The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-28

ing dark glasses, jabted the gun at Mir. Parks, the druggist said, arl- nounced This is a stick-up" and had Parks tur naround so he could not get Q glimpse of the others.
 He started to back Parks to the rear room and then saw Koris. In 1884, the Parks store had been robbed by hold-up men of $49 and occasion ally since then some customers have jokingly initiated hold-up men. Mir. Parks believes Koris thought this was another joke, but when the man appeared with the gun he realized 1t was far from one.
 Ordered to Cellar
 Koris and Parks were ordered into the cellar and the cellar door was then locked by key, but the bandits made the mistake of permitting the key to remain in the lock. Tn the meantime the gang was cleaning out the register, leaving only a few pennies.
 A fortunate set of circumstances resulted in giving the police knowl- edge which led to the quick arrest of the alleged bandits. Joseph Far ren of Cherry street, Naugatuck, Waltear Tunnel of 36 Lounsbury street, Waterbury and William Con- nelly and Edward Sakovich of 35 Washington street, Waterbury, were in a car near the store.
 Locked Up Men Freed
 .ns~ when they saw the trio back out of the store and hurriedly get into a waiting car. When this car drove off toward Millville with no lights showing, Farren went into the store heard MT. Parks shouting, and re- leased him and Koris by opening the cellar door.
 The druggist immediately notified police and the four others gave chase to the bandits. Near the Russell Manufacturing company factory in Millville, according to information received today, the thieves parked and left the car. The pursuers saw the parked car but did not believe it was the one they sought and con- tinued on. This lulled the appre- hension of the robbers and they thought the other car was just bound some place in a hurry. The pursuers realized they had overshot the mark an dagain picked up the trail and got close enough to as- certain the marker numbers. Phones Waterbury
 They notified police of the mark CTS. Credit belongs to Sergeant James Cuddy for assisting in mo- tification of the hold-up. When MT. Parks informed police, Sergeant Cud- dy instantly phoned Waterbury po- lice and state police to be on the watch, and later when the marker numbers were made known to local police, Cuddy against contacted Wa terbury and state police.
 Sergeant Mariana Alert
 Sergeant Anthony Mariana of Wa terbury displayed alertness when he noticed the numbers of the wanted car and halted it. There were re- ported to be three members of the alleged gang in the car then, one having been dropped off. The arrest was made bq midnight, less than an hour after the hold-up. Police said they confessed.
 Sergeant Mariana reported finding a .32 calibre cartridge on the floor at the rear of the car but the gun was not found. Police said Burno's father, Joseph, owned the car. Money was found on the inside of the shoes of two of the youths and some money in charge was also secured.
 Lieutenant Anthony Malone of Naugatuck who had gone to the store to conduct an investigation, and Patrolman Walter Lysiewicz of Nau- gatuck brought MT. Parks to Water bury. Later the arrested youths were taken to Naugatuck.
 Sergeant Cuddy just missed seeing the hold-up for he had passed the drug store at 10:50 on his way to work and the theft occurred within the next 10 minutes.