Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-20
SUSPECTS POCKETS FULL
OF VALUABLE JEWELRY
'"''Se arrest Charlie Tyson, BE.
ifered to BE Responsible for
Epidemic of Burglarics.
ALL ARTICLES ARE IDENTIFIED

treasure Trorc Recovered From
Nesro'S Clothes Include Watches
Kings and Bracelets Rcpor, Cd
stolen in Many Sections os civ
Nhar'ie Tyson. colored. by Dctcrtivr
sergeant Wiltshire. local polIce ,rc n,
INC opinion they have at last succeeded
!" apprehcndinS the man responsible
,"' lM .rincmic of thefts which has
r'pt''" M"hiEond during the last row
Mems tyson is charged only with
being suspicious character. hut Scr
SraNt wiltshire found OH him icwclrv
WEic! had been stolen from several
houses recently. and il is believed the
"cI'o - me man for whom detectives
ana p"icenen have been searching.
Tyson IS regarded as one of the
| 'Sliciesi' thieves with whom tho 10
cal rohCe have had to deal i'm som.
tiu.c.
p! operating alone and refusing to
pawn any of the loot stolen by him
| from various residences. he has been
80 TO WORK Lcre at intervals for
I seVerai months lie is believed to have
I entered several houses i'm one night
+, and in two of them he was seen. I.
I required hard work on the part of
J ScrseantS Wiltshire and Atkinson and
/ detective DuT" during many days TO
. ~
stolen property has been recovered
STOLEN vALUABLEs WOULD
STOCK SMALL, S'rORi.
came from the following residences,
/ reports of which robberies had bccn
/ made TO the police:
! f. J. Sutton. 705 Seminary Avenue:
two watches. value $l2O
! O. w. Nicholas, lo6 Summit Ave-
| nue.; a watch ring and pair OF car
/ rings value $4,000.
! c. +, Holloway, $500 Perry Street;
watch, locket and chain, two rings,
/ value S11S25.
| j. /" Cox. 23oS Perry Street: two
bracelets and two rings. value S5I 70
Z. L. hudson, SIC North Twentieth
/ street: wrist watch. -.
G. W. Diehl. Union Seminary. watch
and fob. value $50.
tyson was seen first in the home of
/ =. T. sutton. Mr.. Suttons son was
, Ill and, during the night Of July Is.
was attended by a trained nurse She
| took his temperature at O'Clock I'm
the morning and later seated herself
NJ the side of his bed. where she do3ed
OF. AT 500 O'Clock MI Sutton saw 4
man move cautiously across the hall
and enter the room in which he Law
SICK He did not move and watched
the intruder as he moved about In.
I
see that the man was colorcd. search
ed An adjoining room and then enter
cd Mr.. SuttonS room. He evidentl,
thought that both the nurse and tho
sick man We're asleep. for he moved
between them and Went To a dresser
IRON which he stole the nurses watch
and one belonging TO Mrs. Sutton.
silently he made his way from the
! room and disappeared.
SICK MAN CAUSES
THEFT no BE DISCOVERED
Mr.. sutton aroused the nurse as soon
aS the negro had gone and told her to
call his father The nurse thought
! he sick man delirious. and attempted
to quiet him. However. she hnally
called MIR sutton senior when the sick
man insisted. and tho parent also en-
| ieaV"red 10 quiet the supposedly de-
iri"us man.
+. II am not out Of my head" MIR SUIT
ton insisted, 81 saw the man in here.
He stole mothers watch from the hu-
I eau
I y glance at the dresser showed this
to be correct, and search Of the
house was made Immediately. The
i"gro had left
Last Monday the police learned that
i'ink' Walker, COlored, had Mrs. SUIT
: watch in his possession. and he
was arrested al once. Walker was
able to prove that he had purchased
the watch. and the detectives secured
- description of the man who had
sold ii TO him. With this information
further inquiries were made. and sew
cral aliases used by Tyson were Sc
cured Early yesterday morning tho
detectives learned Tyson's real namo
and ured additional points of de-
.criptiou.
,.crecant Wiltshire Was walking
a~ng Third street. near Leigh. v.stcr-
day afternoon when he spotted hia man
~. arrested him at once and took him
/ the Second Precinct Station, where
~ was searched The detective found
most OF the stolen property on him,
and to-day viii issue warrants for
iin charging Tyson win breaking into
most of the residences noted
/ WATCHES And BRACELETS
! PASS THROUGH MANY HANDS
/ # was learned that Tyson sold
I Walker watches stolen from the rcni-
dcnccs OF Mr.. Sutton and Mr Dichl
/ Walker suspccting that they had been
/ stolen traded one 10 another Negro,
! ard then pa"ncd tn" other watch.
+, However, he cndcavOrcd to pawn Mr..
I Sutton's watch at the zane time, and
this caused his Immediate arrngt. The
wnt"h stolen from Mr.. DcbI tngcthGr
with two bracelets stolen from tho
home Of j l.. COX, were rrrOycrcd from
Charles 1Iackcy, coorcd. ha2 %orth