Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-18
Marshal Breen Captured Pat
terson at Bangor, Yesterday.
Admitted His Guilt and Gave Up All
the Plumber.
Held in $500 Bail and Is Now in Ken
nebec Jail.

I VINO Is travelling WIlu the FOOD Far,
| was in a melancholy frame Of mind,
| because of the loss of more than $1,000
| worth of his best jewelry which a thief
had stolen from his trunk in City hall,
sometime early Sunday morning; but,
yesterday forenoon. his sorrow was
| turned to joy when City Marshal Breen
stepped from the 10 A. NJ. train from
Bangor, having John Patterson. Jr.,
I in custody and bringing with him the
suit case and the grip which Patterson
| had taken away with him, and which
contained the precious gems belonging
| to Descenyi The latter felt like a new
man and when he had counted the
mass of rings. and lockets and chains
and other pieces which the thief had
purloined and found that everyone of
the missing articles had been recovered
he felt like hugging the marshal and all
| the police officers who had assisted him
in discovering the perpetrator of the
mean and despicable act.
No one could blame Mr.. Descenyi for
| feeling sad and miserable, because
| every dollar he had in the world was
| tied up in the bundle of jewelry which
| Patterson had taken and which he had
been able to place in an ordinary grip.
| If he had not recovered his goods he
would not have felt SO cheerful and
| happy as he did when he left on the
| afternoon train, yesterday, for Rock
land. And to the prompt and decisive
action of Marshal Breen he is indebted
| for the apprehension of the guilty man
! and the recovery of his valuables. Pat
| terson had taken $l10S.75 worth of
goods, and all We're recovered.
AS stated by the Journal, yesterday
| morning, City Marshal Brcen left for
Bangor on the morning Pullman bear
| ing in his pocket a warrant for the ar
rest Of John Patterson, Jr., charged
with breaking entering and larceny.
When the marshal arrived in Bangor,
shortly after $50 o'clock he found Capt
Baker of the Bangor force awaiting
him. He asked him if he had arrested
Patterson and he said he hadn't, that
| the marshal and deputy were away and
! he did not like to arrest a man without
| warrant. -t5.r
DO you know where he is?" asked
| the marshal.
No" was the reply. lie was at the
| Bangor house, last evening"
After watching the departure of the
east bound trains, which Marshal
| Breen Overhauled in a very careful
manner, fearful that Patterson might
| be aboard, the two officers proceeded to
| the Bangor house.
The man was there. He had regis
tered under his own name and had been
assigned to a room in the fourth story.
i h.. To tI,n tot.
reached in and unfastened the door and
| the officers entered. The light was
| turned on and there on the bed lay the
man Marshal Breen wanted.
| What do you want?" Patterson
| asked.
You know what 1 want, don't you :.
| You know me?"
Yes, I know you," and then he let
his head drop back upon the pillow
from which he had raised it when he
heard the noise made by the entrance
of the party.
Il want to know what you did with
that jewelry you took from Augusta
said the marshal.
II haven't got any jewclry but this
ring on my finger" insisted Patterson
in a bold attempt to bluff.
Now. hold on" said Marshal Breen
you were seen taking a suit case and
a grip with you from Augusta and il
; them you had a lot of jewelry that yor
took from City hall. Where are they
The man then broke down and ac,
knowledged that he had taken the
jewclry and told the marshal that the
case and the grip were checked at tn.
L \
ton. He said that, Saturday night
when he followed the janitor and an.
other gentleman from the hall he made
a bluff of leaving the building, but
when they went down stairs to fix the
: fires he sneaked back up stairs, entered
the hall through the gallery door, went
over to the end near the stage ano
| Jumped to table and thence to the
: floor. He then began the job of enter
ing the iewelry trunk and was work
ing away when he heard someone a
the hall door. 1t was the janitor, Franz
w. Halpine, and he was accompanied
by Henry w. Plummer. They hat
come back to see that everything wa!
all right before going home for the
night.
. Patterson was frightened and he laio
down on the floor close to the booth oc-
cupied by Descenyi. The two mer
; came alongside and almost stepped up
on the body of the crouching man. but
did not discover his presence. In =
; short time they went away and Patter.
son continued his work of stripping the
trunk of it's valuable contents.
He got away from the building in
Z safety. went to his boarding place, a.
narrated, yesterday, and from there t.
. the station, passing officers White and
Chadwick on the bridge street corner
He took No. train for the West short
" after O'Clock. He left that train
at brunswick and waited for the paper
train on which he rode to Bangor.
When the paper train went through
! here. Sunday morning. the knowledge
Of the robbery had not then been as
certained, and hence Deputy Marshal
Hanks, who was at the depot, had nc
! intimaticn that Patterson was wanted
He therefore did not search the train
Patterson arrived i'm Bangor about
11.35 A. NJ, checked his baggage at the
package room in the depot and wen,