The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-08
NEW CLUTHES
 BETRAY BOLD CRACKSMEN
New Haven Police Seize Pair |. Fleeing From Local
 Burglary
Donned Clothes Stolen From Gately & Brennan's and
 Fled to Elm City

ly executed robberies in the canter n
 this fn1s city @ for g a number, of years. and
 lice authorities in Bridgeport and
 New Haven, in arranging their cap- Harry St Clair and Albert Monohan. of Providence. R. l., broke into and robbed the Gateley 6 Brennan cloth ing store. at 1s5 State street, of cloth rested before nine o'clock this morn ing in New Haven on information furnished here, and later are said to
 have confessed to a series of burglar ies from a chain of stores They will
 be returned to Bridgeport when New Haven sentences are completed.
 E Surrounded by banking institutions carefully guarded both night and day
 by as elaborate system of protection as the ingenuity of man has devised, those implicated were compelled to surmount iron picketed gateRays or
 pass directly through the Park thea
 Ire building. scale the one story
 ing and the Bridgeport Trust Com
 pany, under the very eyes of ary
 watchman in that institution, and
 break a, pane of glass so that the
 sash might be opened.
 Working under the rays of a high
 powered incandescent light the burg
 coats, one suit, and new shoes. valued
 at over SITS and departed by way of
 the rear door which they unbarreo
 One of the robbers here divested him
 self of an outer coat which was later
 found by the building janitor, Olaf
 Johnson, whose duty it Is to open and
 Court street to the alley each night and morning at six o'clock
 The robbery took place between II and o'clock & when escape 9 ,,sn w11n r the
 the premises was effected under the
 guise of stage hands moving prop
 critics Watchmen In the staptes Sank Ss
 streets, and in the Bridgeport Trust
 Company, heard no unusual noise al
 ter the theatre closing hour although
 a ragged hole in an upper window at
 the rear of the Brennan store indi- cated that mans fist had been push =
 ee e9 b1ao1 bhro1sa and dne hggar-prtnts indieets
 that a desperate man performed the feat.
 Manager John Sheridan who clos ed the store at o'clock last night was the first to discover that it had
 been entered during the night as clothing was strewn all over the fl DOT as discriminating hands had selected the more expensive garments from among racks containing clothing of 3S sued when the shoe-sheIves were loot ed. He at once te1ephoned police headquarters and Detective Fox was vey, it was decided that outside crooks were implicated and communication by telephone with all the surround ing chiefs of police resulted ihl the apprehension of two suspects through Chief of Police Henry D. -Cowles of New Haven before a. m. Over
 coats answering the description of those missing and new shoes upon their feet furnished clues upon which
 they were held subject to identifica- ton of the local detective who left on the 1O.45 train for that city.
 The Gateley & Brennan establish ment has been a general target for
 burglaries during the past few years.
 When located in Main street it was entered by thieves who escaped but were later captured in New York.
 Two years ago the New Haven store was sensationally broken into by burglars who but two weeks previous ly had similarly robbed the New Lon don branch.
 The quick work on the part of De tective Fox resulted in the capture of Harry St. Clair and Albert Mono ham, who claim their home address .sas Providence, R. I. They were appre- hended while entering New Haven upon a description furnished by the Bridgeport police and when confront cd by Detective Fox and Manager Sheridan of the Brennan store were mitted the clothes they wore were some of the loot taken last night. A further confession to other burglaries was made by the prisoners who allege they disposed of the goods in Hart Sord- The police are sceptica1 on this point as they do not believe sufficient time elapsed for the journey unless