The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
BURGLARS
 SENTENCED
Derby Looters, Admitting
 Guilt, Are Punished

Arthur Lahaye was sentenced to prison for from 1 to 2 years; Will liam Garrity to jail for 1 year and Patrick Purcell and Frank Lees to iail for months each in the Grim
 inal Superior court today. The first \ two pleaded guilty to burglary, but
 the others at first strenuously denied
 their complicity in the crime for
 winch all four were arrested. With
 their trial half finished th.s afternoon
 they decided to admit their guilt.
 That house breaking and burglar
 ies have their conception following
 drunken debauches, was never more
 truthfully shown than today in the
 Criminal Superior court, when two
 young men, both confessed burglars,
 witnesses against two of their com
 panions in crime, told how they met,
 drank together until their senses be- came stupefied, stayed around the saloons until put out at closing hour, then, with nothing else to do, from their thoughts, conceived to rob.
 The young men are William Gar rity of Derby and Arthur Lahaye of Shelton. They are witnesses for the state against Patrick Purcell and ter on trial before Judge Lucien r. Burpee and jury. Garrity and Lahaye have pleaded guilty, the other two accused pleaded not guilty. The four with one Williams, now at large, en- tered Clarke's hardware store in Shei- ton on the evening of Nov. 12. Lees and Purcell did the watching while the others pulled off the job. The two claimed that though they we're left on the lookout" they actually did not keep watch. This is for the jury to decide.
 k11ok !, evening in question he had been hanging around Derby, had taken a few drinks, but was not then intoxi- cated. Later in the evening he met the four others being invited to join them in drink. They became in- saloons until closing time. Then, after being put out of the saloons. with nothing else to do they decided to take a walk. Their walk brought them over the bridge connecting Derby and Shelton. All being with Most of them knowing Clark's store and the lay out, planned to enter that place. Lahaye, Garrity and Williams were to effect an entrance while the other two were to be left on watch. Signals were arranged. Two whistles by those on the "post" signified the approach Of dan""r. Two whistles by those breaking into the place. signified that all were to re- convene. When all was over, the five were to meet at the old bridge. Following the burglary, Williams, La have and Garrity hid the spells amons some old ailroad ties and went back near the rendezvous. Williams and Lahaye stayed on the Shelton sids of the bridge while Garrity went ill search of the two watchers.
 Garrity after locating Purcell and fn ovnantQH to find the other two men. They could not be located. Garrity took the two to the place where the plum der was hidden. but the goods had vanished. He then left them and re- turned to his home in Derby while | they went to their homes in Shelton.
 Arthur Lahaye has served with the United States army in the Philippines and has received several medals for craftsmanship. He has served time ! story of Garrity in most respects ] civilians made the suggestion that | we break into Clark's store. and I sec onded the motion.'' said Lahaye. "No l one else voted on the question"
 Lahaye says that after he and Will Hams left Garrity at the bridge when | the latter went in search of the two l watchers. he and Williams returned to | where they had hidden the stolen goods. including nine revolvers. about a dozen razOrS and some gloves, ap- them themselves. The next day the two went to Danbury on their way disposing of some of the | stolen goods.
 Yesterday afternoon in the session of the court when Abraham Melin xoff was sentenced to states prison for from 25 to 30 years on two counts of indecent assault and was led of to his cell, his wife followed to the cell room. Here she engaged her husband in lengthy discussion con- corning her future. She asked him for what money he possessed declar- Inr that she intended to institute