Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02
CLEvERLY CAUGHT.

Burglars Enter a House on Park
 street Bus Do Not Remain at Liber-
 ty LOng-One Caught in Bridgeport
 The Other Nabbed While Walking
 she Streets of NoryEaIk.
 Detective Reilly went to Bridgeport yester- day afternoon and when he returned he had two burglars, John Chase and Charles pav- enport. Both are young fellows.
 On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Foote, of 113 Park street, locked the house up and went away for an hour. Upon returning she found that the cellar door had been broken opened and the house ransacked.
 The burglars took with them about $500 worth of property, including considerable jewelry, besides gold watch and chain, two pairs of opera glasses and banjo that cost $S0.
 Detective Reilly was put to work on the case. He ascertained that Mrs. Foote had young man named John Chase working for her, but she said he was a perfectly honest boy.
 The detective knew better than this. He knew Chase to be thief, as he had once been arrested for stealing gold watch and sentenced to State prison for one year for 1t.
 With Detective Brewer Detective Reilly went to Ohass's home on Day street. They searched the house. While upstairs Chase and Davenport came in at the front door, ,and one of the women present asked them what the detectives were doing there.
 Hearing that detectives were in the house Chase and Davenport took to their heels.
 Knowing that Chase had brother living in Bridgeport, Detective Reilly went there and laid trap to catch him. Yesterday afternoon Officer Fenn of the Bridgeport force nabbed him.
 Chase made clean breast of the burglary and said Davenport had gone to Norwalk. Chief Marsh immediately started for that place, and soon caught his man walking the streets. It was clever bit of work on Chief Marsh's part.
 Detective Reilly thinks that he will recov- CT most of the stolen property. Some of it was sold and the rest given away. The ban jo was disposed of for $1.50, and the gold watch for $10.
 THANKSGIVING DAY APPOINTED. Proclamation By the President of
 the United States. Constant Thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for his goodness and mercy, which have followed them since the day he made them a nation and vouchsafed to them free govern ment. With loving kindness he has con stantly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness. He has not visited with swift punishment our shortcomings, but with gra- cious care he has warned us of our depend ence upon his forbearance and has taught us that obedience to his holy law is the price of continuance of his precious gifts. la ac- knowledgment of what God has done for us as nation, and to the end that on an ap- pointed day the united prayers and praise of grateful country may reach the throne of grace, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November, instant, as day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout the land.
 On that day let all our people suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed place of worship with prayer and songs of praise render thanks to God for all his mercies, tor the abundant harvests which have rewarded the toil of the husbandman during the year that has passed, and for the rich rewards that have followed the labors of our people in their shops and in their marts of trade and traffic. Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and con- ! tentment within our borders, and for our ad- vaneement in all that adds to national great ness. An mindful of the aflictive dispensa- l tion with which 8 portion of our land has been visited, let us, while we humble our selves before the power of God, acknowledge his mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pestilence, and let our hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow countrymen who have suffered and who mourn.
 And as we return thanks for all the bles- sings which we have received from the hands of our Heavenly Father let us not forget that he has enjoined upon us charity; and on this day of Thanksgiving let us generously re. member the poor and needy, so that our trib- ute of praise and gratitude may be accept able in the sight of the Lord. Done at the city of Washington, D. O., on kl,.G G--zA l. S-- l.l year of the independence of the United States the 18th.
 In witness whereof nave here ] unto signed my name and caused
 SAAA' ] the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President:
 T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.