Arrests made in burglaries

GOOD LONG RUN.

Patrolmen Ball and

Gallagher Had It Yesterday.

AFTER THOMAS DUFFEY

Believed To Be a Burglar and

Threatens To Shoot.

Officers Chase Him to Inlow Springs,

But the Fleeing Man Has Too

Much Wind — East Enders

Scared Last Night.

Two members of the police force, Officers Ball and Gallagher, chased Tom Duffey a distance of three miles yesterday afternoon, exerting all their power to capture the young man, but they finally lost sight of the fleeing man and he escaped. Last evening it was reported that he had returned to the city, and had an appointment on East Main street, but if so he did not show up, as Officers Gallagher and Alstadt were there in citizens' clothes to take him in.

The officers have conclusive evidence that Duffey was out all of last Thursday night in company with George Purcell and Jarvis, the other men arrested on suspicion of having been identified with the thefts committed that night, and besides that he is known to be an ex-convict and a dangerous man. In his apartments a couple of slung shots, such as are used by highwaymen, were found, and there is no doubting that he has been identified with the numerous recent robberies.

He has been employed at the Patton hollow ware works, but since the officers have been looking for him, he has not been at the factory. Superintendent Baldwin discovered that the man had some wages due him end rightly su­spected that he would call for the money when the rest were paid off last evening, and he sent Officers Ball, Vickery, Gallagher and Alstadt to watch for him.

The officers paired off, taking different routes to the factory, but before they reached it Officers Ball and Gallagher saw the man from the vicinity of the oil station across the fields on the belt rail, road. They were disguised in citizens clothes, but Duffey seemed to recognize them, and before they could get closer to him he started to run. There was nothing for them to do but give chase and they started. These two patrolmen are the most fleet footed on the force, but Duffey proved a venerable race horse, and with-the quarter of a mile start he had, they could not even get in shooting distance of him. The chase lasted to the vicinity of Inlow Springs, and the two men displayed good staying qualities, running across fields and through woods in the soft mud, shoe top deep in some instances.

Duffey's actions now prove that he is the right man, and it will not be safe for him to return to Muncie, and he likely will not.

Officers Alstadt and Vickery did not know of the chase and went to the fac­tory to learn that they had just arrived too late. It is claimed that Duffey tried to get some other person to draw his wages, but the cashier would not pay the money and finally Duffey came after it himself, and it is claimed that he had with him a brace of revolvers, and threatened that he would shoot any person who attempted his ar­rest. The officers have been expecting this and they are prepared to give him no chance, and if he makes a move to pull a revolver he will be shot down if seen by them. After this threat from Duffey all the men want the chance to get at him, says Superintendent Bald­win.

The police are positive that that they have two of the men but one of the most troublesome of the questions necessary for their conviction is the finding of some of the great amount of stolen booty, which it seems impossible to locate.

SAW A SUSPECT.

Henry Good and Harry Reppert, each employed at the hollow ware works, claim that they chased a burglar from a house on East Main street above Ohio avenue yesterday morning. The young men were going to work at about day­light, and seeing a suspicious looking person come from a house took after him, and run the fellow a quarter of a mile, but could not catch him.

WORK LAST NIGHT.

Last night a telephone message to police headquarters from Friar’s grocery on East Adams street, stated that burglars attempted to break into a half dozen house in that vanity after 11 o'clock.

One lady who had not yet retired, opened a front door found a man standing on the veranda. She slammed the door in his face, but later thought that she heard him at a window.

The police believe that the people are frightened and that a great part of the scare was imagination.