The evening world., 1902-10-21
From the Town Where the Bid
dies Were Shot, They SWindIe
Big City Stores with a Daring
Scheme.
STAY AT EXPENSIVE HOTELS.
Ordering All Kinds Of Rich Goods
Sent c. o. D. They Receive
Them, Show Them to a Mythical
Mamma" and Then Disappear.
When Reuben comes to town.
The stores will Be done brown.
For hanging Up the tradsmsn
- AA..A. L.. I'M

When Reuben comes to town.
The stores will Be done brown.
For hanging up the tradsmsn
Is 9 Job that's done with ease.
-CwIth Apologies TO Maurice Lsvy)
Different indeed from the Reuben In
the play are Reubens Andrew j. and
James j. Doutery. of Butler, Pa.
where the Biddle boys were shot. De-
tsctves engaged In looking up the
operations of the Douterys, who are
cousins, eaoh sixteen years of age, are
Of the opinion that the rural youths
have victimized in the past ten days
nearly every big store In town and
about half the big hotels.
Their Daring Game.
The game was SO easy for them that
they left a trail like n runaway auto
mobile and were captured last night
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was
thought at FIRST that they were ordinary
hotel beats, but revelations OF their OPP
eratlons show hat they have improved
upon q scheme evolved years ago by
the versatile Sophy Lyons and so daring
that It had not been worked in New
York for three years until the Penn
sy1vania boys took It up.
The boys reached New York about
two weeks ago with $50. For a few
days they lived modestly and looked
around, learning the locations OF the
big hotels and the big stores in the re-
tail district. When they thought them
selves sufficiently familiar with the
city and the methods of delivering
goods on the C. o. D. plan prevalent IN
New York stores they began to work.
There is only a trace OF the extent OF
their operations thus far, but publicity
is depended upon to bring out scores of
compiainants. Their method was to
register at a flrst-class hotel and secure
a suit Of rooms, paying in advance II
necessary. for. they carried little or M
baggage.
Big Q. o. ID. Orders.
Upon securing possession of the apart
ments one Of the boys would 90 to q
store and order all sorts OF goods to be
delivered to the hotel rooms, C. o. d.
The messenger on arriving at the hotel
would find a clean. open-faoed youth
awaiting him IN the reception room OF
tne suit. n DIG screen anyways ma the
doorway to the next room.
1.-THE goods are satisfactory to me-
the youth would explain. but my
mamma is In the next room, and as she
10 to pay for them ] would like to show
them TO her."
or course the messenger could not OBJ
ject. and the youth would disappear be-
hind the screen. After fifteen minutes
OF half IN hour the messenger would get
cold feet and investigate. only to find
the suit AGA In the meantime the
doughty youth would be far away with
the goods, probably safely ensconeed in
some other hotel.
Although there had been many COM
plants made by stores of the pecula-
tons Of the youths. the detectives did
not catch up with them until yesterday
afternoon, when they registered at the
Victoria as ]. d. and ]. ]. Hare. OF
Philadelphia. Here they engaged n
suit OF rooms. paying SIS in advance
for the first day. The action OF the two
youths with no baggage engaging such
expensive quarters attracted the atten-
ton Of House Detective Rice
Rico got into the elevator with the