The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-19
ASSAULTED AN OLD LADY
DETECTIVE SERGEANT DENVER Y'S
 IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

Assailant. of Mrs. Whey Stowe of Walling-
 ford Landed Behind the Bars-His Vic-
 tim Is seventy three Years old and Agent
 $. O. Preston's Mother-in-law.
 An important arrest was made yes terday by Detective Sergeant Dennehy when he succeeded in capturing Martin Birmingham of Yalesville, who is want ed in Wallingford to answer to the charge of assaulting and robbing Mrs. Whey Stowe of that town. He was locked up at the Grand avenue precinct and soon made clean confession of his crime.
 Last Thursday, as was fully reported in our Wallingford correspondence, the house of Mrs, Whey Stowe in Walling- ford was entered by two men, who. af- ter binding the old lady to a chair, gag ged her ard then ransacked the house and departed, leaving her tied to the door. Mrs. Stowe is seventy-three years old, and the mother of Mrs. Preston, wife of the superintendent of the Or ganized Charities in this city.
 Before leaving the house one of the men attempted to criminally assault Mrs. Stowe, but was not successful in carrying out his fiendish attempt. Af- ter using her very roughly, as he was departing from the house he took hold of her hand and kissed it, saying as he did so, q am sorry for what we done, for have mother myself"
 After the villains had left the house Mrs. Stowe succeeded in freeing her. self and managed, though greatly pros trated, to walk to a neighbors. to whom she told her story, and the alarm was given. Officer Daniel Reilly of Wal lingford immediately instituted a
 search for the culprits. About the same another house in the town was entered and ransacked and coat left there, which answered to the deserip- ton of the coat worm by one of Mrs. Stoves assailants. In the pockets was found a letter giving the address of parties in Newark, and also card with the address, 37 Grove street, on it, but
 no town.
 | It was at first thought that this ad- dress might be in this city, but inquiry at the street and number brought forth
 the fact that no persons answering the description of the culprits were known there. Sergeant Dennehy was then ] given the facts in the case and yester- day while walking along Hamilton street saw man who answered the | description of one of Mrs. Stowe's as- sailants. As soon as the man saw Ser geant Dennehy coming towards him he started to run, but the sergeant was too quick for him, and placed him un- der arrest. The man then showed | fight and caught the officer about the | body, and attempted to throw him down, but was unsuccessful in his ef-
 forts, although the sergeant's arm was badly scratched in the fracas.
 | Sergeant Dennehy, however, pluckily l held on to his prisoner, and soon had
 him safely launched behind the bars et the Grand avenue precinct, where he said he was Martin Birmingham and
 was nineteen years old, and that his | home was Yalesville this state. After
 being locked up he confessed that he
 was the man wanted for the Walling- l ford crime, but absolutely refused tc l say what had become of his companion | in crime. He is worthless fellow
 and has but recently been released from jail in Hartford, where he served time for theft. He will be taken to
 Wallingford for trial this morning.