The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-18
FURNITURE THEE CAPTURED,
Had Been Selling Furniture Out of a Flat White the Occupants Were at Saratoga.

| White the Occupants Were at Saratoga John Whalen, a young man out of 1 work who rooms in a flat at No 14 | Broad street, was arrested yesterday
 afternoon by Detective Henry J. Don
 nelly for stealing furniture from the l flat of Mrs. Elsie PrindIe, just over the 1 flat in which he lived at No. A. The | Prndle family has been spending the summer at Saratoga and during their | absence Whalen had secured a skeleton | key to their flats and by stealing and l selling articles of furniture from the rooms he has been enabled to keep himself in spending money.
 1 It was purely by accident, combined | with the vigilance and good judgment which always characterizes the work Of | Detective Donnelly, that the culprit was l caught yesterday Mir Donnelly had | started out from police headquarters l shortly after dinner yesterday to hunt 1 up bicycle thief who stole wheel ill
 Ansonia and was thought to have come ! to New Haven. The officer walked l down Court street to Orange and soon i saw q man pass or a wheel. who 1 answered the description of the person 1 for whom he was looking. The fellow 1 was riding rapidly and by the time that | Donnelly could get a wheel with which | to follow him up the rider had passed | out of sight down Orange street to-
 wards Crown.
 The detective. however. mounted lis 1 Waee, and rode off in that direction, l hoping to again catch sight of his man. 1 He rode through Orange, Crown, | Church and George streets without | meeting with success and finally turned | into Oak street. Soon after he reached 1 Oak street he saw a man coming along 1 the street carrying on his back finely | upholstered chaic, The officer followed | him up and finally found him trying to | dispose of the chair at junk shop | DoEneliy questioned him and the fellow l said that the chair belonged to him and 1 that he was trying to sell it to raise ] a little money. To prove the truth of his statement he offered to take the detective to his apartments ! Donnelly accordingly accompanied
 him to No. IA Broad street, where he
 said he lived. He opened the door, took 1 the officer upstairs and unlocking the door ushered him into finely furnish
 ed flat. The fellow appeared at home
 and showed the officer about the rooms. 1 He said that his wife had left him the 1 night before and that he was going to sell off his furniture and break up housekeeping.
 l They then left the house and as they were going out of the door the appar-
 entity deserted husband said to Detective l No rn1I r1I oI1 l hard luck, isn't it. for mans wife
 to leave him like this?" Donnelly is a
 foxy detective, however, and his sus-
 picions were not so easily allayed He l took his man around to the junk shop
 where he had been trying to sell the 1 chair and found that he had already
 sold several articles of furniture there
 and was negotiating to sell the entire | furnishings of the flat.
 1 Donnelly then took his prisoner, wno | had given his name as John Whalen. 1 to police headquarters and had him | locked up while he went back to find
 oCt more about the case He found | that Whalen did not live in the hat
 from which he had taken the furniture. | but roomed in flat on the floor below The flat which Whalen had claimed was 1 his own is occupied by Mrs. Elsie Prin-
 dle and her daughter, Miss May Prin- i dle, who are now at Saratoga Mrs. Prindle's husband is said to be adver | Using agent of the New York Central railroad.
 | Last evening young man was found
 with whom Mrs Prindle had left a key when she went away. The young.
 man looked over the flat and said a number of pieces of furniture and other articles were missing. A telegram was sent to Mrs. Prindle, but up to a lat | hour last night no answer had been l received, Just how much has been stolen cannot be ascertained until she | returns.