The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-23
BURGLARS Walk
RIGHT! Ugh / into TRAP
Three Caught After They Had
stolee'ln EN- Property Waited 1T
Two Hundred Dollars
MADE BRAzEN CONFESSION
citi1zyenns Aid Palmer iii Capture.
Tell[5of Other Crimes They
Had Planned.

snaNVa stralght and&unConCer1edly
into the trap which hid been. ss0fcare-
fullyi!s for them, I'll. ii. Thompson,
~twenty-one ears old; Edward Loving,
twenty years old, and ii. d. Carroll,
nineteen years OF age,3were caught by
Policeman Palmer In an alley leallns
Into Seventeenth, Street yesterday
morning, and placed under arrest on a
charge&of hDusebreaking. Thompson
had his seyessglued to an old PARADISE
tree, preparing to- scale a wall from
which he could climb into asrooni lie
had Just rented, and tho other two
were at the Other end OF the alley
when Policemen Palmer bore down on
them from one direction and two citi-
zens he had Delegated came IN from
the other end.
The men looked around for a~schance
to escape. but there was no avenue
open sCollaring W. the officer neld
hts revolver Then the two citizens
caught hold OF Thompson, and all We're
taken t.. the First Police Station.
Full sCOnfesrlOn.
questioning, TO sOftcer5 Palmer. and
the n. hhndcuffed showed the police
nian8thow he and his companions had
entered and robbed the nohse at 2sOl
East. Grace Street owned by r. L.
otherNtixtures In the house mad been
|stornsup3 and taken out.
Evensa bathtub had beenglift from
thsEil9or and Its legs broken of as
ed to- about 5000. The house at 2509
East Grace1Street had been treated In
the same fashion. @
wantito Moses Brown. 'iss Northsseysn.
teenth Street and asked for a room
Hespatds509cents for one days lodging,
n engaged the room for the next
and prins in 4 bundle: There were
several trips, and atRlasty he became
suspicious. He injured what the
bundles contained: Thompson answer
hons5 and was giving him some OF the
debris. ButSthere were too many trips
and too m bundles for Brovn's
peace mind. and he went to a tele-
t%Bicycleman Palmer was sent out and
Brown told him of his suspicious
Thompsons.was then o Y on another
trip. and, Brown saw him coming.
the MAY run Palmer two cit-
liens to head them of from behind.
The menEWsalked into the alley. from
where NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. b q Browns
suspicious had&beeng aroused, intended
to get backEtnto the room and steal
the lead again. He had been seen
to descend by IA of a back roof and
over d wall. He was figuring how he
could scale the tree and the wall so
as to reach the roof and then the
window, when he wasgcaught.
Found Loot In Room.
& Later Palmer searched the room. and
found several hundred dollars worth
of stolen lead, all OF which he took
to the station, Then he induced Low
ing to confess. The latter consented
to show one house they had robbed,
and he followed the Officer to the house
entered yesterday morning. Then he
told the whole story. According to his
statement, the young men, planned to
go out and rob houses again last night,
to-day and tonight, and then, to-mor-
row morning. to go to- charlottesville,
whence they Intended going to
1.-THE keys failed to fit, entrance to the
marked houses waste be made forcibly.
sThompson was the most brazen of the
three. FL said that he HI been quest
toned before by police detectives, and
refused to say ANYTHING. On his per-
son was found a note he had written
to a junk-dealer to say that the lead
was all right.
All the boys are from n reformatory.
thompson was sent to a reformatory,
1T Is salleged, for his part In the wreck
ing OF a8train In South Carolina, sew
cra1 ago..
Ali the houses&the boys have robbed
were vacant investigation Will show,
1t is believed, that many other vacant
houses have been damaged by this
gang. The arrest Is regarded as most
Important, especiallW in View of the
statement. from Loving that other
houses WereStoEhav been robbed.