The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-31
STATE LEAGUE STANDING.
MORE, ARRESTS MADE.

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 berries by Detective Donnelly.
 Edwin A. Monroe, of Branford, who keeps a jeWelry store. at 158 Meadow street, in this city, was arrest ed Satur-
 day night by Detective Henry E. Don- lnelly in connection with thefts from the international Silver company. Monroe
 is the fourth prisoner that Detective Donnelly has made in clearing up a wholesale conspiracy of long standing, and he is the second New Haven jew
 eler to be charged point blank by the I police with being fence" for burg lars and thieves. Bonds were set at $1, 900. which the prisoner could not fur finish.
 On the way home from Meriden Sat urday morning the detective stopped I at Wallingford and arrested Joseph Pinsker, a jeweler of that town, for re- I ceiving goods stolen from the Walling- ford factory of the International Silver I company. Pinsker is not charged with receiving the stolen silver from Booth, but is said I to have bought it from Wallingford boys. now under surveillance, whose ar rest is expected soon. Pinsker was arraigned in the Wall lingford court Saturday afternoon at o'clock on two counts of theft of alleged
 date of July 13 and August 10. On the first date Pinsker is said to have bought I s49 worth of silver, and on the second $55 worth. He was arraigned in court
 to insure his appearance for trial to- day. Bail was fixed at s250, and was furnished by a brother of the accused.
 Before lodging his prisoner Booth in the New Haven Jail Detective Donnelly received further information from him that led to Monroe's arrest. Booth told 1.-the detective that he had sold Monroe
 stolen silver regularly since last Sep Itember, and that Monroe knew that the Isilver was stolen. Monroe was prompt fly arrested at his Meadow street store
 Saturday night.
 l When closeted at the office of the de- \ tective bureau Monroe sought for an
 hour to evade questions put to him, al- though Booth identified him positively
 He finally admitted buying the silver
 and shipping it to New York and Chi
 cago refiners. "
 WaIilngrord Aug. 5v.-Arrests con- 4 tinue to be made by the officers who have been ferreting out the thefts of silver bullion and silverWare from the
 International Silver company, two boys
 belonging here being taken into custody tto-day, in addition to the one arrested last night, as the sequel to the arrest l earlier in the day of Joseph Pinsker, a ilocal jeweler. The boys now held for a lhearing are George Lacoursire, aged l fifteen; Eugene Partridge, aged eigh- teen and James Doyle, jr., aged four teen. All three have been employed at l Factory M of the International Silver company on Cherry street. In each lease the charge is that of larceny Ac- Icording to the officers, the Partridge I boy got through last June. He and the Lacoursire boy, it Is alleged, have stol- Ten only little silver, but it is charged that Doyle, has been taking articles of ivarious kinds, such as knife handles,
 blanks and spoons. ~s
 Pinsker's hearing had been set for to- morrow morning, but as Prosecuting
 Attorney Downs has a liquor case to I try at Meriden the silver cases will not be called in the local court until after noon.
 Partridge and Lacoursire are out on $50 bonds, while an officer has Doyle in charge. The other three persons ar- rested in connection with these cases 5are John Booth, of Meriden, Joseph Pinsker of this place, and Edison A. Monroe, of New Haven. Further de- velopments are looked for.