The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-07
SUNDAY AFTERNOON THEFT
$3.50 IN CASH STOLEN FROM o. 8.
ALDRICH'S RESTAURANT.

Taken Sometime Between $3.50 and S
O'Clock Sunday Afternoon-Two Walters
Thought to be the Guilty Parties-Be-
1ieved TO Have Left the City on the 4;5H
Train on the Shore Line.
Sometime between 2;30 and S O'clock
yesterday afternoon the New England
restaurant at 26S States street. con
Quoted by Charles S. Aldrich, was rob
bed Of $3.50 in money. At 2:SO Mr.. Aid
rich, with his employees. left the res
taurant, and 1t was then closed UP for
the afternoon until o'clock. When
Mr.. Aldrich left the place he counted
up the money then in the till and put
1T in small cloth bag, which he placed
in drawer. When he returned at
o'clock to open up the restaurant for
supper he found the back door open
and on investigation found also that
the bag of money was gone. Two
men named Edward Rock and Frank
Armstead had been working as walters
for Mr.. Aldrich at the restaurant for
about eight months and he had given
them orders about locking up the res
taurant when it was closed for the
night or at any other time. 1t seems
that the back door of the restaurant
cannot be locked securely as the lock
is broken, and so in order to keep 1t y
secure against intruders 1t has been
necessary to place a prop against the
lower side of the knob on the inner
side of the door. Mr.. Aldrich had CIV
en- Rock and Armstead instructions to-
always see that chair was placed
against the door knob as prop when
ever the place was closed up.
When Mr.. Aldrich entered the place
yesterday afternoon at o'clock after
it had been closed about two hours and
half the first that he noticed out Of
the usual order was that the back door
was not proped as he had given orders
to have done. A few moments after
wards he noticed that the money bag
containing the $780, which he had
placed in it only a short time before
and left in the restaurant when it was
closed up, was gone. Mr.. Aldrich ait
once notified the police. Rock and
Almstead, his two walters, were ex-
pected to show up at the restaurant
shortly after o'clock, but as $50 came
and they did not put in an appearance
| the proprietor's suspicious were at
once aroused and he informed the po-
| lice that he believed that the two
walters had stolen the money. Mr..
| Aldrich's theory is that the two men
| saw him put up the bag Of money ana
purposely neglected to properly fasten
| the back door according to Instructions
so that when he had gone they might,
return, enter by the back door and lift
the money.
Acting on this theory the detective
bureau sent messages to various towns
and cities about the state. giving de-
scriptions of the two men, Rock and
Armstead, and asking that they be
held if seen by the police Of those
places. 1t is thought that the two men
| took the 4:55 train out Of the city on
the Shore Line, that being the first
train that left the city after the money
was stolen. The New London police
were notified soon after the theft was
discovered and they watched the pass
engers who alighted from the train at
| New London and scrutinized those on
the train. No men answering the de-
scriptions sent were discovered.
however, and it is thought that the two
left the train somewhere between New
Haven and New London.