The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-04-09
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.

Tuesday, April Saturday morning
about 1850 o'clock the Plain Dealing
depot of the Cotton Belt Railway was
burglarized and the safe of the Wells
Fargo Express Company blown open.
While several parties heard the explo-
sions (there were two of them) it was
not known for certainty where it &C.
Cured until Mr.. L. S. McGaughey, the
agent, came down to open up his office.
Then all doubts of the successful OPEN
ing of the safe were dispelled. The in
ner compartment of the safe door was
completely blown off, and the Office
looked much as if a cyclone had swept
through. Everything in the room, was
in disorder. The agent and the town
marshal at once got busy with the wires,
the agent notifying the Sheriff's Office
at Benton and the marshal notifying
Mr.. I. F. Elder at Alden Bridge and re-
questing him to inform Mr.. w. c..
Hughes, the agent at Hughes Spur,
and also apprising the Police depart
ment at Shreveport. AS it turned cut,
the message to Mr.. Elder was the direct
cause of the undoing of the party who
committed the burglary, for at little
after four o'clock Saturday afternoon a
young man came into the store of Mr..
Hughes, where the subject of the bur
glary was being discussed, and hearing
that some watches were secured, he at
once told that man whom he met near
the Whited & Wheless old saw mill at
Alden Bridge had just offered to sell him
new watch, so Mr.. Hughes got busy
with the phone and notified Sheriff Ed l.
wards of the fact. He at once secured a
hand car, and in company of his deputy,
Mr.. j. A. Edwards, they soon met the
suspected party, about two miles north
of Benton, where they quickly had him
under arrest. All the goods lost, with
the exception of bottle of "comfort'
and cheap watch chain that was thrown
out through mistake where he sorted ou
his loot, under the first seed house south
of town, was on his person, together
with two pistols and plentiful supply
of nitro glycerine and caps and fuses
The burglar refused to tell his name
but claims that he is from some place il
Texas, but refuses to state what place
He also had switch key of the A. & V
Railway Company, and receipts showing
his membership in the Order of Railwa,
Trainmen was found bearing the mann
of F. J. Tucker. He claims to have hat
partner in the job. The citizens o
the town are jubilant over the captur
and desire to express their appreciation
to the Sheriff and his deputy for tn
,, quick capture Of the burglar. Railwa
Detective Wheeler of the Cotton Bel
,. came in yesterday, and after Sigh
investigation here left for Benton t
take look at the arrested party now i
the Benton Jail.
Mr.. Dennis Houston of Shreveport
: came in Sunday evening and left yes
; terday for the Sarepta community, j
:. Webster Parish, near his old home.
DR.. Howard Doles has secured
desirable location at Blanchard for th
: practice of his profession and left fl
that place few days ago. He is wishe
! the fullest measure of success by h
numerous friends here.
81 Your correspondent has been show
aud told something in the pecan liz
q that taxes ones credulity. The pecan
r showed, of course, for themselves. The
. were of an immense size, and from a tr'
d on the property owned by the late Jof
i A. Skannal, ), now managed by Mr.. Hem
10 Skannal, in Ward One of Bossier Pa
70 ish. The tree from which these nu
;s we're obtained is said to have produc
Al 1000 pounds the past season, and