Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-14

ploy at the time of the robbery. He
knew how to get into the store by a
back way and how to run the elevator
on which he took the safe into the
cellar before he broke it OPEN He got
$6S.
For a number of months after the
Smith store burglary he lay quiet, but
he next startled Ae business men by
the burglary at the Manhattan store,
where it was reported he got between
$50 and $40. He got in by a ladder and
a skylight, beginning his work about 5
o'clock in the morning and finishing
about 6.45. He got access to the Man
haitian building by way of the Ward
building, but at the time of the Man
haitian burglary the police could find
no way by which the burglar had made
his way into the store. After the
burglary at the United Cigar Stores
company, when the skylight route was
used, this gave the police a hint and
they went back to the Manhattan
store and discovered the way of the
break, which they had overlooked be-
fore.
The United Cigar Stores burglary,
one of the most daring of the jobs, was
done between $50 and $50 in the
morning according to what Dombrof-
ski says, which tallies with the time of
noises heard by Waterman in an ad-
Joining building, who failed to report
the matter to the police until the next
day. Had he made report at the time,
the police could have easily had the
man in their hands, aa ne was at work
on the safe in the cellar into which
he had dumped It from the store floor.
1t was reported that $500 was secured
in this robbery.
Tho burglary at the F. A. Wells
company store was the last in the Sc
ries and here it was reported Chat
q knfYf 2700
Ing to Dorlbrofskl, WAS done about 10
o'clock in tho evening, and proves to
have been q daring job also, as a po-
lieeman visited that noighborhood
about five times that night, but the
burglar wSs clever enough to guard
against discovery by replacing the
glaas in the aiylisht through which
he got into the store.
A shift in the officer Oh the carly
morning beat was made Immediately
after this ana a younger man was put
on and some change in tho hours was
made go that q policeman was on Main
atreet all through the early morning,
It was requested that no public mem
ton be made OF this for fear of in
forming the burglar but he apparently
knew. abeut II anyway, for the breaks
ended from that time on, One man
was also detailed to plain clothes duty
and all the officers on their beats COW
cred their routes with extreme care
searching all alleywayE and making
sure that they knew everyone who
was On the streets at any time of the
night or carly morning. With tho first
Of the present month the plain clothes
man and the special detail were end
ed.
Dombrofsi<i. who is married. ad-
mitted that he stole this last sIedge
hammer from the Household store or
Franklin street and got tho ehisels
from his father. They came from the
scrap heap at Vaughn's foundry. He
said he was about to break into the
Mohican store on the night he was
arrested,
When presented IN the city court on
Thursday he had Attorney Allyn L.
Brown for counsel. The case went
over to Friday under bonds of So ,o00
Dombrofsi<i has been running the
Gem grocery store at So Franklin
street. On Thursday afternoon at 8
o'clock 1t was closed by Deputy Sheriff
George H. Stanton. who attached the
stock on a 5000 claim by the Stoddard-
Gilbert Co.