The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-27
RIVER THIEVES
ARE CAPTURED
BY THE POLICE
Robber,cs in Future City and Mound
City Are Accredited to
Them.
THE THIRD RoBBER ESCAPES
Down River With Booty in Skiff and
is Pursued by Deputy
on Tug.
Fol owing the theft Of a kit 0

Fol owing the theft OF kit OF
tools and brass trimmings from a
launch at Mound City the property
of A. J. Ridings, and the robbery OF
llF. l.. Lipe. negro grocery store
proprietor in Future City Tuesday
night, Sheriff Fraser. Deputy John
O'Donnell and Police Officers Johrs
son and Wade. effected the capture
of several men yesterday whom 1t
is thought are responsible for both
crimes.
The men were arrested on a
shanty boat yesterday morning on
the Ohio. The craft was coming
down the river. from "A point near
the Greer Wilkinson lumber plant.
The officers. having information
that the parties they wanted were
aboard on the small affair, boarded
the tug Theseus and ran alongside
OF the boat near the bridge in the
middle of the river. sNs
Two men, woman and a mum
ber of small chi dren were the oc-
cupants. The men were placed suu-
der arrest and one of them who. gave
his name as Fred Burch was Menti-
| fed as the one who had evidently
participated in both crimes since his
description tailed with that given
by the Mound City authorities and
also by Lipe. as one OF the two who
had entered his store early in the
evening and at the point of reyol-
yer had compelled him to hand over
S25 that he had in his cash drawer.
Bureh is young fellow and the
other man is as described by Lipe.
much older man After quiz
zing Burch told the officers that his
lcompanion had gone down the river
| in "Johnboat'' early in the morn
ing, with the valuables that had
been taken from the .aunch at
Mound City.
Deputy Sheriff John 0'Donnel
was given the job of pursuing the
fugitive and in an attempt to over
take the thief the tug Theseus was
again chartered, and with the Off
GER and others aboard, the boat
started on the hunt.
On the way down the river, sew
eral haunts of fishermen were visit
ed in hopes of finding the wanted
party but to no avail. The Theseus
trayersed the Mississippi as far
south as Island No. 2 without find
ing trace of the robber. A thorough
search OF the river bank in that
vicinity howeve-, resulted in the
| finding OF an abandoned "Johnboat"
tied to the shore in which the pur-
sued one had evider-.. taken flight
Deputy Sheriff O'Donnel. made a
thorough canvass of the bottoms iii
| that vicinity after the tug had land
ed, but his tramping through mud
1 and water failed to result In the
| capture of his man and the return
trip was then made to Cairo. The
! officials expect to bring the fugitive
| TO justice in a short time, since de-
scription of the man and what he Is
wanted for, were Immediately sent
to down river points.
Burch, the man arrested when
taken to police headquarters, made
a denial of having been party to
either OF the robberies, even after
he had been identified by Lipe as
one of the men who was in his store,
and who forced him to give up his
money at the point of a revolver.
The older mans name is given by
Burch as VII Giimsley. The third
man of the party, who was on the
boat when the officers met it coming
down the river, and whose name Ii
said to be Wright, was allowed tc
remain aboard the shantyboat witt
his wife and children and was warn.
ed not to make an attempt at a get
away. The shanty boat was brought
| down to Eighth street by the The
seus where 1t was moored near tn,
Halliday sand barge.
j Burch was taken to Mound Gil,
in the afternoon hy Deputy Sheriff
Parker where he will be held pend