10 be a lecture on
their misconduct.