The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-23
FRUIT HIS NEMESIS
BANANAS BROUGHT ABOUT THIEFs
DOWNFALL.
WIN lie Grand, Arrested for steaiins
Bonanas, WINS Found 10 Have
House Full of stolen
Goods.

When VIII LcGr7ni, a negro, was ar
rested at an eiriy hour yesterday
morning by Patrolmen Swearingen ana
Mitchell for stealing a basket full OF
rotten bananas from in front OF O.
fruit stand on Court Square. it was not
supposed that sass In cash and enough
stolen goods to stock a small depart
ment store would be found later in his
home on Holt Street.
such. however. was the case and the
negro now occupies a cell at police
headquarters with the stern probable
fty staring him in the face that he
VIII have to answer to several more Sc
rious charges than larceny of a bas-
ket of spoiled bananas. Some of the
stolen goods have been Identified by
their owners while the greater part Of
the booty is at police headquarters
waiting Identification of ownership.
The character of the goods range from
nice hemp hammock to a big Colts
Army revolver of the latest pattern in
dicating a variety of taste from Quiet
peace to strenuous war in the charac-
ter of the willy negro.
LeGrands downfall came about in
the following manner. The suspicious
actions of the negro at first arrested
the attention of the patrolman on the
lower block of Dexter Avenue and his
movements were watched by the off,
GER. The negro had apparently no
business to attend to at that hour of
the night and for that reason, his idl-
ing made him a suspicious character.
he eping his eye on the negro, the Of
6cer saw him pick up a bundle from
the sidewalk !. front of the fruit stand
on Court Square and arrested him. The
man was well dressed. but had only so
H. l. t.
He was recognized at police head
quarters as a negro who had been en-
ployed as porter in several Mont
gomery stores but who had not been
working for the past few months. His
appearance was prosperous though,
and Captain w. II. Taylor of the po-
lice department thought 1t wise to send
Mounted Patrolmen Smith and Roberts
to the Negroes home. SIG South Holt
Street to make a search of the house :.
The mounted men found. on investi-
cation of the house. which was tenant
ed by LeGrand alone. the following ar
ticles: One diamond stud. two gold
watches. two pistols, two hammocks,
one silver pitcher. a gold ring with
cameo setting, a watch chain. several
tea spoons, groceries of all sorts and
$456 in money, which is supposed to
have been money received for stuff that
he has disposed of. The key taken out
of the mans pocket, fitted the door to
the house and with it the officers lock-
ed the door of the house after making
their search and returned to police
headquarters to make report of their
investigation.
During the early part of the fore
noon special officers Payne. Jackson
and Graham went to the house and
brought the goods to headquarters and
commenced work towards discovering
the owners of the stolen articles. Du-
ring the day Mr.. Sylvan Marks iden-
tilted the silver pitcher and a spoon as
his property which he said was stolen
from a Refrigerator the back porch
of his resid~ 'Sirson Street
about go. One OF
J. entitled by a
somery Street
ONE time age
Jhera II h1ana