The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-10
CAUGHT BY A MARKED BILL
CHARLES 1T. RETLLY ARRESTED
 FOR EMREZZLEMENT.

Lureu ny OeteCLtpeS Dhiy-
 Confesses His Guilt-Second Time He
 Has Been Caught in Peculations-Was
 Reform School Boy,
 Charles H. Reilly, young man about twenty-siX years of age, was arrested about 10:30 o'clock last evening by De- tectives Donnelly and Daley for embez- element from his employer, William R. Francis, proprietor of the restaurant and bakery at S25 Chapel street. Reil- ly is a clerk at MT. Francis bakery and has been employed there since last July. Recently he has loaned money in considerable sums to various parties about the city and this having been re- ported to MT. Francis, his suspicious were aroused, as Reilly's salary was not such that he would be likely to save much money from it.
 MT. Francis was unable himself to catch Reilly in any peculations ana re- ported the matter to Captain Cowles of the detective bureau yesterday morning. Captain Cowles at once laid out plan to catch Reilly and detailed Detectives Donnelly and Daley on the case.
 Last night Detective Donnelly gave to a man whom he could trust a mark ed one dollar bill and sent him into Francis bakery to make a purchase. This was just before the store was to be closed fo rthe night. The purchase pf 1ubo marked bill in payment and the two detectives then watched for him to catch him when he should leave the store for the night.
 Finally he came out ana the two de- tectives followed him to the corner of Chapel and Orange street, where they stopped him and placed him under ar rest. In answer to questions from the officers reilly at first said that he had no money with him, but on searching him the detectives marked bill was | found in pocket.
 | Reilly was then taken to police head | quarters, taken into the detectives | room and MT. Francis was sent for. In | the room with the detectives, seeing | that he was fairly caught, young Reilly
 
 embedded from Mr. Francis. He said | that his peculations had been going on since about the middle of August, and that he had taken in all about $100 at | different times in sums ranging from l 50 cents to $5. It is thought, however, | by MT. Francis and the detectives that the sum total of the embezzlements l amounts to more than $100. Reilly also told the detectives last night that he had banked all the money which he had stolen. It is said that only a short time ago he loaned $400 to one man. | Reilly is married, has one child and | lives at SS George street. After his ar | rest last evening his wife was notified | and went to police headquarters, where she was allowed to talk to her husband | for a few minutes after he had been ex- amined by the detectives. When ques- toned by the officers she denied all knowledge of her husbands embezzle- | ment.
 l Reilly some years ago served several | years in the state reform school. Af- | ter leaving that institution he worked | as a waiter in Judd's restaurant on | State street, but was discharged early | last spring because, as is said, he was caught stealing money by the manager l of the restaurant Reilly worked at the | place about two years and it is thought l that his thefts there amounted to | considerable sum. Finally when it was | found that the receipts of the restau- l rant were not enough to pay for the l goods used during the day, when Reil- | ly was on duty, spotters were placed to watch him and discovered that he was taking money from the cash register and also keeping money paid to him by customers for purchases. He was then | discharged but no steps were taken to convict him.
 After his discharge from Judd's, Reil- | ly opened a restaurant of his own next 1 door, and it is alleged on money that he | had embedded from Judd's. A man who knows Reilly we'll said last night | that he has considerable money saved up and has it placed in various savings banks about the state. The same man said also that he knew that Reilly had at least $1,20O when discharged from Judd's, from which place the man as- l serted the greater part of it had been stolen. After conducting his restau- 1 rant short time Reilly closed it up and soon after went to work for MT. l Francis.
 Reilly is said to be the man who be- 1 came engaged a short time ago to Miss l Grace Mcintyre, trained nurse, who came to New Haven from Washington | Depot in this state. Miss Mcintyre learned taht he was already married
 The discovery was a great blow to her I and she became sick. She went to an aunt, who resides in Bridgeport, and
 in that city caused a notice of her death to be inserted in one of the pa-
 pers. It is believed that she did this
 in order to escape the attentions of
 Reilly.
 The young man is said to be of good
 habits, and those who know him say that he neither drinks nor smokes. He
 seems, however, to be of the light fin
 cred gentry and the evidence against
 gered gentry and that evidence against
 secure his conviction.