NEWS: Police Blotter, Altoona Tribune, June 3, 1918, Blair County, PA

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YOUTH TAKEN FOR LARCENY CHARGES

Thomas Perry Robbed Anderson Cigar Store and His Father, Is Claim

  Thomas Perry, an East Side youth, was arrested Saturday afternoon on two 
charges of larceny following the theft of loot worth $6 from the Anderson 
Smokery, on Eleventh street, and the disappearance of $15 of his father's money.
  Perry was arrested by a patrolman at Eleventh avenue and Eleventh street at 
3:30 p.m. City Detective W. A. Davis made information against him before 
Alderman Adam Leake, First ward, and his father preferred another charge before 
Alderman W. C. Shuff, Fourth ward.
  W. G. Anderson, proprietor of the Smokery, missed a stamp machine, its case 
and some postage stamps and cash to the value of $6 Saturday morning. The theft 
evidently occurred Friday night.  Perry is to get a hearing in this case at 2 
p.m. today, before Alderman Leake.
  Eleven dollars and sixty cents were found on his person and that amount was 
turned over to his father. Alderman Shuff will hear the parent's case against 
the son later in the week.
  Three drunks were discharged Saturday in police court and one drunk who was 
also openly lewd was discharged. Four inebriates were brought in over the week-
end.  One drunk who is alleged to have insulted a woman at a local theatre left 
$15.80 security.
  J. C. Manning, drunk and resisting, was remanded for a hearing, Saturday 
afternoon. One drunk forfeited $3.80, and Frank Stanley, drunk and disorderly, 
forfeited $10.80. W. H. Tremain, drunk and panhandling, was brought in Saturday 
evening from Green avenue and Ninth street.  Edward Crist, who escaped from 
Blair county hospital, was captured at Twelfth avenue and Eleventh street and 
turned over to the institution authorities.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, June 3, 1918, page 1

ALDERMANIC NOTES

Cases Heard or to Be Disposed of in Courts of Local Magistrates.

  Ralph French, charged with desertion and non-support, was accorded a hearing 
Saturday and was held for court by Alderman Gorsuch, Third ward, before whom he 
furnished bail.
  Joseph Rifkin was given a hearing Saturday by Alderman Gorsuch for larceny by 
bailee of a horse from Jacob Petnik. The magistrate reserved his decision till 
this week.
  Arthur Theodorou, a youthful Greek, will face a charge of assault and battery 
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock before Alderman Leake, First ward. He is accused 
of striking and cutting the cheek of Augustus Macimili, below his right eye, 
while in a local pool room.
  Eugene and Virginia Eyer were arrested Saturday and given a hearing by 
Alderman Gorsuch for an alleged assault and battery upon Mrs. David Burke, of 
Mill Run. Decision was reserved by the alderman.
  A. F. Jadlowski will be accorded a hearing this afternoon at 3 o'clock by 
Alderman Gorsuch, on complaint of James Sullivan, who charges him with 
embezzlement of $60.  Both are employes of a portrait company and are working 
temporarily in this city.
  James Thompson, who it is alleged, stole a pocketbook containing some money 
from Austin McFadden, was accorded a hearing before Alderman Theodore Crawford 
on Saturday afternoon. He was held for court under $300 bail.
  Frank Peterson, arrested last week on a serious charge, was granted a hearing 
before Alderman E. A. Hite on Saturday afternoon. He was committed to jail for 
court in default of $200 bail.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, June 3, 1918, page 10

STOLEN BICYCLE HAD NUMEROUS CLAIMANTS

Boy Charged With Taking Wheel from Shoe Store Sold It for 95 Cents

  A bicycle, stolen from the Simon shoe store on Eleventh avenue several weeks 
ago, changed owners many times and Clair Gallagher, aged 15, the alleged thief, 
who sold it for 95 cents, will be taken before the juvenile court.
  Young Gallagher was arrested Saturday. The wheel was located at a house on 
West Chestnut avenue last week and the primary ownership, when its nefarious 
career started, was traced to the boy.  It is claimed that the cycle had a dozen 
temporary owners within the two weeks and it is probably the most traveled if 
not the most frequently owned, wheel in the community.
  Information was made against the boy thief before Alderman J. C. Gorsuch, 
Third ward, who heard the case Saturday and turned him over to Miss Mary Davis, 
county probation officer. She will take him before Judge Baldrige today or 
tomorrow.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, June 3, 1918, page 10

BOX PULLERS GIVEN TWO HEARINGS HERE

Fred Sigrist and Companions Fined by City and Furnish Bail for Court

  Fred Sigrist, John Klaiber, Anthony Beck, Andrew Bisele and Ernest Frombacher, 
charged with causing a false alarm of fire by pulling box 56, Sixth avenue and 
Sixteenth street, paid fines at a city hearing and later were held for court on 
a commonwealth charge, Saturday afternoon.
  Sigrist was fined $20 and $2 costs at police court by Mayor Rhodes. His 
companions each paid $10 fine and $2 costs. Five witnesses appeared against them 
at each hearing. Constable R. A. Spangler, First ward, preferred the 
commonwealth charge against the quintette before Alderman Adam Leake.
  Fire Chief Theodore Allemann was present at the hearing, which did not last 
long, as the defendants did not attempt any defense and virtually admitted their 
offense. Sigrist was held under $300 bail and each of the other four men put up 
$200 each. Deputy State Fire Marshal Gilbert Greenberg, of Huntingdon, did not 
appear at the hearing.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, June 3, 1918, page 10