Putnam patriot., 1920-11-12
CAPTURE OF BURGLARS
 BRINGS RELIEF TO COUNTY
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 accompanied the trio during their re. cent raids in this vicinity, and one ot these, Leon Shackett, brother of Ed ward Shackett, has since been ar rested and bound over under bonds.
 Captain Robert Hurley of the state police arrived in Putnam early Mon day morning. Captain Hurley spent part of last week in Providence ob taining some of the clues which cou pied with evidence furnished to tho local police, had fixed suspicion on the car which Officer Gibney nabbed or Monday morning.
 On Tuesday morning the little town house at PomfFet was crowded with spectators when Bradley and his wife both of whom are under thirty year. of age, and Shackett, in default of bonds of S2,500 each, were bound { over for trial at the next term of the superior court for this county. Later i Leon Shackett was arrested at Wor- cester and he, too, in default of bail, was sent to the jail on Wednesday af- ter appearing in the court at Pomfret.
 On the evidence furnished by the prisoners the state police, working in conjunction with the local police and the police of Worcester, went to Wor- cester on the morning following the arrest and there located practically all of the goods stolen from the local resi- dences. The valuable rugs stolen from the Hardy, Elliot and Harvey houses were practically all located, though it is claimed that some of the Pomfret goods still remain in Spring field. Adolph Schlessinger a second hand dealer. was arrested at his store in Worcester and was bound over un- der bonds on Wednesday morning. He paid the robbers fifty dollars for the rugs stolen from the Hardy house. These rugs, which included one pre- sented to Mir. Hardy by the Shah of Persia when Mir. Hardy completed his diplomatic career in that country, were valued at over $3,500. The Hardy rugs were held at Worcester, as evidence in the trial of Schlessin- ger. Practically everything else has been returned to the owners here, and it is understood that most of the goods were recovered and returned to the rightful owners.
 A pitiful feature of the trial of Shackett was the presence in the court of his mother, wife and children. None of these were even suspicious of the character of the occupations Of the Bradleys and Shacketts. The goods which they took to Worcester from time to time were carefully con- cealed in trunks in the Bradley house and in several cases they were stored in the houses of neighbors who took the goods owing to the fact that the BradIeys did not have room to store them. A complete trunk full of Hn- en and bedclothes taken from the Hardy house was found packed in a trunk just as they had been removed.
 Most of the goods on being brought back from Worcester were stored in the local police station in the cells. The result was that the cells usually occupied by prisoners looked like the auction room of some dealer in household goods and clothing. Quan-e titles of silverware were strewn about, faces. furs,, guns, blankets, Oriental rugs French clocks and any number of other things were to be seen col lerted in ordered piles for the inspec- tion of the various owners.
 The capture of the robbers has caused a great relief to people the county, and both the state police and the local police are deserving of the heartiest c0ngratula- tions for the capture of the cuiprits.