The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-08
MAY BE ASEA THIEF
Young Man Who Offers $500 Launch for S175 Under
 Suspicion,
BOLD DASH TO ESCAPE
Slips Under Guard Rail and Is Caught After Long and Thrilling
 Chase.

Because the bargain sale or S5OO naptha launch for sl75 did not strike John Guest secretary of the Mac Print ing company as quite on the level, Francis Stanley, expert sea voyager, spent last night in the lookup here and will face the court this morning on the charge of theft Stanley hove Into this port via the Sound route Saturday morning and mooreI at the home of the City Point Yacht club Guest Is member of the club and he became in- terested in the trim looking launch. The stranger, who said he came from boat, announced that he would part with it at the extremely low price of sl75 Guest knew a bargain and said Yes" and paid down on the spot $S0 as earnest with the agreement that Stan Icy could have the rest as soon as the bank opened Monday morning
 Guest went home we'll pleased Then he began to think the matter over and the more he thought the less certain he was that everything was on the square. Finally he told the detective bureau of his suspicious and Detective Colwell. went down to City Point and found Stanley He placed him under arrest on suspicion
 Stanley, of course, denied the charge, He stated that the boat was his and that he had set out from his home In Newbury street, Boston, with his brother for cruise On the trip around | Cape Cod he declared heavy sea swept his brother overheard and he was drowned
 On arriving in port he declared he ! had telegraphed to his mother about | the catastrophe and she had replied for | him to come right back home but not | to bring back that fateful boat. There 1 fore in obedience to her request he de- sired to sell the boat and in order to do so at once had been willing to make a big sacrifice
 Telephonlng to Boston yesterday re veaed the fact that there is no such number as that which Stanley gave on 1 Newbury street and that he Is un- known there Search of his boat also revealed a large supply of repair tools which seem to belong to several boats and the police believe they have caught a professional sea thief Besides the launch he had a fine dory in tow which is valued at about $50.
 ! Colwel had a hard time landing his fish in the lookup too Just as the car was stopping at Church and Court street the young man attempted to give the detective the slip and succeeded In escaping under the guard rail. He hustled along up Church street and turned In Chapel with the detective In hot pursuit while a great crowd look ed on in amazement at the Sunday ex- citement. Stanley went down Temple street with both Colwcll and Patrol man Keegan In pursuit The latter of. flcer had joined the detective in the chase. Stanley could not get past Louis Linders and there he was captured and taken back to the police station where he was locked up on the theft charge.
 The police believe that stanley Ina: perpctrated several thefts as he ap. pears to be an expert sailor and thai
 he has disposed of boats along tn, coast In similar manner before.
 IL was found by examination of tho , launch that the name of the boat haj
 been changed each of the bows bear , ing signs of this, The present nam of the boat is the Lymph.