Stole A Bicycle

Deputy-shenft Peterson is gaining a reputation as a sleuth which is making his nome a terror to evildoers in this section. During the past year he has ferretea out a number of mysterious crimes and he has been ably supported by the other officers of the county who have assistedhim, noticeably Sheriff Brenner and Deputy-sheriff McCabe. 'Ex-sheriff Dwyer and Sheriff Brenner have both made reputations as detectors of horse thieves, but Deputy Peterson is making a specialty of bicycles. The Argus readers well remember how last year Peterson traced stolen bicycles and finally found the articles he was looking for taken to pieces and hidden all over a hundred acre farm near Mooreville, but when he had finished his work not a piece was missing and the thieves were safely behind the bars of the Washtenaw county jail. Yesterday, Peterson and McCabe added to their laurels, recorered á bicycle' which had been stolen the night before, and have the thief now in jail with a certainty of Jackson prison before him. The circumstances of the theft and the arrest of the thief are as follows: On Wednesday, D. F. Lyons, a literary student who rooms on Thayer street, received by express a fine new Warwick wheel which he had purchased. It was a beauty and in the evening he mounted the wheel and rode down to cali no a young lady friend, leaving the bicycle in front of No. 23 Thompson street. When the cali was finished, Lyons found that his bicycle had been stolen, and no trace of it could be found. The officers were notified, and at once set to work on the case. Watching at the depots, it was found that the stolen wheel had been checked together with a trunk and valise for Mt. Pleasant, by a young man, and as the morning train on the T. & A. A. was pulling out, the orficers and Agent Greenwood took the bicycle off the train. Word was telegraphed to Howell to arrest the man who had checked the wheel, but as he had undoubtedly seen the officers take the wheel off, he changed his plans. The man had purchased a ticket for Mt. Pleasant, but to escape identification when the conductor called for his ticket he did not use it, but paid his fare to Howell. Between this city and Howell the man left the train, and catching the south-bound train returned to Ann Arbor at noon. He was at once identified by the officers, who followed him to Glasser's restaurant and there took him in custody. At the jail the prisoner gave his name as Irving W. Hicks. He is a member of the junior class of the pharmacy department, and his home is at Sherman, a small station near the northern terminus of the T. & A. A. In his pockets were found the cash fare check, the unused ticket to Mt. Pleasant and a mileage book, showing that that the paying of his fare was a blind. Hicks is a well-dressed, quiet appearing fellow, and took his arrest to heart. He acknowledges checking the wheel, but says he met a former acquaintance who asked him to take the wheel north for him. He says that he was not very well acquainted with the man, but that his name is Muir. The officers put but little faith in his story and have many clews which point to Hicks as the guilty party. They think that other parties are implicated, and it is probable that one or more other arrest will follow.