The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-10
THIEF sHoors SHERIFF.

| F1tzroy's Desperate Chase After Burglar
Both Were Bicycles-The Sheriff's
| Wound May Result Fatally.
Greenwich, July 9.-Sheriff Fitzroy,
who gained wide reputation in run
ming down Rogers, the polite burglar
who robbed Miss Tbbbie Wight here and
made her take an oath on the Bible
| that she would not inform the police,
was probably fatally injured at $3.50
| o'clock this morning while running
down burglar.
! DR.. Edward N. Judd, who lives on La
| fayette avenue, was awakened soon af-
ter o'clock this morning by a noise in
his dining room. He arose and looking
out of a rear window saw stranger
running across his lawn and through
the yard of his neighbor The stranger
had a bicycle under his arm, which he
soon mounted and made off on the Bos-
| ton turnpike toward Chenille.
| The doctor made an investigation and
found that a quantity Of his silverware
was missing, together with a bicycle.
! Sheriff Fitzroy lived but short dis
| tance from the Judd residence, and the
| doctor Immediately went there and in
| formed him. The sheriff is an expert
bicycle rider and jumping on his wheel
started in pursuit Of the thief 1t had
rained during the night and the streets
We're thick with mud.
| The sheriff followed the track Of the
| bicycle toward Chenille, some three
miles distant. and at the bottom of a
steep hill came upon the culprit, who
| had met with an accident in crossing a
| bridge, and attempted to take him into
custody.
| The thief crawled under the bridge,
and when the sheriff went to look for
| him he was met by volley of shots
| from a revolver. Fitzroy returned the
fire, but his pistol failed to respond at
| the important moment, and the thief
| succeeded in sending a bullet into the
sheriff's temple.
Fitzroy fell back unconscious, but
came to in a few moments and saw the
fellow scaling the fences in the direc-
ton Of Portchester. Covered with blood
and weak, the sheriff overlook the thief
in a corn field, put the handouts upon
him and brought him to the Greenwich
| jail.
The burglar had with him bundle
| of silverware taken from Dr. Judd's
residence, and some silver spoons and
knives which he had taken from the
residence of Solomon Wolfe, who lives
on Lafayette place, adjoining the Judd
residence.
Fitzroy, though severely injured,
brought his man to the jail and was af-
| terward taken to DR.. Holly's office. Sew
eral other physicians were called in, but
no trace of the bullet could be found.
The physicians think the wound is Sc
rious.
The prisoner is to have hearing at l
o'clock this afternoon. When the news
of the shooting became known a crowd
swarmed about the Jail and it was with
difficulty the officers prevented a lynch
ing.
The fellow gave his name as William
Dean, and said he lived in Portchester.
No such man is known there.
Several burglaries have been commit
| ted in Greenwich during the past few
weeks, and the manner in which the
operators went about the work suggests
to the police that this is one of the
gang.
At o'clock this morning the station
at Rye was broken open. The operator
was beaten and the money drawer rob-
bed of $50. The burglars description
tallies exactly with that of the fellow in
the Greenwich Jail.
1t is thought that the culprits who are
doing this work along the Connecticut
shore are an organized gang, whose
headquarters are a pirate sloop which
has been noticed about the sound for
several weeks past.