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, SEASIDE__B_ll_RGLARS.
Shortly after 2 a. in. Monday morning
Patrick Reagan, the watchman at the
Beachside Hotel in Greens Farms kept
by J. H. Phipps, saw several men sit-
ting on the benches in front of the hotel.
The seats were some two or three hun-
dred feet from the house and as Patrick
sat on the hotel porch smoking, his at-
tention was attracted to the spot by the
continuous lighting of matches.
Thinking perhaps some of‘ the guests
were out, Patrick left the hotel porch
and walked toward the benches. He
had reached a spot within a few feet of
a bench where he could see the forms
of four persons sitting, when suddenly
a man sprang from behind a tree and
clutched him by the throat, throwing
him to the ground. His assailant
wanted to know if he had the keys to
the house; also if all the guests were in.
' Patrick gasped out that he had no keys
and that he knew nothing of the guests.
A handkerchief saturated w1th cloro-
form was then placed over his face and
Patrick knew no more until found by
the guests an hour later, bound and
gagged, and tied to a sofa standing in
the hotel hall. ~ .
The burglars, as such they proved to
be, and five in number, gathered about
the watchman and one of them suggest-
ed that they shoot him and throw him
into the Sound, but to this the man who
”held his throat objected. They then
picked- Patrick up and carried him to
the hotel and deposited him upon the
. sofa as described above.
The party had no trouble in getting
inside the hotel,but the doors to the of-
fice in which stood the safe were locked.
' They then went outside to the Window
leading from the porch to the office and
taking ‘a chisel soon pried the window
open and entered. The office door be-
hind the desk was locked from the in-
side and this was opened to allow the
hall light to illuminate the room and
allow them to command a full view of
the main stairway leading to the floor
above. ' _
A Herring safe stood against the wall
in the office and the burglars soon
drilled a half inch hole in the door
directly over the knob. A charge of
dynamite was inserted and exploded,
throwingthe door across the room and
focing one'corner of it entirely through
the opposite wall. The burglars then
had access to the interior and thor-
Oughly cleaned it out taking everything
in the shape of papers found in the safe.
The loss will amount to over $2000.
Mr. Phipps had nearly $1000 in checks
which he was to have deposited to- day
and between 8625 and .8650 in ‘cash.
Kirke La Shells, of New York, of the
“Wizard of the Nile” company 19st
.3401, and J. R. Radley of New York
lost 370. There were also three en- '
volopes containing money belonging to
the servants about the hotel. the total
amount of which could not be ascer-
tained.
Before proceeding with their work
upon the safe, the burglars cut the
telephone wires leading to the long dis-
tance phone as well as the wires leading
to a private telephone thatkconnects the
hotel with the stable. ‘
The noise of the explosion was heard
by quite a number of guests and Miss
Grant, daughter of Frederick Grant of
the banking firm of Grant Bros, N. Y.,
and a maid came out of their rooms
above and started to descend the stairs.
They were confronted by one of the
burglars who with a revolver ordered
them. back, and they lost no time in
obeying. Mrs. H. B. Smith, of New
York, also came out to see what was
going on.
Mrs. Smith had descended the stairs
more than half way when the burglar
saw her, and pointing his revolver at
her ordered her back. Mrs. Smiih was
plucky, however, and Wanled to know
what was the matter. Another order to
go back accompanied by a threat to
shoot, caused Mrs. Smith to reluctantly
retrace her steps upsta‘irs to her room.
The hotel was pretty thoroughly
aroused by this time and the burglars
made their escape, going down the road
toward Southport carrying their booty
with them. .
Mr. Phipps fired his revolver out of
the back window and aroused the
. stable hands and two teams were quick-
ly harnessed. One was 'sent to West-
port, from where telephone messages
were sent to this city and other towns
down the line. while the other team
went to Southport, from where Bridge-
port was notified.‘ ‘
A Gazn'rrir reporter interviewed Mrs.
Smith in the morning,and the latter de-
scribed the burglar she saw as being
young, good looking, and exceedingly
well dressed. He wore a small mous-
tache and had on a soft felt hat, which
he» turned down over his face. The des -
cription of one of the other men, as
given by Patrick, was that of a man
about 5 feet 10 inches in height and
stout of build. He had a smooth face.
and also wore a soft felt hat.
A son of Mr. Phipps found the handle
of a chisel on the road leading to South-
port in the morning and Supt.Bitming-
ham and Captain Arnold of the Bridge-
port police .found the blade between
Southport and the hotel while driving
over. ’
Beyond this. slight clue -and a crow-J
bar which was found leaning against
the, back door of the hotel at 8:30
o’clock last night. the burglars left
nothing behind them. ‘
It is thought by some of the guests
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that the burglars were at the hotel Sat-
urday night during an entertainment
for the benefit of the Herald free ice
fund, and acquainted. themselves with
the premises. At this entertainment $78
was realized which also went along to
help the rich haul made by the morn-
ing’s visitors.
Among the papers. taken were the
certificate of incorporation and the
charter of the Beach Lawn club which
had been organizedat the hotel.
As far ‘ as could be ascertained, it
was just 2:40 o’clock when the explosion
occured.
A LARGE REWARD OFFERED.
The reward of 8500 offered by the
Fairfield selectmen for the apprehen-
sion of the Beachside Inn burglars, was
increased yesterday by the offer of an
additional $300 which was subscribed by
residents of Greene Farms. '
“Kid” Conway, the well known ex-
polo player, is under suspicion of hav-
ing a hand-in the burglarizing of the
Inn and has been discharged from the
employ of Mr. Phipps.
Conway was employed at the house in
the capacity of a bartender, and the
watchmanstated to a GAZETTE reporter
that on the night in question he did not
retire until within a half an hour of the
time when the job was committed. He
slept in what is known as the barracks
with many of the servants in the place.
This is a small building set apart from
the main building.
Conway has been employed at the
Beachside Inn since it opened. Pro-
prietor J. H. Phipps said that he had
discharged Conway for the company
that he kept. He said it was true that
cated in the burglary, but that nothing
can be proven againsthim. He was
seen talking with a man last Saturday
whose appearance was very tough.
This fact, coupled with the one that he
had staid out with the watchman until
close upon the time when the job was
committed, has placed him in a bad
light. '
Conway was questioned by Superin-
tendent Birmingham, of Bridgeport,
and became very angry. It is not
known just what part he is supposed to
have played unless he is suspected of
giving information as to the layout of
the house. "
Watchman Patrick Reagan was also
subjected to a searching examination
by Captain Arnold but nothing new
was brought to light.
Three detectives arrived from New
York yesterday morning and are now
engaged on the case.
Everything is still in a state of ex-
citement at the hotel and the burglary
is the chief topic among the guests.
Most of them are congratulating them-
selves on the fact that they had not left
their valuables in the hotel safe over
night but contrary to the usual custom,
had allowed them to remain in their
jewelry caskets.
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Obituary.
morning at the residence of his son-in-
law, Mr. T. Stanley Vanderhoef, on
East avenue. Mix-Beatty has long
be‘en an invalid from what was supposed
to be Bright’s disease, but his sudden
passing away came with all the
startling effect of thunder from a cloud-
less sky. Mr. Beatty came to Norwalk
some forty years ago, as a member of
the straw hat manufacturing firm of
Beatty Brothers. They built not only
the large factory, but the three fine
West avenue residences lying between
Orchard and Butler streets. Their
enterprise was conspicuous, their large-
hearted generosity to employees and
others, proverbial, and the deceased
soon became a deservedly popular can-
didate for many local offices. He
Burgess of our borough, and in all re-
lations of life both public and private,
won the esteem and confidence of all,
as an honest and noble natured man.
He leaves a wife, a son and daughter to
mourn, with great numbers of friends,
his departure. Honored be his memory.
Bryan’s Definition of I6 to I.
Bryan gives this as his definition of
the 16 to 1 scheme, in a speech at Pitts-
burgh on Monday evening: f
“Sixteen to one means this, that if
you owe a debt you can go out into the
market and buy. silver and have it
coined, and use that silver to pay your
debts. ”
That is, if a man ow‘es yen ten dollars
for wages, he “can go out into the mar-
ket and buy silver” for about $5.30,
have it coined into ten dollars, and
force you to take these 53-cent dollars
in payment of his debt to you.
Stabbed With a Pickaxe.
Amongthe most active handlers of a
pickaxe on Mill Hill this morning was
old reliable Barney McGinnis. He was
too anxious to “out-pick the picker’
next to him with theresult that his pick
struck a rock and glancing hit his right
foot with such a vengeance that it
ploughed its way through his shoe and
stocking causing an ugly. gash. "The
wound” which required six stitches to
close, was cared for Dr. A. H. Baldwin.
. First Road Race.
‘ The first road race of the Orient Cy-
cle club, of Fairfield county, will be
held at Westport on Saturday next at
2:30 p. m. The start will be in front of
the Westport hotel. The first race will
be a boy’s five mile; the second, color-
ed boys twolmile and the _'third, men’s
ten mile. ,. . " '~
xWEEKLY-Nonw
he is under suspicion of being impli- '
Samuel Beatty, Esq, died Saturday
served as Selectman of the town and-
LEADER BOUND OVER;
The hearing of the-case against Wil-
bur Gaynor, age 12;‘ Charles Roberts,
age 12, and Robert Murray, go 10, a
charged with attempting to wreck the
New Canaan train, on Tuesday even-
ing, Aug. 11, by placing a branch of a
tree upon the track, near Tallmadge
Hill, was held before Justice Francis
Bliss in New Canaan Tuesday morn-
ing. ”
All having pleaded not guilty, through
their counsel, the state opened its case.
Dennis Doyle, for the past six years
trackwalker on the New Canaan line,
was called to the stand. Since the plac-
ing of ties on the track, previously, he
had been directed to watch particularly
for the miscreants who had performed
,the deed. He said that on Tuesday
evening, Aug. 11, be stationed himself
in some bushes on an elevation at the
curve just above the railroad bridge
over the Stamford—New Canaan high-
way, where he could see in both direc-
tions, up the track and down the track.
to Tallmadge Hill station.
The 6:25 train had just gone up when
two boys, Gaynor and another lad
(Murray), appeared on the track above
the bridge, Gaynor had on shoes and
stockings. Murray had not. They
walked along the track, Gaynor throw-
ing stones at random as he walked
along. They crossed the bridge and
came back again. Then Gaynor ran
down into the ditch, and, picking up a
branch of a tree, laid it across the track
on both rails, without assistance from
Murray.
“Just as they had done this,” con-
tinued the witness, “I jumped out of
the bushes and they began to run down
the side hill out of sight. When I came
in sight of them again, they were get-
ting into an open milk wagon standing ,
at Cornelius Taylor’s and began to
drive off. I ran after them, climbing '
in at the rear of the wagon. Then, tak-
ing the reins from Gaynor’s hands, I
stopped the horse. I asked what he put
the limb on the track forhand he said:
‘For nothing. I was going to take it
off before the train came. I put it on
for fun. Let me go and I will never do
it again.’
“I did not take Murray, and he drove
off with the wagon. The train came
along aminute or so after I got to the
track and I flagged the train and gave
Gaynor into Bossa's charge.”
Frank Bossa is baggage master on
the New Canaan train.
At this juncture the witness was call-
ed upon to identify Gaynor as the boy
who placed the limb on the track and
produce the obstruction, a limb denud-
ed of all branchesabout 7 feet long and
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2; inches. average diameter. It ap-
peared-to be sufficiently large to throw
a train ofi' the track on a curve.
Upon cross-examination,Doyle stated
that the limb had been placed only five
feet from the bridge, and would have
been invisible to an engineer, 500 feet
away, on a train going south.
It would have been a disastrous affair
had the train been derailed, for it
would have plunged down a steep de'
clivity into, the highway.
Deputy Sheriff Theodore Miller testi-
fied that he saw Wilbur Gaynor first at
police headquarters in Stamford. He
was given information of two boys to
9 found in Darien that night and in--
quired of Wilbur about it. Gaynor
said he-did not do it, and accused Mur-
ray of doing it while he remained under
the bridge.
' The witness then went to Darien and
arrested Murray and Roberts. Murray
related the story of the affair to him on
the way back to Stamford, and he asked
Wilbur about it again upon his return,
giving him an opportunity to hear Mur-
ray’s story. Gaynor then said: “We
both did it together.” _
Here the State rested, and claimed
conviction of Gaynor and Murray, the
latter on the ground of being “an ac-
cessory before the fact.” Mr. Hurlbutt
moved for the discharge of Murray, and
Mr. Kenealy moved for the discharge
of the other two boys. Mr. Kenealy
claimed that no maliciousness had been
proved and that the stick shown was
not of sufficient size to indicate that
any obstruction had been placed on the
track, within the meaning of the stat-
ute.
After hearing the arguments, Justice
Bliss bound Gaynor over to the Super-
ior Court under a bond of $500, fur-
nished by the boy’s father. Decision
was reserved until next Tuesday, at 9 a
m., in the case of Murray, and he was
released under $5500 bonds, furnished
by his father. Roberts was discharged.
For the offense charged the maxi-
mum penalty is 30 years’ imprisonment.
Don’t Want To Be Governor.
Simuel Fessenden, of Stamford, en—
tertained a party of neighbors and
friends at his residence, Monday, in
honor of the 80th birthday anniversary
of his mother. Mr. Fessenden at the
same time announced to his invited
friends that the newspaper reports. to
the effect that he was a dark horse can-
didate for Governor of Connecticut had
no foundation in fact.
Seventh Regiment Reunion.
The Seventh Connecticut Volunteer
association will hold their twenty-
seventh annual reunion at G. A. R.
hall, 38?. Main street, Hartford, Wed-
nesday, August 26, at 11 o’clock a. m.
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SILVER N0_T__ WANTED.
As surely as the new day comes, just
so surely is the fact becoming apparent
throughout Canada that Canadian peo-
ple are afraid to accept American silver
coin because they fear they cannot again
place it on the market at its face value.
The movement against American sil-
ver is about three months old, but dur-
ing the last two weeks, the banks have
decided not to accept even bills, except
on a ten per cent. discount. The first
to take decisive steps was the Bankers’
Association of Montreal, which dis-
cussed the question at length and sent
a delegation to interview the ‘ Minister
of Finance, at Ottawa and get his opin-
ion.
Shortly after this the Bank of Mont-
real refused ahealutely to take the
American coin. , This was about three
months ago. A‘ month later the Grand
Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways
came out with a similar announcement,
and~two weeks ago the Montreal Street
Railway company, which had daily
turned over about $1,000 in American
halves, quarters and dimes, put up a
notice in the cars absolutely to accept
no United States coin.
All the banks have, since the Bank of
Montreal took the initiative, joined
what is now evidently a combination,
and not a dollar’s worth of United
States silver could be passed through a
Canadian bank to-day were it worth its
weight in gold. The action of the banks
and large corporations has caused a
mild panic among those who have the
silver, for since the edict has gone out
not a tradesman of any description will
look at the "coin, and even the saloon
keepers, who two weeks. ago were glad
to get them, now,refuse them.
At one or two of the better class ho-
tels where Americans stay, the order is
not so binding, but, with this excep-
tion, the city has shut out the coin most
effectively, even to the extent of refus-
ing it at athletic games, where former-
ly anything, even leaden quarters, could
be passed. -
The Board of Trade of almost every
little town, has passed resolutions
against American silver, these being
followed by the words “And it i.~, then -
fore, [in the interests of the Canadian
people that we declare against Ameri-
can silver, and urge upon all, the ne-
cessity of absolutely refusing to accept
it in payment, in place of sound money.”
-To sum the matter up, in Montreal,
the bankers have as much Canadian
silver as they canlhandle, to say noth-
ing of the American, and it was to their
interest to keep the latter from the
country. they have succeeded to a
degree that was never thought to have
been possible.
Veterans of the 25th.
The veterans of the. Twenty-fifth
Connecticut regiment, ’75 strong, held
their annual reunion at Rockville, yes-
terday. These officers were elected:
President, MI-j.)r Thomas McMahon,
Hartford; Treasurer, \VIlliam E. Mor-
gan, New Haven; Secretary, Watson H.
Bliss, Hartford; Recording Secretary,
H. A. Kippie, Hartford; Chaplain,
George R. Warner, Hartford; Adjutant,
A. W. Converfih, Windsor Locks; Ex-
ecutive Committee, A. W. Converse, L.
R. Lord, Addison Lampheer, Windsor
Lock. .
A Lun’iinous Cat.
Those who now tolerate mice or rats
in or about the house certainly must
be blind to the fact that a luminous
cat, which costs very little to secure
and nothing to keep, has been invent-
ed, and can be placed in any dark cor-
ner or nook, and effectually scares a
away all such pests. This cat is struck
or stamped from sheet metal, or other
like material, so as to represent in ap-
pearance the exact counterpart of its
animated feline sister. It is painted
over with a luminous paint, so that it
shines in the dark like a eat of flame,
After being used for about a week the
place is forever free of either mice or
rats.
Clifl Dweller-Q in Alabama.
. Recent archeological discoveries
along the valleys of the Tennessee river
in Northern Alabama have led to the
belief that the region was once inhabited
by cliff dwellers, and an expedition
from the University of Pennsylvania is
soon to explore the caves in this re-
gion. '
Prof. Mercer will head the expedition
and itis behaved that valuable discover-
ies will be made. Many specimens of
ancient pottery believed to have be-
longed to the clifi dwellers have recent
ly been found in the caves along the
Tennessee.
The French want: a Submarine Ship. .
The Matin announces that it has just
been decided by M. Bertin, the Direc-
eur du Materiel at the Ministry of Ma.-
rino, to attempt the solution of the prob-.
lem of submarine navigation by means
of a public competition. .
The idea, says our contemporary,was
suggested by the action of the Ameri-
can naval authorities who have awar
ed a prize to Mr. Holland, _ the engin ,
for his invention of a subm art-no b t.
False ideals of happiness haunt the
ways of ,men, and lead them, on to
danger and destruction through the
siren song of fantasy. One makes hifi'
of wealth. He has enough now for a
the purposes of refined living; but he
wants that extra,that margin,by which
enough may be broadened outinto ex:
cess and refinement may be inade to
include frantic luxury and insolent os-
tentation.
A PICTURE OF DEATH.
'NOVELIST HAWTHORNE DESCRIBES
THE ATLANTIC CITY HORROR.
TheEminent AuthorVisited the Scene at '
Disaster a Few Hour: After it Happened
and Writes of His Sensations for a. New '
York Newspaper. . '
The terrible collision of trains at
Htlantic City, N. J., July 31, which re-
sulted in the death of fifty excursion-
ists and the maiming of as many
more, was one of the worst batters in
years. , = I l i'
Julian Hawthorne thus. graphically
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wrote of the scene for the New. York "
Journal: .
Either the signal man plundered, or
one or other of the engineers mistook
the signal. Both thought they bad
right of way, and the westbound train
dashed into the other, loaded with .re-
turning excursionists. In an instant:
slaughter had taken place scarcely
paralleled in railroad history.
A few stars had begun to appear as
the thickening of the crowd showed
that we were nearly upon the ground
of disaster. Looking forward, a smoke
Vwas visible, rising sluggishly from: an
indistinguishable mass of wreckage,
and drifting northward. a
The crowd was, in a. sense, silent,
and yet the air was full of voices and
cries. The sounds were detached and
incongruous; they did not melt togeth-
er like the ordinary hum of a magi-of
people. Each one of us was isolated
in the stress and tension of his own
emotion. No one was precisely aware
of what he spoke or did. Yet a com-
mon horror bound us together.
'As yet I had seen nothing but an in—
describable and violentconfusion of
things-and people; and-even that I
had scarcely seen; I had confusedly ap-
prehended it, A reddish, flickering
flame; a rising smoke; a huddling,
shifting, calling, lamenting crowd; a
heap of something black and broken, .
and amorphous arrangements of I
knew not what scattered widely round
the heaped up centre. I caught the
gleam of railroad tracks in the fading
twilight, and the sheen of water in the
ditches. But as yet I had not recog-
nized any actual form of death.
I recognized its presence, first, in the
countenances of the living, who had be-
held lt,‘and upon whom it had left its
stamp in a strange expression of the
eyes and a drawing of the face. Yes,
death was here, filling the air, as well
as covering the ground. I breathed it,
I felt it, and at last I saw it.
At such times one sees things with a
hideous distinctness and particularity,
and yet in a bewilderment, so that the
memory of them is disjointed; nothing
is grouped; each is apart in its own
dreadfulness. I cannot compose a pro-
portioned picture of this spectacle. I
cannot repeat the words I heard utter-
ed, or convey the tones in which they
struck my ear; such tones as are never
heard save in times like this. Anguish,
despair, terror, insanity, deadly pain-
all these found voice, and in all that
was said and done there was a new and
appalling sincerity; instinct, passion,
nature, in short, usurping the place of
all shows and artificialities. Our race
does not easily express emotion; but it
declares itself, when it does burst
forth, with a force and directness all
the more harrowing. I think, in look—
ing back, that I was more impressed
by the cries and gestures of the living
than by the sight of the dead-of the
awful pile and shreds of butchei‘y that
were strewn and mounded there, im-
paled, gushed, crushed, torn and
twisted. These fragments of mortal-
ity hardly seemed real; but the cries,
the moans, the desperate callings, the
wringing hands and stumbling feet and
waving arms—they expressed the very
marrow of reality.
The most fearful sight of :11], per-
haps, was a little child, not more than
eighteen months or two years old, sit-
ting beside a mass of bloody ruin,
wholly unharmed, playing with‘ the
fingers of a dead hand protruding from
the wreck. It was a woman’s hand;
was it the mother’s? The child seem~
ed to be crooning to itself, and gazed
up contendedly in my face as I stared
down at it.
There were many men hard at work
all this while, sweating and grimy,
tugging and hacking at beams and
pieces of iron, heaving them. up and
aside, and revealing at every moment .
new forms of death. Some cars stood
beyond the con-fusion, resting upright
and motionless after that fatal crash.
Something that was said to have been
an engine, though one could hardly be-
lieve it, was the centre of effort of
several toilens, and as piece after piece
was removed the body of a man came
into'view, grasping in his right hand
a handle of machinery. His face was
scorched and blackened; but still it
wore a look of frowning sternness. It
was the face of a hero, as that hand
showed—the engineer who had died at
his post.
Man’s pity and tenderness to his fel-
low gave a touch of beauty to the
scene. But oh! the fathers, the moth-
ers, the little children! ,
a"... 01d Are Horseshoes?
I
The earliest form of the horseshoe
wasa leather boot, says Dr. J .‘ S. Har-
ger, of the University of Pennsylvania
Veterinary School. But this boot was
cnly worn by heavy war horses. The
ordinary horses of the Greeks, Ro-
mans, Arabians and other natives were
unshod, though methods of hardening
the hoofs were occasionally. used. The
earliest written record of metal shoes
is found in a book by the Emperor Leo
VI, who died 911 A. 'D., but horseshoes
have ,been‘found in tombs that date
back ”to the sixth century. The ear-
liestFOriental form of shoes was nearly.
circular-hand was faStenedos. not by
nails, but by flanges driven into the
Iride’o'f the-hoof. Thezarahian ferriers
eventd-day shoe their'lidrSss cold,- and
:I-iegard the European; methodt‘as in-
jurious.
Norwalk Chronicler