The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-05
GREAT FAIRFIELD HIGHWAY ROBBERY
 MYSTERY SOLVED
Reprehensible Drunks, Who Frightened Honest Old Town, Sentenced to Jail

of the Clerks Union, asked the Far mer today to deny the story printed in a morning paper that he had been held up in Fairfield last night.
 ''It's bad enough to be put down as having been held up, when I wasn't '' said Mr Marshall; "but that isn't the worst of it. Everyone wants to know what the deuce I was doing in Fair field. of all places. I wasn't within five miles of Fairfield, but passed a peaceable evening at the Clerks club
 Special to the Farmer.)
 Fairfield, April 6-Stern Justice had her way in Judge Bacon Wakeman's 8 court this morning, and the two rep rehensible ''drunks'' who struck terror to the heart of Fairfield last evening were passed up to the county jail for thirty days apiece.
 According to the statement of the culprits, they were looking not for money but for bird seed. As one of them said:
 '.Steal? Why, we wouldn't steal enough to feed a canary bird!"
 Roy K Clark, a dry goods buyer from Bridgeport, who was alleged to have been held up by the ''despera- does, was summoned to court but
  charge of attempted highway robbery was not pressed against Fairfield's un- expected visitors. Clark said there had been no robbery.
 The "culprits", who gave their names as Thomas Hall and Joseph Kennedy of New York, awning mend CTS by profession, arrived in Fairfield early last evening. They said that they never saw Fairfield before, and far from intending to pass the night there, had nothing but burning de- sire to get out. They got off at Fair field by mistake, having taken the wrong train from Bridgeport. Being slightly intoxicated, they were con- fused by the fog and rain. town was immediately noised about Fairfield by wireless telegraphy. Bolts were shot, shutters closed, and car pines taken from the wall. The two unintentional visitors, chilled by the rain, first presented themselves at Noon's saloon. then at the Fairfield garage. and finally at Boyle's drug store. Their bedraggled appearance struck terror all around and with the remem brance of the past performances of Yeeg men at MT. Pickett's popular post office Fairfield prepared for war.
 About II o'clock it became noised about that the strangers had held up someone on Sanford avenue. Upon this John Boyle and others formed themselves in posse and at pistol point captured the "desperadoes'', who were arraigned before Attorney Clitus King and locked up in the garage over night
 MT. Brown, at the garage. testified this morning that he had admitted a very frightened person. whose eyes bulged and whose hair stood on end. The visitor said that he had been held up by a couple of Yegg men from New York. MT Brown packed the man off on a Bridgeport trolley car. That was all that could be ascertained con- corning the hold-up story.
 Roy K Clark, the person alleged to have been held up, was not called to testify, but stated outside of court that he wasn't held up at all. He saw the two men at the station and didn't like their looks. He asked to be admitted to the garage to be let out of the rain. That was all
 Justice Wakeman found the two men guilty of vagrancy and sentenced them to iail for a month apiece.