The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-24
MAY FIX OTHER JOBS
ON NEGRO BURGLAR
Finger Prints On Cash Drawer and
safe to BE Compared With
Jenkins.
HAS DONE LONG BIT IN PEN.
Hay Hook Dropped BY Negro Idenu-
cal With That Which Helped Put
Him In Cell Years Ago.

Finger prints may enable the po-
lice TO identify Walter Jenkins as the
negro who entered the esta biishment
OF the Southern Stamp and Stationery
Company 1906 East Main Street.
When it developed yesterday that
this place had also been entered some
time Saturday night and the cash
drawer rified and the safe tempered
with, Bertillon Operator Bill Toler
went down there from headquarters to
take Impressions of any finger prints
that may have been left by the burg
lar with view of comparing them
with those of Jenkins. who is at Vir-
ginia Hospital with a bullet wound
In the thigh as result of being APP
pretended in the act of burglarfzing
the warehouse of S. Ullman Sons d
Company. 1920 East Main Street, Sat-
urday night
Jenkins was caught there in the
act not long after W. G.. Bryant. a
horse-trainer. had fred several shots
at him and frightened him from the
stables of Armour & Company, on
Union Street. Though he succeeded
in lodging the bullets. he dropped his
hat and also large hay hook. which
proved to be similar TO one which
jenkins used some fifteen years or
more ago when Chief OF Police Wer-
ner, then patroiman, caught the
same negro robbing a shoe store on
East Main Street. near the depot, and
sent him TO State prison for long
term.
Hay Hook Recalls Old Case.
Chief Werner yesterday readily re-
called the hook carried by Jenkins
when he arrested him and when he
saw the one the negro dropped Satur-
day night he no longer had any doubt
that his former prisoner was in the
tolls again.
Questioned at the hospital the
negro Is said to have admitted being
the same one whom Major Werner
caught robbing the shoe store.
+ When acting Detective Captain
Bailey learned Of the Southern Stamp
and Stationery robbery yesterday he
suggested that the Bertilion operator
go down and get the finger prints in
and about the cash drawer rified by
the burglar when Toler compares
these with those or the negro he be-
iieves he will he able TO charge lem
kins with that job too
Restaurant Also Visited
Il also developed that the cash
register in. Kirkwood's restaurant,
-HN Inst al5li EtEEFtt HaR bStu
tempered with Saturday night This
place IL supposed to have been enter
ed after Jenkins was arrested
The police are confident Jenkins is
one of a gang OF thieves that has been
operating In the downtown business
district the past week or two. and Ia,
perhaps, the leader Of the gang
The bullet which struck him broke
his thigh. While the wound is not
serious, the doctors say that il will
probably keep him in the hospital
for several weeks, II not longer
The negro was detected In the act
OF climbing a ladder leading TO one
of the rear windows in the Uliman
place He dropped quickly 10 the
ground and was gf}rabhed by Watch
man Hendricks who shot him as he
broke away and started to run. The
shot brought him to ground and
Hendricks stood guard over him UNI
Ill The police arrived.
Records at headquarters revealed a
photograph OF Jenkins taken soon
after he was arrested for the shoe
store robbery. He was then about
twenty-five years old He is now
forty. according to what he told the
hospital officials after he was received
there.