On Friday of last week the hardware estab-…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

The EnterpriseOn Friday of last week the hardware estab- lishment of John B. Card was forcibly entered and about $150 worth of fine cutlery stolen, together wTith a number of watches left with W. J. Foley for repairs, some of which were very valuable. Not having a safe Mr. Foley was in the habit of putting his watches in a box at night and placing it for safe-keeping among the numerous other boxes of the various shelves, seldom putting it in the same place twice. The robbery was a mystery to the officers, and it appeared that no clue was obtainable. How- ever, some time previous, Jake Helde’s place had been robbed of some cigars, and Jake casually mentioned to Mayor Fleming that he though the work had been done by a Chinaman formerly in his employ. Fleming and Card im- mediately started for Chinatown, and as luck had it, when about to enter a certain joint, they met Charley Wing, who excited their suspicions by his actions. They searched him and found on his person one of Card’s boxes with twelve or fourteen watches. Wing was placed under arrest, and stated that the watches had been given him by Au Sin. The latter could not be found, and it is thought by the officers that he left town the morning after the robbery with a part of the plunder. And yet it is possible that there is no such person as Au Sin, as Wing had been to L. D.