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STATE POLICE CLEAN UPON THEFT GANGTroop A, stnte. police, again seorori heavily against orimo when an Investigation, started by the local detail under Sergeant Vincent fiuuch, led o-ffleera Into Weal Virginia to crack” one of the beat organized gang of thiovea lo prey upon this section in iu any years. *Tho brace and bit * gang, active for the-last six month 3, -had been mulcting business places and,- in particular, eeoiorlhg- ite depredations on company’ alores in mining towns of Fayotte county,State police, .called £uto th© ca^o last September after the robbery of the Union Supply at Wynn, continued to hammer at ovory available duo unm Uic- trail led, la at week, Into West Virginia to a farm near Morgantown whore hundreds of dollars worth of lnoi .Vftfl uncovered,Charles Jordan, West Virginia member of the #rang, was returned to tho * local county jaJL by Privates Charles Hanna and Paul Rittelman and Constable Jamas Jase to stand .trial on charges growing out of the Wynn robbery with which he has been definitely connected by officers.Frank Furr and Veto Moloady, both of near Morgantown, W, Va., Paul Bates and Floyd Knight, both of Ar-thurdalo, W. Va.t still are In the toils of VVoHt Virginia gtnte police but will he turned over to the local detail as soon as_ possible for prosecution by District Artornoy-elcet James Reilly The ‘brace and bit” gang, named because of thn knack for weakening door panels to obiuln entrance - to buslitcsH place*. also has buon definitely connected with robberies at the Chimp Hun service at at inn at Point Marion, Geneva Supply Cconpauy store at Martin, Amend com puny, store, Mike thu-chantl's store at Maple Sterling, Pann-doil warehouse at Mastmlown, aud the tboft of powder and dynamite cups from tile Warwick mine in Greeno county.Privates Hanna and hUtebuau, following the trail to the Melondy farm near Morgantown, uncovered the hideout where the gang put up until the ‘‘heat” of ouch chase died down. Here, too, they unloaded all the loot to await distribution among them selves and fences through whom they expected to realize oti the equipment.Two loads of the ill-gotten gnlxiu already have been trucked out- of Vk-purt Virginia by the local state po-uco, including 10 cases of oil Identified by the PennzoM company; a gasoline motor and generator teeter, valued Ht f 200, recovered by tlid OampRun service station; quantity of atuff the value unestlmated, claimed by the Maple Sterling company; caps and dynnmflo MculUted by'Warwick mine officials; goods recovered by both Wynn and Alania stores,.Hundreds of dollars worth of loot still remains lo bo rot it rued to victims both here «nd in West Virgin in. While West Virginia stale police cooperated to some extent on the case ami are now building-’up chkrgee agKlrm the culprits, based on robberies across the Mute line, it was the work of the Unioniown sulH-lalio-n detail of Troop A stale police whichreally «'eracIced'' the case urn) ted 10 the apprehension of the gang.Investigations were conducted by Privates Ray Walsh, (.'buries DeWltt. lianua and It it tel man under the diroc-licm of Sergeant Ouncli.
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Uniontown Morning Herald
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Dec 18, 1935
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