The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-20
.EX POLICE CHIEF
TURNS BIZ RG.lAR
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He and Former Police Lieutenant
Get Off With Clothes and
Jewelry.
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
Put Up Pitiful Tale and Hotel
Man Let's Them Go
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS

on suspicion of having committed
robbery. an ex-Chicf of Police of a
North Carolina town and one OF his
former lieutenants were detained at
police headquarters yesterday after
noon on the complaint OF the proprie-
tor of Gilbert's Hotel. and clothes.
scarfpin and some small teWeiFy al
legged to have been stolen from room
in the hotel were found in their pos
session.
uaying recovered the property al
lek.u ~ nave Deem stoien. ana peink
o. posed To ne lenient Win an o.u .na
I.aience uIloerL the hotei pr9pI.e.oS
requested that the Case be not pross-
cu.eu, ana the two men were re-
'e1 Iue ex-chicf of Police and his lieu
tenant arrived here early yesterday
mnrn,ne to attend the convention Of
the agents OF the Metropolitan Lie m
surance Company, when is holding us
SESSIONS in inc jefferson Hotel ootn
ey!dently came prepared Tor tns ocea-
sion, and were full of spirit.
| They stopped at the first hotel s 81 =
a aas ed-ehi to them. They retired
TO wear off the effects OF the
4 late hours and too frequent llllpio-
! ings. Complaint was mage ,h.t o. th .v were
+ leaving with the clothes ana EVE ,ar
( Of another guest, and the pfoprle,sois
who is something of q. sleuth, soon nae
them in tow and handed them over =
police officer.
Shed Scarfpin.
The two men were taken 70 poilc'
/ headouarters. and there the hotel pro
/ prietor gave list OF the propertl
/ which had been stolen. 1t was discov
i cred in the suit cases OF tt1e wv A>o. -
| Carolinians. 80
! said the hotel man. II forgot theMi.
AS he finished. an ominous t SrGx wa "a
derneath the stool on which Inc ea
Chief Of Police was sitting. He na'
not before been suspected.
Search tina. man at ton once The sa ,ro, nap
J, OF the ex-Chief of Police were draw
forth divers collar buttons. II don,
know how they got in there ne sad
They amt mine. don't Know no.
!, about the whole affair was that tn
r former officers OF the law came her
with empty suit cases, and left tn
a ihotel with the suit cases fun. In tn
!: several shirts. lot of oranges an
: Must be sweet on somebody. eh?
! said Captain Mcmahon.
d "A sun Oh CiOIUtS was 80
!, other mans bag He sat stolidly. AM
/ persisted that he had no idea In tn
world how the clothes came TO b
there.
!. Il am fifty years Old" said the olde
+. man. the ex-chief, and this is tn
i. first time in my life that ! have bee
: suspected of wrong doing. and tina
!. I have been searched. I've got wifi
Il and children at home. and this thin
Will break their hearts"
He seemed ready to break down, an
) was so nervous that the officers bega
: to pity him. A conference was he'll
!. between the hotel proprietor and tn
II officers, and the former said that h
i would not prosecute the case, as b
,. had recovered the stolen property. a
there was no one to prosecute Captai
Mcmahon released the men and 70
them to go about their business. The
. went forth with lighter hearts an
/ lighter suit cases to attend the ses
n sions OF the convention.