The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-19
BURGLARS FROM SIX YEARS UP
ENJLE BtND owns GP To
WEST SIDE JOBs.
doe Kelly. AGED q, the Human i.atchGe,.
Who Couldn't Resist Toys I nopened
hotties oT champagne Proved the
Gang's Z nslsing Eight Boys Caught.

Edward Davis. president Of Davis a
Cattrrall. cotton goods house at rs
Worth street. came into town Tuesday
night and found his home az SOi West
Fighty-fouTt street wrecked from top To
bnttom Door panels were smashed. the
plano was unstrung. and tapestries had
reen trampled upon. Not much was
missing from the house. but each room
work Of puny hands.
- want1n was the destruction that the
detectives Of the Sixth avenue branch
readily concluded that the West End ave-
nue boys had done the business. For in
stance. the upsetting thieves had hauled
out bottles ~ wine These they had tried
~ open with forks and paper cutters. and
failing had left the bottles unopened. IL
waE rightly reasoned that had men been
m the Davis home they would have got
az the win" with or without Corkscrsws
Also a man would have taken away a good
deal and would not have spent precious
time krcAing the furniture "a pn ces
Just a. The detsctives were beginning To
hutton Up their coats they got word of
robbery al III. house of Thomas Purcell.
a Lru ser ~ - Broadway. who lives at 25s
W,st SEVENTY first street Mr. Purcell
and has family ar" out IT town. Anna
Iouruatuan. a Polish servant. was found
IA th. nous,. "f John \ Dietz az 25s West
seventy NTH street newt door TO the Prir-
cell home Anna had heard boys in the
Purcell house on August - and had rushed
~ ia" street 10 get a man. She saw the
huy- emerging aud ordered them bacA
INTO IN" huIs. Whereupon one 81 the
rmalt' m+naC ed her with Mr. Pircelis
splendid sword aud the Polish girl ran
With faint screams.
After surveying the ruined houses tho
DETECTIVES arrested John Mcconnell. -
wears old OF IIS West End avenue. and
Henry and Charles Katty. brothers, Of the
same address In the Chlldren's Court
Yesterday morning Justice Hoyt dts
charged the Mcconnell boy, paroled ten
y.ar-old Charley RAtty and held Henry
his elder brother for quizzing later
Io,. Kelly. aged d and very small. was
also gathered ~ Joe lives AZ itl West
End avenue Peter Bishop. ~. OF Ia
West End avenue. made the NTH boy
detective Staple'on says that they con-
f,.ss-d 10 entering he Purcell house
Ia. boys talked at some length with
the. detectives and Last night Herman
Greenwald. IL. Of 100 West End avenue.
James Waters y Of l2a West End avenue.
and william Horton, 10. 81 2ii West Fifty
SINH street. were aFTt~lefl aasu charged
with breaking INTO Mr. Davi-'s house
The police -ay TINT these three boys were
The ones who tried 10 enter Bruce Nickel
vIa's house az ss5 West Seventy seventh
street last "Wednesday The butlar was
IN the house and scared the three away
Matters j. recorded by the polics as hav-
ing been associated with Percy Dougrerty.
a lad who was ~ent away for entering the
housn u Charles Lucas ~ l5S West Ind
avenue Mr Lucas was asleep but awoke
IN tim. 70 administer spankinRz
WHOM Joe Kelly the EiN-ySar-old. was
with tho gang he was pushed nder the
ron basement gate which he opened
10 admit the other 4 glass pane was
'ran smashed and all the boys piled into
the basement They stole pinsss. studs
opcra glasses stiCkpln= and \ gun or two
loo Kelly INVADED tho plavroom % the
DAVIS children and stole peck Of toys
lie had not yet entirely put away childish
things