The Washington times., 1910-06-30
Lads of Refined Appearance
Are Caught After Ran
Sacking Office.
ONE is GLAD HE
WAS MADE PRISONER
Youthful Criminals Produce One of
the Best CrackSmen's Kits Ever
Shown In Station.

Armed with .S2-caliber revoIvers
and carrying an expensive kit Of
handsomely finished burglars tools.
two boys. one eighteen years old and
the other seventeen. were arrested
early this morning by Patrolman G.
r. Murphy. Of the Third precinct. just
after they had ransacked the office of
a physician in the Cecil apartment
house, Fifteenth and l. streets
Well dressed and their appearance
indicating that they are the sons of
respectable and refined parents. the
boys confessed, the police say, 90 their
operations since arriving I'm Wash
ington Tuesday night, but it was only
alter they had been questioned at
lonEth that they would tell anything
about themselves Both claim they
are from Atlanta. Ca
JuggIe Their Names.
The seventeen -year-oId bov de-
scribed himself as Ilcy Reynolds. but
admits that is not his real name. The
other lad first said he was Robert l..
Davis, of s35s Poachtrec street. At
lanta- Later he said he was Julian
D. Wichard, Of 81 Highland avenue.
Atlanta. His father, j. L. WicLard. H.
said was formerly o. newspaper pub
Usher in North Carolina.
Arriving I'm Washington Tuesda y
LlEHl' lhe hctS ensaeed room at ti.
Johnson Hotel. Thirteenth street and
pennsylvania avenue THAT UfuHf the
home or Edward a. NoScley. 1II3 Six
leenln street secretary TO the Interstate
1oillilleice commission, was robbed Of
sd revolver, and cap. The revoI-
Yer and cap, the police say. were found
IN baS the boys room at the hotel
ReEnol'S, or whoever Ie is. the police
think, has beer in trouble before They
d Hr-H.
ards first Onanse
NervousIy smoking a cigarette. Rey-
nclds gave suilen answers to the ques-
lions put TO him by the police bur final
~ admired, they claim, that ne robbed
the MoSsley residence. Several pieces
on lr",.tt round lu his bag was stolen
trgm a house i'm Atlanta. ne said.
Policeman Murphy saw the two bows
standing i'm front OF the a0artmeut
touse. Hashlug al electric seIrchlicht.
ne pluecuai walked uD and grabbed
thtm before they realized what had Oc-
CURED, and took them TO the station
house.
They were searched. and, much to the
surprise OF the police. revoIvrrs were
FOUND m the possession of each boy.
Ihey also had electric searchlights and
as compact and complete a set Of
cTdckSmeuS tools as We're ever dis
played IN police station. The kit was
similar To- those used oy automObilisys
on the road Every tool was polished.
ana there were Instruments that would
enable them 70 effect an entrance into
house or open safe
Wichard Glad He Is Caught.
'Im glad got caught" Wichard fin
ally said. after he had been questioned
at the detective bureau. Il didn't know
what I was getting into. ] met Rey-
nOlds when 7 was broke and he gave me
money and treated ne nice. When he
proposed coming TO Washington and
said ne would buy the tickets. ] agreed
TO accompany him
7 was with Reynolds when ne stole
the things from the Sixteenth street
house, but ! didn't 20 inside 7 didn't
know exactly what ne was soiuS to do.
] STOOD on the outside and watched.
while he climbed to the roof Of the
porch and got IN through a window.
Please don put my real name i'm the
sister IN Atlanta. she is the best sister
a fellow ever had. and il viii kin her
II she hears about this.
This morning when we went TO the
apartment house knew what 7 was
qolng. but l had made up my mind that
e would be the last time even If they
hadn't caught us. I intended going
TO Atlantic City 20 get a job"
The boys said they did not steal any
thing from the physicians office, be-
cause they did not see anything they
could convert into cash easily. The
police had not visited the Cecil. and
learned the doctors name up to noon
today
Reynolds volunteered no information,
and tx was only by persistent question
Ing trdt the police got anything from
him.
Reynolds finally told Inspector Board
man, chief Of detectives that his name
was Eli RunyoH and that hc was the
son Of DIR. Emily E. G.. Ruuyou. a
physician, az lI22 West Gray street.
Richmond. Va Dr. Runyon's name and
address is in the Richmond city direc-
tory. The Richmond authorities were
wired 10 advise her Of her sons arrest