The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-12-05
BURGLARS AGAIN
RAID TOGGERY;;
NABBED THIS TIME
BIG BUNCH OF CLOTHING STOL-
EN- SUNDAY NIGHT - S2Gs
WORTH RECOVERED AND TWO
BURGLARS LAND IN LIMBO.

Last Sunday night, just four weeks
after a former raid, burglars entered
The Toggery, the store of the Pipkin
Taylor Co, at Leavenworth, and
made away with a select collection of
wearing apparel. They had taken
out considerable more, which was
found back of Rutherford's grocery
the next morning. The loss was es-
timated on Monday at something
over two hundred dollars. No clue
was Immediately discovered.
On Tuesday, however, couple Of
young fellows entered the store fer
the purpose of purchasing some
socks. One of them had ON a new
leather vest, and - upon being ques-
toned by the clerk as to where he
bought it, said he had purchased it
Monday night at about ~ o'clock
from couple fellows who came into
a pool room at Wenatchee and want
ed to sell it. The story of the two
seeming to be credible, Mr.. Taylor
Immediately secured an auto and with
Art Pinch and the young man who
was wearing the vest, started for We
natchee. Arriving there, they got in
touch with the sheriff and police, and
the young man was sent out to find
the fellows who had sold him the vest.
Presently he came back to the pool
room where he had purchased the
vest, accompanied by two young men.
The police officers were Immediately
signalled and the culprits were point
ed out by the purchaser of the vest
and arrested.
AT first the boys We're defiant, but
later one of them who gave his name
as William J. Collins, made clean
confession of the whole affair. Ac-
cording to his story they had planned
the burglary at Spokane and came
here for that express purpose. Dur
ing Sunday night they had broken
the glass in the back door of the store
and in this way were enabled to get
at the lock and bolt.
They had carried out such goods as
they wanted and piled them back of
Rutherford's store. They had made
one trip to their hiding place and
were returning for another lot of the
goods when they saw someone who ap-
peared to them to be following them,
and they Abandoned further efforts to
get the other goods. They then went
to the "old dozer" at the viaduct, ar
irving there at about a. m, Monday
morning, where they remained all
day, leaving that evening at about
o'clock on freight and arriving at
about II at Wenatchee. They were
nearly frozen so they determined to
get off there. AS they were about out
of money they took off vest or two
and went up town to sell them, and
one was sold to the young fellow who
appeared here Tuesday, furnishing
the clue.
The other burglar refused to talk
excepting to claim that he was not in
the deal, and also refused to give his
name.
The young man who bought the
vest gave his name as Logan Threl-
keld. He had been employed on the
Lowell ranch down the valley and had
also trimmed apples for J. Fl. Morhin-
way. His companions name was not
learned.
LATER:-We clip the following
from the Wenatchee World;
"The prisoners give the names OF
William H. Collins and John Bradley.
Collins has letters addressed to J. P.
Williams and Bradley's real new is
believed to be J. Barrett. Collins says
he is % years old, that he came from
New York and is an auto mechanic
Bradley ave his age as %, his address
as Buffalo and his occupation as cook
They are being held in the county jail
for further examination"
Yesterday morning Mr.. Taylor Of
The ToggeFy informed US that they
had recovered stolen goods at Wen
atchee to the sum of $20S. The burg
lsrs had arranged to have them ship
ped to Spokane, but they were recov-
cred before being shipped out.