Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-25
SCHEME TO ROB KELLY.
The We'll Known Baker Frustrated
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 Thomas Kelly, the baker, has had quite a good many experiences during his career as business man in Wa terbury, and no matter how trying the situation might have been he all ways has succeeded in coming out ahead until the other evening, when some sharpers who put up job to get hold of the receipts on hand in his store, at GS2 East Main street, and ] whom he made desperate effort to , capture, managed to go scott free, but of course they had their trouble for | nothing. It was great scheme and ! were it not for the fact that the clerk i in the store had her wits about her | Kelly would have been out about $50 | in cold cash. About o'clock in the evening some 1 one who represented himself as Mi i chael Kelly, Mr kelly'S manager, went ! to the toll station at the postottice and telephoned to the drug store on East Main street. across the street from Kelly's bakery. and requested the druggist to inform Miss Nellie Hayes, the clerk in charge at the bakery that Mir Kelly was sending q boy out for the days receipts, and to have it ready when the messenger reached there. but to be sure and keep enough change to transact business with. When Miss Hayes was notified of the order she considered it a new departure rom her employ method of collecting his money and after a little delibera- ton she decided to telephone to Mr Kelly. at All West Main street AS soon as Kelly heard what the clerk had to say he ''tumbled' and told her 1,n 1.o1 l,,t nt In ra- tend to the boy that she suspected there was anything wrong. He also told her to do up q bundle for the mes senger minus the money. but not to deliver it to him until an officer or himself got there. Then he telephOned to the police station and requested that an officer be put on the track of the gang.
 After laying his plans. Mir Kelly un- dressed and donned his fishing apparel and jumped on a trolley car ana fOue to the store, real lZaak walton Ill appearance. so much so in fact that the clerks in the store scarcely recog- nized him when he sauntered in. The messenger boy was there at the time, crispin~ his shinS behind the stove. After telling the clerk in an aside not to give the parcel until he returned. he hurried over to the drug store ana telephoned to the police station agaln, stating that the time for action had arrived and to be on the alert, adding that the boy would soon be on the street with the parcel. oWlnS 10 some hitch the officer was rather late in showing up and as the messenger was becoming restless it was thought hest to give the s'money" and trust to chance to find out where he would de liver it. But while all this was going on Kelly did considerable running here and there about the store. ana if is believed that whoever planned the scheme had the messenger DoH posted in advance to keep an eye out for Kelly and if he saw him not 10 stop. but to deliver the message at hls plant on West Main street. It LOOKS that way for the boy went direct from the bakery on East Main street TO hel- Tvs factory at All West Malh street. and left the parcel there- An exam inafion showed that it had not been opened.
 Later in the evening an officer start cd in to investigate and. so q Demo crat reporter has been informed, found out the name of the man who sent the telephone message and employed the messenger to go to the store, put it seems that under the circumstances the law cannot reach him. This seems strange Can't q man be arrested for an attempt at obtaining money under false pretenses? It was a great night about town while the thing was on. Michael Kelly, the foreman, was dis patched up Baldwin street. telephone messages were sent to Brooklyn North and South Main streets. with q view to warning the clerks in these stores lest the game shoula be tried all around but it was not.
 The general opinion seems to Dc that the fellows got onto the fact thai they were being watched and fearing arrest did not intercept the messenger on his way from one store to the other It is understood that Mir Kelly is very much worked over the affair and ls thinking of taking steps to bring abou the passage of a law which Will en able him or anybody else who may bt subjected to such treatment to punisl the offenders whether they succeed Il carving their point or not. SeVera tricks of this nature have been per formed in Waterbury during the pas few years. but this was the first goot opportunity that was offered to catcl them and it is q pity that it was no taken advantage of.