Robbed Houses In Open Day

Burglars Made Big Haul in City Friday
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ENTERED FOUR HOMES
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Made Attempts to Get Into Three Others- Took Jewelry Valued at $400
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     Burglars swooped down upon this city Friday and between the hours of 2:30 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon got away with between $300 and $400 worth of property. The goods taken were almost altogether made up of jewelry and only of the gold variety, showing that the burglars were professionals.
     The men were arrested in Detroit Saturday while trying to dispose of part of the stolen property. Detroit detectives took them into custody and immediately notified the sheriff's office here of the arrests. Sheriff John Gillen and Deputy Sheriff Fred Gillen hurriedly left for Detroit to bring the prisoners to this city.
     The houses robbed by the burglars were those of Mayor Copeland, the Misses Emma and Coral Alexander, 609 Lawrence street; J. A. Brown, 223 E. Washington street, and John Finnigan, 50 E. Kingsley street. Attempts were made by the burglars to enter the house of Miss Amelia Breed, 317 E. Ann street, that of James F. Quinlan, 425 N. Main, and an unoccupied house on E. Ann street, but at these places the fellows were frightened away before they could get in their work.
     Probably J. A. Brown, the grocer, was more heavily robbed than the other persons whose houses were entered. His loss is estimated at between $75 and $100.  The property stolen was all jewelry belonging to the female members with the exception of a banjo, which the burglars also carried away. At the Alexander house the robbers took a gold watch belonging to Miss Emma Alexander, a teacher in the Jones school and some small pieces of jewelry. At the home of Mr. Finnigan they made free with his dress suit case and took some other small valuables which they probably concluded could be readily turned into money.
     When Mayor Copeland's house was reached, the criminals rifled Mrs. Copeland's jewelry case, but fortunately she had taken much of her jewelry with her when she left for her summer outing a few weeks ago. The few trinkets, however, that she had left in the case, the burglars appropriated. They even carried off the Mayors' fraternity pin, one of his most cherished possessions. The pin, however, was recovered later, the burglars having dropped it on the street, near the mayor's house, in their flight.
     When one of the burglars reached the house of Miss Amelia Breed, he went to the rear door and rapped heavily. In a moment or two the sound of breaking glass attracted the attention of a lady who was in her yard near by.
     "What are you doing there?" she asked the fellow.
     "Oh," he replied, "I wished to see the lady of the house. I have broken the window in rapping on it, but I will pay for the damage."
     The woman addressed left to telephone for the police. When she returned the fellow had skipped.
     As soon as the sheriff's office and police department were notified that burglars were at work Deputy Sheriffs Fred Gillen and Orton Kelsey and several patrolmen went in search of the men. The city was scoured from one end to the other, but no trace of the fellows could be found. They had taken a hasty exit.
     The next move on the part of Deputy Sheriffs Gillen and Kelsey was to get a description of some of the stolen jewelry. This, for the purpose of sending it to near by cities and towns, so that the fellows might be caught when trying to dispose of their swag outside of Ann Arbor.
     The description of Mr. Brown's property that had been stolen was accurately taken and immediately sent to the police departments at Detroit, Toledo, and other cities. The result was the arrest of the burglars tin Detroit Saturday.
     The burglaries are the boldest ever attempted in this city, considering that the criminals went about their work in open day light and in the very heart of the city.