The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-27

Probably the cleVerest second-stOry thief
in the United States, the most daring bur-
glar who has operated in the National
Capital in a generation, was arrested yes
terday on a charge of committing ten
jewelry robberies in Washington
George Williams, alias Glenn, alias
Smith, bowed 10 the yoke of the third
degree and confessed to the crimes.
Showed Indifference.
I.ounging in a chair in police headquar-
ters a few minutes after he was arrested,
his cap on the back of his head. a cigar
cite between his lips, the only indication
Of nervousness. Williams confessed rob-
berry after robbery with a simplicity that
seemed childish.
Detectives smiled with pleasure as the
words left the lips OF the man they had
sought for four months.
When Williams had glanced over a list
of ten burglaries and nodded yes in
answer 10 the question, rs that your
w0rk?' and when he had told where he
had disposed OF the thousands Of dollars
worth of stolen jewelry, he was accom-
panied from the room, flanked on each
side by detectives, and removed to the
Third police precinct, where he slept last
night behind prison bars.
Charles Mccarthy. who was arrested
Friday on suspicion OF being the man
whom Williams employed TO dispose Of
stolen jewelry. spent the night in a cell
at the First precinct staten. Mccarthy
nf al
tanning evidence against him.
When Williams and Mccarthy were
brought face to face in police headquar-
tiers. there was not a sign Of recognition
on the face Of either, although, the police
believe they are pals"
The search for Williams ended yester-
day shortly before noon when he was
arrested in his room in lodging house
in z street northwest, a few hours after
a robbery at the Mount Vernon Seminary,
Eleventh and NJ streets northwest
Confident of Arrest.
Detectives who investigated the rob
berry al the fashionable boarding school
recognized it as the work of the much
sought second-story man, and they were
confident they were close behind him.
II was a few minutes before y O'Clock
when Detectives Hewlett and Pratt en-
tered the lodging house and assembled a
flight of steps TO the room in which they
thought they would find Williams. Both
men expected 20 face a desperate man
who would not hesitate at pulling a re-
volver trigger if he thought he saw a
chance for escape.
Hewlett and Pratt stood outside the
door several minutes, listening, their
hands on their pistols and their every
sense alert. They could hear some one
inside the room. but could not see who
1t was when they peeped through a key
hole.
Suddenly, Pratt turned the knob and
threw open the door. Both men were in
side in a second. They slammed the door
behind them.
Williams was sitting in a rocking chair,
magazine In his right hand and cigar
cite In the left He looked up in sur
prise at the two men. and recognized
them as detectives in an instant. He
calmly placed the book on the top Of the
bureau. put the cigarette between his
lips, and smiled.
We'll. guess the jig is up" he said;
''wbo squealed?"
Searched the Prisoner.
Hewlett advanced and ran his hands
over Williams body. The prisoner car
ried no weapons. and he laughed at the
apprehensions OF the detective One de-
teetiYe watched Williams to see that he
did not make a move, while the other