Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-22
.MRSWOLFF'SBURC
Capture Last Night May End
 Petty ThieviDg ln This City.

Mrs Adrian Wolff of 193 Chestnut avenue and her son, Adrian, jr, ar rested in their home last evening Arthur Rosenthrall, a native of Arr menia and a graduate of the state school for boys, the polite name for the reform school. In the capture of this young man, whose age is only 19 years, the police are confident that Mrs Wolff and her boy arrested the fellow who has been raising the dickens with the peace of the police department and the homes in the west and northwestern part of the city for some time.
 Yesterday in Hartford were arrest ed two young men who gave their names as Daniel Mccarthy and Ed ward Mulvey, whom Rosenthrall says were interested with him in various burglarious enterprises of recent date in town. The men are wanted in Hartford, but if it turns out that they cannot be held there they will be transferred to Waterbury. It is supposed that Rosenthral is not quite right in his head, else he would not have submitted so tamely to arrest by Mrs Wolff and her son, or made the confession to them that is now in the possession of the police. He does not look overburdened with intelligence and is about the average size. ....
 It was almost directly after supper when young Wolff thought he heard a noise in the upper apartments of his home. He investigated but found no one. Soon after Mrs Wolff saw a man in the hallway going toward the front door and she called upon him to stop. He did not seem inclined to comply and Mrs Wolff ran after him and seizing him by the collar turned him around She made him sit in a comfortable chair in the parlor and her son covered him with revolver while she telephoned to the police station.
 While they were waiting for the police the intruder stated that he had no intention of doing any harm and that he was out of work. Young Wolff made him disgorge the contents of his pockets and out came a gold watch worth about $50, mans heavy gold ring, worth about $20,ani lot of other small things that were of no particular value. He said his mother was sick and in dire need and he pleaded piteously to be let go. But he did not look to be the kind of fel- low good to be at large and in few minutes the police arrived.
 To the police he said he lived at 65 Walnut street with his folks and un- til recently was employed in the clock shop under General Foreman James c. Whiting He had been associated in various burglaries with two oth- CTS, whose names he gave as John Rufus and James Smith, Armenians. These are supposed to be the fellows held in Hartford under other names.
 At the police station Rosenthrall was found to be probationer from Concord, Mass. That he had at tempted suicide in Boston and that the scars of the knife are still evident in his neck. He was committed to the state school for boys from Waterbury in 1902 and was released from the house of correction in Boston last September. He admitted being engag- ed in the burglary in the Estey house on Central avenue few nights ago and also in the Preusser house on Mitchell avenue. He admitted tax ing watches and pieces of feminine iewelry from the Presusser house and said he threw most of it away. He said he took s1.50 in money, ring and a silver watch. He confessed to have planned to break into the AL drich apartment house on North Main street.
 Detectives Colesanto and Keegan went to his house and found consid- erable plunder including many of the things taken from the Pruesser house and which he had said he threw away. Rosenthrall is held for burg lary and his case will be heard to- morrow.
 The detectives office last evening shortly after the arrest of Arthur Rosenthrall looked Ike a"hock" shop Superintendent of Police. Beach. Lieu tenant Dodds, Detectives Kennaush Keegan, and Colesanto and John MeGrath. assistant prosecuting attor- ney were present and were minutely examining the iewelry and otheT articles which had been found in Roseuthrall's home. There was every thing from an old stocking to dia- mond. It was the greatest collection nf odds and ends the police have come upon in some time.
 Rosenthrall confessed to-day Of breaking into the home of Mrs P. B. Norton, 14s Grove street, on Wednesday evening. January s. He entered the house between and ? o'clock. He got away with a s1O bill. a box of chocolate candy, two cakes of soap and a sponge. The soap was identified. He overlooked d coal bod on 5he back veranda. Yesterday he also tried to enter the home of John Strahan at the corner of Bronson and Cooke streets. but Mrs Strahan succeeded in chasing him away.