The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-13
DWIGHT'S HOUSE ENTERED
LAST RESIDENCE VISITED BY
 NEGRO BURGLAR.

Was Discovered by Detective Donneily
 Who Made the Arrest and Who Was
 Accompanied to House by ExPresi-
 dent Dwight--Name of Negro IS
 Charles NTcIean-COnfesse to Rob-
 binn yorious Professors Houses; Also
 Ex-President Dwight's-Had Some of
 stolen Property With Him.
 The police have every reason to be- lieve that in the capture of sam Jones' alias Charles Mclean, a New 4ork negro. by Detective Henry J. Donnelly yesterday forenoon, they have q much wanted criminal. Mclean confessed to the robbery of the houses of Professors Cross, Du Bois. Walker Gooch and that of David Daggett. He also said that he had entered and ransacked still another house on Tuesday night. He could not tell the street or number or this house, but from his description the officers know that the house was along the line of the Northampton cut
 Detective Donnelly made a visit to this section of the city yeserday after noon. and made an examination of all the vacant houses. While walking down Sachem street he noticed that one of the rear windows of ex-Presl- dent of Yale Dwight's house had been recently molested. A more careful search confirmed his suspicious as to the cause. As the Dwight family is out of the city at present the house was locked, and he was obliged to get a key from some relatives of the family who live on Prospect street. While after the key he met ex-President Dwight at the Prospect street house. Dr. Dwight and a lady, who Is mem- Der of the family, accompanied MT. Donnelly on his return to the doctors house. Dr. Dwight was in a hurry to catch a train for Litchfield, and did not stop long at the house.
 The house was entered in much the same way as the residences of Profess ors Gooch and Walker last Sunday night The rear basement window by which entrance was obtained had been dexterously removed. Once in the house the rohber met with the same difficulty that he had experienced on Edward street The doors to the upper apart ments were locked. But as in the for mer case the panel was removed and the door unlocked by reaching in the hand. The rooms on the third and fourth floors had been thoroughly ran sacked, and every portable thing of value taken. Some of these articles were found on Mclean when arrested yesterday morning. They include three solid gold watches of English make with valuable Swiss movements. He carried a silk unmbrella. With this umbrella and suit of clothes belong | ing to Professor Gooch the negro made very neat appearance.
 McLeans case will come before the city court this morning, but as most of the occupants of the houses rob bed are out of the city the case will l be continued until their return. At present the detectives have no way of determining the loss sustained by the various people concerned.
 There are six counts against Me- Lean From descriptions sent here from Mt Vernon. N. Y, the police are sure they have the man who commit ted burglaries in that place. Mclean was seen by several Mt. Vernon citizens as he was emerging from house which he had robbed in that place. They attempted to overhaul him, but he drew revolver, and made good his escape. He gives his residence as 224 West Thirty-fourth street N. Y. During his jobs in New Haven Me- Lean has been boarding on Webster street.
 When caught yesterday he said that he was on his way out of town to dis pose of his booty Mir. Donnellys cap- ture is considered especially fortunate, as the negro stated that his plan was | to make the Dwight house burglary the last in the city.
 Chief of Police Wrinn personally Icomplimented Detective Donnelly on his capture and Captain CowIes said he regarded 1t as the best piece of de- tectlve work pulled off here in a long Itime. Donnely says the only descrip. ton he had of the man was furnished by 8 servant girl in the house next door to David Daggetts. On the morn ing after the burglary there this girl told him that she had seen a colored man leaving the yard early in the morning She described him, and De- teetive Donnelly has been looking for him ever since. Other clues which he has gathered since, including the find of the old suit of clothes which Me Lean left behind in a closet when he donned Professor Goochs togs led him to nab Mclean on suspicion when he saw him yesterday afternoon
 An effort is now being made by De- tective Donnely to locate the rest of the booty of the burglaries, and trip will be made to Bridgeport hook shops