The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-15
RECOVERED STOLEN GOODS
LOCAL DETECTIVES MADE 4 BIG
 HAUL YESTERDAY.

Estimated Amount of Merchandise Sup
 posed to be Stolen by shoplifters $5,O00
 The List Includes Laces, Ribbons,
 Soap, Condensed MIX and Jewelry.
 Alphonso and Antoinette Rescigno, of 46 Fair street, Marie Maresoo of 12 Prindle street; Felecia E. Maresco, Ro- sina Golf of 46 and 99 Fair street, re- spectively, and Catherine Fidell of 12 Prlndle alley were arrested yesterday afternoon and locked in the central sta- ton for shopligting.
 Ball was fixed in all the cases, except that of Catherine Fedell, at $1,500. In the latter instance the amount was fixed at $1,OOO, which was furnished.
 The arrests were the result of an in quiry begun by Captain Cowles of the detective bureau on Sunday on the complaint of Howe & Stetson, who have in common with other Chapel street merchants missed during the last six months several hundred dollars worth of merchandise. That this loss has been the work of shoplifters has long been known to members of this firm, as well as by the merchants.
 Saturday evening Messrs. Howe x Stetson made complaint to the police +l,a+ o niooo of eiIlS oon to i,,i,,y +uaptSy yards was missing. Immediately be- fore the loss became known an enl- ploye had noticed three women acting in suspicious manner. An investiga- ton was begun at once on the slight clue of Identification furnished by the salesman who had seen the women in the store Captain CoWies of the detec- tive bureau gained such information on Sunday as to lead him to believe that the persons guilty of the reported thefts lived in the vicinity of Prindle alley.
 It was about 10:30 yesterday morn ing when the detectives met together and started out in pairs, with search warrants in their pockets for the three houses under suspicion. Captain Cowles and Sergeant Gibson went to the house of Felicia Maresco at 12 Fair street with F. l.. Howe, of the firm of Howe & Stetson; Detectives Donnelly anc Dennehy went with Charles Calm o1 Howe x Stetson's to the house of Marie Maresca at 10 Prindle street, and De- tectives Spang and McGrath went tt | the house of Catherine Fedell with l H. Mallory also of Howe & Stetson's The members of the dry goods firm l were taken to identify the goods ant especially to look for the silk whicf was taken from the store Saturday night.
 The detectives were armed witt search warrants and the raids on th' different houses were made almost sim | ultaneously so that there could be nt ! chance of escape At Mrs Filicia Ma | rescos the piece of silk taken on Sat urday evening from Howe & Stetson's was identified When the woman saw | the officers enter the room she tried tt hide the silk in her sewing machine.
 Cantain Cowles made the woman turn the silk over to him, and then thu search began He turned out the chest and found dress goods laces silks 0 all descriptions, ready made mem l clothing, shoes, ready made women clothing, dishes, combs, brushes, coffe pots, brushes of all kinds and descrip tions and nearly everything whicl would ordinarily be found in dr! goods store, Much of the goods wer identified by MT. Howe. They wer piled up and tied into bundles in tn stolen bed clothing which was discov cred. In one drawer of the burea' there was loaded revolver and thi was taken with the goods.
 At 10 Prindle alley Detective Donnel ly found a large box of silk in the fir place. Sergeant Denendy stopped on of the women as she was runnin across the street with five suits 0 clothes.
 When the search had been complete and the goods recovered collected i one pile, the patrol wagon was called Three trips were necessary to conve
 the goods to the police station.
 The. recovered articles were placed i
 tn store room in the basement for tn
 convenience of identification. Tn Ills
 contains all kinds of merchandist
 from a hair brush to the finest lac
 curtains and embroidery. It was re
 marked last evening that there wa
 enough silk ribbon to reach from tn
 city hall to Fair Haven Heights.