The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-03
IKE LEVY CAPTURED
IN CHARLESTON STILL IN POSSES
SION OF STOLEN GOODS.
NO NEWS OF HIS COMPANIONS.
BUT POLICE THINK THEY, TOO ARE
IN CHARLESTON.

Levy Is willing to Come without
Requisitfon Papers-Detective j. j.
Murphy and Mr.. Il. Haskell Left
for Charleston This Morning.
Their Theory Is That Levy Had No
Time TO Dispose of Stolen Goods.
Levy and His Companions Were Mt
FOur-Mile Hill Sunday Afternoon
md, Possibly, in Yamacraw Mon
day Night.
Ike Levy, who skipped town last week
after robbing his employer, E. Kaskel, of
about $500 worth of Jewelry and goods,
was arrested yesterday in Charleston.
superintendent of Police owen Reilly was
notified, and Immediately wired Chief
Boyle of Charleston TO hold the prisoner
until an officer with a warrant could
come for him. The warrant charging
Levy with grand larceny was sworn out
at Magistrate Wickham's court and
turned over to Detective J. ]. Murphy,
who, with Mr.. Haskell, left early this
morning for Charleston, and will bring
the prisoner back with them
The telegram notifying Superintendent
Reilly of the arrest makes the police au-
thorities here confident that there will
be no trouble in getting the prisoner back
as it distinctly states that Levy is willing
TO come without requisition papers. The
telegram is as follows: Ike Levy arrest
ed, and jewelry recovered. Send officer or
forward warrant so as can hold him. He
says he will go without requisition papers.
w. A. Boyle, Chief of Police"
Mr.. KaskeI was at the barracks when
the telegram was received, and to say
that he was pleased would be to express
it mildly. He was elated not only at the
prospect of again securing his property,
but that Levy is in the possession of the
authorities and will doubtless have meted
out to him the punishment that his ras
cality and duplicity so richly deserve.
The fact that Mr.. Haskell was at the
barracks was brought about in part by
the strenuous efforts that he has been
making to locate and cause the arrest
of Levy ever since he ran away. His
particular mission at the barracks was
to inform the police that a female friend
of Levy, and one supposed to enjoy the
full confidence of the fugitive. was 60
ing to Brunswick, where it was thought
the now prisoner might be, or might at
least open communication with her.
The story of Levy's escape, how ne ana
his two companions, one of them a tele
graph operator had, at Meldrim, over
heard the message to the authorities of
that town notifying them of the flight
of the thief and giving description of
him, with the further request that he be
caught If possible, and how they had
thereupon taken to the swamps and made
good, for the time being, their escape, has
already been told in the Morning News.
Another part of the story, however that
has not before been told is that the city
detectives were hot on the trail of the
three men Sunday afternoon, and only by
the merest possible chance missed bag
ging their game then.
Levy and his companions, cleverly fore
seeing that the most natural supposition
of his would-be captors would be that ne
would take the first opportunity of get
ting as far away from the scene of his
crime as possible, wisely concluded that
1t would be the safer for them If they
doubled back from the swamp at Meidrim
toward the city. This they did, and Sun
day afternoon were at "Four-Mile Hill"
There they got hold of negro boy on a
wheel and him they sent TO the city to
get for them, some cigarettes and NOR
phine, to which it is reported Levy is ad-
dicted.
The boy got the cigarettes all right, but
found so much difficulty in securing the
other stuff, and made so many inquiries
i'm his efforts to buy 1t, that he excited
the suspicious of some of the people that
ne approached. These suspicious were
heightened when the boy, being question
ed, told what he knew of the men for
whom he was making the purchases
This information was telephoned the
barracks and the city detectives imme-
diately secured hack and hurried out
to the rendezvous of the men and boy
but the boy having the start had out
stripped the city officers so that when
they reached the place their game had
disappeared.
1t was also reported yesterday by the
county officers that negro spotter had
located Levy in Yamacraw so late as
Monday night but that visit to the
place where he was said to be had
proved fruitless.
In the absence of more definite infor-
| nation it is the generally accepted the
DRY that wherever Levy has kept himself
in the meantime he had arrived in
| Charleston but very short
time before his arrest so short
time, in fact that he had not had
time to dispose of any of his swag. It
is not improbable that his efforts to raise
money on some of the stolen stuff is what
| led to his arrest.
No mention is made in the Charleston
| chiefs telegram relative to the other men
that left Savannah with Levy, but 1t is
| generally thought that they, too, are in
Charleston. that Is II they have not been
| frightened away by the arrest of their
companion. Should these men be captured
they. likewise, win be brought back to
| Savannah and be made to answer the
charge of being accessories to the rob
berry. or at least, that of being accessories
| after the fact. 1t is probable that Detec-
tive Murphy and his prisoner will arrive
in Savannah late tonight or early to-
| morrow morning