The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-29
TOOK MONEY FROM POCKET
so THE FATHER CLAIMS
John Reynolds Charges Son With Theft of $30O-Lat-
 ter Not Caught Yet.

Francis J. Reynolds between and s o'clock yesterday morning took $500 from the pocket of his fathers trous- CTS, so the latter claims. Now he is gone, and the, father wishes he would return and restore to him the money he has appropriated. Mrs. Reynolds saw Francis making for the tall tim Der with the trousers of her husband flying in the breeze. The tall timber is near the Reynolds domicile and saloon, Mrs. Reynolds cried to Fran cis to stop, but Francis, being in a hurry to make connections with Wa terbury, Cheshire or possibly Meriden, replied that he had no time, He had decided that he would eat the Thanks giving dinner elsewhere than under the parental roof so he said
 The police declare that the money was taken while the father was still asleep
 Francis had not been near the house for some months. Yesterday morning he saw his mother leave the apartments upstairs, and open the sa- loon. She forgot to lock the door to the apartments,
 Francis father had worked very late the night before accommodating money to run the house. Mrs. Key holds desired to prove that she was his worthy helpmeet by opening the saloon for her husband and permit ting him chance to get the requisite forty winks before the bulk of the Thanksgiving trade showed up
 She had just opened the saloon when she perceived the familiar form of Francis rushing out of the door to the apartments, with the trousers of her husband under his arm. At first she said she did not quite understand, but then it dawned upon her that her husband had tucked $500 in a pocket of the trousers before he went to bed,
 Hastily awakening her husband, she informed him of what had occurred, and he called up the detective bureau at police headquarters. Sergeant ter < en1iah Dennehy and Detective Henry Donnelly at once interested them selves in the case. Towns contiguous to New Haven were immediately noti- fed The last heard from Francis he was standing near the Country club house waiting for an outgoing car.
 Young Reynolds has displayed much enterprise in eluding the vigil ance of the police and the authorities of the Organized Charities.
 It has been no trouble for him tc get into trouble, then become involved with the police and when about to be imprisoned in the reform school a Meriden to escape.
 At the age of twelve Francis dis played a penchant for appropriatins other peoples property.
 He was first sent to the St. John: industrial school at West Hartford and .after staying there a short time he came back to his home, which wa then down on Hamilton street, ant had apparently reformed. On com plaint of his father, September 28 1907, he was arrested for theft. H, escaped from the custody of the citS authorities. Then his father ascer tained that he was at the home o Edward Miles at Glastonbury. Tht reform school to which the boy hat been committed, sent an agent ther, to have him detained, but when the, reached Glastonbury, Francis was il New Haven living under cover.
 November Francis made his ap pearance at the family domicile an( relieved the family exchequer of s150 This time the city court thought tha it would end the criminal career O Francis, so he was promptly recon mitted to the reform school until ht should reach his majority.
 After his trial in the city cour Francis was turned over to the Or ganized Charities to be detained there until the arrival of agents of the re form school at Meriden.
 He was placed in cell in the de tention room. Edward Litton ha charge of the room. Francis wanted to divert his attention so that he coult jump out of window He tippet over a bucket of water, and whil Litton was hopping the floor Franci negotiated the window.
 This window overlooks the yard o police headquarters. From the win dow to the top of one of the shed there is about fifteen feet. Franci