The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-16
''H0LD-UP" MAN MAKES NEW HAUL GETS $50 FROM NEW HARTFORD MAN AT THE MUZZLE OF
 A GUN.
SHOT FIRED DURING
 GRAPpLE THAT ENSUED
Nepau@ Desperate Traced to Union
 vile and BristOl-On Trail.

1 New Hartford, Nov. >16-For the who has been terrorizing this neigh 1 borhood by frequent hold ups', put | in an appearance last evening, and at the point Of gun in the home of Ed gar W. Richards he forced the latter to give up his months wages, amount ing to $50 in bills and some change. This time the affair came near being more serious, for Mr. Richards was not nearly as amenable to losing his
 money as was the case with Mr Ma son of Nepaug a week ago, and in his attempt to grab the strangers gun it was discharged, but the bullet sped
 by him.
 As Richards was returning from his
 work in Collinsville about o'clock he was met by a man, who accosted him and said that he wanted to buy some
 COWS. The stranger followed Mr. Rich
 ards to his house and when he went
 in he also entered. AS soon as they got inside the door the stranger point ed gun at Richards and demanded
 his money. The latter made grab
 for the gun and it was discharged, the
 bullet passing so close to Richards that the powder burned his neck The robber knocked Richards down. took the money from his pocket and es- capped.
 When Richards notified the authori- ties of his loss a search was made for the stranger and late last evening it was believed that they had got on the track of the man, who has been work ing So thoroughly in this section. Richards described his assailant as a tall, thin faced fellow, with prominent high cheek bones. He was slim and was about 30 years old. He wore dark clothing. It was soon found out that a man tallying with that description
 had been in the Unionville Hotel ear ly in the afternoon and had hired a team there. He went away and came back again with the rig about s | o'clock last evening. It is thought that he had meanwhile been to New Hartford and carried out, the hold up' at Richards home. He then an- nounced that he intended to take a trolley car for Hartford, but the police think that this was but a blind, for they believe they can even trace him to Bristol, whither he went after
 holding up'' L. S. Mason, an elderly farmer, on the evening of Monday, Nov. 6.
 The description of the man who en- tered the Mason home in Nepaug cor l responds to that of the man who got away with MT. Richards money last evening. At the Mason house he en- lCiSo alt lCI h.AoChi1lS dl tHS dOOI dIiO | said that he was a government in- spector looking for counterfeiters, and that he was inspecting all the money inthat section to see that it was not spurious. MT. Mason showed him $100 and he immediately pronounced it good, pocketing it and drawing a pistol, threatening to shoot if the far
 mer said word. He then disappear ed
 An investigation since then has brought to light man, who picked up another man answering that de-
 scription, and drove him to Bristol late in the evening Of the robbery at the
 Mason home. Further than this the authorities believe that he is chap who short time ago was employed by milkman named Dowd in Ne paug.
 The first time that this ''hold up''
 man made his appearance was at New
 Hartford on Saturday, Oct. 2S, when
 he tried to rob Miss Ida Goldsmith,
 but this attempt failed.