Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-04
THAT LENOx BURGLAR.
The Police Think He Is One of a Batch of Six Prisoners.
ALWAYS POLITE AND MYSTERIOUS.


 Six nEen Arrested and Some of the Stolen
 Property Found on Two of Them-Their
 Confessions Load t0 the Arrest of Four
 More, and Now the Town Is Easier.
 LENox, Mass, Jan 4--At last the Lenox authorities think they have the famous burglar with the soft voice and polite man ner-the man who has invaded the resi- dences of the wealthy summer people and the shops of the townspeople, and who has invariably been kind in speech when he has called on ladies in their rooms at night to secure their jewels or money. They think they have him because they have six men under arrest and have some of the stolen property, which was found in the possession of the men, who tell various tales discriminating each other in their eagerness to get off. Whether there are one, two or three burglars or more is not known, but it is known that these six men do know, and the truth will probably be known at once.
 The excitement began in LenoX when it was known that John Brown of Lexing- ton, Mass, and Charles J. Smith of this place had been arrested.
 Had Stolen Goods.
 They had in their possession the goods stolen from James Clifford and Frank Bar rett on the night of Nov. 27 in one of the famous Lenox robberies Tuesday even ing Brown went to a livery stable in 1Ienox owned by Michael Mahanna and engaged a team to take him to Richmond. He was under the influence of liquor and displayed several articles of cutlery.
 MT. Mahanna suspected the source of the articles and notified Selectman William Mahanna, who, with Sheriff White, drove to Richmond and found Brown at the ehome of Mrs. Conklin, having in his possession valise filled with the stolen goods He was arrested and returned to the Lenox lookup, where he confessed to having bought the goods late in the afternoon from Charles J. Smith, carpenter who has been in the employ of Mir. Clifford for several years, coming to Lenox from Boston.
 Smith was found in bed at the house of c. E. Carey and was placed under arrest and taken to the lookup. In an interview Smith said: "For some time I have sus pected Ed Schemmerhorn of being impli- cated in the Clifford burglary, aud told him that I was on to his racket and would buy some of his stuff. Schemmerhorn agreed to show me the goods, provided I could go into a scheme to hold up on the road a man named Martin, who drives 8 beer wagon from LenoXdale. l agreed to this, and the goods were shown me. Schem- merhorn then told me that Clarence Cur tis, Francis Fenwick and Robert Howard were with him and implicated in the rob- bery. He also offered to sell ~me a gold watch which he took from the bureau in Mrs. Grosvenor's room on the night of Nov. 17, when the rectory burglary oc cured.
 'I agreed to buy the watch and some gold pins for $25 and paid him 8 down, taking the gold pins that were included in the bargain. 1 have tried to get a second party to buy some of the goods, so that l could have proof of Schemmerhorn's guilt and then get reward. Brown walked up the street with me, and passing Whites stable went in to get some beer Schem- merhorn asked me if Brown was friend, and being assured of the fact showed him a bag of stolen goods, and Brown took a DOT tion of them, paying s.
 Five Prisoners In Jail.
 'SBroyvn then wished ,,as~to take him tU Mrs Conklin's in Richmond, but 1 de- clined and sent him to MahanEa's, and soon after Brown left Clarence Curtis came to me and asked why he had not had chance to dispose ot some of the goods which he had.
 Brown came back at this time, and Curtis asked him to buy, and when Brown refused he offered to give him some goods, which Brown accepted. Schemmerhorn then came up and gave Brown valise filled with goods, and Curtis returned with a tin box filled with knives and revolvers, which was also placed in the valise. Brown then started for Richmond. had nothing to do with the robberies and was only in terested to find the guilty parties and get the reward"
 Smiths story concerning himself is looked upon as untrustworthy and told to protect himself.
 Following Smiths confession Fenwick, Schemmerhorn, Curtis and Howard were placed under arrest. Five of the prisoners, all except Howard, who is ill, were taken to Pittsfield and arraigned before Judge Tucker on the charge of breaking and en- tering. They all pleaded not guilty on this charge. Brown and Smith, on the charge of receiving stolen goods, pleaded guilty. The court adjourned for a recess and to allow the prisoners to secure coun- sei for their defense. At the afternoon ses sion all were placed under bonds of $500 except Smith, whose bond was $500 The cases were postponed to Saturday.