The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-21
Thefts From U. M. c. Go. Total Nearly $1OO,0OO,
 Plant Officials Believe
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moved at the orders of Wright to | prevent identification.
 A curious individual, however, lift | ed the canvas and found instead of | junk, shining new aluminium wire, | which is valued at 70 cents a pound. | This reached the ears of the po-
 lice, who, yesterday, went to the junk
 mans shop to investigate. They
 found that the wire had been trans
 shipped to New York by Albert via
 boat, Tuesday and they immediately
 put the junk dealer through a rigid
 investigation.
 | While they were interrogating him,
 Joseph G. Wright, in a touring car
 driven by a colored chauffeur, ap- peared on the scene to collect from AL
 pert in cash, having received only g.
 small deposit, and disdaining to ac-
 cept a check. The policeman placed
 him under arrest, Wright indignantly
 protesting.
 | ''Why, you don't know who I am,"
 declared the insulted politician. You
 are making big mistake in arrestins
 me.
 | Call up Mayor Wilson of Bridge
 port, he's my personal chum, or Su-
 perfntendent of Police Redgate-why.
 put him in office. Everybody in
 Bridgeport knows me. I am an inti-
 mate friend of John T. King, his po- ! litical adviser, and Alexander Robin
 sons pal"
 The policeman surveyed the colored
 chauffeur, the touring car and the | glib, suave Wright and for moment
 ilesitated. But 1t was for a moment only. Then he was taken to the sta | tion house. The police of this city i,,,v, J;o% %o1 R. N. Davies, head of the U.i M. c. in- vestigating bureau, who is now in New York recovering the wire, was called into the case.
 Lieutenant Cronan placed Nathaniel Wright under arrest last night, at his home, "A Wood avenue, this city.
 while Supt. Redgate went to New Ha- ven and brought the other to this city. Joseph's mother immediately had him released in $5.000 bonds, while his
 brother langu1shed behind cell bars. In court this morning both cases were continued until next Saturday, to give the brothers an opportunity
 to obtain counsel, and their bonds
 were reduced to $2,50O each by Judge Frederic Bartlett. The other brother
 got bail this afternoon.
 The police assert that there at present more than $10,00O worth of aluminium wire has been stolen. Ex- elusive of the amount of wire recover l ed in New York a lot of 7,500 pounds | received recently at the plant, and
 which the officials know has not been used in the plant, is unaccounted for. I Diligent interstate search will be
 instituted to attempt to find metal dealers who have purchased the other lot of wire, or material of any kind that has been taken from the plant. Lieut.. Cronan stated today that the New Haven junk dealer personally purchased the wire and resold it to a New York dealer. each making a sub
 stantial profit. ( In view of the fact that. Wright
 could give any teamster a pass which would admit him with, his wagon to | the stock room and at the same tinne l allow him to depart with the load, escaping detection. there is some con- fusion.
 The authorities are at loss to de- termine just what the aggregate loss to the company is It Is known to certainty, however, that at least moro than $10.000 worth c. aluminium is missing.
 The arrest of the brothers came as thunderbolt out of clear sky and
 as a shock to their many acquaint- ances
 Joseph c. Wright is prominently identified with local politics and has
 been for years on the inside of Re- publican party doings and although hot member he was often seen at regular meetings of the Republican town committee in their Fairfield ave- nue headquarters.
 He is a, close friend of Mayor wil- son's. accompanying him often on au- tomobile trips outings and social af- fadrs. The moro prominent Republi- can politicians of the city are intimate friends of Wright. J. Alexander H. Robinson, city clerk and chairman of whom Wright for years had been closely identified, made every effort to obtain bah for Nathaniel last night, working until o'clock this morning without success, to round up bonds man.
 Joseph was employed for many years as a salesman by a concern that manufactures disinfectants and per- fumed soap. The brothers informed the police that they willingly would make resti- tution for the amount of aluminium wire reported missing, but it Is re- ported that the officials of the com pany emphatically turned down their offers to quash the case and will demand that the brothers be jailed for the theft,