The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-21
STAR WITNESS IN NEW
HAVEN ROADS PERJURY CASE,
LIVES ROYALTY AT IT'S EXPENSE
Lineman, Well Known Here, Has Been Under Subpoena,
But Has Been Entertained in Best Hotels, For Year
More.

been Forthcoming from the New Ha-
ven in payment for the board and
lodging of Breen and tDowd and the
private detectives engaged by MIR.
Weeks Not only that, but this money
included salaries of 81 a day to both
Breen and Dowd, which is more
handsome treatment than they would
have received had they been con-
fined in the usual way in the coun-
ty prison. Furthermore. it is even
Baid, that Breen and Dowd> were paid
for Sundays as well as week days.
While at the Carlyon Arms, at the
Werner Hotel, Rye Beach, and at
Mount Kisco. the bills for board and
lodging for the witness, the New Ba-
ven protege, and the private detec-
tWes, were sent to Mr.. Weeks, and he
forwarded them to the New Ravens
lawyers. Not always did the checks
come promptly Sometimes they
were delayed. One for the last week
at the CarIyon Arms was paid only
not until Capt. Disbrow, proprietor of
the hotel had seen the New Haven
officials on several occasions and. in
sisted upon his money.
When the party first reached the
tCarlyon Arms they asked to have
rooms as far apart from the other pa
irons as possible. They were very
mysterious, SO much SO that within
five minutes every one knew they
" ere detectives. They were assigned
to rooms on the top. floor. There are
nine rooms on that floor. All those
rooms were 1noccupied at the time
the men came. Browne. Rreen, and
Dowd were the first to arrive and
were assigned to three of the. rooms
Later on they were joined by Rykert
and Smith. Occasio na11y a Mrs
Browne. said to Hloe the detectives
WIFE, visited the place. but whether
the New Haven also paid her, bills
is not yet clear.
The five men often would go out
together, and there are those at the
often would return carrying some
thing One woman said 1t looked like
"a. PACKAGE and it has been variously
described as a bundle and a bun. Also
there were bottles in the rooms on
the top floor that may have explain
ed Breen'sz propensity to- floating
matches in his soup-plate. AT all
events, matters came to such a pass
that the management failed to see
the Joke and asked Mr.. Browne to
be so good as to drag away the pee-
pies witness. Mr. Browne agreed
and the day Of departure was set
for May TO-
On that day another illuminating
episode occurred. The detectives al
ways had enshrouded themselves
d
concealed their identities so well that
others In the Carlyon Arms would
say 1.-The detectives have gone OUT
or ''dThe detectives are in their rooms .
AS it would never have done for
the others to know, the detectives
maintained the mystery to the end, 1
and when they 7eft-it was morning
and the sun was shining-they low
cred their hand baggage by ropes
from the top story to the ground, let
ting it out of the windows to others
of the party who waited below Then
after first looking down the streets
to be sure no one was watching they
made off, never to return
Last Nevember Weeks tired OF the
resp onsibi1ity of saving the peoples
money and Of receiving reports of
Breen's conduct. Thereupon he dis
continued the arrangement with the
New Haven and relinquisn
ed control of his. witness, for wher-
ever Breen may be he IS not now in
the county pehitentiary.--
ST am a quasi judicial officer. the
District Attorney said. when the facts
were placed before him, II have a,
perfect right to maintain Breen any
where I see fit, and to permit the
New Haven to pay the bills
Then the District Attorney G. ossed
his fingers and said:
at did it to save the county's
money!
x.-Do you think that morally right ?''
sI would do it again if I saw fit
he replied. efYou see just before the
Breen matter came up the county had
spent $4,000 on another investiga-.
tionA And ff the New Haven had not
paid for Breen and Dowd and the
private detectives, the budget for my
office would have been greater. AZ
IT was, the budget was less last year
than the year before
At the law offices OF the New Ha--
ven Railroad it was said that rthe
vouchers in the case of the witness
J. J. Breen. had been preserved, to-
gether with all other papers in con
rection with actions for perjury in
Westminster County. These papers, it
was added. were open to any one who
wished to inspect them, however
slight that persons interest in the
case might be.
1t was also stated that the New
Haven was proud of it's action in the
matter. The railroad felt, it was said,
that it was helping the authorities to
do away with the practice of per-
Jury.