Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-07
A STATION AGENT ROBBED.

He Gives Up His Cash at the Muzzle of a Reyolver-Lodged In the County Jail-Excitement in Guilford and
 East Haven.
 About 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening 8 young man named Edward N. Lapham, about twenty years old, who, it was subse- quently learned, arrived in Guilford by train few minutes before, walked into Rolf & Redfeld's livery stable and asked for team to go to New Haven. He said that he was in a hurry to start. Mir. Rolf ordered his stable man to get ready a double team and top buggy. A young man named Edward Kelsey was ordered to drive the team, and the pair drove off.
 Kelsey drove to the station at the stran- gers request. Here they stopped, and the stranger, giving some slight excuse, got out and went into the building. He soon reappeared, entered the buggy, and the pair started for this city. They had hardly gone before it was as- certained that the stranger, while in the station, had put revolver at Station Agent Mullane's head and ordered him to hand over the leash on hand" Agent Mullane complied with the strang- CTS demand, and gave him about $S5. This the robber gathered up, put into his pocket, and departed. Jumping into the buggy. he told Young Kelsey to hurry up, and then started for New Haven, Kelsey being ignorant of what had happened in the station.
 Word was sent by telephone to all the towns between Guilford and New Haven, and at the East Haven postoffice, four miles east of New Haven, the team was | intercepted and the thief arrested. Quite l 8 crowd had collected at the postoffice, and resistance was useless. He was brought to l this city and lodged in jail.
 There were four boys in the Guilford depot besides the station agent when Lap l ham tackled the agent.
 At East Haven when the telephone mes | sage from Guilford was received by Post master c. c. Kirkham he lost no time and l soon had Constable Potter on the scene stable was soon joined by Walter Chidsey and Levi Bradley. The robbers team was l surrounded as it arrived near the towr hall. Driver Kelsey at once stopped the team, but Lapham sprang and seized thu reins, saying "I guess I'll drive this team, but had to surrender. Postmaster Kirk ham divested the robber of his revolver It was new one. Besides the $85 found on Lapham he had in his pocket
 handful of loose cartridges, heav! gold ring and some letters. Sheriff Carney brought the prisoner to the Nev
 Haven lookup, Judge Harrison and Super
 intendent Waterbury of the Shore Lin
 road so advising, instead of taking him t.
 Branford. At the police office here Lap
 ham said he belonged in New York, ant
 had been clerk in store in differen
 places, but of late had been out of a job
 He acknowled ged the robbery, and said Il
 took it into his head to commit it, beip
 short of money. He said he would hay
 shot the agent if h. had showed fight, bu
 would not have killed him. An hour afte
 being locked up he was found fast aslee
 in his cell by a reporter. After telling tn
 reporter about the robbery he yawned an
 asked him to send him a paper in th
 morning with the story in. He said h
 was not wholly a stranger here, havin
 when on business stopped here at the Alt
 rich house several times. He said this ws
 the first crime he had ever committed.