BURGLARS WERE IN ALTAMONT: Charles Louck’s Meat Market and C. V. Beebe’s Harness Shop Entered During Wednesday Night — Thieves Were Caught by D & H Detectives

The meat market of Charles Loucks and the harness shop of Charles V. Beebe were broken into by thieves early Thursday morning. Entrance to the meat market was effected through a small window on the south side of the building, and meat and fruit to the value of about twenty dollars were taken. After securing the booty from Mr. Loucks’ place of business, the thieves visited the harness shop of Mr. Beebe, gaining entrance by breaking a window on the north side of the building, cutting away two small panes of glass. A small safe near this window was ransacked, but nothing of value was taken except several documents of insurance and other papers, many of which were found scattered in the neighboring yard the next morning. Three suitcases and two coats belonging to Mr. Beebe were taken. The cash drawer in another part of the store, containing several dollars in bills and small change, was unmolested, evidently being overlooked in the haste to get away.

Evidently the thieves were amateurs, as many articles of value were overlooked in both places. As soon as the robbery was discovered telephone messages were sent to the neighboring cities and villages and detectives were put to work. At about 11:30 Thursday morning three men were seen going towards Albany near Slingerlands. By the prompt work of a D & H detective the men were arrested and brought to Altamont on the 4:19 train. They were taken before Justice Livingston for examination, and on their pleas of not guilty were held to await the action of the grand jury.

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In Albany Monday evening waiting for a train to take them to their home at Bradford, Pa., were Mr. and Mrs. William Earl McCarthy, parents of W. E. McCarthy, Jr., aged six months, and weighing over 70 pounds. The infant is a prize winner and was returning from Glens Falls where he was awarded a brass bed at a show. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy will show the child at their home town upon their return. Cups and brass beds are accumulating at the McCarthy home as a result of these exhibitions.

Sixty-eight prisoners were in custody in the Schenectady County jail on September 30, 1914, according to the annual report of Sheriff Louis A. Welch, as submitted to the Board of Supervisors. Of this number 62 were males and 6 females. This was an increase of 4 over the year before, when the number was 60 males and 4 females. The number of admissions during the year was 1,294 males and 111 females, or 1,405 in all. The number of discharges during the year was 1,292 males and 109 females, a total of 1,401. During the year one female prisoner died.