Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-20
BURGLAR MAKES
DARING ESCAPE
GETS AWAY FROM FIVE BIG
POLICEMEN
Clever Crook Leaps From Window of
Lodging House-TWo Accomplices
Arrested-Much PIunder
Is Recovered

A silk waist taken to a wrong num-
Der, and the subsequent attempt of the
firm sending it to rectify the mistake
were the means by which trio of young
crooks were unearthed at a North
Main street lodging house yesterday
afternoon. Two of the number were
arrested and locked up on suspicion.
The third man escaped, after putting
up vicious fight with five officers, by
| jumping through a second story VIM
dow to the street thirty feet below.
A small crowd which had collected
at the entrance below and which ex-
pected to see him dashed to pieces
stood aside and allowed the man to
dash down the street, with the police
all the while yelling frantically to stop
him.
Had the last man been caught the
| officers believe they would have had in
custody notorious eastern burglar and
safe-cracker. In his room was found
a complete set of burglars tools, jim
mics, skeleton keys, bullseyes, revol-
vers, dynamite and all the apparatus
necessary for long campaign of crime.
In addition to all this a quantity of
jewelry and several other articles be-
lieved to be stolen property had been
concealed in the room.
From what could be learned yester.
day it is presumed that the man who
eluded capture was the ring-leader of
the small band of crooks, the arrested
men being only his accomplices or
dupes. The latter gave their names at
the station as Harry Wilson and Ed
Montgomery. The other registered as
j. B. Kelley at the rooming house. All
three are young in appearance and ac-
cording to the story they told the
landlady had not been in the city more
than a week.
The part the shirt waist played in
the affair is as follows: 1t had been
ordered sent from Mosgrove's cloak
house to 600 North Main street but by
mistake the messenger boy delivered 1t
few doors beyond at the Congress
rooming house where th4 landlady, Mrs.
M. L. Allen, Signed for it. She later
turned it over to one of the men ar
rested who she states claimed il -
a package belonging to his wife. When
the mistake was discovered and a rep
resentative of the firm called for it the
man who had taken refused to give it
UP. The police were notified and after
forcing their way into the room ar
rested the two occupants, finding
in their room burglars implements
also. FROM tneSe TWO PRISONERS anu
the statements made by the landlady
the officers learned of the third man.
Returning to the place a few min
utes after, the officers knocked at the
door of the room occupied by him at
the front of the building. He refused
admittance and the officers were COM
PEELED to force their way in. The
man showed fight Immediately but was
soon subdued. Asking permission to
dress himself before going to the sta
ton he suddenly Jumped aside and
leaped through the window and landing
on the awning bounced to, the street,
leaving the officers gaping in sur
prise at his daring. Before they could
get down stairs the man had disap-
peared.
The landlady states that the three
men had been at her place for a week
and had acted suspiciously. The nights
she says were spent in going out and
coming back to their rooms at intervals
and the days would be spent in sleep
ing.
The arrested men refused to talk and
failed to give satisfactory accounts
concerning themselves.