New Britain herald., 1924-10-14

The New Britain Herald an nounces that 1t will pay a reward of $500 to the person furnishing infor- nation which results in the capture and conviction of the man who kill d Policeman James Skelly last Sun Jay morning, The man is presumed to be Gerald Chapman, a notorious New York stick-up man and fugi- we from the penitentiary at Atlan- a, Ga. The authorities at Atlanta rave offered a reward of s1,000' for thapmans arrest.
 The management of the Herald l4elleves that every encouragement should. be given leading to the ar- est of Policeman Skelly's murderer. t is In keeping with this attitude. that the reward of $500 has been announced.
 Spread Net For Chapman
 As the funeral services of Police man Skelly were being held this morning, the police all over the country were concentrating their ef- 'orts in an effort to apprehend the master criminal, Gerald Chapman, IS the man who fired the shot that ~nded the life of the veteran police man. The conviction is growing upon the police, in spite of their skeptical attitude at the start of the investigation. that Beau Brummel yeggman, who engineered the $2,- 100000 robbery on Wall street in 1 921, has added the crime of mur- der to his already long list of crimes.
 The relatives of Walter E. Shean, ,he son of wealth Springfield parents are racking their brains for a plaus- lble explanation of Shean's com- nlicity with Chapman. Shean's two brothers visited him at the local po- Ice station yesterday morning be- lore his removal to the Hartford county jail, where he was brought m the afternoon 10 await trial in December on a charge of murder in snnection with the affair.
 Attitude Puzzles Brothers
 After the conversation with Shean he two brothers were at a loss to explain his attitude, as Shean did not show any desire to talk with them, forcing them to carry on the conversation and answering as briefly as possible all qhestions put to him,
 Arthur Shean, one of the broth- CTS, said that he Is convinced that either Chapman had something on his brother that he was holding over his head to make him do as he wished, or that Walter had develop cd "kink in his brain" that left him irresponsible for his actions.
 My brother told me that he was involved in the robbery of the Day. idson & Leventhal stdfe because Chapman threatened to kill him if he did not go through with it." Ar- thur said.
 Suspect Third Man in Case
 The police are no5Y working on the theory that there were three men involved in the local robbery and are leaning to the belief that the third man was Robert Anderson, a pal in crime of Chapman's, who was sentenced to the Atlanta federal prison for complicity in the Wall street robbery engineered by Chap man, and who escaped from the prison. The federal agents believe that Chapman and Anderson are working together. and stories con- ing from Springfield seem to cor. roborate this belief.
 Sergt. William P. McCue and County Detective Edward Hickey went to Springfield yesterday after. noon to gather information concern ing Shean and Chapman, and also tc learn If Anderson hos been with the two men recently. It is understood that they have searched Shean's room at the Cooley hotel where he lived, but the result of the search has not been dlvulged.
 Were Planning Counterfeiting Plant
 shean is reported to have ad. mitted to the local police that he and Chapman, with fellow named Anderson, had entered Into a plan to purchase a farm about 70 miles from Springfield, which was to be dsed ss a counterfeitlng plant Chapman telling him that they had
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