Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-08
Of Hiring Burglar 10 Rob
His Company's Safe
Is Made by Cashier Samuel
Brown al Jersey City
After Burglar Is Killed In Aet-fhs
Cashier Short $4,000.

| Jersey City. Aug As a result Of
the alleged attempt last night to de-
stroy the records of the Long Dock
Mills and Elevator to conceal short
| age of $500 in the accounts of Sam
uel Brown, the cashier. Brown ana
Patrick j. Timmons. an expert &C
countant. are in jail under the charges
of arson, conspiracy and granddaughter.
| The police hold a confession bearing
| Browns signature explaining his plans
| for the crime and naming Timmohs,
his good friend, as an accomplish.
Frank Walsh, known as Lightning,
the burglar, who was hired to do the
job. died today of his burns.
Brown was arrested when he report
ed for work today. His employers
told the police that experts examined
the accounts last week and had set
today for examining the books. After
| little resistance to the detectives
questioning Brown told them that he
had been short since Jan. 1 and that
Timmons worked on the books as
friend for three months trying to doc
tor them.
The police did not tell Brown, upon
arresting him, that Walsh died in his
attempt. Instead, they tried to batter
his defence and. one of them said
irrelevantly Walsh died at o'clock
this morning
Brown gripped his chair. his breath
came hard and his eyes stared. My
Cod he gasped. Il can't have
mans death on my soul" Then he
made the alleged confession.
| Timmons was arrested near his
home in Newark. He had been out
until o'clock this morning. his wife
told the police and was very nervous
| when he got up. They found him at
a nearby saloon.
Il have nothing to say" he told
| them and he stuck to the phrase In
termitently the detectives have been
at him all the afternoon and night,
seeking to get confession, but TO
each he has given the same reply
The safe was found intact, although
the police at first glance thought that
I it's doors had been blown from It's
hinges. There was no evidence of an
explosion, the firemen say but plenty
| of evidence to show that gasoline had
been used literally. The books, how
| ever. although soaked with the fluid,
were only charred about the edges
Brown and Timmons will be ar
raigned tomorrow in the second crirni-
nal court. The charge of manslaugh-
ter grows out of the arson charge, as
under the New Jersey law, arson re-
sulting fatally is defined as man
slaughter.
When Walsh was found by the fire
men, with his eyes blown out and his
clothing all but burned from his body,
| he said that he went into the ONCE.
the door being open. to sleep He was
smoking a cigarette, he said. and fell
asleep, and he supposed the cigarette
set the place afre At the hospital,
| he gave detectives his address in East
Newark and shortly afterward lapsed
INTO insensibility. He recovered con-
seriousness several hours later and WAS
told that he would die of his burns
Now" querried a detective, won't
you tell us how il happened?'
Walsh shook his head and straight
ened on his cot 1t was his last act.
Timmons made statement late to-
night IN which he is said to have ad-
n1ttted going with Brown and Walsh
to the Long Dock Offices. Brown open
ed the safe door. Timmons went to get
drink and when he came back Brown,
was gone Walsh told him to get out
and he went back to the saloon. Fifteen
| minutes later woman said there was
a fire at the office. Timmons kicked II,
the office door and when the firemen
carried Walsh out, Timmons went to
Browns house
Why didn't you tell me you We're
going to do it?'' he asked Brown.
Brown abused him, he says and he
returned to Jersey City, after telling
him that Walsh was dead
Timmons added that he did not know
that Brown was short in his account.
New York. Aug. THE Jersey
| City police today declared that Sam
ue' Brown. cashier of the Long Dock
| Milling Co. had confessed that he had
employed Frank Walsh to blow open
the safe in his office and destroy two
ledgers which he said would show
that he was about $500 short In his
| accounts.
Walsh died IN the hospital today, his
| eyes having been blown out and his
body charred from the effects of over
loading the safe of the Milling Co.
with nitro-glyeerine. Up to the end he
was game and insisted that he had
gone into the office to sleep and that
lighted cigarette had set fire to his
clothes He said he could not explain
tho explosion.
When the company informed the
police that the combination of the
| safe had been changed only Saturday
| afternoon and that an expert VS. 10
| have started work on the books To-
dav the police sent for Cashier Brown
| They said that when told of Walsh's
| death he broke down and declared thar
when he heard that the books were to
be examined today he knew that DIS
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