The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-19
"ALL 4 MISTAKE, !"
SAYS Mr.. BURGLAR
MAN CAUGHT AT PAEGEL'S SAYS
HE'S NO PROFESSIONAL.
He Had Worked Two Weeks Cutting
Thru a Stone Wall Only to Be Trap
ped by Burglar Alarm Searchers
Stepped on His Finger Before Discov-
ering Him.

"It's all mistake" said J. j. Lane,
the burglar arrested in Paegel's jewelry
store, 1922 Third street S, late Satur-
day night. "I IN not a professional
burglar, but just happened to think
about trying the business and the next
guilty all right, but it's funny what a
a man into.' q.
Lane was arraigned in police court to-
day charged with burglary in the third
degree and waived examination, He adj
mits that J. J. Lane is not his true
name, but refuses to tell who he is: His
detectives are working to find his past
record. r..
~@~ They Stepped on Him. 342s5
While detectives and policemen turned
things topsy-turvy in the Paegel store
Saturday night searching for a bur
glar who had attempted, a gigantic
haul, that person lay curled up like a
bali under a roll-top desk for more than
three hours. Once in the search he was
actually stepped on by the owner of
the store. When found and dragged
from his hiding place he was SO stiffened
from his long stay In cramped quarters
| that he could scarcely walk.
The burglar said his name was ). }.
Lane. His methods are of the dime
novel variety. Entering the basement
of the E. N. Young Tailoring company,
next door to the Paegel store, he locked
himself in a coal closet, and with a
small hammer and chisel cut a hole thru
the eighteen-inch wall that separates
the two stores. He was well provided
with sandwiches, which he ate as he
worked. Then, with saw, he cut a
hole thru a board partition and was
ready for the large safe which con;
tanned thousands Of dollars worth OF
diamonds. He said he had worked two
weeks getting thru the stone wall.
Burglar Alarm Went Off.
| A trapdoor opens from the basement
into the store, and as he raised this tc
get to the first floor the burglar alarm
Was set off in the A. D. T. office. Mar
tin Haywood, an employee Of the, com
pany, fastened to the store and was
soon followed by a squad Of police.
Every possible hiding place save one
was searched by the party but put II IN in tina q,
eve eVery PA' Word d. He heard them pick u
his tools and hat which he had dropped
Time and again they passed within
few inches Of him, and once, when MI
Paegel sat down to his desk to use tn
telephone he stepped on the robber :
hand. Thinking it q rug, ne TOOK n
{ move. ~.
Finally most of the officers left afte
working three hours and finding nothl II
: but the tools. Martin Haywood, of tn
A. D. T. company, remained to take
; last look, and, moving the desk slight
D ~ to look behind it, saw the burglar
clothing.
Drawing his revolver, he commando
: the man TO- come out. The comman
: was obeyed slowly, for the robber wa
h almost paralyzed. In his weakene
d condition he was turned over to D.
: tectives Johnson and Passolt, who too
/ him to Central station There he CAV
J. his name and boosted that had he bee
left alone he would have wrecked tt
safe and stolen the diamonds. 3
: talked freely, saying that he alo1
to take his medicine.
He is still a puzzle to the police; Il
picture ism It in the rogue's CALLER
altho he is undoubtedly clever at tt
game. The attempt is the boldest tn
has come to the attention Of the poll
and in spite Of the man s denial, II
detectives think he had confederates