The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-31
SUSPECT is
AT LARGE YET
Attempt Made Last Evening
to Arrest Harry st. Cyr
ON BURGLARY CHARGE
Authorities Think That lie Stole sic
from Coat Hanging in Clark Garage
Wednesday Afternoon Showed Mon.
ey in Hinsdalo-Breaks and Scares.

wednesday Showed Mon
ey in Hinsdalo-Breaks and Scares
The series OF burglary scarcs whic
have kept people on edge during th, pas
week, eliminated last evening M an al
tempt ON the part of local officers to az
rest Harry NJ. Iyr, who j. SUSPECTED o
| taking Sl6 from Louis Gooiing coat ~ I
was hanging in the garage Oi the T., X
| Clark Automobile company. "Wednesday
| afternoon. Two officers went TO the HON,
Of ~. tyr az ~ Frost street, and searched
/ the premises but no traces OF the younl
man were found and he Is still enjoying
his liberty.
Gooiing, who is employed in the Clark
garage, discovered his loss when he put on
his coat at the close 0t work "Wednesday
and reported ii to the local authorities
~. Cyr had been about the garage more
or less during the afternoon. but suspicion
was not directed toward him until late
that evening. IL seems that two young
men from BrattleborO who had been
spending the evening in llinsdale, y. H..
reported that they saw st. Cyr in that
town and that hc offered 10 treat them,
saving that be- was flush" aud producing
a large roll OF bills IN support Of his as
>ertion. This made the officers suspicious,
as il was known that 81. Cyr had been
teriay morning 6hief Evans went TO his
home on Frost street ~. Cyr, however,
had not returned from llinsdalc. and in
fact did not return until some time last
4 evening.
About go as Policeman Solon Rich.
mond was talking with Deputy Sheriff NJ.
! T. DAVIS at the foot OF Main street, the
! light on the bank block fiag-pole was
turned on. showing that an officer was
I oil 81 int IIY1l
| taurant and called central, receiving a
message from III. w. Sanders, who lives in
the next house to St. Cyr, that the young
man had returned Richmond at once
started for the house, asking Sheriff Davis
to go with him. As the two officers APP
preached the house they saw someone
leave the piazza and apparently 60 up
stairs. Following Mr.. Richmonds direc-
tion, Sheriff. Davis went up the stairs
after the man while the former waited
below. The man, however, was not st.
Cyr, and Sheriff Davis Immediately came
down again and went through the lower
tenement, which Is occupied by st. Cyr,
while Officer Richmond waited outside in
the rear. 1t was evident, however, that
the young man had left by the back door
Just before the officers arrived, for this |
door was found aar.
Meanwhile, Chief Evans had seen the !
with Deputy Sheriff c. |. Knapp Judge |
+. w. Gibson, Bailff II. Il, Brown and |
Attorney ii. +. Whitney reached the |
scene just as Sheriff Davis was returning /
from an hours search OF the premises in |
the rear of the house, Officer Richmond |
having returned to his beat on Main
street,
Chief Evans was very wroth when he
found Sheriff Davis on the spot ahead of
Ia, hat h I
are you monkeying with my prisoner for!'
he said to Sheriff Davis. The latter re-
piled that he had simply participated in
the search at the request of Officer Rich
mond, To this Chief Evans made answer
that he would have the matter thoroughly
The team which st. Cyr hired of G. b.
White Wednesday afternoon was found
this morning at the roadside near the farm
of +. Il. Thomas on the Putney road. 1t
is supposed that st. Cyr drove from Hins-
dale TO Brattleboro by way of the .suspen-
sion bridge, leaving his team on the Put
ney road and walking in. -Four warrants
for his arrest We're issued this noon.
The most pronounced scare of the week
.ook place Sunday morning, when Arthur
B. Clapp's residence on North Main street
vas surrounded by force OF men, headed
1y Chief of Police Evans, who suspected
hat burglars were at work inside. Some
line after midnight John Tucker, who |
lrives the Brooks House baggage wagon, :
vas in the lower part of the village, when l
le heard what he believed to be the re- |
,ort OF a revolver coming from the direc- O
ion of Walnut street. lie notified Chief t
Evans, and force of men was quickly o
objected. They went to Walnut street h
where they divided and some of the men
vent to Tyler and Terrace streets. The
nen on Terrace street thought they heard p
uspicious noises in the direction of Mr.. il
)lapp's house and so reported to Chief Il
,vans The men then surrounded the t
ouse and Chief Evans tried the laundry d
DOR, which is in the basement on the "
outh side. He found that the door was b
nlocked, which convinced him that q
rize was within his grasp, although an il
lvestigation would have shown that the h
oor leading from the laundry to the rest A
f the house was locked. Stationing the il
uard at the laundry door Chief Evans te
-ent around to the front of the house and CT
lng the doorbell arousing the family. h;
he house was searched from cellar to h,
arret but no trace of burglars was found. h,
People who live on Walnut street and Il
that section of the village are positive ST
lat revolver or some shooting iron was 81
and that the report was not the w
suit of an explosion of torpedoes which .ii
'e placed nightly on the railroad track o,
lst of Walnut street. Other shots have ti
zen heard during the week elsewhere in m
he village and the odor of skunks imme esi
ately following has been sufficient ex- M
anation. As yet the mystery of the ma
valnut street shooting has not been sil
lived. Pc
The money drawer in the ticket office in t,n to
e Central Vermont railway station was ", W
e objective point of the burglars early au W.
lesday morning. Between $3.50 and 4:3O W., yue
clock, during the absence of Night Clerk Wv;
L. Cunningham, the thieves pried open an w,
e of the ticket office windows with a M, No
nmy, entered the room and smashed the ~,
dlock on the money drawer. There was fal
thing in the money drawer and this fact fo,
probably what led the disappointed in n,s
lders to smash the till in disgust When h,,
who had been to the freight an
use to do some work as is his custom tb,
cry night, returned to open the ticket
ice previous to the arrival of the 'owl' b,.
lin, he found what the burglars had ma. na
me- He also discovered that theys had nj nj;
bile telephone in the station. That they 40, a.
t nothing from the ticket office was due WI WI
the fact that Cunningham left no WI
,ney in the drawer taking his change the
th him when he went to the freight ,rb
use. General Manager G.. G. Jones and o,,;
Ter officials of the road were asleep dnj
their private car short distance away onI r
IN the ticket office when the burglary MO
,k place. Some of the officials thought s;o,
took considerable crust for a burglar to saw
See Fanning's Letter, Page 3.-adv.