Burglary Is The Charge

GEORGE CLARKENS AND ROSS EARL ARRESTED

Said to Have Forcibly Entered Their Friend's Room and Taken His Money

Charged with burglarizing the room of Louis Schiappacasse, the ball player, in the Duffy block, George Clarken and Ross Earle were arrested at Main and Ann streets Saturday afternoon by Deputy Sheriffs Gillen and Kelsey, and locked up in the county jail.

According to the officers, Clarken and Earl broke into Schiappacasse's room on the night of April 1 and after rifling the bureau drawers got away with $25, which by the way was a portion of the amount that Schiappacasse had saved to pay his expenses to West Virginia this year, where he is to join a ball team. The money was not missed by Schiappacasse until a few days ago, when the two prisoners were suspected of the robbery. They were both friends, it is said, of Schiappacasse and had knowledge that he had his savings in his room.

When arrested, Deputy Sheriff Kelsey says that Clarkens admitted the robbery but that Earl emphatically declared his innocence of any complicity in the affair, despite the fact that Clarkens says that Earl was with him when the burglary occurred and that out of the plunder Earl took five dollars, while Clarkens pocketed the remaining twenty.

The prisoners, either of whom is not much older than 25 years, have, according to the jail officials unsavory reputations although this is said to be the first time that they have been arrested on a criminal charge.