The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-11-10
NEW BRAND
or BURGLAR
Man Who Steals Things From
Weir's House Returns
Them

The steubenville. o., Herald-star
of Monday evening gave the follow
ing account of the sequel of a recen.
burglary at the temporary residence
of E. T. Weir there:
The shotgun burglar" was cap
tured by the police under peculiar
circumstances on Friday night and
proved TO be John Toohey, a young
man well known in this city who is
surely demented.
Toohey was arrested after he had
made two trips to the residence OF
7. T. Weir, on Market street, the first
to return the jewelry and cut glass
he had stolen the night before, and
the second to explain that he would
return the money he had stolen some
time later.
The burglary of the Weir resi-
dence on Friday night led to his
possible detection. He carried the
sawed-off shotgun in his rounds of
the rooms of the house and when not
working he would wave the gun
around like as II he was going to
pot a rabbit.
A collar he left behind and the
description led the officers to look
for him on Saturday. but he was not
to be found. He went west on the
early train taken by Chief Larkins,
who was going to Columbus. Then
he doubled back and went to Pitts
burg and returned here on the even
ling train.
About $3.50 o'clock Saturday even
ing the members of the Weir family
heard knock on the rear door and
Raymond Brook, the man servant,
answered it.
He saw bundle on the porch
and the retreating formsof man who
said to him: Il will he back again. "
The bundel, taken inside, proved to
be the stolen jewelry and cut glass,
The police were notified of the pecu-
liar transaction and three members
of the force went to the Weir resi-.
dence and lay in wait for this re,
markable burglars" second com.
ing. In short time knock came
at front window" Officer Hull
Went out the front door and Officers
Morrow and Mercer out the real
doors. The burglar man, seeing the
police. became frightened and ran
out the back yard and down the al.
ley with all three policemen in pur,
suit. Morrow shot at the fugitive's
feet and when closer shot again, the
ball going through the flying mans
cork hat. He was so close that the
air from the revolver split the tor
off the hat. He was taken back
to the Weir residence, identified as
the man who had called earlier in
the evening and taken to the lookup.
In his pockets were found a num-
her of gun shells but so far the saw
ed-off shotgun has not been un-
earthed. When caught Toohey was
masked with handkerchief tied in
the same fashion he used at the La
Belle mill to shield his face when
working as a pipe welder. He asked
what they wanted with him and de-
MED the robbery in toto.
He said he went back second
time to explain that he would return
the money taken some time later.
He said he did not want to do time
for some other party who was guilty
when he was innocent.
Toohey's family and friends say he
is not right mentally and that he
has been "of" for some time; and
as there is not the slightest doubt Of
this, from his remarkable actions
in robbing house and then return
ing the stolen goods and promising
to return the balance), the man will
be sent to the probate court for an
official examination as to his mental
condition.
Toohey has figured in number
of burglary stunts recently with his
shotgun and people were getting
excited about his operations.
When the ladies of the Weir res