The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-11
IS BOUND OVER ON JEWEL
 ROBBERY CHARGE
Commodore Burritt Identi- fies Him As Youth Who
 Broke Store Window

After he was identified by Commo- dore Francis Burritt, owner of the Tom Thumb diamond, as the person who broke the window in the jewelry store of D. A. Parker in the Arcade, Albert Lewis, aged 19, of Boston, was bound over to the superior court this morning by Judge Bartlett in the city court.
 Bonds were fixed at S2,5oo. The
 case will be heard in the February
 term Lewis admitted the theft after being confronted with the evidence. Commodore Burritt, who resides in the Arcade hotel, saw Lewis and in
 court he testified that he had observ- ed him breaking the window. Up to
 that' time, Lewis had asserted that a,
 confederate did the actual stealing.
 Miss Nellie Parker and Edward Ryan, both employees of the store
 were other witnesses. They described
 how the chase after Lewis began. Lewis said that on his arrival in
 this city Thursday he met another
 young man near the Atlantic hotel
 and the latter told him of the job to 1 be performed at Parker's, which
 would net each of them about $1,200.
 They met at 5 o'clock yesterday af-
 ternoon as Agreed and wended their way to Parker's store in, the Arcade
 by way of an alley. In his statement
 to the police Lewis says that he wait i ed in the alleyway while his partner l SInaSn6d the J6We4Ty SlOE0 W12dOW
 with 9 paper covered brick, which he had picked from a pile on NGiddle,I i street. On smashing the window the other
 member is alleged to have seized a tray of diamonds and a stickpin val ued at $500. Lewis says that his part ,ner handed him the tray in front of the Arcade barber shop and they then parted. Lewis with the tray of dia- monds ran through the alleyway to
 Cannon street thence through How lands department store to Fairfield avenue. He was pursued west on
 Fairfield avenue by. a crowd of citi- zens who were led to join in the chase on hearing the cry of Stop thiefH emanating from year old Edward Ryan of i2687 Main street, an employe at Parker's store. Policeman Robert Simmons, doing traffic duty at Fairfield avenue and Broad street joined in the chase as the thief ran by his post. Lewis was being closely pursued and in an effort to evade his captorS he ran into an aIIeyway east of the undertaking par , lors of Henry A. Bishop, opposite the
 Bijou theatre. He entered a garage and hid himself in, the undrtakr s hearse. Here he was found by Po-1 nceman Simmons who placed him uIl-
 der arrest.
 The tray of diamonds was found in the hearse.
 Lewis comes from Boston, Mass. lsaand he gives his age as 19. He gave | his nationality as Russian.
 The Jewellers Security Alliance will pay a reward of $1oO. to the captors of the thief and there will be a mad scramble for the coveted reward on the part of several citizens who allege
 that they were instrumental in the capture. | This is the fourth time that this | ieweIry store has been robbed and | hoO hen caught It was only two weeks ago that the Jewellers Security Alliance i paid a reward of $10o to Policeman | Clifford N. Gorgas, Sergeant Isaac
 Williams and Edward G. Flanagan, the latter a civilian, for the capture and conviction of John Watson, who
 burglarized the store early last, sum- mer.