The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-12

proceeding that he followed them and
saw them go into a hardware store on
Broadway. Presently they came out AMI
the detective went in.
What did those men want in here
he asked the proprietor
One of them bought a sledgehammer."
was the reply.
Il didn't see them have a sledgeham-
mer." said the detective.
Murphy remembered the great number
of robberies that had been committed He
went TO the Ninth substation and told
Sergeant Dunn Of what he had seen IL
was Saturday and Saturday night is r.
garded as haymaking time By men who
buy sledgehammers secretly. Murphy told
OF his suspicious and il was decided 10
watch the Patchen avenue house
The detective vent 10 the rector OF the
Episcopal church on the other side of the
thoroughfare and asked TO be permitted
to make the church his headquarters
from which TO watch the cottage oppo-
site Permission was granted readily. y
stained glass window was turned on its
pivot and through the aperture the vigil
began. Sergeant Dunn. who accompanied
the detective, went back 10 the police
station before midnight. but not until th'-
two men who lived in the house had been
seen to come out.
It was a m before any signs Ct
life were seen about the cottage But.
lust as Detective Murphy was beginning
10 grow drowsy. he saw four men enter
the house About o'clock one man
came out in his shirts!eeves. looked up
and down the street and spoke 10 some
one inside. Then two men came out and
started away.
Murphy followed They took a zigzag
course. and would wait until they aad
rounded a corner and then he would run
and see the direction they t0ok- He met
a policeman named Woodbridge, whom H.
asked TO follow and o. ready II there
was trouble when he closed in on his
men.
As he rounded corner he saw that c7e
man had disappeared BE c'osrd IN On
the other suspect. a big red haired feiio -.
who might have put up q stu tsht 4 {
had not been for the detectives pistol
Woodbridge came Up ard the man vas
searched He had little more than 10
in bills and silver His companion ~ss
at this moment seen behind house.
where ne had witnessed The arrest Of h :
associate. He ran of IL the direction II
Patchen avenue. and Murphy and Wool
ridge took their prisoner 20 The nearest
police station. and word vas telesrapned
To Sergeant Dunn 70 send men % sur
round the Patchen avenue hoEs=-
Detective Murphy went back "a The CO..
tase. getting there about t>e tine the %
lice squad arrived As they posted them
selves on all sides q the dwelling Murphy
went into a latticew0rk summer house II
the yard There. partly concealed undo
some rubbish. lay the man who bad -
caped from him and who had come back
70 warn his pals.
II was -Shang- Draper. and the amount
OF money found or bis person vas exact
n the sane as that taken from his oig.
re5-headed confederate
After some delay TIRE police obtai7esi
admission 20 the h1use The occupants
we're sc,.rryfag about II a rcon upstairs
The poliee forced the deo- op%n. and o.
TIE floor were scattered money ard Sis
. fror, BattsrSan's which III gang hai
been unable 70 hide
TIE four men arrested ve-s Draper
Billy Porter. Jimmy IrvinE- and eiil-
bert Yost. TIE for NortharaPt0l b2nz
robbers for whom The poke had eeca
sea-chinS for mere than a year
TIE arrests caused q profound se1-a-
t5ou- Tie dsy before r. arrests NarFi'
bert 4 S,5us. operating sour store o.
: C-ahana svssue. reported re robEery -
thss- safe. which hid contained al ~
.sz Among the bals Eas ore f1r $40.
( his was found or ore q the gzng
f Draper vas never pcoSeci-ted To- tnes-
/ roo5erses- There Vas 9 ress-z1i.o1 to-