Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-08-22
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Five Bad Boys Enter Upon Career Of
Crime and Are Arrested
for Stealing.
PLUMBER is RECOVERED
Some Of the Kids May Be Sent to the
Reform School Suspected Of
Numerous Burglaries.

AS a result of the pei pctration Of
daring bit of sneak lhieving two
clerks i'll Albert BNdas' store, with
the assistance of Marshal Fleming
and Policeman Mc.A 'fster, Wednesday
night rounded up Mat Anderson,
aged IL, and Tom Peters, Eddie Bloom
and Ollie Anderson, aged I. The next
morning Officer McAiiistcr took in
tow John Peters, ayel H. The arrest
Of the five Juveniles will probably
break up bal gang Of little sneak
thieves Anyway, il brought to light
condition Of things quite deplorable.
considering the ages Of the youthful
rascals who We're principals in this
bold shoplifting escapade.
| The Budas store, because Of its be-
ing pay night at the mine, was open
| Wednesday evening. There were a
large number Of customers and long
string of miners getting their checks
cashed at the Office. Taking advan-
tage of the. crowded condition, Mat
Anderson and John Peters, finding
that the back door was unlocked, sent
their little brothers in to steal. 1t
was about $ o'clock when Mrs. Budas
discovered the two little midgets busy
in the shoe department helping them
selves. After the entrance to the
store of the, two children by the back
door one of the clerks happened to
lock that avenue of escape, but, moth
| ing daunte,l, the two kids proceeded
to the front door and made their way
to the street. Herbert Simmons, one
of the clerks, gave chase after one OF
the juveniles and caught the little Pc
ters boy near the opera house and the
young scalawag was found to have a
pair of shoes concealed under his ov-
eralls. William Pack, the other clerk,
chased the other boy around near
Weaver's barn and this youngster
confessed that he had been stealing
at the solicitation of his older brother,
Mat Anderson, and that shoes would
be found cached under the Weaver
stable Four pairs were found there
slowed away in a gunnysack, where
upon Tom Peters, Eddie Bloom and
Mat Anderson were placed in Jail, the
juvenile band being rounded up be-
tween the opera house and Weaver's
barn. Next morning Officer McAllis-
ter went to the Peters home in the old
town, where all the boys reside. and
placed John Peters under arrest. The
little Peters boy had told the officer
that his older brother had some plum
der cached in box out in the back
yard and John, although at first deny
ing it, finally gave up the pl,!nder. a
pair Of shoes and pair of slippers.
The slippers the lad said his little
brother had taken the night before
at Budas' and the shoes he himself
had stolen from the stock Wednesday
afternoon.
When brought before Justice HaW
thorne yesterday the little Peters and
Anderson boys sad they had been
sent into the store hy thei' olde,
brothers and the Bloom boy. John
Peters and Mat Anderson will face
Judge Henry at the September terhl
of the district court and their parents
will be called upon to show cause why
they should not be sent to the reform
school. The Bloom boy was let go OF
his own recognizance until Judge
Henry shall look into his case, bu1
because of his tender age no effort
will be made to have him sent to the
state school for incorrigible boys. Nc
complaints were sworn out against
the little Peterson and Anderson kids
who were apparently tools in the
hands of their older brothers.
At the preliminary hearing an effor1
was made by the county attorney te
ascertain il the gang of juveniles Were
not the perpetrators of a recent burg
larry at Vickers & Baringer's store
Each one of the boys in turn deniee
| tzuy pdIllCipdCiOu III II, DuC SlcLihi1.
that two older lads, John Hul1la ant
Jim Owens, had told them they hat
cached some tobacco in an old celia
near the Jail and that it was part O
some booty they had taken from thu
store in question.
The detection of the outfit leads t
tho conc1nSiOn that these are the how,
who have been committing all th'
burglaries about town during the pas
few months and that if they wanted
to they could tell all about the theft
perpetrated at the confectioner.
stores and at Mayor Bowlen's lumbe
yard.