Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-30
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I act moment when the proprietor of the l place of business where they are operat. 1 ing is standing outside the door talking :! to policeman, but that was what hap 1 pened here shortly after o'clock Sun i day morning, and as result of their in- l advertence John Burke 62, and John fl Ryan, 5S. both giving Baltimore as their home address, were caught right at their 1 felonious work in the store of Andrew | Jaworski, Main street, near the bridge over the Assawaga river.
 1 The safe they blew open contained a small amount of cash, nice block of 1 Liberty bonds some war savings stamps and a bank book, the cash and securi- 1 ties being in excess of $1200. None of l the valuables were lost, as the safe-
 breakers did net have an opportunity to | move before they were bounced upon
 and locked up.
 1 Ryan and Burke, as the prisoners elect l, to call themselves, whatever their real names are undoubtedly pair of old l time crooks, temporarily down and out
 and evidently trying to pull off job that would set them going at their 1 trade" again.
 l They hit into a real blizzard of what 1 they probably would call hard luck
 though the average citizen won't see 1t in that light and will say that the luck
 was 100 per cent. on the side of law and
 order.
 j PatroIman Martin Wolfe. Andrew Ja-
 worski. proprietor of the store, and An
 drew Neijablick figured in the sensation
 al capture of the afe-breakers. Jawor- ski and Neizablick had been at the cen l tral fire station enjoying few games of pool after business hours Saturday night i and had fingered at their pastin1e until
 shortly after o'clock Sunday morning. | As they strolled toward home they dis 1 eussed the amazing manner in which the Polish armies have been breezins
 through the bolsheviki battle lines of late and had arrived near Jaworski's l store, where they were to stop to get some meat to take home for Sunday dinner, when Patrolman Wolfe, seeing | them and hearing them talk, came down 1 the street to see who they were and what they were doing.
 | Finding them to be friends, Patro1man
 Wolfe entered into the talk about the 1 Polish Russian war and as Jaworski said Sunday morning, i've were just in the middle of a big battle when, ping! i goes an explosion inside my store. We | looked around and I saw a light flash inside and exclaimed My store is afirei | That was my first thought rushed to
 the front door, but did not notice at the l time that someone had pulled down all
 the show window curtains, unlocked it | l the store with light. As I did this I l saw man duck down behind one of the
 counters. This was the man that later gave his name as Ryan. Patrolman | Wolfe and Neijablck had come into the ! store with me and in second Ryan had
 surrendered. About this time Burke stuck his head up to look out through a l glass in the big refrigerator where he
 had taken refuge. In a half g minute he
 was a prisoner, too"
 1 / Burke and Ryan at first absolutely re-
 fused to tell anything about themselves, 1 even declining to give their names. While their tongues did loosen little during Sunday they told practically
 nothing about themselves or their his tories, and the names they gave are be- lieved to be fictitious. We're pinehed and that's all there is to be said about | it." Burke told Chief John Mcfarland
 who was called at his home and told of
 the arrests as soon as the men were station to interview the men. whose spe- ciaity is not talking, evidently.
 1 Neither Burke nor Ryan were armed
 excepting that one had a knife and the 1 other a razor, and this is considered 8 l their hazardous calling That they know | the safe-craclSing game is evidenced 1 however by the job they did upon ths one they tackled at Jaworski's store ant 1 the tools and materials with which they worked. The door of the safe was blowr clean off and the interior strong bo, opened by the explosion. No explosive. were found on the men when they were arrested, but they had a plentiful sur plus supply of fuse and dynamite caps Patrolman Wolfe and Jaworski alst
 found searchlight, @ brand new chisel a railroad coupling pin and a candle. 4 puzzle among the safe-breakers' posses
 sions was small bottle of iodine, abou } two-thirds used and bearing on the la
 bel the name of local druggist. Tn
 police had not determined on Sunda,
 just how, if at all this tincture had fig ured in the attempted robbery-an'
 Messrs. Ryan and Burke are not talk ing.
 The safe that was blown is a smal one. Ryan and Burke removed it iron it's usual position in the store, pushed along the floor & considerable distanc to the rear of the shop and eventuall got lit inside the big refrigerator. It wa in this cool loca tion that the cracksme worked upon it, covering it up wit
 coats and other materials about tn store before lighting the fuse that SC
 of the charge. Burke had pocketed tn
 small amount of cash-change
 was in the safe before he was Captured
 but he had no time to get the securitie, , Why Burke and Ryan did not hea
 the three men who captured them talk i ing outside seems strange, but one the
 ory is that they did hear them and as
 stunned they were no one interested in tn
 store or likely to ioiter long outside, an
 that they might merely be passing by.
 The men now held prisoners got int
 the stoN, through a window at the req They helped themselves to smokes an
 such other things as they wanted out C 1 general stock of groceries and meat
 before tackling the safe.
 Ryan and Burke are real old-timeri That they are not at their best in thei illegal calling, is indicated by the mar ner in which they fell down on Sunda mornings job. They will be arraigne
 in the town court this morning and yer probably bound over at once for tris at the supeSior court. In the meantim there will be interest in establishin . their real identity, and police record may help to do this
 Eighty guests were present Sa+urda evening at a delightfully."- pretty weddin at the Marlor home in Brooklyn, Mis- Frances Marlor, daughter of Mrs. B. \ M Marlor. becoming the bride of Harr Elmer Magoon of East Greenwich, R.
 Rev A. G. Covell of MarbIehead, Mass close friend of the groom's fafnil, . performed the marriage ceremony, in tf room which had been beautifully adorr ed Green and white was the color pla \ in this room, where bower of siivs 2 birches had been built up about u | mantle.
 The bride was attended by Mrs. Wa ! ren Root of Brooklyn as matron of hoi