The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-14
A CHAPTER OF BURGLARIES

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Starter Judge took charge of the car
and brought it to the city. The car
reached the central green at l o'clock
and Davis was at once locked up.
Donnelly returned to the Davis house
and he and Sergeant Dennehy made a
thorough search of the house. When
Davis was searched at police headquar-
tiers he handed to Donnelly a bunch Of
keys, saying, Here, take these keys.
You have got me and you will want
the KEYS to open places in my house
when YOU search IT, With these keys
/ the detectives opened drawers and
closets and found large quantity of
new goods OF all kinds which were
clearly a part of the plumber. Having
collected the stuff they secured an ex-
press wagon and brought the goods to
police headquarters, there being good
load for the express wagon.
| While on the way to the city from
East Haven with Donnely, Davis told
him that he had thought that he was
smart enough to fool people but that
he had been caught. He said that a
man couldn't be in the business for
! years and "be'a success but was bound
to be caught in the end. He said that
only the night before he had been talk
ing with his wife and had told her that
it was only q question of time when he
would be caught. Mrs. Davis is a
young woman only about twenty-one
years of age. They have been married
five years. She told Donnelly that the
first month that they Were married she
discovered that he was burglar and
that she had since learned that even
before their marriage he had been at
the business. She said that he had told
her time and again OF jobs that he had
done.
Not long ago a man named Lynch
was arrested for a burglary on Ash
nun street and was given heavy SEN
tence, it is said, because it was be-
lieved that he had done burglaries
which 1t now appears were turned off
by Davis. Mrs. Davis says that at the
time of Lynch's conviction she and her
husband discussed his case and talked
about his being blamed for jobs that
Davis had done. Among the things
stolen by Davis were a number of valu-
able diamond and silver prizes won by
George Collett. the bicycle champion.
These prizes were stolen from the win
dow of Chapel street store where they
were on exhibition Davis and his wife
knew Mr. Collett wen and Mrs. Davis
says that she frequently went to Mr..
Collects store to buy bicycle fittings.
She said that she had been there since
her husband stole Collects prizes and
that knowing this she had felt so
ashamed that she coud hardly talk to
Collett.
The articles found in Davis house are
now all in the detectives room at police
headquarters. The collection is a non
descript one 1t contains, among other
things, diamonds, watches, rings, pins,
revolvers monographs and cameras
Last evening Davis was taken into the
detectives room and the articles were
shown to him and he was questioned
AS different things were shown he told
where he had stolen them. The burg
laries which he owned up to having
committed were as follows:
At Treat & Shepard's music store on
Chapel street, which he says he entered
by breaking in rear window at 1890
O'clock at night. He says that he took
there gramophone a photograph and
a large number Of records, all Of which
he stuffed into telescope bag, in
which he carried them home.
The Douglas shoe store on Chapel
street, burglarized twice, each time
about o'clock in the morning. The
first time he took between $50 and $40 in
money. A short time after that he
again burglarized the place and on that
trip took Collects race prizes on exhibit
ton there. These prizes were two solid
gold watches, a lady's watch, two da-
mond studs, diamond ring and an I'M
set diamond. He says that he entered
the store each time by means of key
and that on the first occasion he went
out by rear door, leaving it open. The
next time he locked the doors after him.
This last time was on Sunday morning
and the burglary was not discovered
until the store was opened on the fol-
lowing Monday morning.
w. W. Gail & Co.'s store on Pitkin
street, entered about o'clock in the
evening, an electric battery and a small
motor was taken
Burgess & Burgess store on Chapel
street, entered twice, each time by
means of key. The first time Sc in
money was taken and the next time a
hat and dress suit case. Both these
burglaries were on Sunday mornings
At the time of his last visit to the
store he says that on the same morning
he entered Capallo's shooting gallery
on State street and stole some small
change and some pictures from a nickel
in the slot picture machine.
Reichert's bicycle store on State
street, entered twice, the first time with
a key. On the first visit he took sew
eral cameras, pins, and watches. On
the second visit he found that the lock
of the front door had been changed
and that he could not get in by using
a key, so he forced a rear window. On
that trip he stole films TO fit the cam
eras which he had taken on his former
visit. On the last trip, finding that he
had taken so much stuff that he could