Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-07
One of Them COnfeSSeS To The
Charge Of Burglary And
Others Implicated.
TWO MORE ARE WANTED.
Are Believed To Have Been
Implicated In Several Re-
cent Crimes.

Lucian H. Davis residence en-
tered at second story by means
of a ladder and So or $40 taken.
Thieves effected an entrance
through a b &C * window of
Keach's furniture store, SO TAX
en- from register.
Samuel B. Ficken's home en-
tered, only a dollar belonging to
one of his boys was stolen.
Pollard's saloon was entered
through a window and a lot of
cigars taken.
Stag saloon broken into at back
door, $l4 or Sis in money and
other articles taken.
The store of the F. A. Yost
Co. entered by the burglars fore
ing open the outer sheetiron door
with an iron bar and breaking
the glass out of the inner door.
The outer door was fastened by
large hook dropping into staple.
Last summer time and time agar
Union Tabernacle became a rendez
vous for a lot of negro criminals anC
boys of the rough sort. AS fast al
forced doors and broken Windows
could be replaced others were forced
or broken. The watchfulness of tn,
police and people of the neighbor
hood who were on a lookout were
unavailing for months, but eventual
ly the police got clue and finally
half a dozen half grown white boys
were taken in the net. When ar
raigned for trial nothing could be
proven against the boys and more
innocent lot of youngsters, accord
ing to their own stories, were never
before judge.
The police did not have any conf
dence in the boys promises to be
good and have been keeping an eye
on them and on lot Of negroes ever
since.
The negroes are still at large but,
we are sorry to say, many boys, sons
of respectable parents, have been
taken in the police net. The police,
while not putting on the third de-
gree, did fine piece of work.
The first of the six who confessed,
gave away the others by telling the
particulars to Vitus l.. Gates, one of
proprietors of the Stag saloon, which
was forcibly entered on Sunday
night, January 3lst, and about SASS
in money, besides cigarettes, chew
ing gum, etc., taken. Mr.. Gates
then communicated the matter to
Officer Jones. 1t was evident, from
what the thieves got from the Stag,
that the burglars were boys. Chief
Roper and his men got busy and
soon had half a dozen boys before
Judge Knight for trial, while two
others are being sought elsewhere,
as they feared arrest and left the
city. Their names are Dick Hank
ins and Hawkins Reach.
After hearing the evidence, which
was really a confession of four of the
boys, Judge Knight fixed the bond
of Witty and Mabry at $500 each and
Baker and Hurt at $3.50 each. They
were sent to Jail pending their bonds
being made by their parents.
The trial of these boys, Aubrey
Mabry, aged ID; Ernest Witty, IA;
Rodman Hurt, 16, and Pettus Baker,
l6, led to the detection of at least
one of the party that broke into the
store of the F. A. Yost Co. The
men in the store and the police be-
lieve that those who robbed the Stag
saloon and the F. A. Yost Co. were
different parties and yet they were
inclined TO believe that there were
some of the boys in the crowd from
some of the articles taken. Besides
about $50 in money. half a dozer