Caught In A Trap

On Wednesda'y night the :vv.sic, store of Kirk Johnson, on one of O-.e yrlnclpal etreeta, was robbed of abo-.jt $500 worth of Instruments, whose atrgreyate weiglit and slze was such that lt vuzzled tlie pólice to know how they 7rre laken away, suya a Lancaster, Pa., special. On Friday part of the stolen Lvds were found secreted under a tooi house and last night the pólice set a wateh taere, resulting in the capture of and Fred Bitner, br&thers, ged, rwpeittVely, 21 and 17. The former is H present indlctment for attetavttns to bliokmafl a. prominent husmeas man. In Fred's pockets was found a quan'ity of red perper and a paoifsí" of the same was founa in the store lh mornIng af tettrrobbery. A phyelclün who paeAlBetore on the nigh: !: waf. robe8 #Va man in u' wh01 whfn n0 tioed Ifcat he w.5.3 orBervel, r;clii;J UP a book and carel-esfly lookfd tlireugh lt. Fro'm his descrlptlon he is belleved to bè one of tïïe Ruhle brothers, wtadowsmashers and general' crooks, ot PhUadelphia. who were lntlrr.at wlth the Bitner boys, and who was but oitntly released from the Eastern Psn'tf-niiary. A ltttle glri waa plaj Icig T}J on a doorstep on Water street lo-t-. when one of the Jack-stones roüsd :i; ;"r the stsps. She pushed lt awiy, t-o3 beslde her jack-stones there Ut lw oanjos and a guttar. The pl. thi) began an Inveetlgation, and commnoed moving all the steps along that Btrtwt. Two squares away they were rewarded by findlng a $7S mup! box. The arch is being continued, about $300 warth of Instruments having been so f ar recovered.