The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-25
SUSPECT DALTON
ROBBED STORE
MAN TAKEN AT LEWISTON DIS
POSED OF GOODS TAKEN FROM
JULIAETTA STORE
Thought to be Member of Well Or
ganized Gang of Thieves Brought
Here for Trial

Sheriff Campbell returned from
Lewiston yesterday with John Dal
ton, alias Harry Case, who was ar
rested there and is suspected of hav
ing burglarized the Alexander store a
Juliaetta. Dalton is believed to be
member of a well organized gang O
burglars, which is thought to include
five others arrested at Lewiston ant
four at Pendleton.
Katie Simmonds, a young girl who
has been rooming at the Oxford Ho
tel in Lewiston, and Leila Weber, who
lives in Charleston, were also arrest
ed in Lewiston, and were brought
here to be held as witnesses against
Dalton, some of the goods taken from
the Juliaetta store having been found
in their possession. The date for
Dalton's preliminary hearing has not
been fixed.
Dalton was arrested when some
shoes, suitcase, and some silk he had
disposed of were identified as some
of the goods taken from Alexander's
Juliaetta store.
The first arrests in the burglary
cases were made at Pendleton when
George Howard, Harry Raymond, and
James Morgan were taken into Gus
tody and watches and merchandise
found in their possession were identi-
fed as having been taken from the
Lapwai drug store. Before they were
returned to Lewiston, Frank Holland
and Patrick Crafty were arrested by
the police on charge of completely
in the Lapwai burglary.
The view entertained by the officers
is that the man under arrest here and
those in Jail at Lewiston and Pen
dleton are the members of an organiz-
ed gang and while only the Lapwai
closed by the goods recovered the Of
ficers are satisfied that the men have
been involved in other crimes in the
Lewiston country.
The theory is advanced here that
they operated in crews and the goods
taken from stores in one section of
the country were shipped to crew
in another locality and there disposed
of. Members of the gang first COM
menced to sell mackinaws, silks,
watches and other merchandise in
Lewiston early in January but the
goods sold at that tine had not been
reported lost in any of the Lewiston
country.
The goods taken from the Lap
wal drug store at the time the men
were selling in Lewiston, appeared in
Pendleton where sales were made and
the goods taken from the Juliaetta
store were not offered for sale here
but given to the girls with whom
Dalton and Howard had been associat
ed.
The officers claim to have evidence
sn their possession showing an as
sociation between all of the men. 1t
seems Howard had used suitcase be-
longing to the Weber girl until it was
worn out and promised to replace it
with a new one The delivery of the
new suitcase was made by Dalton and
this was one of the articles identified
as having been stolen from the Alex
ander store at Juliaetta
1t appears the men worked with
pass keys at Juliaetta and while goods
have been missed from the stores on
a number of occasions, entrance has
never been forced nor was anything
discovered that would indicate the
store had been visited by burglars.
rhe officers have suggested that per-
1aps a number of the stores in the
small towns have been entered in the
same manner and that the goods sold G
lere were taken from some near by l
)oint but their loss has not been re- 1
ported because the store keepers have a
ound no evidences of burglary.
The examinations of the five men to I
,e tried in Nez Perce county will be
leld within the next few days at Lew
ston. Dalton will tried here in Mos a
ow and the Oregon officials will e
rosecute~ the case at Pendleton
The arrest of Dalton was made by y
)fficer D. M Gentry who had been
pprised that the Simmonds girl and
Weber girl had some of the plunder tt
rom the Juliaetta burglary in their g
ossession. The girls were appre- V
ended and a portion of the stolen fl
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