The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-26

3o South View street.
 Mc0ee, believed to be the gun singer of the crowd, was bound ovei to superior court when he waiveC examination to the charge of rob- bery with violence. Bonds were firs set at $10,00o but later Judge Ed ward Mascolo reduced them k $5,000.
 Bonds Of S0.OOo I The other were granted conti1u' ances to next Wednesday, also undel bonds of 5000, with the exception of Basta, who has admitted 8 rob- I bery in Bristol, and was taken intC custody late today by Chief ErnesI IF. Belden and Patrolna1 Thomas I McC Carthy of Bristol. Bonds in thk lease were set at 41,00O by Judge Mascolo.
 | Probe Is Not Complete
 Chief Inspector Joseph P. Stevens said today that the investigation oi the cases is not complete. Numer. ous theft cases are expected to bt blamed to the accused, and Captain Stevens said that they would bt questioned at length. He could not say as to whether or,not there would be further arrests in connection witf the rural hold-ups.
 State, county, local and towr police joined today at Waterbury de. tective headquarters to sift the evi. dence against the accused. Wit nesses and victims of the hold-ups were being summoned to headquar. ters and were expected to identify the accused in the hold-ups. Dragnet Was Set
 Acting on knowledge which result. ed from questioning of the victims of the hold-ups, police set dragnet throughout the city last night 1T search of the accused. They hac been looking for them on previou, occasions. Working on the investi' gation and assisting in the arrest; were: Supt. Roach, Deputy Supt Daniel J. Carson Inspector Stevens Lieut.. William F. Pollard, Lieut. Matthew Balanda, Lieut.. Henry Johnson, Lieut.. William Foley, Lieut. Connie Shanahan, Lieut.. Edward McElligott, Lieut.. Joseph Bender Lieut.. John Calvin, Detective An thony Mariana, Lieut.. Fred Hickey Lieut.. Patrick Moylan, and Plain. clothesmen Patrick Hobart ane Ernest PakuL
 Middlebury Constables Help
 In addition to the local police working on the dragnet, Constables Raymond French and William John son of Middlebury assisted in tht arrest of Schuster. Chief John A Adamson of Naugatuck questioned the three when they were arrested last night.
 Cunningham was picked up at his home this morning by Lieuts Shanahan and Foley. He has ad- mitted being the "finger.man" in the attempted hold-up of Robert J. Belts, of 18 Johnson street which took place on South View street sev- eral weeks ago.
 Betts In Critical Shape
 Belts, an insurance man, is still in critical condition as result of the staggering blow he waS struck by & monkey wrench allegedly in the hands of McGee, who IS a big, wide- shouldered youth, standing about six feet, three inches tall.
 It was on this specific count that the four were arraigned in court this morning. Cunningham is said to have admitted giving the signal to the other members of the hold-up gang, that Belts was on his way to the street, and that he had plenty of money. Betts had been to the Cunningham house, and when he left Cunningham is said to have raised and lowered a shade, as a sig nal to the outsiders. Betts cries scared the culprits away, after they had struck him.
 state Troopers to Query
 Lieut.. William Schatzman and Trooper Thomas Layden of the Beacon Falls barracks intended to question the four today In connec- ton with the shooting and robbing of Lou Burkhardt of 5outhbury. He said that the gun which was talk en from Mc0ee would be examined by ballisticS experts and Q compari- son made with the slug and shell which the Burkhardt robbers dropped at the scene of the holdup. Burkhardt will be unable to identify them, he said, for they wore masks.
 Michael Tarnowski of Cherry street, Naugatuck, whose grocery store was robbed Monday night to the extent of $240.22, identified Nc. Gee as the gunman in the holdup, when he faced him ct headquarters last night.
 Naugatuck Man Here
 Joseph Kilbride, of 35 Frederick street, this city, who was held up as he worked in the Moran flower shop on Park place, Naugatuck, last Saturday, appeared at headquarters this morning at the request of Cap tain Stevens. He was to attempt to identify the men from . lineup.
 Chief Belden of Bristol said that Walter Trella, proprietor of the store at South and Wolcott streets, Bris- tol, which was robbed last Wednes- day, had identified McGee, also. In that holdup, the perpetrators gained $50 from the proprietor and a from a woman customer.
 Rudolph Hennick, advertising manager of the Republican, n-Ameri- can, who was held up in Middlebury will also be asked to identify the accused. County Detective Roland c. filling questioned the four ct length today, before Mc0ee, the only one who Is bound over, was taken to New Haven county jail to await his trial in superior court. 
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