The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-21
CAUGHT WIFE AS
HUI SBAN D FILE D.
Police, After Shoe Thieves, Saw
Many Pairs Awaiting Into
Nearby Yards.
WOMAN PUT UNDER ARREST
Mrs. Weinbach Trying to Efface
Evidence When Officers
Raided Her Home.

After she had attempted to efface all
possible evidence against her, and the
| officers had seen numberless shoes
Awaiting in all directions from her
OF S35 North Seventeenth Street was
arrested yesterday morning by De-
| tecuve Sergeant Wiley and Policeman
Jennings on suspicion Of having stolen
a quantity of goods from freight cars
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
and from the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way Companies. Charles Weinbach.
the womans husband, escaped. after a
nice piece of alleged trickery, but 1t is
likely that now his wife is under
arrest he. too, will soon be caught.
Several dozen pairs of shoes, more
than crate of beer of the best brand.
some enamel ware. a sackful of crack
ers. a suit of clothes and q silver la
confiscated, the whole CARLOAD being
taken to the First Police Station in
the patrol wagon.
Trapped Through Blnnch.
I he key to the solution of the rob-
berries which have been perpetrated
recently was found by Policeman Jen-
nings in the arrest of Ben Blanch, col
ored, on warrant charging him with
having broken into and robbed the
house of John Cheatham. 1913 Brown
Street. After locking the negro up,
the officer learned that he was con-
nected with the car robberies and that
much of the stolen property was hid
den in a house on Seventeenth Street.
others were implicated In the car
breaking He summoned Sergeant
Wiley to his assistance, and the two
Went out together,
They dropped In to see Charles
Weinbach. who runs general store
at $50 North Seventeenth Street, and
incurred of him If he knew Ben
Blanch He denied ali acquaintance
Then a small child came into the room,
and quick as lightning, the officers
turned to him with the same ques
ton.
Yes, know Ben" he replied before
his parents could stop him, and then,
in common parlance, Weinbach came
across" He admitted, the officers say,
that he did know Ben, and then. mys.
teriously. pointed TO Mother store a
block away and said that was where
he roomed, and that If the detectives
looked they would find a lot of stolen
property hidden there.
The alleged trick worked success
fully. The officers departed for the
9, few minutes when they found that
they were following a blind trail and
they harked back
shoes Flying Everywhere.
Weinbach's back, Windows in all direc-
tons. most of them falling into adj
Joining yards, add heard a negro ex-
claim at the wonder of Heaven send.
ing him down enough footwear to
stock him and his family and friends
for lifetime They rushed into the
house, but Weinbach had departed
when they did not know. leaving his
wife to face the two men. She denied
everything, but she had on, they say
pair of shoes which looked like some
which had been stolen. and they took
her into custody, and searched the
house. Upstairs big boxes of shoes
and all the other articles mentioned
We're found.
Still asserting her innocence the wo-
man was taken to the station, where
later she admitted to the on4cers that
she knew the negro, that he had spent
couple Of nights at her house and
mad brought shoes there.
BlanGh also, admitted that he had
spent Wednesday night at the Vein
bach home and that late that night
Wein6ach came TO him and asked him
to. help him carry UP a lot of shoes,
which he did. He denied, however
that he had stolen the shoes.
Some of the property was afterwards
identified by officers of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway.
Sergeants Wiley and Jennings then
visited the scene where the freight
cars had been placed. and found some
ssilverware hiddeT in a culvert. This
is also believed TO have been stolen
from the cars
Mrs. Weinbach was admitted to bail
IN the sum of $500. She employed
Gilbert K Pollock to represent her in
Ponce Court this morning