Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-22

adjoining the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, on Twenty-third street, near
Ninth avenue. As he assembled the
steps wrapped in brown study his
quick ear caught sound. Instantly
he was all attention. Hist" he said;
"'tis burglars in the church"
1t took but moment to verify the
fact, and Mrs Mcintyre was on the
point of walking boldly in and taking
the marauder prisoner on the spot,
when he reflected that there ought to
be one or more witnesses to the cap
ture. So, speedily and noiselessly, he
crossed the street and aroused C. K.
Mixter and George F. Roth. This done,
Mr.. Mcintyre and his two companions
returned to the church, where the first
named seized the covering culprit by
the collar, threw him down, and sat
upon him while Mr.. Mixter telephoned
for the police. Later, fearing that the
officers might have made a mistake in
the address, Mr.. Mixter took turn at
sitting upon the prisoner while Mr.
Mcintyre telephoned and Mr.. Roth
stood by with a baseball bat In due
time the patrol wagon came upon the
scene and the offender was hustled
to cell.
Is Most Modest.
1t was great exploit. Mr.. Mcintyre,
however, is modest. When seen by
an Argus reporter he disposed of the
whole subject by saying in words of
immortal fame: 81 seen my duty an
done it,
Mr.. Mcintyre, since he has been on
the road, has schooled himself for Just
such emergencies as these He has
come to plan just what to do in crises,
and, athlete that he is, it is likely to
go hard with any man who crosses his
path
This is not the only thrilling exper-
fence that Mr.. Intyre has had recent
Iy.
Not Ordinary Vag.
The prisoner of last night is beiiev-
ed to be more than an ordinary GRIM
inal. He had nothing upon him to in
dictate his identity. In an inside peck
ct was the blade of a chisel, the han
die being broken, which would serve
very well as Jimmy" He wore bet
ter clothes than the average tramp,
and had ten-spot in his clothes. He
gave the police several names, and
insisted that he had entered the church
merely to find place to sleep. This,
however, hardly tailed with his efforts
to open drawers in desks in the office
and the elaborate pains he took to get
into the building, which would indicate
more profitable object Entrance was
effected through small window in
front, which was reached by means of
a chair stolen from a neighboring
porch.
This afternoon Chief of Police Eek
hart announced he had found satchel
belonging to the prisoner in Daven-
FORT rooming house and had secured
evidence that the mans name is Joe
Collins.
Attempted Burglary.
The wholesale liquor house of H.
Riegel on Third avenue between Fiji
teenth and Sixteenth streets was the
scene of an attempted burglary last
right, an effort being made to break
IN at rear door. Mr.. Riegel left his
Office about o'clock and at that time
there was no sign OF any one around.
Some one. however, must have noticed
that he had left his safe door standing
vide open and probably thought it was
an oversight on his part which could
be turned to advantage. Mr.. Riegel
had about 500 in money orders in the
safe, but little or no. cash and had
the burglars succeeded in getting into