The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-12
BURGLAR WHO ENTERED WYRTzEN'S STORE WILL
 BE TRIED ON MONDAY
Confession of Man Now in New York Prison Led to His Arrest-Gas Go.
 Has Colossal Nerve.''
(By Our Special correspondent-)

(By Our Special Correspondent)
 Fairfield, July 12.-John Gray, who is known by the police throughout the east under many other names, who with Charles Truax and one Brown, broke into the c. A. Wyrtzen store on the evening of Jan. 19, of this year, will be brought to town from New York on Mondap and tried before Jus tice Bacon Wakeman. Probable cause will undoubtedly be found and the accused will be bound over to the Superior court Gray and Truax were caught in New York some time ago. Truax was convicted of robbery and given a ten years sentence. In prison he made a confession in which he mentioned that with Gray and Brown they blew the safe in Wyrtzen's s store.
 Brown is now at large. Gray was captured with Truax when they were caught at a job in New York Their favorite pastime was to crack the cash registers in the stores of the United Cigar Go Another popular trick with them was to pry into the safes of butchers Their only hard part of this work was to move the heavy safe into the ice box. Once there the work was easy. The ice box served as a cuffler for the explosion. After blowing the safe at Wyrtzen's, there was but twenty-five cents in pennies in the safe at the time, the men had to hurry away as the town was awak- ened. E. w. s. Pickett took a few shots at the fleeing thieves but miss ed. According to Truax in his con fession the shot came very close to laying him low.
 s"These public service corporations have colossal nerve.'' said well known citizen yesterday. Look at. what they are doing now. The state department came along last year and gas company set it's men at work dig ging small holes in the new pavement testing for gas leaks. They then filled in the holes with cement. Now squares about 8, foot each way have been dug about the filled in holes and will be filled in with the Warrenite pavement. I suppose when complet- ed the road will look like the neatest crazy quilt ever made by any woman in this town. The speaker voiced his opinion that Fairfield would not get into the same class as Bridgeport in the matter of torn up pavem ents. He said, Every time they lay new pavement there, along comes the gas company or the water company or a sewer must be laid, and up comes the pavement. It's fine business. They have stood for it in Bridgeport, but I hope they don't go at it too strongly here. What they are doing now is bad enough"
 Last spring the gas company drove holes into the new pavement testing for leaking gas. They flledd the holes up temporarily with cement un- til the Warren Bros Co, who did the work returned this year to extend the paving
 Sheriff Elwood says that tire of his machine blew out yesterday when he passed over one of the neat little squares.
 The Warren Bros Go, who are lay ing the new pavement have found that it would be impracticable to lay the Warrenfte over the macadam near the PeQuot Swamp. Their men have l made big skip near the swamp Jumping to the trolley switch. En- | gfneers have found that the road at | the swamp is unstable and sunken and that a sub-roadway will have to be | constructed. Heavy pIanking has been ordered. These will be laid deep in the road and the pavement l laid on the blanks.
 When the Bremen of Fairfield Fire Go No. 2 hold their picnic at NoreIl's | grove on July 27, there will be on ex- hibitfon the new hand chemical en- | zine recently purchased by the com pany. With the new chemical which has a capacity of 60 gallons, in ser vice. at the end of the month the fire company will be able to fight tf1eirI fires without the aid of the auto chemical from Fairfield center.