Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-10
BUFFERS STRIKE IS ON AT MERIDEN
BURGLARS STILL AT WORK.
Visited the Home of Sanitary Inspec
8 tor Moses This Morning

Visited the Home of Sanitary Inspec-
tor Moses This Morning.
Sanitary Inspector Moses, who re-
sides In the Bennett Stiles place on
Baldwin avenue, had an experience this
morning which resulted in leaving
him out considerable money. About
s3:3O O'Clock this morning Mr. Moses
was aroused by the house dog Nero
and got UP to see what was the mat
ter. The dog broke one of his legs last
| week and the injured member is done
up in Splints, and the sanitary inspec-
tor supposed that they We're hurting
him. After he saw the bandage was
all right he advised the dog to behave,
but the animal was desperate and
| made frantic efforts to enter the
house. He finally yielded and went
| around to the front of the building,
| where he remained quiet for few mo-
| ments, when he started to howl again,
| this time with more vehemence than
| before. This was very unusual and
Mr. Moses decided to Investigate fur
| ther. When he made second trip
down stairs ne noticed some doors ajar
that he knew were closed when the
family retired for the night, and the
next thing he noticed was tall man
| dressed In black clothes and wearing
tight fitting cap running across the
yard in the rear of the house in the
direction of Coughlan's slaughter
house. The fleeing form of the man
was not over fifty feet from Mr. Moses
1 when he realized what was up and he
Immediately opened fire upon him from
i a one-barrel revolver which he had in
his hip pocket. At this time the fell
| low was crossing a stone wall and
cleared it just as the dog hobbled to
the spot. Nero was not able to cross
the wall but between the noise made
by the revolver and the how1ing Of the
dog the burglar must have been badly
scared If not hurt, for he dropped a
bundle containing the wearing apparel
of much value In the house. A little
| further on he let go of a coat, vest and
hat, which Mr. Moses picked up later
] and recognized as the best things in
his wardrobe. Before Mr. Moses could
get another bullet into his gun the man
had escaped and he could find no trace
of him.
| When things quieted down somewhat
Mr. Moses went through the house and
| found that the fellow had rummaged
Il
himself to his pocketbook containing a
neat sum of a money, ring belonging
| to his grandmother, marked "A. w.
4 1870" a few precious stones and other
articles which he had in his possession
for many years and which he feels
worse over than he does about the
money. The dog drove away some
body Saturday night, but. the folks
thought nothing of 1T, but now they be-
Es1ieve that the same parties must have
/ been there at that time, but owing to
the antics of the dog concluded not ito
do anything. Entrance was effected
through the cellar door, which was
not fastened. from there the man
walked up the stairway and into the
/ kitchen.
/ Mr. Moses believes that he hit the
| fellow, but although ne made a care
4 full survey of the place this morning he
could not detect any blood spots In
asmuch as he is said to be one Of the
/ best marksman In Connecticut it Is quite
likely that the stranger carried off a
I dose Of lead with the sanitary inspec-
tors pocketbook. He says that he is
worrying much over two things to-
day. One is on account of the beating
he gave Nero for sounding the alarm
and the other Is because he didn't have
one of four loaded rewolyers that were
in the house in his pocket instead of
the single barrel paymasters pistol.
/ He thinks that there were at least two
persons at the house, one on the inside
and another decoying the dog from
the rear to the front of the house. The
matter has been reported to- the police
authorities.
i A woman who lives In that part of
the town says that early in the even
ing tall, rough looking fellow was
prowling about the house and finally
came to the door. He tried to talk In
a foreign tongue so that she could not
understand what he was saying, but
she was of the opinion that he was
shamming and knew English If he
cared to talk 1t. She was about to call
some of the men folks when he turned
and walked hurriedly away. The only
difference in the description of the two
| men is that one wore cap and the
other a soft hat. but, IL as Mr. Moses
surmises, that there were two men in
the raid at his house, the burly fellow
who talked with the lady may have
/ been one of them
People who live in that district tell
Of suspicious characters seen about the
place on and off for the past fes
| weeks and hope the authorities will be
able to see their way to give them son1e
police protection at least during the
winter months.