DALEY & HALEY DISCOVER THIEVES, ERIE COUNTY, NEW YORK

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SOURCE:BUFFALO EVENING NEWS - VOL.XXXIV - NO.145 - September 27, 1897 
THIEVES CAUGHT 
They Are the Men Who Have Been Stealing the White-Brosby Co.'s Wire 
(Special to the evening news) 

NORTH TONAWANDA - Three men who have been robbing the storehouse of the White-Crosby Company on
Oliver street were arrested early yesterday morning by Railroad Detectives Martin Daley and
M.M. Haley. The White-Crosby Company missed a lot of wire last spring and found it in a junk
shop later.  Since then they have missed more wire and the Erie railway has also missed brasses
from cars in that vicinity.  Officers Haley and Daley have been watching the vicinity for a few
nights and Saturday night saw a man drive up to the rear of the storehouse.  The man stopped
his horse and alighted and crawled through a hole leading into the building. There were two men
already in the building. The three men began to load the copper wire into the wagon. The
officers spung from their place of concealment and the thieves put up a fight. One man saw a
chance, however, and ran, leaving his companions to fight it out with the officers.  The two
thieves were soon overcome and taken to the station house. One of the men was Antonio Grassow
of Buffalo. He confessed and told the officers they would find brasses and other goods buried
in his back yard on Ontario street, Buffalo. An employee of the White-Crosby Company, J.B.
Stuart by name, is one of the men captured. The man who ran away is alleged to the Owen Thomas
of Oliver street. He was arrested later. It is alleged the men have made full confessions. They
say they have been selling stolen goods to a Buffalo junk firm.