The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-15
Bridgeport Trainman's Vigi- lance Responsible for Cap
 ture of "Rutherford.'
Charley Lush Saw the Slick Thief Getting Aboard Train at New Haven and Gave the Tip Which Landed the Much Wanted Depredator.

To Charles Lush, ggagemaster on the New York division of the Conso1i- dated railroad and emergency conduc- tor cn the same line. belongs the credit of experimenting "Rutherford,'' the bag gage thief whose capture has removed a great deal of anxiety from the minds Of railroad men, as it is alleged that the fake trainG1Tan has cleaned up sev- eral hundred dollars worth of baggage within the past few months. Dis guised as a trainman ''Rutherfords' '' who has many aliases and whose real name is believed to be Frauleigh, would board a train and ask for trans- portation. His knowledge of railroad matters was so good that he would get aboard and if he could get into the baggage car he would leave the train with a valise or a. dress suit case. Get ting of the train at the nearest sta tion he would peel off his overadls and Jumper and check the stolen baggage to some other station.
 Thursday night, March II, the pas senger train leaving New Haven at SEQ o'clock stopped at Milford and BaggagemaSter Lush looking out the train door saw a, man getting aboard with overallS on who had boarded a train on which Lush was running from New Haven as conductor on Feb ruary 25- From a. description of ''Rutherford' posted in the conductors room at New Haven, Lush believed that he had detected the baggage thief The description sent out by the com roaIly said he was feet 4 inches tall while he was actually feet 10 inches high.
 Lush promptly told Conductor Man ming of his suspicious and the latter found the would-be trainman in the toilet room of the rear coach He told Conductor Manning he was one of Con- duo 411< Inc tuck division and had left his pass at home. He gave his name as George Fairchild. After he had told this story the conductor took him into the bag gage car where Lush recognized him as the fellow who had boarded his train two weeks before at New Haven and sai6 he was George Fairchild, a brakeman who lad got left flaggiug a take his crew before it reached liar lem River. His pass he claimed to have left in the .caboose.
 Tbe suspect was allowed to ride to this city where he was detained by the railroad men. It happened that the train arrived at just the time one of the railroad station cops had gone off duty and his relief did net arrive for half hour later.
 The members of the train crew halt ed. the train for 12 minutes looking for a policeman. They finally found Spe- cia1 officer John keenan in POlIS theatre and asked him if he thought the boys in the gallery would be quiet long enough for him to come out to arrest a crook who was wanted in two states. The special thought they would and he took the man to police headquarters. When under arrest ggagemaSter Lush saw Rutherford take something out of the pocket of his blouse and place 1t in the hip pocket of his trousers. It proved to be an employees pass on the New York Central railroad and a number of pawn tickets in a leather case.
 This case Lush turned over to Gap tain Arnold of the detective bureau and the latter left it on his desk while examining Ruth herford. Later it was missed and the police surmfse that the baggage theft stole it while the New York Central pass and the pawn tickets were damaging evidence against Rutherford in New York and it is believed he tore them up and dropped them down the sewer in his cell.
 But the pass and pawn tickets will not be needed to convict the prisoner in this state and Massachusetts he had confessed to several thefts be- tween this city and Boston. This morning the prisoner was taken to New London to allow the trainmen and police at that place to get a look at him.
 Beneath his overalls Rutherford wore a. fine tailor made suit of clothes and had $23 in money in his clothes which shows one instance where the skidoo number was actually Unlucky.