Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-09
PUTNAM

fIdctlcdiiy all the mystery sufrouhdln2 tte series of robberies at summer resi- dences in Woodstock and Pomfret was
 cleared up and recovery of most of the lost property assured through the clever work of Night Officer Eugene Gibney, Tn arresting three of the burglars in this
 city at 1:S0 Monday morning
 The prisoners are A. Eittlefeld Brad ley, who appears to be under 30 years of age, his wife. who is 25 and her brother.
 Edward Shackett, 2S. all of Worcester, where the loot taken from the Hardy residences in Pomfret is hidden away. Late one night last week while he was hidden away in Ponlfret watching for possible return of the burglars. State
 Officer Howard Elliott saw an, auto
 mobile and a quintet of persons that arounsed his suspicious. He made a de- | termined effort to accost the party and interview them, but they hustled away before he could reach them. He manag- l ed, however, to get the registration of i their machine. R. I. 3300S, and it was | from this clue that the case against the
 Bradleys was built up and their arrest l finally brought about by Officer Gibney, who had been given the number of the l car and told to be on the lookout for it. l Relative to the important capture, Of- | flcer Gibney said during an interview Monday afternoon that he was coming
 out of Livery street toward Front street
 at 1: 80 Monday morning when he saw a l touring car with the Rhode Isond No. 3300S proceeding slowly along Front
 street toward Bugbee's corner,
 | The officer hurried out toward the junction of the street to find that the l driver of the machine waS backing the car into Livery Street. evidently with the i idea of turning it around. and returning in the direction from whence he had
 come.
 ! The driver just started to wing the car out Of Livery street when Officer Gibnay
 ordered Bradley. in whose name the car is registered. to bring 1t to stop and told him that he and other members of the party were under arrest. Bradley in cuired what the reason for the arrest was asserting almost in the same breath that the party members were not guilty of any wrong. Officer Gibney informed the prisoners that they would be told at the
 police station what they were being held
 for.
 Shackett was occupying . front seat
 with Bradley and Mrs. Bradley was rid
 ing alone in the tonneau of the ear. As
 Officer Gibney arrested the burglars two
 strange men whose names are not known to the officer came along and were re- quested to get onto the running boards oi
 the car and watch the woman in the rear .. i'seat during the trip to the police station ,, The two men themselves suspicious characters declined and would have
 nothing to do with the affair. About this time. however, Fred Franklin, pro . prietor of a lunch cart inSLivery stree came along and volunteered to goint : with Officer Gibney in order that tn, prisoners who had two rifles in the car !. might have no chance to escape. I
 < Tic trio was safely landed at tho DO ' lice station and locked up. Search o their car revealed bundles contaiinng wo y n1en's wearing apparel blankets, bric-a
 brac art objects and collection of val e able silyerware. rugs, etc. which tn e prisoners admitted was loot from a burg n lary committed in Providence shorti, e before midnight of Sunday The Brad . leys and Shackett said they did not kno1 T who occupied tfe house that these sto:e y goods came from. but that they wer from residence or a side street tn : name of which tn y could not recall. Some of the silvarware found in tn
 car Is of very expensive quality Note = also WAS 2 set of gold biaded knive . with reari handles A first the prisoner ( declared ti2sy had found the goo5s. late g that tf'ey Esd prrqassed them and the,
 admitted t'a't tfcg ha dstolen them Ii :. their last robbery.
 D About two Io9rs after the arrest O
 the three Officer Elliott. who has bee a wording on the case and has ren3aire | in this territory. arrived at tie sta. ;o i and bnean {, eriIiipg of the prisoners tha :, l-.s.ed until 8 o'elocl; iq the morning. rh . result of the ner.i ess questioning t = which the prisoners were subjected wa
 confessions In which they admitted rnak v ing .rai;ss at tie Hardy. Isy and Elliot 2 places in Woodstock and Ponfret. tol, r the names of their two co.,pnaoins ,yil < were with them on the night last weel tl>at Officer Elliott got the registration p number of their car, where thesa com ; panioHs, man and a woman, may b e located. and where the stolen goods ar , hidden away.
 z Captain Robert Hurley of the state DO / lice depa rtulent arrived here early Mon
 day morning. He has been devotln { time to the, case during the past wee
 and through a visit to Providence ob j.. tained much information that was c s value in fixing their responsibility fo t the robberies. and putting the local DC d lice on the watch for the raiders ca1 y which came under Officer Gibney's kee
 observation during the early hours ( |, Monday morning.
 | Capt. Hurley said Monday night tha
 two more arrests had been made Monda ,' afternoon at Worcester where Leo Il | Shackett. brother of Edward Shacke S I and Mrs. Bradley had been taken int - custody, and Charles Schlessinger, ~ second hand dealer. had been arrested c e the charge of receiving stolen good I. Sheckett will be brought back here ar .f presented in court at Pomfret this Clue = day) morning with the three other pri
 oners Officers Mitchell and Nichols ,o the state police said that truckload :, goods alleged to have been stolen fro - - residences in Pornfret and Woodstoc '-' had been recovered in Worcester ct Records of week end and Sunday q 'e tomobile n1ishaps in the hands of Ca tain J. H. Bulger Monday morning look
 much like a list of wartime casualties Id In a head-on crash between a b D. Cadillac car owned by William Bea,
 Olmstead. head master at Pomfret scho, a. and driven by his chauffeur, Ollie Lingr ne ham, and a Buick car driven by Pet u- Murphy, Jr.. of Pomfret, both drive ee were injured, Murphy most seriously, al d John Donlan, who was riding in the Olr r. stead car also was slightly hurt
 a This accident happened Saturday eve s. ing on what is known as Hospital hi ds between this city and Pomfret, and clo
 to the hospital itself where the three oy jured men were taken for treatme, 10 Lingraham. who is said to, have two bro ne en ribs and Donlan who was bruis