The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-13
STOLE FROM EXPRESS CARS
AN IMPORTANT ARREST MADE
 EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

Lawler at the Point of a Revolver-Niys-
 terious Disappearance of Express Pacls-
 ages Explained-value of Stolen Goods
 Amounts to a Large Sum.
 Patrolman Edward J. Lawler early yesterday morning did neat piece If police work that he may well be proud of, and as a result of his vigilance there is now loci:e1 up at the central police station a man who has caused no end pany and who has been conducting an evidently profitable business at the ex- pense of that company for some time. The fellow is Frederick D. Carman, who is charged with theft from the Adams Express company. The total amount of his thefts from the company doubtedly runs up to a. large sum. About o'clock yesterday morning as Officer Lawler was going down Com- merce street patrolling his beat, he met man carrying lantern and two good sized packages There was that about the mans appearance which aroused the officers suspicious. He,. therefore, stopped the fellow and began to ques- tion him. Not receiving satisfactory answers the officer reached to examine one of the packages, when the man dropped both packages and the lantern and started to run down the street. Officer Lawler was on the alert, how ever, and drawing his revolver com- manded the fleeing man to stop or he would shoot. This brought the fugitive to standstill and Officer Lawler blew his whistle for assistance. Officers c. J. Egan and Sessler soon appeared upon the scene in response, and the fellow was taken to the police station, where he gave his name as Frederick D. Car man.
 Soon after this two women appeared at the station house and desired to see Carman. One said that she was his wife and that the other was her mother. She protested that they knew nothing about the offence for which Carman was arrested and that they were in no way implicated. Permission to see the prisoner was refused them and they then left the station. Officers Lawler and Egan suspecting' from their protes- tations of innocence that they knew more about Carman's case than they said, followed them to No. 70 Congress avenue, upstairs apartments, and began to search the place. The women ob- jected strongly, but to no avail, and the NQ3 hosr uyl found goods of various kinds, some in wrappings bearing the Adams Express company's stamp, and after having gathered together bundle of articles found secreted in various places they placed the two women under arrest. The women were taken to police head quarters and were locked up, charged with having received stolen goods. When CarInan was arrested the two packages which he was carrying were found to be express packages. and each had the express company's stamp upon them. One contained pair of trou- | sers and the other a lady's jacket. Charles B. Hall, route agent of the l Adams Express company, with an office | at Union depot, was notified yesterday of the arrest and he thinks that the mysterious disappearance in New Ha- ven of quantities of goods being trans- ported by the company is now explain ed. It seems that Carman was employ ed by the express company three years ago and at that time managed to secure & key to express car doors. which he has since retained. The two packages found with Carman yesterday morning were identified by MT. Hall as having come from car which was switched off | here Sunday night from the train which arrived in New Haven from New | York at 1920. A car full of express matter is detached here from the same train every night, and later it's con- | tents are transferred to be taken out on the early morning trains over the Canal road, the Shore Line and other branch roads, to the various destina- tions
 Quantities of goods have been missed | from time to- time from this car and all attempts to solve the mystery of their disappearance have failed up to the time of Carman's capture. It seems that his mode of operation has been to go through the yards with a lighted lantern to the express car on the switch | and opening it with his key select what he liked of the goods in the car. The lighted lantern was carried to obviate suspicion, as there are every night a large number of brakemen and other railroad employees about the yards with lighted lanterns, and employees and | watchmen seeing him with lantern thought that he was a railroad man att tending to his business. It is thought that Carnan has disposed of most of the stolen goods in New York. He has been arrested several times before in New Haven, once for the theft of watches. He had been living recently until about five weeks ago in Airing ton, N. J., and is thought to have rob bed the Erie depot in Arlington and also house next to the one occupied by his sister in that place, short time ago.
 The goods found at No. 70 Congress avenue, in Mrs Carman's apartments, consisted chiefly of mems clothing, among the lot. being four fine over- coats. Yesterday afternoon Captain Cowles of the Detective bureau, on questioning Mrs. Carman, ascertained