The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-03
HOW DID HE GET TIIECHECK?
THAT FOR S15 LOST BYP.J. CRONAN
AND PRESENTED BY CORN

AT the Tradesmen's Bank Yesterday After
noon-An Exciting Chase on Orange
street-Fugitive Captured by Detectives
Corn Makes Two statements-Un-
founded Runners Circulated.
Pedestrians at the corner Of Chapel
and Orange streets were treated to
rather unusual piece Of excitement yes
terday afternoon about $3.50 o'clock. AT
about that time a man presenting
very much fustered appearance sud-
denly burst from the front entrance of
the Tradesmen's National bank on
Orange street, and taking his course in
the center Of the street started on a
run up Orange street. Instantly the
crowd on the street set up a cry of
Thief" and the fellow was hotly pur-
sued by bowling mob. Detectives
DAILY and Donnelly were just coming
down Orange street and had nearly
reached Chapel street when they saw
the fugitive coming. pursued by the
crowd. The detectives stepped into the
middle of the streets and as the fellow
reached them DAILY made a tackle that,
done at Yale field, would secure him
place on the team. He tackled well
and hard and landed his man with an
abrupt stop. The prisoner was taken
to police headquarters, and there re-
fused to say what all the disturbance
| was about. The detectives. however.
| soon ascertained.
1t seems that about o'clock yester-
day afternoon P. J. Cronan of the P.
J. Cronan Paper Box Co., started to
the Tradesnan's bank with three
checks to deposit. He placed the checks
in bank book and placed the book in
his pocket. The ends of the checks pro-
| truded from the book, and appeared
above the mouth of the pocket. Reach
ing the bank Mr. Cronan handed in his
| bank book containing the checks and
the deposit slip. The clerk on opening
the book. counting the checks and
comparing the checks discovered that
| one check was missing. Mr.. Cronan
was much surprised and concluding
| that the check hard been lost or stolen
| from his pocket while he was on the
way to the bank, stopped payment on
| it. The check that was missing was
| one for $3.50 and was made out to Mr..
| Cronan with no endorsement He re-
membered in placing the checks in the
| book, the $3.50 check was so placed that
it would be on the outside Of the other
two.
About half an hour after Mr.. Cronan
left the bank young man entered and
I t11 ,laI, / 4,
description of the one lost by Mr.. Gro
nan, and demanded payment on it. He
was asked into the private office and
President Fields began to question him.
The man at once became suspicious
and bolted for the door. Mr.. Fields
placed his foot against the door and
endeavored to hold it, but the suspected
man pushed him aside and opening the
door darted out into the street, where
he began his sprint described above.
AT the police station he gave the
name Of David Corn, and said that he
was baker employed by George Root
& Son, at S59 Grand avenue. When
| questioned as to how he obtained the
check, Corn at first said that it had
been given to him, but later said that
he had found it on Church street. He
was locked up charged with theft from
the person. This affair at the Trades
mems bank was the basis Of several
| rumors which spread about the city
yesterday afternoon and last evening to
the effect that other banks had been
robbed. One story was that three men
had entered the Union Trust company's
bank and that while two of them en-
gagged the attention of the clerks the
third man grabbed a roll Of money and
ran out of the bank. This story was
untrue, as were the stories concerning
robberies in other banks.