New Britain herald., 1924-10-16
CHAPMANS TRAIL
 LEADS BACK AGAIN
Assailant of Officer Sicily Re
 turned to Springfield
NOTE FURNISHES CLUE
Attempts Made To Reach shean At Hotel Cooley Sunday - Accom- plices May Have Been Present. Burglars Tools Taken.

pnCes Mdy huSo DcNh AhSo Burglars Tools Taken. That Gerald Chapman, notorious bandit for whom the police drag net of the entire country has been spread, returned to Springfield after he made his getaway from the store of Davidson and Leventhal, follow ing the murder of Policeman James Skelly, Sunday morning. is the beliet entertained by detectives working on the case.
 This opinion Is strengthened by the information secured at the Cooley hotel in Springfield that on Sunday afternoon several telephone calls were received for Shean, Chap mans accomplice, and that towards evening a printed note addressed to Shean was left at the hotel by boy. It contained this message: "Arrived 0. K, will call you every half hour" It is thought that Chapman, un- aware that Shean had been captured by the police, had supposed that he would return to Springfield and that .he spent some time during the day trying to communicate with him.
 Nothing definite has been received by the police here as to what action has been taken in Hagerstown, Maryland, regarding the man arrest ed as suspect in connection with the killing of state trooper in Get tysburg, Pa, on. Tuesday. Chapman is also believed to have been the as- sassin of the Pennsylvania police man. The authorities, however, are ofzthe opinion that the suspect has been released, press dispatches in dicating that the man proved that he was not Chapman and had no connection with the killing.
 As several people in Maryland who saw the lone bandit before he made his spectacular holdup in Ab- Eottstown have expressed the opin- ion, after looking at Chapman's photograph, that it bore remark able likeness to the gunman, police believe that 1t may be the man for whom they are seeking and on whose head there is a big price.
 What is regarded as highly i'm portant discovery was announced to- day by Chief Hart. It concerned the finding among Shean's effects in Springfield of the trunk belonging to the car in which the burglars came to this city. The trunk con- tained sawed, off shotguns, revoly- CTS, other burglar tools and several articles of value including silk dresses, rugs and valuable suit cases. These are believed to have been plunder obtained in other robberies. The police are making an effort to trace the ownership of the goods in the belief that it will throw light on some of the activities of the daring crooks before they made their visit to New Britain.
 A pair of glasses that correspond to the ones Chapman is shown wear ing in circulars sent out by federal officials was also found, and the po- lice have sent them 10 New York for Identification as those worn by the super bandit.
 The man hunt for Chapman is fast revolving itself into one of the most intensive ever conducted 1T the country for a criminal, police federal agents and state troops unit ing In their efforts to unearth evl' dence of the bandits movements.
 The trail for Chapman is the warmest near Chambersburg, Pa. where the machine in which th' bandit who robbed the AbbotstowI bank of over $1,000 was found yes terday, reduced to a heap of ashes the. bandit having poured gasoline over it and then set 1t on fire. 4 set of New York registration platei were fopnd near the ruin and bor' the number 466-00T. The owner ship of the machine is being traced by the New York police.
 The ashes of a black hand bal contained tubes and chemists bot ties, said bg the police to be usec for carrying high explosives. Othe discoveries made by Pennsylvania police, the nature of which the, refused to divulge, strengthened their theory that the bank bandi IS mono other than the murderer o Policeman Skelly here, The cash fer of the bank in Abbotstown an employees of a gasoline filling sta ton near Abbotstown have positive ly identified pictures of Chapman a the bank bandit.
 Search Hereabouts
 The search for Chapman in thes parts is resolving itself into hun for traces of his movements in thi part of the country as 1t is now ac cepted as fact that he has been | New England greater part Of tn time since last July and was maxim plans for an indefinite stay as hi purchase of house in South Had ley, Mass. from the Rev. c. Bailey would indicate. The hous was to be used as counterfeitin plant by Chapman, George Dutch Anderson, and Shean. according Shesn's confession to the polio here.
 The local and Massachusetts DC lice have unearthed evidence ths is considered to be sufficient cover all Chapman's movement around these parts, and are no giving considerable time to
 tracing of the activities in wester Massachusetts of the "Mr. SheI hurne," said by Sheah 10 be AT derson. IL has been established thf Anderson has been in Springfield Mass, with Chapman on several o' casions. He is reported to hay registered at the hotel Cooley. in Springfield hotel owned by shean father, as recently as the middle {