The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-15
POLICE CAPTURE
BOLD BOY CROOKS
Pair Were Trying to Work
Game in Main Street
Store
DISTRACTED ATTENTION
BY USING TELEPHONE
Method of Disposing Of Stolen
Property Displayed Ingenu-
ity Far Beyond
Years

Detectives Wiltshire and Wrenn
walked into police headquarters Wed
nesoay forenoon, each with a small
boy by the arm.
Here are those two kids that have
been grabbing things from typewriter
girls" said Wiltshire.
Neither boy looked more than thir-
teen years old. They wore soiled
suits OF gray and dirty faces. Neither
was in a fearful mood. They APP
peared anything but repentant. but
one of them, Edward Kelley, was
eager to confess. He is a sharp-eyed
lad. this young Kelley. but there is "a
quaint occurrences about him that Is
rather attractive. His Companion,
Herbert Jennings, is less pleasing TO
look upon.
The boys were arrested in the store
of the J. l.. Lindsay Hardware Conn
pany. 1871 Main street. about 10
O'Clock.
Mr. r.. r. Banks was busy at his
desk when two small boys entered. one
asked II he might use the telephone.
Mr. Banks assented. Both boys seem
cd Ill at ease and nervous They did
not seem TO know what number they
wanted. MIR. Banks went on with his
writing and the boys fdgeted about
the telephone
Use eiephone Method.
This was their method OF working
One would stall" or take the attention
OF employees by using the telephone,
while the other ransacked garments.
grabbed satcheis or pockctbooks that
had been left around loose
Just AN Mr. Banks was about to ask
IL he could assist them, he heard q
voice say. You take that one and
III attend TO this fellow He looked
up and there stood Wrenn and wilt
shire, each with a small boy In his
grasp.
I'VE have been looking fer these
fellows for sometime" said the detec-
tivss. az they took them out.
Jennings and Kelley are unusually
clever little sneak thieves Net only
have they used the telephone game TO
hide their operations, but they evolved
a neat plan to dispose Of their piunaer.
one Of them brought watch to
p@am broker Sam Jacobs with this
note,
Fooled Pawnhroker.
Please buy this watch from my little
boy as am sick In bed and in need OF
money,
Mrs. Fox
He bought II.
My little boy" was the clever Jen
nings youngster and the watch was one
a stenographer.
When arrested by Nrenn and Wilt
shire, the Kelley boy Carrying little
satchei of olive green leather such as
women use to carry luncheon and
other smaii articles, At police head
quarters they were asked where they
got IL.
we was walking through Cary
street" replied Kelley. and We went
tr9tFv. f$sfrfi @fyIr{t ~ a.
Where he was asked
'"'r ,funno sontewfiefe 6etw cen
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. We
grabbed the satehel and beat it. No
body sees U.S.
They also went into Smith. Mon
cure Il Gordon's office at fi05 Bank
street and got rhnteiairse rug there,
said officer Wiltshire. LII belonged
to stenographer and contained a
dollar or a dollar and half
a.. Have song Record. .~-...,
These are the same lads that got
away with watch belonging to Miss
o. G.. Myers, a stenographer employ
ed by typewriter concern" added
Detective Wrenn.
They are the same ones who went
into the Powhatan Clay Manufactur-
ing Company on the pretext of using
telephone and stole purse con-
tanning 10 aHu pair bt specthties
worth SIS more" said Clerk William
Toler.
Pretty bad pair OF boys" com
mented Chief Werner Take them
up and look up their stories
= Jennings said that he lives at 1los
Dance street when he is at home, but
his father. the police say, can do
nothing with him. The boy has run
away repeatedly He has been found
In Washington and been brought back
10 Richmond. or the two he Is re-
garted as the leader.
Kelley lives at HOS Wallace street
His father Ia known as a nard-work-
ing citizen of excellent reputation.