New Britain herald., 1924-10-13

shielded the view from the street.
 There was large sum of money in this safe as 1t contained the pay roll, which had been kept at the store because the banks were to be closed today and 1t IS the store pay day. Besides the payroll, it contain ed the receipts from the store which accumulated after the last bank de- posit was made at the bank.
 Chapman Worked With Gloves
 An effort was made by Policeman Dolan to locate fingerprints from the safes and tools, but he was unsuc- cessful as Chapman had evidently worked with gloves.
 The police found the sledge ham mer and jimmy Chapman is alleged to have dropped on the stairs when he ran down on the entrance of the police. A tube of nitroglycerine was also found as well as a breast drill, a pick and other burglar inn plements. In the brief case that Shean placed inSthe auto was found complete set of drills, glycerine caps and several kinds of fuses, be- sides a flash light and piece of ladies' wearing apparel.
 Information regarding the family of shean was received by Chief Hart from Springfield. His father is Charles T. Shean, regarded as the most prominent hotel man in Spring field and one of the city's wealthiest men. He is the owner of the Cooley hotel and treasurer of the Hotel Kimball the city's largest hostelry. Arthur shean, a brother of the al- legged murderer. Is the owner of the Springfield Eastern league baseball team.
 shean himself is the head of the shean Advertising company, large advertising company doing billboard and special advertising work. He Is regarded by the Springfield police as a bad actor" according to Chief Harts information, and although he has never appeared before a court of justice, he has been indicted on one occasion.
 Tn 1921, he figured In the robbery of the Peoples Trust company Of Wyomissing, Pa, when eight gun men entered the bank at noon time and stole currency and securities valued at s1SO.ooo. Approximately s1S,000 worth of @ securities were found in Shean's possession at the time, and he was indicted in con- nection with the robbery, but he was never evtradited from Massachu- setts as the indictment was dis missed. The securities were locat- ed in Springfield banks where Shean had placed them as security for collateral loans. He is reported to have failed to give an explanation of how he came into possession oi the bonds.
 shean Separated From Wife He told the police that he Wa! married. but that his wife does mol live with him. She is living in New York, he said.
 The police are inclined to discredi the report that Chapman and sheal are, the ones who made an unsuc cessful attempt to rob the safe in tn l store of the Wise, Smith & Co. Il Hartford. The men who entered tha store bound the watchman and de manded the combination on the saf from him. The watchman tIl nc know the combination and the me finally left, after the store had bee surrounded by police. The police d not regard the' method of procedur in that case as one that would b followed by Chapman.
 The opening of the safe that tn burglars had ready to blow yesterda presented problem to the official of the department store and saf expert was called to the city fror Hartford. He refused to touch tn safe because of the presence of th explosive in it. He recommends that a man experienced in the use 0 explosives be summoned and the saf be blown open.
 The services of James Towers c the water department were then se cured and the safe was blown. It wa necessary to use dynamite in additio to the nitro- -glycerine that WAS al ready in it to successfully blow open.
 A number of people have called a police headquarters and identifie the prisoner held there as man tha has been in the city on several oc casions during the past two week A waitress and the proprietress ( the Old Colony Inn at Meriden ider tined him yesterday morning, an the woman's father called at polio headquarters last night and ident fled him as one of the men who ha stopped at the inn the night befor
 Alexander Leventhal, one of tf
 owners of the Davidson .& Leventh;
 store, told the police that he ha seen the automobile used by the me
 parked in the rear of the store thre
 times during the past two week and has information that 1t has bee parked there on several other occs sions. He identified the machine
 the municipal garage.
 MT. Davidson told the police als that he thinks Shean is one of tW men that appeared at the store seN eral weeks ago and said that wanted to rent a store. He was n
 able to identify Shean as the man {
 he told the police that he was n' the one that had done business wit him. An appointment was made meet at the store two weeks ago ye'
 terday morning and officials of tf
 store were there waiting, but tf men failed to appear.
 Shcan Taken to Jail.
 Shean was taken to the Hartfor county jail this afternoon sft'
 agents of the department of justiC
 had questioned him at the statio
 The federal men fere skeptical as