The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-26
abouts reported thefts of food and
Chronology of Chase

Chronology of Chase From that point on the chron-
 ology of the desperate game of
 hide-and-seek was as follows: Sept. 9-An East Longmeadow feed store was entered and jack
 knives, flashlights and 55 pennies stolen. The same night a nearby filling station was entered and SIS
 stolen. Police blamed Bey for both breaks.
 Sept. 13-Bey appeared at Moody Corners general store in South Hadley and replenished his food
 supplies, apparently using some of
 the cash he had stolen at East Longmeadow.
 Sept. 14-Bey appeared at the Hadley home of his brother Louis. His presence soon became general ly known, for 1t was here that he spent his boyhood and many resi- dents recognized him. But Bey was on his way again an hour and a | half before police reached the house. He spent thenight in an au- tomobile in an East Hadley barn after buying sandwiches and soft drinks at Blue Eagle inn.
 Sept. 15-Bey broke into Gran l by store and stole a .32 calibre
 rifle and ammunition.
 Sept. 16-Two troopers came
 upon him on a lonely road but he I escaped into woods after firing
 three rife shots, one of which wounded one of the troopers in the right forearm. At night Bey broke into the Connecticut river cottage 1 of a Hadley policeman and stole g.
 coffee percolator and other cook ing utensils. Sept. 17-Four possemen sur- prised Bey as he dozed near his | camp fire beside 6 back road but | he escaped unharmed despite their
 volley of machine gun, shotgun and pistol bullets. In flight, however. he abandoned his loaded rife and
 the stolen cooking utensils and pro-
 visions. At night he reappeared at
 Moody Corners general store and
 bought provisions and 8 newspaper. Sept. 18-A man resembling Bey appeared at a store at Bernardston, | 25 miles north of Hadley, but be- came frightened and fled without | making purcnase.
 Sept. 19-Bey broke into the : private museum of Joseph A. Skin- ner, wealthy Holyoke silg manu- facturer, at South Hadley, Mass, | smashed 8 glass case and stole two ancient but usable and loaded re- volvers. e Sept. 20-A burglar believed to i1o Bey entered South Hadley
 filling station, drank two bottles
 of soda pop and escaped with can- dy, cigarets and chewing gum.
 Atop Mount Holyoke police discov-
 read: "Eleven holes for eleven
 cops. Look out you're guys. Signed John Bey." Police believe the note
 was genuine. Bey In Town Court Ellington, Conn.,, Sept. 26--(UP) John Bey, captured, slayer of Constable John B. Decarli, may be presented before Justice Theodore A. Palmer in town court immediate
 ly. He arrives from Northampton,
 Mass, early this afternoon, it was believed.
 Prosecutor c. F. Beer said he
 was prepared to hasten his trial. The criminal session of superior
 court at Rockville, Holland County
 seat, now Is in recess and 1t was be-
 lieved unlikely he would be pres-
 ented in tho higher court today on
 a bench warrant, to avoid 8 binding
 over from the justice court. | Inasmuch as there is no lookup
 in this town, Bey will be taken to Rockville during the afternoon for
 confinement until trial. It was the attmpted theft of a quart of milk that led indirectly to | one of theI greatest manhunts in
 Massachusetts history.
 Surprised in the Ellington dairy
 of Walter Gerber the night of
 Aug. 31, Bey engaged in gun
 duel with Constabel De, Carli, who
 had been lying in wait for the in-,
 truder. Bullets from Bey's revolver
 struck De Carli in the abdomen
 and thigh. Although mortally wounded, the constable returned the fire, wounding Bey in the right
 wrist. De Carlt died next day at !
 & hospital.
 Bey. also known as John Boy
 and Jon Boy, was still in his teens
 when he turned to crime. In 1916 he was sentenced to a
 year in the Massachusetts reform
 atory for larceny. Two years later
 he was sent to Northampton jail,
 was transferred back to the re-
 formatory in 1919 and released in
 1920. The same year he was sent
 enced to the reformatory for three years. s
 In the autumn of 1923 he was
 arrested at East Hampton, Conn, for burglary and wounding q po-
 liceman, sentenced to five years ut
 Cheshire remormafory, and trans
 ferred in May, 1928, to Dcnnectucnt
 state prison. Discharged In Decem-
 ber, 1927, he was returned to Ma l sachusetts reformatorysS ~