After a short but hard struggle with Jim Jacobs, manager of J. August and Sons, a 15-year-old Dorchester boy on a holiday shoplifting tour of the Square was caught and arrested at 4:10 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Two accomplices fought their way through a gaping and uncooperative crowd of students and spectators, only to be arrested later.

Jacobs had seen the boys enter his Massachusetts ave. shop and then "fan out." When one of them rushed for the door clutching a tie, he lunged after him but ended up holding one of the accomplices who proceeded to put up a stiff fight.

Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later.

"Thief, thief"

The other two boys ran through a crowd of 25 passers-by who made no effort to stop them despite Jacob's cries of "Thief, thief." Patrolman Brutti, however, succeeded in getting their names from his young captive.

Thirty minutes later, one of the youths returned to the shop with the tie that had started all the trouble. Stating that he had seen them get his friend, he put up no resistance when Patrolman Brutti returned to the store on a hunch and made the arrest.