Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-07-31
Three Burglars Arrested
By The Night Police
Within an Hour Alter They Had
Entered Three Stores.
Fourteen Arrests from Saturday
Night TO Sunday Wight.


Within an hour after they had en-
tered three places of business on Wa
ter street early Sunday morning, three
men were arrested BY the nighs watch
and locked up TO await hearing
Monday morning. The men gave the
names of Daniel Smith, Boston: DEN
mis- Eotten, West Roxbury and Frank
Gray, Roxpury The places entered
were b w. Partridge's clothing cloth
ing store, Harry Millers fruit store
and Miss Mildred Eastmans millinery
store. In Partridge's place six suits
of clothes and two dress suit cases
were taken. IN Miler's a quantity of
cigarettes and cigars and some money
in change was taken. Nothing was dis
turbed, apparently. in Miss Eastman's
and II is supposed that the men after
getting in discovered that they were
not in the place they intended to be
and left without trying to get any
thing. 1t is supposed that they intend,
ed to get into the jewelry store OF F.
H Woodbury., which is next door to
Miss Eastman's store.
The story of the breaks and the cap
ture e the men is not nearly as ex-
citing as the actual experience of the
III the actual work plenty of gun play
entered in and the officers had an ex-
citing time for few minutes hunting
around in the rear of the stores on
Water street along the stream trying
to locate the men in hiding among the
bushes.
1t seems that c. II. Morgan. a fire
man in the Augusta Lumber Cos. mill.
10 hp
noticed light flash in the rear of the
stores. AS he knew the night watch
was in the station at the time he sus-
pected something was wrong and told
the telegraph operator at the station.
The officers were notified and with
drawn pistols they started for the
scene. Hunting around by the Nannah
Co. sandhouse they saw two men
skulkine in the bushes. Then came a
short chase, with the officers firing
their pistols. Finally officer Annis was
SO sure that he saw one man behind
some bushes that Officer Cusick threat
encd to fire il the man didn't come out.
And the man came out
Il. 9. Mears night baggagemasfer
at the station, was left at the place
with officer Annis and the captured
mHn taken to the station and locked
up.
Then officer Cusiek began to search
again and i'm few minutes found a
second man lying fiat on the ground
near the place where the first man
was. taken. Then it vas up TO Officer
Annis to land man and In a very
short time he located a man up in the
branches of large willow tree. Upcn
the officer threatening TO shoot, the
man decided to come down and was
captured Further search failed to re-
veal anyone else and although the men
say that there was a four man he was
not located
Near the tree where the men were ar
rested We're found a suit case contain
ing several suits of clothes and in the
water under the trees We're found 20
boxes OF more of cigarettes. a second
suit case with several more suits of
clothes was also found nearby
An inspection Of the buildings in the
rear showed how the men had gained
entrance tc the stores The street fioors
on Water street are up one story high
i'm tho rear and the men had climbed
up with the aid OF pieces OF timber. In
Partridge's window one entire pane of
glass had been cut out and put one
side unbroken. The middle sash was
cut out and the other pane of glass
broken ont and then man or men
crawIed through. In Miss Eastmans
place q small piece of each pane near
the fastening had been broken out
and ttiie window opened. Entrance to
Mfller's place was easy as the windows
were not down nor were there any
screens on them.
One of the men, at least. has been
working in the city on the sewer which
is being laid on Central street The
other two men appear to be strangers
Fourteen arrests We're made by the
police from Saturday night to Sunday
night. Beside the three men arrested
fer sthe breaks eight men and three
women were taken into the tolls The
three womeH and three men were ar
rested In house on Middle street
Sunday afternoon and were locked up
charged with intoxication and disturb
ance. City Marshal Wakefield received
a complaint about the place and with
Officers King. Blasdell and Wiles went
to the place. The men showed more or
less effects of indulgence in intoxi-
eating liquors but the women did not
appear to be so intoxicated as the men.
Saturday evening complaint was
made to the police by an oldish man
who works in Farmingdale that a
vouYT man named Gagne had picked
his pocket and taken some money. The
vo,,ne nya rp was arrested and the COM
rIainant was also held to appear as q
witness in court Monday morning
The remainder of the prisoners in
IT. .a.;or ,uare arrested for intoxica.
ton.