The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-30
HIGH WAY ROBBERY ALLEGED.
Charles Parish's Story of IA Thrilling
Experience. ......

ASAp5kAchCes
The quiet neighborhood in the vicinity
Of Wooster square was thrown into a
state of excitement last evening by
what on the surface appears to be a
bold attempt at highway robbery,
which might have terminated in mur-
der. The surface appearances above
alluded to are as follows: At 9:20 o'clock
young man named Charles f. Parish
was found on the steps Of the jeWelry
store at the corner of Chapel and Acad-
emy streets with a bullet wound in the
fleshy portion of the upper part of the
left arm. BY his side was a S2-calibre
revolver with one barrel discharged.
THE police ambulance was summoned
and Parish was taken to the hospital
Investigation showed that the bullet
had passed clean through the fieshy
portion of the arm, inflicting not very
severe wound.
Parish said that he had been waylaid,
robbed and shot by a burly negro at
near the corner of Chapel and Brewery
streets. AS soon as Sergeant Cook at
police headquarters learned of the
shooting and Parishs account as to
how it happened active efforts were
made to apprehend the burly negro
highwayman. officers Allen and Nc
Dermott were at once dispatched to the
scene of the shooting, and all the otfl-
GERS on beats in that portion of the city
were notified to be on the lookout for
any suspicious looking colored man of
the description given by Parish Off
oil RI tor 1nclS fO
see that no person of that description
took passage on the boat. No one of
the description given was seen. One
man was stopped by an officer on sus-
picion, but at once released, as there
were no good reasons for holding him.
Detectives McGrath and Daley visited
Parish at hte hospital and he gave the
following description of himself and the
evenings happenings: My name is
Charles F. Paris, and my home is in
Jersey City. / am a private detective
belonging to the Frank Hook detective
agency and brother-in-law of Frank
Hook, the manager of the agency. L
came here few days ago to shadow a
party in this city. Last evening as
was shadowing a house on Chapel street
Iedl bTeWely d ldii, July iiS5Ao JSiiip
ed out and hit me singing blow back
of the neck, which knocked me down.
I jumped up and hit the negro two
blows on the mouth. I then drew my
revolver. but the negro grabbing it,
wrested it from me and shot me
through the arm. fell with the shot to
the sidewalk, and the negro jumping
upon me placed his knees upon my
chest and began jumping up and down
on my chest. He took a silver watch
and SIT in bills from my pockets. Then
he got up and ran away in what direc-
ton I could not tell. He left the revol-
Yer on the sidewalk beside me. I got up
and went to my lodging place at No. 6
Academy street, where I rang the bell,
but was not able to arouse anyone.
My latch key was in the left side pocket
of my pants, and as my left arm was
disa bled I could not get at it to unlock
the door. then turned and went in
search of aid and tainted away on the
steps of jewelry store, where l was
found"
The family with which Parish had
rooms say that he came there a week
ago yesterday. He said he had come
here for the purpose of looking up some
property which had been left to himself
and sisetr by an uncle named Donald
who had died in Newark. When he first
came here Parish went to the city de-
tective bureau, said he was a private
detective of Hooks Detective agency at
1859 West 34th street, New York. He
said he had come here to shadow a
party and was told by the local bureau
| to go ahead.