WAS HIS OWN DETECTIVE.
Covert Causes Arrest of man Who
May Have Robbed Him.
The police believe they may have the leader of the gang which held up P. P. Covert and wife on the night of May 4 and robbed Covert of a 2 1/2 carat diamond, a gold watch and $4 in money. The man was arrested yesterday afternoon at Eighth and Walnut streets. Covert himself is almost sure of the man, but wants his wife to also have a look at him. She will go to police headquarters this morning to see if she can recognize him.
Covert himself brought about the man's arrest. He was on his way to lunch Tuesday noon, when he saw the man sitting on a door step near Eighth and Main streets. He shadowed the man until police could be summoned.
"If I am right," Covert says, "this was the first man to put a gun to my breast and say, 'Hands up!' He is very tall as that man was, and fills his description in every respect. He is the only one of hte three who had any nerve. The other two, who appeared to be new at the business, were very nervous and shaky. The big fellow let them get a block the start of him before he lowered the gun from me and made strides himself. He made ten feet at each leap."
