The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-11-22
BURGLARS ARE
CAPTURED BY
LOCAL POLICE
Jack Harrison, Mike Costello,
and Ed Hatch Confess and
Are Sentenced from One
to Fifteen Years.

. .
Three men who broke into the
Central Grocery warehouse last
Thursday evening were caught by
the local police and arraigned in
Superior Court in Prosser before
Judge John Traux Saturday. Jack
Harrison and Mike Costello plead
ed guilty Saturday morning and
Ed. Hatch who had pleaded not
guilty in the morning, changed
his plea to guilty in the afternoon.
ALI three were sentenced from one
to fifteen years; Costello and
Hatch were sent to Monroe and
Harrison to the State penitenti-
airy at Walla Walla.
Following an alarm which
sounded about Gas o'clock Thurs
day evening, Bill Hallett, and
George Hallett who are employed
by the Central Grocery Company,
and Clarence Duffy, chief Of poll
ice, and Bill Howe, night patrol
man, went to the warehouse. They
found that the warehouse had
bee entered and sent for c. L.
MCGEE, deputy sheriff, and G. ID.
Fratt, manager of the Central
Grocery.
When the men arrived at the
warehouse, a man jumped and ran
from the North side Of the ware
house. Duffy called to him to stop
and when he did not, he shot at
him. Duffy and MCGEE tried to
follow the mans tracks and in
doing so they found an open mod
ell five passenger Cadillac auto
mobile down by the Standard Oil
Company's plant in which there
was an automatic gun.
When the officers found the
car they thought that it might
possibly belong TO the gang which
had broken into the warehouse as
at the time of the alarm McGee
had Just returned from a trip in
which he was looking for car Of
the same description which had
ran into another car above Rich
land. The car had been described
as being occupied 10y three men.
A telephone call was put thru
to Yakima and a description re-
ceived of three men who went
around together, one of whom
drove Cadillac car
"A little later in the evening Ed.
Hatch went to the local police
station and complained that his
car had been stolen. The police
were suspicious Of him and held
him on an open charge. In the
meantime word had been sent
to Pasco and both the motor and
the railroad bridges were guarded.
Sheriff Fred Norling looked for
strangers in town and found a
man at the Northern Pacific de-
pot who looked suspicious. They
searched him and found nothing
and let him go. They went back
to the police station and there
found that one of the descriptions
from Yakima fitted this man.
They arrested him and about IL
o'clock he confessed to McGee.
In order to separate the men,
Ed. Hatch was sent to the Pasco
Jail.
AS number on the Northern
Pacific was pulling out, Fratt
saw a man, who answered the
description of the man who had
first run away from the ware
house, run and jump on the train
as it was moving. Not certain
enough of the man to stop the
train, he telephoned to Sheriff
James Shepherd Of Prosser, who
questioned the man and removed
him from the train at Prosser. He
proved to be Mike Costello. Cos
tello also confessed before he
pleaded.
The conviction of these three
men makes eleven convictions from
Kennewick for burglary in the
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