The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-25
CAUGHT A SOUND PIRATE
HARD FIGHT WITH ONE AT CITY
 POINT SATURDAY NIGHT,
Thought to Have Looted Yachts Moored Along the Connecticut River and the Sound Shores-S2O0 Worth of PIunder Found in His Boat-Desperate Strug- gle to Escape.

Shortly after midnight Saturday
 night man thought to be sound pi-
 rate, who has footed yachts along the
 Connecticut river and along the sound
 shore between New Haven and the
 Connecticut river, was captured at City
 Point. The man is about forty years
 of age and is a Frenchman. He gives
 the name of Gustave Souliez and says
 he halls from Providence. Charles K.
 Wedmore, an oysterman who lives at
 thirty Hallock avenue, and who keeps
 his oyster sloop moored near the foot
 of Hallock avenue, has recently missed
 a number of articles from the sloop
 and about Il o'clock Saturday night. it
 being midnight, he chanced to look, out
 towards his eloop He saw what he
 thought was a man walking about the
 deck of the boat. Mr. Wedmore hasten ed down to the sloop and going on board
 he was confronted by the marauder,
 whom he seized and called for assist ance. A tussel ensued in which MT. Wedmore got the better. Looking over the side of the sloop he saw small
 boat tied there and heaped with goods of various kinds. About that time the struggle was still continuing MT. Wedmore's antagonist gave up the struggle, saying: You are too much for me- MT. Wedmore then jumped over the side of the sloop to the strange boat tied along side and cut the rope, by which it was tied, thinking to cut off the chance of escape of it's owner in that way.
 By this time, several men of the neighborhood, who had been awakened went running to the scene The man in the sloop seeing them coming cut the rope by which the sloop was held. The sloop began to drift but the City Pointers who had arrived on the scene, managed to get aboard. The stranger then jumped to small boat near by and from that to other boats, the tie ropes of which he cut. He was finally captured after a struggle and Supernu- merary Wrinn, who lives near by and who was present, placed him under arr rest
 Sergeant Bergen and Precinct Detec- tive T. Smith, went to the Point later in the night and calling the police wag- on, had the boat load of plunder, which was along side the sloop, taken to the Howard avenue police station
 Detective Smith yesterday secured the names of witnesses and identified part of the goods found in the boat as three yachts at Mantle a few nights ago. Smith will probably place charge of burglary against Souliez to- day, he having ascertained that the man broke into the cabin of Mr. We'd more's sloop and stole a pair of shoes. Deputy Sheriff I. H. Tubbs of Mantle will come to New Haven to-day to, identify the goods thought to have, been stolen from yachts off Mantle.
 The boat which Souliez had loaded with plunder is a sixteen foot row boat with a place for mast and sail and is painted red outside and green inside Detective Smith thinks that he arrived in New Haven some time during the forenoon Saturday and rowed about the docks during the day looking for boats to rob.
 He claims to have come from France l few years ago and says that he came rom Providence to New Haven. He also told Sergeant Cook at police head- quarters that he came from Montreal. The stuff found in the boat ie~worth 1t least $200. It includes .wo marine glasses, barometer thought to be worth $50, sweaters and clothes, rubber boots, groceries tools, ship lamps, 'hawls, towels and all kinds of articles likely to be found on yachts. More of he goods will probably be identified to- lay