The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-30
DARING FLAT THIEVES
CAUGHT IN THIS CITY
John Muier and Eddie Ross Used
Kittie Brooks, 1t Is Said, to
Guide Them to Booty.
H. w. BUTTOLPH'S WORK
Found the Men in His Apartment
at the Surrey and Caught One
Arrests Made.

As the result Of daring attempt to rob
the apartments Of H. w. Buttolph, in the
Surrey apartment house on North Meridian
street, yesterday afternoon, two men, Civ
ing their names as John Muitr claiming to
be a hotel man from Montreal, Canada and
Eddie Ross, claiming TO be a jockey from
st. Louis, were arrested charged with
breaking into houses and grand larceny.
Kitty Brooks, claiming to be from near
Rushvile was arrested with Ross and
charged with receiving stolen goods The
two men and the woman have been. the
police say, burglarizing many flats in this
city and it also is believed they are wanted
in Cincinnati.
While Mr. Buttolph was preparing to
leave his apartments yesterday, accompa-
MED by his wife, they were accosted by
woman who offered lace for sale. Buttolph
was standing in the doorway and he noticed
that the woman closely scrutinized the in
terror of the apartments. She left the
building few minutes before Mr.. But
tolph.
Later in the afternoon Mr.. Buttolph re-
turned and surprised two men in the act
of ransacking his apartments of all val
tables and jewery. Both men ran, Ross
dropped. Muier. with Mr. Buttolph in pur
suit. ran down the alley in the rear of the
Surrey apartment building. He turned up
Vermont street and ran east to Meridian
street and apparently thinking himself safe
relaxed his speed and started TO walk up
New York street.
thief, who stopped before he had gone an
other block.
Buttolph grabbed the man. 81 want you,"
he said.
OFFER TO BUY FREEDOM.
The thief. with an oath, demanded to
ing that he could not escape. he exposed a
quantity of Mr.. Buttlophs jewelry, includ-
ing a watch and some valuable rings. and
offered him these for his freedom. His
captor not relaxing his vigilance, called
Police Surgeon Wright to his assistance,
and together they took the thief to the
police station.
Captain Kinney Immediately sent detec-
| tives to endeavor to capture the man who
| had escaped and the woman. Muier was
| closely questioned by Captain Kinney and
| Superintendent Kruger. When searched
| silver-mounted Jimmy many keys and some
| jewelry were found in his possession. Dur
| ing the search Captain Kinney found a
note book on the thief. The only entry in
the book was an address at 12S North New
| Jersey street.
Muier refused to say who lived at the
| address and Detectives Asch and Manning
were sent to the place. The place is a
| woman in charge told the detectives that
| two men and a woman answering the de-
| scripton the detectives had of Muier Ross
and the Brooks woman were living there
When the officers knocked at the door of
| the apartment occupied by the two, the
| woman opened the door. Seeming danger,
| she called to Ross to escape. Ross sprang
| through the room with Manning in close
| pursuit, and was captured by the officer
| he about to leap from window in
| the rear: The prisoners were taken TO po-
| lice station and subjected to a severe ex-
| animation, while the detectives returned
| and searched the rooms
VALUABLE JEWELRY.
+. Jewelry amounting to the value of prob
| ably $500 was found, besides the jewelry
| Muier had when captured. A complete
| opium smoking set also was found. Muier
| is dope" fiend and Ross smokes cigar
| cites constantly. In a small grip, in one
corner Of the front room, the detectives
found one of the finest and most complete
| sets of burglar tools ever captured by In
| dianapOls officers.
| was found a bottle nearly filled with nitro
| glycerin and several small bottle filled
with the Juice" as the crooks call it.
| most any lock, and complete collection or
| files of different sizes completed the outfit.
| 1t was evident that the trio had completely
| cleaned out some residence OF all the
| fancy toilet sets and silverware recently.
| One of the jewels found in the plumber is a
| diamond sunburst valued at $500. The ar
tices stolen from the apartments of II. ID.
| Person in the Colonial were recovered.
| Pawn tickets issued by pawnbrokers in Bos-
| ton New York, Chicago. and, most recently.
| Cincinnati, were also found, showing, the
] police say, that the crooks have worked in
I these places. The three will be photographed
| and measured this morning. The police be-
| leve they are well known and wanted in
| many places, but the charges against them
| here will be pressed.
| Neither the men nor the woman appeared
| downcast over their arrest The men
| laughed as they were led from the Getec-
| tives' office and taken upstairs to the cell
room. The woman appeared Indifferent.
| Muier took opium several times while being
| examined by the officers and smilingly re-
| marked that he could take enough of the
dope" in one dose to kill three men.