The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-02-25
ENTER IVlANLEY
POOL and BILLIARD ROOM
co NELs WHITE, THE NEGRO
PORTER ATTACKS THEM WITH
scu AND THEY! /! QUICKLY FLEE,
x MAKING GOOD THEIR ESCAPE.
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Remove Stick and Large Nails From
Basement Window During Day and
\ 5All ls Made Ready for Successful
Haul-Poiiee Suspect Two Young;
Italians.
9tH This morning about one o'clock the
Manley pool and billiard room on JET.
sfersdp street, was entered by two bur.
glars but were frightened away by
iiWilliam ("Colonel") White the me-
gro porter before they were able to
steal anything.
The attempted burglary was one
ISof the boldest and most successfully
5prearranged Jobs that has been framed
up in this city for a long while. and
Which would have doubtless been sue
cessfully carried out had it not been
tor the colored man who was sleeping
Dir. the room at the time. Everything
had been well arranged. before hand
+ TO make "a successful job, as the stick
and two large walls holding down the
lover sash of the basement wfndow.
Ssbystwhich they entered had been re.
moved during the day and they had no
trouble In raising the window.
u Showing thnt they we're familiar
with the surroundings. they immedi.
ately turned on the basement lights
with a switch at the head OF the stairs
Z asleading into the pool room proper.
They then started to the forward end
Of the room in the semi.darkness
where the fcigats cigarette and ivory
billiard balls are kept but when they
reachel the middle;of the room the ne,
1 srp pf rose up from the chairs iii Wnicl.l
he was sleeping, saying: who's
there; !; what you want in heah?" He
I then started toward them with a bill.
lizard cue, this so. startled the men
that they quickly turned around and
Il initfeir haste to escape overturned a
heavy tall brass cuspidore, badly dent
81 ing It and sprang through the base.
ment window. making good their es.
cape throughithe back yard.
Mr. E. E.. shlnn, manager of the
$Iplace,. said that he had a pretty good
Y reason to suspect who the men are,
sSthatifrom the description given by the
negro porter, who had fairly goou
slslook at them, that they are two Ital-
ian youths whose homes are at Barns.
vile, aged about II and 10 years; that
4 one OF them worked nj the place for
"a lew days recently and that both of
3j&the young men have been loafing
s5about the room for the past few days
and he told them last night that he
wanted them 10 get out and stay out
( OF his place.
IA Is. believed that they were after
5E5the three sets Of ivory billiard balls
recently purchased and which are
kept In the showcase unlocked. The
balls are worth s45 a set of three.
4 ant. tliat they were also after cigars
and cigarettes. It is believed that
These men removed the stick and nails
from the window last evening and had
Salll things. arranged for the Job. not
knowing that the negro porter slept
II the room after he had finished his
daily work.
1t lis believed that the men VIM eu.
< tered the Manlcy pool room are the
i same pair who broke into TIC cappcr
on Jackson street about ten
days ago and stoel sixteen watches
Z which were to be CHANGED off, but 1t
! Us not believed that they took any.
thing else unless it was some tobacco
= and probably few bottles of liquor,
which, of course, would not be missed
from the stock.
a: The police have been notified OF tho
attempted burglary early this morning
end are looking for the two young Ital.
ians and II they are arrested they
/, will be required to show whore they
We're shortly after one o'clock this
\ morning.