The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-31
LOCAL RAIL ROAD
 CL ERIK HELD FOR
 BLACK MAIL PLOT
Chaincey H. Hovey Under $10,- O00 Bonds Awaits Hearing
 in Hartford Court.
AFTER GUN
 FIGHT WITH sLEUTHs
Decoy Package Sent in Re- sponse to Threat Lvres Him Into Police
 Tolls.

Chauncey H. Hovey. aged 2S, son of MT and Mrs Marshall w Hovey of sSO Huntington road, is held in bail of s1o-ooo on the charge of attennpt- ing to extorts through t1reate ming let ters. $S.OOo from Sylvester H. Dun ham. president of the Travellers In snrance Go. of Hartford In the Hart- ford city court today he pleaded guilty fo the charge of extorticn, also to that Of carrying concealed weapons. His arrest. yesterday, by Harsford de tectfres in that city, created a. sensa- ton when the facts leading lzp to his apprehension became known A bull let passed through his clothing but
 did not injulre him. He was renaanded' far a. further hearing on Satrr rrday-
 Five years ago, when HoTey lived here. he was we'll known as a clerk in tf,e 3Dcsl rxilroad offfces. His home ofs late, has been at 36 Stebbiz1s street. SDr7nxfie1d, Mass, with his wife and two zehfldren. He visited his parents hbre last week Hovey's arrest, yes- terday was made by Detective Serge ant nIe7berEer after a fierce sfTuggle in which revolver shots were fred no one, however. being injured Hovey, who is out of work. went to Hartford from Springf1eId on March 19s and xrfnE to tha office of the Postal TeiH- graph and Cable company secured q
 messenger boy and sent bE hin g. mes ET&&EA4z6d1L tA 2 s5so00- It was de1iT cred to and read by his secretary. Alfred D. Howard. who turned the matter over to the DO lies without bringing it to 1fr. Dun hams attention
 Hoxey left Springfield by train yes- terdav morning and arrived in Hart ford about noon About 2-15 o'clock he went to the Western Union office and aEain sent a message to Rresi- ssent Dunhann renewing his demands eUr $5,G0G Before sending the mess zIs4 he made a1rangements with the ol S.noney delivered to him In front of Isng1ey's lunch room, State street, at 10 clock.
 MT. Duni1am called the police and told them of the message He In formed the police that the fake package would De delivered to the messenger hoy
 sHovey met the boy In front of Long 1exss restaurant. where he was given the package and followed by the de- ner Of Market and State streets 1fel berger approached Hovey and started to arrest him. when HoveY drew a re- vo1Fer and attempted to run away. Metberger drew hia FsRp1ver and open ed fire on him, shoftis9g twice but not
 1he detertive ahsBed Trovey by the throat and scuffls ezasued, in which both z. .s1nen stauggled for several minutes. Rsefore the dsfec-1 tive. became master of the satuation and finally placed H0Eey und CT arrest When Hovey Was5 searched 1t was found that his revolver was not load ed ssz
 Hovey said that Eezsa considerable period he had been heEap1oyed in the stock departxnen ent5of She en dee man Fl ufacturing company rHSpringfi cid but was laid off several weeks ago and had since been out of zsnork being un able to secure job ofsany kind He said that he became desDerate because of the straits 5n which his wife and children were placed by reason of lack of funds and determined on the plan to attempt to get money from Mir. Dunham- He later modified tine story Ry saying that he was forced to com hitting the attempted b1ankI1an be- cause of a large debt which he wanted to pay
 the Hendee plant where he had worked steadily till last Thursday he is said to be a man of good habits and so far as the local police could deter mine. had never been arrested before. No cause could be assigned for his de- rnands upon MT. Dunham unless it is| that he is demented.
 When Hovey was being stripped for the Berti1Ion measurements it was found that one of the bullets fired by Detective Sergeant Lewis G. Melberger had gone through his coat and flat tened on cuff link but the flesh was untouched A brother-in law of Hovey arrived here from Springfield after court adjourned. 1t is not believed that Hovey will be able to secure a bondsman- He was tzken to jail after court adjourned