The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-31
WOMAN BURGLAR
NEGREss ACCUSED OF ENTERING
 HOME OF REV. w. M. COX.
Mary Tucker Arrested by Patrolmen, Who Were Despatched to the scene--Believed to Have Wis.,
 ited Other Residences.

From appearances that form a strong chain of circumstantial evil dence, several Montgomery homes have ! been burglarized during the past month by woman. and the woman Is believed by the police to be Mary Tucker, a negress, who occupies a cell | in the city prison on the charge of | burglarizing the home of Rev. w. M. 1 Cox, l14 North Hull Street, between 4 and o'clock yesterday morning. The pastor of the Dexter Avenue Metohdist Church. Mir. Cox, heard some one moving about In his bedroom and thought it was probably his son. but when he called, there was no answer. He jumped out of his bed and turned on the electric light globe, which hung in the middle of the room, and as the light flooded the room. the figure of a woman wrapped in a blan- ket glided quickly by him in an effort to reach the window that opened on the front porch. MT, Cox made a grab for the figure and in attempting to catch hold of the woman, snatched from her back the blanket and a jacket she wore. He called to his son to bring his shotgun and kept right after the intruder. As she was in the act of climbing through the window, Mir. Cox caught hold of her again and almost pulled her shirt off before she extricated herself from his clutches, which she did by slamming the blinds together and lacerating his right hand. He threw the blinds open and took the gun from the hands of his son, who had come to his assistance and level- ing 1t at the woman. he commanded her to stop as she jumped out on the veranda.
 rE Uh artnd tn him ht1f did not heed the warning to stop, and ran down the steps into the front yard The mind Of the minister was cool and the idea of shooting at any one was revolting to him. He with drew the hand that hold the gun and called for a policeman, but none was in hearing.
 A telephone message to police head quarters brought Bicycle Patrolmen Pendergrass and Evans and by the calls of the police bell. a number of patrolmen were immediately sent to the scene of the trouble.
 Patrolmen Downs saw a sinking figure in an alley leading into a block on Madison Avenue and called to the person to stop The woman chose to run and the policeman fired one shot at her from his revolver and ran after her, but he was eluded
 NedT the corner or NOTln HUH street on Monroe Street, Patrolmen Evans and Pendergrass in throwing their searchlights about in the darkness saw the figure of a woman crouching be- hind a high brick pillar of a house. Patrolman Pendergrass was first to reach the woman and called to his comrade. The woman made a desper- ate attempt to escape and fought like a maniac to free herself from the hold of the policeman. He was forced to club her before she would desist her attempts to get away.
 She was carried to the city prison, where the light showed her to be a medium sized. ginger-cake colored woman of apparently 30 years old, She was dressed in a black skirt and red waist with a white wrap wound about her neck. She was searched and concealed in the neck cloth was found a small screwdriver which she used to gain her entrance in the window of the Cox home. In her shoe was found $2.4l. all the money in her pos session. The money had been taken from the trousers pocket of pr. Cox's clothes and but one penny remained in his pockets. He said he thought there was something over $3 in his pockets when he retired Sunday night and he declared that the money was in the same division of change found on the woman. He said he could not positive ly identify the woman as the burglar, but he was almost certain that she was.
 Mary Tucker lives with her husband and children at 22 Perry Avenue In Newtown. North Montgomery, a dis tance of over mile from where the robbery was committed. She is un- known in police circles and prac- tically nothing is known against her except the facts in the present case of burglary. She denies all connection with the burglary, but does not explain her presence in the neighborhood at that hour of the morning.
 At the call of the case yesterday af- ternoon In the Recorders Court, her counsel asked for a continuance until this afternoon and 1t was granted.
 Within the past few nights the homes of Mrs. c. P. Ball on Adams Street, $. Ungers. Madison Avenue, and of Mrs. William Knox. on Wash sngton Street. were entered by burg lars. but no trace of them was found.
 Patrolman Pendergrass. who, with Patrolman Cantey, answered the call to Mrs. Balls home. said yesterday af- ternoon that on their way to the house they passed negro woman coming towards town in the block this side of that on which the Ball home stands and that he remembered she carried a basket in her arms. From the look that he got of her. he says she corresponded closely to the Tucker woman. Other members of the police department think Mary Tucker was responsible for some of the robberies that have been reported during the past week or two.
 Hornung's gentleman burglar. "Raf- hes," has been initiated by a midnight prowler of the female sex, who, by reason of her color had to wear no