POLICE NAB NINE ALIASES.
And Two Men, Who Are Said to Be
Pickpockets, Wear Them All.
When Detectives Robert Phelan and Andy O'Hare dropped into a saloon in West Ninth street yesterday afternoon they recognized two men whose pictures they had seen in "The Detective," a police publication. When arrested, they gave the names of John Gordon and John Moore.
After a short session of sweating and after they had been shown their published likenesses, the one giving the name of Moore admitted that his right name was Mike Murray. The record in the Detective shows that John Gordon often uses the alias, "John M. Childs." Murray has this record beneath his photograph:
"Mike Murray, alias John Hughes, alias Harry Moore, alias Tommy Murray, alias Thomas Bond." In all, he is said to have used six known aliases, and the one, "John Moore," given here, makes seven. They were arrested in Chicago November 3 and fined $100 each as vagrants. They got out of that and went to St. Louis, where they said they were promptly arrested and "mugged." The police say they are pickpockets.
The records s how that Murray has been arrested and "mugged" in most of the large cities of the country, and Gordon is a close second. The men said they had just arrived in the city when recognized by the detectives and arrested. It is the intention of the police to arraign them in police court as vagrants, when they possibly will be given hours to leave town. Their photographs were taken for the local rogues' gallery yesterday, as were their Bertillon measurements and finger prints for future record.
