Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-30
Twenty PLACES
bURGlAR|zED BY
GANG OF YOUTHS
Four in Jail, One Under
Bond and Sixth Fugitive
from Justice.

Five white boys have been arrested,
four of them are in the county Jail.
while the fifth is at liberty under
bond, and a sixth lad, said to be impli-
Gated, has left town, as the result Of
the activities of Deputy Constable Jim
Reidinger the past three days, follow
ing the disappearance of bathroom
fixtures and electric lighting fixtures
from many vacant houses.
The boys arrested are:
Arthur league, aged 16 years.
REQ French, aged ID years.
Lawrence Crunk, aged IA years.
Ed Jenkins, aged II years.
Roy Shumpert, aged Is years.
Crunk is under bond, and the others
are in Jail. All the boys will be given
preliminary examination Tuesday be-
fore Justice of the Peace C. C. Brew.
ster, on charges of petty larceny
-Four charges are said to have been
filed against each of the boys, but the
officers have a list of II places said to
have been burglarized by one or an
other of the quintet, and each of these
may be made the basis for separate
charge.
Many Houses Visited.
According to the boys themselves,
the following are some of the places
visited by one or more of them, and
from which brass fixtures, electric
light switches OF drop lights, or other
costly fixtures were obtained:
221 e. Second avenue.
1907 West Fifth avenue.
lis West Sixth avenue
Sixth avenue and Poplar street.
Boiler room of the old furniture fac
tory, in West Sixth avenue.
Rear of Voss-Nichol building, Main
and Third avenue.
1909 West Seventh avenue.
Fourth avenue and Hickory street.
Fourth avenue and Cherry street.
1900 block in West Sixth avenue.
Sixth avenue and Cedar street.
GOT West Third avenue.
SOS Main street.
Rear of the Florence sanitarium.
Arkansas Short Leaf plant.
j. w. Sheppard store.
u. w. Poss' store.
us N. Walnut street.
Sixth avenue, between Walnut and
Chestnut.
Walnut, near Sixth avenue.
The boys stated they obtained a lot
sacks from tn Short Leaf, Sheppard
and Poss places. They stated also that
they took quite a number of brass
parts from the street roller of the
Kaw Paving company, in West Four
teenth avenue. The boys admit many
other vacant houses were entered, but
they could not remember the streets or
numbers.
Good Detective Work.
The arrest of the boys is considered
the result of good detective work: N.
A. Powers, Waterman and special dep
uty under Constable Green, obtained
a valuable tip in the case Thursday,
and it was this tip which started Dep
uty Constable Reidinger on the series
of arrests. French was the first lad
arrested by Reidinger and Powers, and
league was jailed a few minutes later.
Crunk was arrested Friday. Jenkins
was arrested yesterday and Shumpert
was jailed last night.
From Shumpert's house, the. off
GERS obtained quantity of electric
light wire, drop lights. switches and
other such paraphernalia. Shumpert
stated most of the stuff he had accu-
mulated while working at wiring
houses, it being principally the stuff
taken out when new work was put IN.
He denied being implicated with the
other boys in the thefts charged
against him, but admitted that this is
the second time he has been arrested
on about the same sort of charge: He
said also that French and Jenkins have
been arrested before; that he does not
know Trague, and that Crunk has
never b. Il in trouble of this kind be-
fore thi: case, so far as he knows.
league is known to his associates
"Villa," because he has made several
trips into Texas.