The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-15
The Gang Under Arrest in Boston
Satisfied the Worcester In
spector That None Of Them
Robbed in This City
NONE OF THE PLUMBER
BELONGED TO MAYNARD
Boston Prisoners Employed the
Same Means of Entering
Houses as Were Followed in
Worcester and 1t Was Thought
They Worked Here

Inspector Patrick ODay returned
from Boston last night where he made
an exhaustive examination of the
wholesale arrests in that city, Satur-
day night. The Boston police placed
three men and one woman under ar
rest. charging them with being impli-
Gated in the house robberies which
have taken place in and around Boston
for the past few months. In the quar-
ters occupied by the prisoners was a
conglomeration of goods which they
had stolen but failed to get rid of.
The same general plan of getting
into house in the early evening when
the people of the house were at the
theatre, such as the house breakers
followed when they broke into the resi-
dences of Charles B. Maynard, at %
Haviland Street, and that of Frank E.
Sessions at IT Germaine Street, Oct. 5,
was practiced in Boston. The sim
ilarity of the breaks impressed Chief
of Police w. ]. e. Stone and he sent
Inspector O'Day to Boston yesterday
morning to find out If possible if the
gang arrested in Boston were the per-
sons that operated in this city, and if
they were to recover the goods stolen
from the Haviland residence.
Inspector O'Day went to Boston, held
a lengthy conversation with the pris-
oners and examined the plumber re-
covered. He returned to Worcester
last night convinced that the burglars
never worked in this city. He says
the men worked identically as did the
gang that plundered the Maynard resi-
dence. The Boston gang used a
chisel to force the window in the house
they intended to rob and securing the
plumber decamped.
Inspector O'Day knew Of the men
implicated in the robberies. One of
them s the son of a prominent stove
dealer in Boston and has near rela-
tives in this city. This man gave the
name of Frank B. Godron and claimed
Utica. N. Y, as his home. He had a
long talk with O'Day and told the lat
ter bis name and said he would take
O'Days advice and notify his father
Of the predicament he was in. The
other man whom O'Day knew was
Kenneth Mclean of st. Johns, N. B.
Mclean gave the name of Albert
Reynolds and said he hailed from
Cleveland. Ohio. Both of these men
gave the officer the information he
desired.
The other prisoner, and ringleader of
the gang, Sumner Dudley, knew o.
Day but the latter did not recognize
him. He told O'Day that he met him
In a casual way at South Framing
ham. Dudley was peddling peanuts
with another whom O'Day knew. The
other chap, Eddie GIL, told Dudley at
that time after O'Day went away that
he was fly Teller" from Worcester.
This Dudley confided to O'Day yester-
day.
All swore that they never worked in
this city. Outside of Boston and the
outlying towns, they affirmed that one
job In Brockton and three in Provi-
dence were all they ever attempted to
do away from their faYorite stamping
grounds. The chief Of police of SPRING
field and three losers In house break
ing games of that city, were in Boston
examining goods yesterday. They re-
turned emty handed, however. as none
of the goods belonged to them. Inspec-
tor O'Day thinks that the gang that
operated here is the same that pushed
on and broke In at Springfield the
Monday following the Saturday break
In this city
Inspector o'Day SAYS that Mclean,
or Reynolds as the st. Johns. N. B..
man styles himself, and Gordon, the
young man Of respectable Boston par
ents, were tools in Dudley's hands. The
latter took all the money and gave the
two younger men promises. The wo-
man in the gang was supposed to be
Dudley's wife. She took no part what
ever in the breaks. Altogether these
fellows broke into II houses in Cam
bridge alone, and one of the houses
was the chief of police Of that city.
Other breaks that will make the num-
Der upward of so or more have been re-
ported The goods which they secured
will amount to many thousands of dol
lars Already property to the value Of
1880 has been recovered.