New Britain herald., 1927-05-17
STRANDED WAIFS
 HELD AS BURGLARS
Boys Caught in Springfield Al-
 most Melt Cops Hearts

The police were confident today that four recent burglaries will be satisfactorily cleared up through the detention of three boys in Springfield, Mass, as stolen arti- cles were located a few days ago in the cellar of the home of one of them and he has been missing since. Detective Sergeant w. F. McCue and Sergeant P. J. O'Mara drove to Springfield this afternoon to bring the trio here. and it is ex- pected that some of the mystery which has surrounded the numer- ous burglaries in this city will be removed by nightfall.
 This forenoon Captain Kelly was notified by telephone that boys giv- ing their names, ages and ad- dresses as John Piada, 15, of I'll Broad street: Stanley Piada, aged IS, and Joseph Piada. aged 10, of the same address. had been picked up at the Springfield passenger station. and had told story of having left this city last night with their IS year old sister. Ethel. to visit their stepmother in West Warren. Mass: They said they were brothers and in the mixup of ehanging trains they had become separated from their sister.
 Captain Kelly detailed Motorcy- cle Policeman Strolls to go to Ill Broad street and notify the parents of the children, but the officer re- ported that no family of the name given was known in that section of the city. Then it was suspected that the boys were runaways and when Sergeant P. J. O'Mara re- ported, the captain asked him if he was looking for boys answer ing the description given. The ser geant did not recall the name but he said recovery had been made of flashlights and cigars and cigar cites in a cellar at TO Broad street and he would not be surprised if one of the boys was the missing suspect. Sergeant P. A. McAvoy has been active in the investigation and recovery of the loot.
 Captain Kelly had this informa- tion conveyed to Captain Mccarthy of the Springfield detective bureau and in short time, word came back that the boys admitted they were not telling the truth when they said they were brothers on a trip to West Warren. They gave their correct names as Walter Malyarski of 40 Clinton street. Joseph Bula of 2S Horace street and John Waseliewicz of TO Broad street. The latter was the suspect Sergeant O'Mara had in mind. and 1t is believed the others are confederates.
 According to the police. Waselie- wicz knows about the burglaries at Za1eskrs store at 237 Broad street, as the cigars and cigarettes found in the cellar at his home have been identified as having been taken from the store. Flashlights found in the cellar have been identified as having been taken from Rondeau's gasoline station on Glen street, and 1t is be- lieved that the forced entrances into the office of the Willow Brook Ice Co. on Myrtle street, and Tomas zewski's Coal company office in Barnesdale were also made by the same gang. The police said 1t is possible that the burglaries in two South Main street stores. and that of H. Chesky & Sons. fruit and produce establishment on Seymour street last week may be cleared up. One of the boys was with two others when Officer McMurray saw them about to engage . taxicab during | rain- storm last week.
 Two garages were broken into yesterday and last night, according to reports to the police. Constable Frank Clynes reported at 8 o'clock last evening that . garage on Good win street was entered and a quan- tity of tools taken from a car he had under attachment Joseph Gorfain of 5S Talcott street reported that his garage at b1 Willow street was en- tered but nothing was taken. He told Officer Peter Cabelus the lock on the door was broken.
 Today Captain Kelly was notified that three tires were taken from an old car at Kennedy's automobile cemetery at Stanley and East Main streets, and Paul Cianci of s46 Stanley street reported that i've punches of laths and one-half . keg of nails were stolen from . new house he is building at 630 Allen street last week. A boy said he saw . man carrying tho laths and nails