Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-02
The Burglars Jailed.

at Kane were given hearing before
Esquire Larrabee and committed to
Jail in defauld of $500 bail. The evil
dence is conclusive and when the trial
is on they will take trip. Ex-Sheriff
Mundy visited Bradford on Tuesday
and is satisfied the prisoner confined
in the lookup at that place is a men,
Der of the gang. Mr.. Mundy, with lit
tie encouragement from the authorities,
has diligently tracked the crooks and
deserves credit for his thoroughness.
The Bradford Era of yesterday, says:
1t is belived that the two men who
entered the Johnson residence on Tib-
bits avenue, April 10, and ransacked
the house and compelled Mrs. j. G..
Johnson and Mrs. w. Johnson to give
them watches and valuables, are in
custody at Emporium. They in COM
pany with two other thugs were captur-
ed near Kane by the police, after
running fight in which number of
shots are fired by both parties. The
captured men are implicated in the
burglaries at Emporium on April II,
and revolvers, knives and other articles
taken at the time were found on their
persons when taken at Kane. Frank
Merritt who is serving 80 day SEN
tence in the lookup in this city for at
tempting to shoot Fred Heckel of the
Union house. is also believed to be
connected with the gang. A revolver
and other articles in his possession are
identical with those found on the gang
at Kane
Last night Chief of Police f. Mundy
of Emporium, arrived in Bradford to
place Merritt under arrest. Mundy had
pictures of the four men arrested at
Kane. The pictures of the alleged
crooks were taken to the Johnson resi-
dence, where two of them were at once
identified by the Mesdames Johnson,
as those who had burglarized their
home The men are supposed to be
Tom Cummings and William Brady.
The ladies are positive as to the identi-
fication and in the event of the suspects
being acquitted on the charge of burg
larry at Emporium, Mr.. Johnson will
cause the arrest of the men for the
robbery committed at his home. The
new revolver picked up on East Main
street, the night of the wholesale rob
berries in this city, has been identified
as one of the guns taken at Emporium.
Chief Mundy states that the evidence
against the men in custody at Empo-
rum is strong and that they will un-
doubtedly be convicted. He will re-
turn home to-day.
We take the following interesting &C.
count of the arrest of the burglars at
Kane, from the Daily Republican:
Last week several stores at Emporium
were entered by burglars and large
quantity of goods taken, among them
being revolvers and knives. Officer
Joy of the p. & E. r. R., has been
working on the case and yesterday
afternoon he arrived in Kane. After
looking around he became convinced
that the gang was in that vicinity and
securing the assistance of Chief of
Police Dilly, they boarded an engine
and went down the road a mile or two
west, where they located a camp of
four men, who, when the officers ap-
preached, showed fight, but they were
finally landed on the engine. Two of
the men were handcuffed together and
when the other two were put on the
engine, the first two that were hand
cuffed together struck officer Joy
blow ON the side of the jaw,
which attracted his attention and the
fourth man took advantage of this and
tried to make his escape, but a shot
from Dilly's "gun" brought him to
standstill and they were safely lodged
in the borough lookup. When search
ed a number of knives and revolvers,
all new, were found. Upon them was
the name of the manufacturer; identi-
cally the same as that on the goods
stolen at Emporium. After lodging
the prisoners in Jail, they went down
in the vicinity of East Kane, where they
found freshly made campfire, but no
men. Officer Joy is certain that they
are the parties wanted and has hopes
of landing the other members of the
gang within a few days. The prisoners
nearly succeeded in making their es
cape last night. 1t seems they had a
razor and a knife, which the officers
overlooked when they first searched
them. With the razor they made Il
saw of the knife and had the lock
nearly sawed Off when the officers dis
covered what they were doing. They
were then taken out and made to strip,
when several other articles were found.