St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-11-27
A BREAK AND CAPTURE
Sheriff WOrthen Rounded Up Bad
Gang Of Local Thieves and Rum
seIIer.-Hearing Today.

Early Saturday morning three
men broke into the pool rooms of
Robert Cobb at the corner of Eastern
Avenue and Main street and some
small change, a revolver, pipes.
cigars, tobacco and cigarettes taken.
They then went to Flint Brothers
drug store on Main street and start
ed to make a break but were scared
away before they had got into the
building. The three men supposed to
have committed the robbery, two
others implicated with them and a
sixth man who sold some alcohol to
the crowd have been placed under
arrest and are IN jail awaiting a
hearing before Judge Porter today
The men arrested are William
Druce, Anton Sullivan, Joseph Jen-
nings. Douglas 4ourden, Joseph Pas
torell and John Brennan.
The captures were made within
few hours after the breaks and
were the result of very good work
on the part CT Sheriff Worthen, as
sisted by the police and the officers
at the E. and T. Fairbanks and Co.
Office.
Sheriff Worthen was called about
% Saturday morning and told
that some men were trying to break
into the Flint Brothers store He
dressed and went up there but the
breakers had fed. He Investigated
about the store until nearly four
o'clock and found revolver which
he hoped might give some clue.
About seven o'clock in the morn
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his place had been broken into and
goods stolen. The sheriff showed Mr..
Cobb the revolver he had found at
the Flint store and Mr.. Cobb iden-
titled it as one belonging to his part
ner. Sheriff Worthen then found out
that four men were in Cobb's place
about Ills Friday night and that
they were employed at the Fair
banks shops, but no one knew their
names.
He then went to the shops and
described the men so he learned
their names. He found they had
been boarding at the Fairbanks
boarding house but had recently left
and gone to the house by the farm
barns to board. He went there and
found that Sullivan was in his room
asleep. He searched the room and
found some pennies, pipes, ciga-
rettes and tobacco and another re-
volver. He placed Sullivan in jail
and then went back to the Fairbanks
office and the men were called in
one by one and quizzed and as fast
as they were cornered in their talk
they were taken to Jail.
1t was found the men were in
toxicated the evening previous and
that Douglas Burden had purchased
the alcohol for them. Further inves-
tigation showed that they all con-
Jributed money for the purchase OF
the liquor and Burden got it of a
man named John Brennan who
boarded on Railroad street. He
was placed under arrest Monday
morning and will have to face the
charge of selling today.
The officers believe that the break
was made by Druce, Sullivan and |
Jennings and that Pastoreu and
Burden were implicated with them.
Burden will also have to face the
charge of furnishing liquor. The
first three men named came here
from New Britain, Conn.,, and Sc
cured employment at the Fairbanks
shops. Nothing was known. concern
ing them but the shops were in need
of men and they were the only ones
who could be secured. Druce has
served time in Connecticut for
stealing and the others have had
mara or IacS oxnarienca in nris0u