The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-21
Fred White Found in Boston in
the Company of a Noted
Crook and Worcester Youth Of
Shady Reputation
THE TRIO SUSPECTED OF
ROBBERIES IN WORCESTER
Bernard O'Hara and "Bandy"
Mckee Held by Boston Police
to Answer Charges of Crooked
Work Done in the Hub-White
Thought to be a Tool Of Thieves

Inspector Patrick O'Day returned
from Boston yesterday with one of this
three men who broke into Myer ia.
nofsky's shoe store at IS Green Street
and Maurice ]. Powers wholesale
liquor store at so Bloomingdale Road.
Wednesday night. This prisoner was
Fred White, 16 years of age.-a son Of
former councilman John J. White now
living at the corner of Temple and
Grafton Streets. He was arrested In
Boston by the police officers of that
city acting under the instructions from
Chief of Police w. j. e. Stone. The
latter notified the Boston police to
make the arrest the day following the
break on Dungarven Hill.
The Boston officers arrested besides
White, a Boston thief and all round
thug, "Bandy" Mckee and Bernard
O'Hara O'Hara Is a Worcester boy.
When the Hub officers placed the trio
under arrest they discovered that they
wanted 'Bandy" Mckee and O'Hara
for being implicated in two Terrace
Street breaks and they refused to al
low the Worcester officer to take the
prisoners back to Worcester with him.
Accordingly Inspector O'Day had to
be satisfied with White and returned
TO this city with the young man. The
police allege that Wednesday night,
the three broke into the store of Myer
Janofsky at IS Green Street and stole
several pairs of shoes. 1t is thought
that they then went across the street
and broke into the periodical and to-
bacco store at the corner of Green and
Plymouth Streets though that is not
certain. Then, the police claim, the
young men went to the Boston & Al
bany yard to catch a freight out OF
Worcester.
Before doing so they broke into the
wholesale liquor establishment OF Mau-
rice ]. Powers, at so Bloomingdale
Road Here they took four bottles OF
| Irish whiskey and a quantity of cigars.
They then boarded a freight for Bos-
ton. The traintnen saw the young
men each armed with bottle of Irish
| whlskey. They left tne train at Corda-
| willie, A34d contiuGed their way into
Boston as best they could. The police
| got track OF them, and knowing who
they were put the Boston police on
| their track.
Inspector O'Day said It wasn't very
| pleasant to know that some Boston
! crooks had a couple of Worcester tools
whom they used to get the lay of the
| land here, and then jump into Worces-
ter, hit one or two stores, and take a
freight out OF town the same night. It
made It bad going for the local police,
as It left them practically nothing to
work upon, and he was determined to
break up that gang. He was very
much disappointed at not being able
to bring back the other two men to
Worcester. II the Boston police fail to
hold them at the hearing In Boston
this morning. the prisoners will be
turned over to the Worcester officers
Young White told Inspector O'Day
on the way up from Boston that
"Bandy" Mckee was much wanted
individual in Boston for his numerous
breaks and It was extremely unlikely
that Worcester courts would handle
his case. White protested his inno-
cence of being implicated in the
breaks, and said he left the gang at
Cordaville and walked to Ashland,
riding to Boston on the electric cars.
He was stopping with his married Sis
ters in Boston, having three sisters
married and living in that city. His
unmarried sister Miss Elizabeth
White, was at Station / last night. en-
deavoring to make arrangements to
bail her brother out. She also looked
up counsel for him.