Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 182, 9 May 1909 — Page 8
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THE IlICmKMfB PAIXADITJZX AJTD bOH-THLEGIIAM, SUNDAY. MAY 9, 1909. BOLD BURGLAR IS CAUGHT BY VU SAVON OF t Aged Chicago Woman Saw the House Invader And Then Sat Upon Him.. EDOeKIWSKl TROST EDPAWY arc rcquostcd to brine in their PaooBooko Tor balancing and credit of in-
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PROFESSOR GOES TO STUDY SNAILS
New York Zoo Curator Soon to Leave For the Sunny South Seas.
GONE FOR EIGHT MONTHS. HE STATES THEIR STUDY OFFER THE MOST ' REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATION OF DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
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New York, May 8. Professor H. E. Crampton, curator of invetebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History, will leave New York a week from Sunday by way of San Francisco for the South Sea Islands. He will be absent for about eight months and will continue his study of snails begun for the museum in19W5, and continued with a grant from the Carnegie Institute in 1907 and 1906. "You may think that there is not much in snails," said Pofessor Crampton yesterday. "The fact that some
snails are red and some are brown, that some twist in one way and some in another does not seem very thrilling. Most of my friends ask me why
I dont come and dig snails in their
back yard. But the fact is that un
der the topographical conditions of Ta
hiti the surrounding islands snails of
fer about the most remakable illustration of Darwin's theory of evolution
that we hare at the present time.
"Notice in the map of Tahiti the valleys extending from the inland to the coast. In each of these valleys the
snails live in the warm, moist jungle
They cannot get over the ridges, and so each colony develops along its own
lines. Sometimes a few manage to
wiggle over a ridge and start a colony
of their own. There are a great com
motion and many signs of an evolution going on now among them. , "It is necessay to make a very exhaustive study of them. I haVe already obtained 70,000 specimens from 173 valleys. "I will charter a small boat and skirt along the coast. While doing my work I shall have to live among the natives. I shall have no assistants but natives. I have been adopted into the Papara tribe, and the head chief, Tati is my good friend, which gives me a passport to the favor of his people, though they are always hospitable. , Tati is a gen
tleman of the old school.
"I shall also gather some anthropo
logical material. I will have a phonograph and get impressions of native songs. Another thing that I look forward to is the study of the volcano on Savii, the biggest of the German islands."
Professor Crampton's wife . and
daughter accompany him on the trip.
but will remain In the coast towns
while the professor' goes into the valleys.
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TRAMP'S PEG LEG
Buffalo Police Captain by Discovery Showed Rare Ability.
ACCUSED NOTED BURGLAR
WHEN THE MAN'S LEG WAS RE
MOVED THE CONTENTS ROLLED ALL OVER THE FLOOR OF THE STATION HOUSE.
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Buffalo, N. Y., May 8.-Captain Gilligan, of the Third precinct station, exercised a keen detective instinct when he caused Arthur Phillips to unstrap his cork leg the other night, for in the interior of this receptacle were found silverware, laces and other articles taken in the afternoon from a boarding house conducted by Mrs. E. Dearing, in Franklin street. Phillips is said to be a noted cork legged burglar who has traveled all over the country. Early one evening Mrs. Dearing reported to the police that while she was at the theatre during the afternoon a
burglar entered her home and with duplicate keys succeeded in ransacking the house from cellar to garret.
Mrs. Dearing said that at noon a one legged man had called and asked about a room. She told him she was too busy to attend to him, as she was going to the theatre, and asked him to call again. Phillips, or somebody, did call again, because when she returned most of her silverware, some lace waists and other articles of value had disappeared. Suspecting her visitor, the police instituted a search for a cork legged man, and Phillips was the victim. When the leg was taken off the contents rolled over the floor of the station house.
: Mrs. Dearing reported the following property stolen: Six silver knives and forks, six silver spoons, six silver
table spoons, silver soup ladle, salad
fork, brown suit case containing broadcloth suit, Irish point lace waist trimmed with gold braid and blue vel
vet and gold buttons and a gold brace
let set with brilliants. Patrolmen McDonald and Miller saw
Phillips hobbling along in the red light district. He was carrying a little package which later proved to be a stolen shirt waist. The patrolmen arrested him.- : Phillips was stripped. His cork leg was removed and inside were found the silverware and jewelry that had been stolen. Phillips is about twenty-five years old and says he came here from Scranton, Pa. Headquarters men who looked him over at the station say he has been in Buffalo for some time. They never suspected him of being a burglar, however.
Chicago, 111., May S.Mrs. . Matilda
Gates, who is sixty-two. years old, has to her credit the capture of an alleged burglar, whom she literally "sat upon" when she found him at. work in. her home, at No. Ill Honors street. When Mrs. Gates appeared in, Judge Himes' court to give testimony against Joseph Murphy, forty-five years old, arrested on a charge of burglary, she told the story of the capture simply and modestly, but its outlined details brought the whole court room to attention and gained a compliment from the judge. ; . Later, in her home, Mrs. Gates recounted her adventure at . greater length, and went through a pantomime of the scene with a vigor that showed her to be a dangerous proposition for any burglar. "It air happened at noon," said Mrs.
Gates, who is of a hale, jovial appearance, and has few gray hairs. "I was just geting ready for dinner and was in the dining room in the basement floor. Two car penters had been at work in front and they had left the door unlocked. All at once I heard the sound of some one moving about in the front room and I thought it was my daughter. "I walked into the front room this one to find out if it was my daughter. At the threshold I drew back, for there was a poorly dressed man bending over the sideboard. He had opened the drawer in which we keep the sil
ver. I didn t say anything. I didn t give him a second's notice. I Just grabbed him by the chest, like this, and pushed him back." Gets Bump After Bump. Mrs. Gates illustrated the action by snatching the front of her own waist with a strong grip. Then she thrust her body forward with a lurch that startled Poll, the parrot, the only eyewitness of the real encounter. "I pushed him so hard he fell on the floor with a bump. He struck out hl& fists and wrenched himself free from my grasp. Then he jumped to his feet. But I was not through with him yet. I stooped way down and caught hold of the bottoms of his trousers. 1 gave both legs a hard pull and down he went again! This time he fell
against the window frame and cracked a pane. Once more I got him by the chest and pushed him over. He sprawled across the floor and his head suffered a fearful bump. "He fought himself loose from me and got up. He reached for a rear pocket, but failed to produce a revolv-
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er, and then I was sure he didn't have any. "The burglar next tried to run away from me. but I didn't intend to let him go. He backed out into the entry way and there, by good luck, lay a big
carpet rolled up, for we were beginning our . spring housecleaning. He tipped over this carpet and as he fell ! ran forward and sat right down upon him. "I began to scream. Oh, how I screamed! The parrot all the time had been flapping around the room and calling 'Mamma! Mamma!, The bird now set to shrieking louder than ever. It seemed as if no one would ever come. . At last a man living
across the street came to my aid. He sat down on the burglar and I got up. I wanted to summon the police, but I didn't want to leave my neighbor alone there with that burglar. Turns Him Over to Carpenters. . "Pretty soon the two carpenters who had been to lunch, came back and I
turned the burglar over to the three
men. I hurried to the drug store and
telephoned to the police. When I got back they had the burglar out in the
front yard and two of them were sit
ting on him. Then I realized that the
danger was all over."
Mrs. Gates recalled an experience twenty yeas ago when she prevented a kidnaping. One day she taw a man pick up a child. She threw the man
down and held him until help came.
"Those are the only two adventures
I have ever had, and I don't want an
other," declared Mrs. Gates. She lives with a daughter by her first marriage. Miss Albertine Benson.
The young woman, who was away at
the time, confessed that she would be
"dreadfully" afraid of a burglar.
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