The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-13
RAIDED By THIEVES.

Norfolk Citizens Have Futile Battle With
the Burgiars-Fired Many Shots in Vain
safe Blown Up-Burglars Secured Six
Gold Watches and Twelve Dollars-"rown
Offers Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
Winsted, July 12,--The town of Nor
folk, ten miles west Of here on the
Philadelphia, Reading and New England
railroad was the scene of q battle this
morning between burglars and citizens,
Winthrop Cone conducts a general
store n a building In which the Nor
folk postoffice is also located Cones
store and residence are connected by an
electric burglar alarm
Cone and Tobey exchanged shots with
the two men on guard, and during the
fusilade the safe In the store exploded
Cone, after firing his Winchester three
times without effect, leveled his gun
at one of the burglars at short range
and pulled the trigger, but the gun re-
fused to work. The reports Of the shoot
ing brought other citizens to the scene,
who fired a total of fifteen shots, but
nobody was hurt.
After the two burglars in the store
had secured the booty from the wrecked
safe they Joined their comrades on the
outside and the four made good their
escape. The explosion of the safe de-
| molished a portion of the store.
The four burglars were seen by Cone
in Norfolk yesterday One had a scar
on his face and was fairly well dressed.
At 10 o'clock last night the quartet
stood in front Of Johnson's drug store
watching Johnson putting away some
! silverware and jewelry.
All the towns In western Connecti-
cut are excited over the outbreak of
burglars, and Norfolk people who saw
the burglars say their descriptions tally
with those of the prisoners who escap-
| ed from Ludlow street Jail, New York.
| More than twenty safes have been
| cracked in this county, the past year
and no arrests have been made.
| The town Of Norfolk has offered a
| reward of $500 for the capture Of the
men, and Winthrop Cone has offered
an additional reward of $500 for the
| capture Of the man who fired at him.
A more thorough examination Of the
store showed that the thieves secured
six gold watches and channels case
which had been identified as one taken
| from his store was found on the tracks
| of the Philadelphia, Reading and New
England railroad.
| Chief of Police Wheeler Of Winsted
| went to Grants station and arrested
| the two men seen there, who were sus-
| pected Of being the burglars, but after
examining them thoroughly 1t was de-
cided they were not the men and they
Were released. Engineer Holcomb OF
| the Philadelphia, Reading and New
| England railroad train, due here al
| 1929, east bound, reported that he saw
a man at Whiting River who answered
| the description Of one Of the men who
committed the burglary. He wore a
white straw hat, and had a large scar
on his face. The men are thus de.
| scribed:
| One was Of medium height, smooth
/ shaver, wore a black coat, with hight
trowsers and black Derby hat. An.
other wore a blue suit, a light Derby
hat and had a small black moustache
| The third was stout and had a, broad
smooth face, with large scar. He
| wore a white straw hat. The fourth
was of medium height, black suit
| and wore black Derby hat. The
police in all towns and villages in this
and New York state have been mott.
| fed to be on the lookout fer the men.