Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-13
POLICE ARREST 3 MEN
ACCUSED OF so CRIMES
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pint OF n1troSlycerlne, JlInmleSs OrlllS,
deadeners and all Of the paraphernalia
used by safe crackers.
The nitroglycerine was in two cans.
One of these was to be used in blowing
the safe of the theater and the other in
blowing up the building and the officers
in case they were attacked.
AS the robbers did not appear Sun
day night Chief Broadhead determined
to give them no chance to escape, so ne
ordered the arrest of the three men,
who had already been under surveil-
lance.
At o'clock Monday afternoon
Charles Garvin, said to be the brains
of the trio, was arrested in an alley
way just below Fifth street on Broad
way. He had been found in the Sixth
street park by Detectives Jones and
Hosick and Zeigler, but, evidently be-
coming suspicious of the officers, ran
from the park to the alleyway He
was caught trying to make his way
through the rear of the building.
An hour later Detectives Ingram,
Carroll, Mcnamara and Mccain ar
rested Garwood at his room at 511 West
Second street. Here were found the
long dark overcoats worn by holdup
men. the masks, jimmies, blackiacks
and revolvers. In Garwood'S pocket
was found the watch stolen in the
Macy street saloon holdup the night of
q
washstand was the revolver taken from
the saloon.
Third Captured
At 9 o'clock at night Detectives
Zeigler, Hosick, Jones and Boyd went
to 1856 San Fernando street and ar
rested Jimmie Fifer, the last of the
trio He was taken in his room at the
point Of a revolver, and while he at
first made an attempt to resist he was
soon overpowered, handcuffed and sent
to join his companions in the city JAN
All the men were confined separately
in dark cells, and the officers were then
sent out to gather up the evidence con-
Meeting them with the various crimes
with which they are charged.
All day yesterday men, women ana
children visited the city jail and viewed
the prisoners, and in NUMBER OF IN
stances they were positively ldentlned
as having been engaged in TINS or that
holdup or safe cracking.
So far as compiled the men are &C
cused of the following crimes:
June o. 190S-M. Streicher, shoe
dealer, 4441a South Broadway, safe
blown; 5000 taken.
August %, 19OS-Rosedale Transfer
and Feed store, 1917 Vermont avenue,
safe blown; 500 taken.
September 26, 19O8-Sunset Feed and
Fuel company, 24OO South Main street,
safe blown; nothing taken.
October 3, Evergreen cemetery
office, safe blown; $3.50 taken.
October 8, 190S-Magnet Laundry, 114S
South Croker street, safe blown;
nothing taken.
October Is, 190S-George A. Barber &
Co, 804 Hawthorne street, safe blown;
$425 taken.
October %, Sanitary Container
company, Sixty-sixth and Alameda
streets, safe blown; $50 taken.
November 81, 1860. P. Grogan, 1744
Albion street, safe blown; $105 taken.
December 8, 190S-Station A post
office, lis Daily street, safe blown; $S2
taken.
December Is, 19OS-Glendale Steam
Laundry office, Glendale, safe blown;
$50 taken.
The robbery Of the safe in the Geor-
gia saloon, sol Buena Vista street, No
vember A. and that Of the safe of the
San Diego Brewing company, Novem-
Der q, are also charged to these men.
Many HoIdups
Among the principal holdups with
which they are charged are the gro
Gerry store Of F. G.. Johannsen, 500 West
Temple street, December %, in which
$40 was secured. Johannsen resisted
and was shot. Los Angeles railway
car 152 at Fifty-second street and Pa
cific boulevard, December &c, in which
the conductor was robbed of $40; R. J.
Peck, 800 West Temple street, Novem-
Der Is, SIS and a diamond; saloon of
Luigi DeGorgia, Carolina and Pal
metto streets, November 80, $27 taken;
DeGorgia brutally beaten; D. Schaf-
fer's saloon at Fourth and San Pedro
streets, December IA, $107 taken; Fin
-kenstein Bros. grocery, 724 Sunset
boulevard, December 16, $100 taken:
Macy street saloon of NJ Sormano,
January z, $35, watch, shotgun and
revolver taken.
More than a score of individuals
were held up and robbed by these
men, according to the police, on the
streets at various dates, all of which
robberies were reported at the time
and charged to the "long and Short
men. According to the police, Gavin
and Garwood, the latter being the long
man, did most of the holdup jobs, but
Fifer, also short, sometimes assisted
Garwood.