The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-22
AFTER HARD FIGHT
PLAIN CLOTHES MAN LANDED DIES
PERATE BURGLAR.
WALL HAD A TUSSLE
WHEN HE CAUGHT "BLACK KITp'
WITH THE GOODS.

Negro Is known as n DayIiG hit Work.
err and Has Been Under Suspicion
For Some Time-was Arrested Re-
Gently, But no Evidence Could BE
Secured Against Him-wOlf Bur-
glary Prompted Officers to Arrest
Him Again as "A Suspect-While
Making This Arrest Detective
Wall Found Negro With stolen
Brooch and a Fight Resulted.
Following a desperate struggle with
Detective Frank Wall on New and
West Broad streets yesterday morning.
Sam Simmons. alias Black Kit. a no.
torious negro burglar, was made a
prisoner, and is at the police station
on two charges of burglary.
Simmons is known as a daylight
worker, and has been under suspicion
for several weeks. He was under ar
rest for two days recently, but the Of
hcers were unable to secure evidence
enough to warrant his being held. Re
Gently several burglaries have been
committed in the southern section of
the city in daylight, and the officers
we've confident that the negro known
as Black Kit was doing the work
Although the houses were all bur-
glarized, the thefts in themselves were
of petty sort, and no great amount
of stuff was taken from any one house.
This the plain clothes men say is a
game that Simmons has always play
ed. He believes that there is less dan
ger in robbing a large number of
houses, and taking a small amount of
plumber from each. than to rob a few
houses and take away a great deal of
property For this reason his work
was extremely annoying to the police.
His Last Burglary.
The home of Mr.. John Wolf, at OFT
and Anderson streets, was entered Fri
day afternoon when the members of
the family were absent, and besides
some clothing a brooch was taken. The
man entered by breaking a Stat from
the blinds, an old trick of Simmons.
When the case was reported at police
headquarters, and the officers had made
GA lAAN CSLASdItOlls IL WAS determined TO
again arrest Simmons as a suspect.
Detective Wall encountered his man
during the morning near the Central
Railway offices and placed him under
arrest.
At that time the negro was wearing
on the lapel of his coat the brooch
that he had taken from the Wolf resi-
dence. Caught with the goods, he put
up a desperate fight, and the detective
lnG6 hi hnT r1e- f,r1l Co., I
had left his billy at headquarters, and
it was nip and tuck while he wrestled
with the burglar. The plain clothes
man, however, managed to jerk himself
from the negro and, with an uppercut
sent Black Kit down and out. The
terrific blow that the detective landed
dazed the negro and no further trou-
BILE was experienced in landing him in
| the patrol wagon.
Prisoner Denies Guilt.
While the brooch was positively
identified as the one taken from the
Wolf house the prisoner denied that
he had stolen it. He declared that it
was his own property and that he had
purchased it more than a year ago.
The negro had nerve enough to stick
to this story. Afterwards Detective
Wall recovered a revolver that had
been taken from the home of F. H
Williams on Thirty-sixth street. This
burglary occurred about two weeks
ago and Black Kit was under sus-
picion at the time. The prisoner will
be arraigned on both charges in Police
Court tomorrow. For doing the same
sort of work Simmons completed a
threeyear sentence in the penitentiary
in January. He was convicted of bur-
glarizing an clubhouse of the Collat
residence and at that time secured a
revolver.