The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-15
CLEARING.
Police Solve
Mystery
OF GRAF TON BREAK.
Identities of All But One
Man Now Established.

The police are in possession Of evil
dence that clears up the mystery sur
rounding the identity Of all but one of
the participants in the North Grafton
post office burglary and suspected ac-
completes.
men held on the charge, including
Norris, who was suspected of compli-
city, who has not been definitely To-
Gated. The pictures of all three will
appear in the police journals during the
coming week. however, and it is
thought only a question of a few days
when information will be received re-
garding McGrath and his past record
While in conversation with Inspector
O'Day yesterday, Day--or Larry Lee
as he was known in Springfeld-told
the North Grafton affair. He states
positively that there We're but three
men engaged in the French
Louie McGrath and himself.
He also says that previous to COM
| ing to Worcester he had no acquaint-
anceship with the other members Of
the trio. Day says he came to Worces-
ter soon after he was released from jail
| in Springfield, and went to live at
Casey's lodging house, in East Worees-
ter Here he met McGrath and
"Frenchie" He also knew Norris,
who stopped at the same house, but
has never been implicated in any work
of the sort with him.
He says the start of the North Graf
ton affair was one day when they were
sitting in the house, reading of John
Reeds escape. The conversation grad
ually drifted to criminal subjects, and
"Frenchie'' suggested that he knew
where there was a post Office which
might yield good results. He assured
his comrades that he was in receipt
of information that inclined him to the
belief that there was considerable
money kept in the safe at the North
Grafton Office, and arrangements were
finally made to blow the safe,
Day expressed a. willingness to go
into the scheme, as he was in need Of
money, and it was finally agreed to
make a try for the government funds
on Sunday night On the evening in
question, after providing themselves
with the necessary implements of their
calling, they started out.
| After lettering about the streets Tor
time they struck off down The tracks
of the Boston and Albany Railroad to-
ward North OfaIlOn. L he pal ~ Neto
unmolested. Nothing seemed against
their plans, even Special Officer Deadly
and his dog were off the beat.
little difficulty was experienced in
forcing their way into the post Office
and work of drilling hole in the safe
door was progressing satisfactorily
when "Frenchie' remembered that
bottle of nitro glycerine, which had
been left outside as "a precautionary
measure, was needed. Day offered to
go out for the stuff, but fFrenchie"
protested that the stuff should be
handled carefully, and he knew how
to care for it best.
AS he dropped out of the window
team was heard approaching, and their
comrade started to run around the
corner of the building, and they heard
shot The report sounded muffled
and indistinct, from which Day thinks
it must have been fired from a dis
lance.
Frenehie was evidently badly wound
ed, as instead of speaking to warn his
friends when he came to tine window,
he merely tapped on the glass and
started up the bank at the rear of Tie
building Then there was fusilade of