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Title: Historical sketch of the police service of Hartford, from 1636 to 1901, from authoritative sources. Illustrating and describing the economy, equipment and effectiveness of the police force of to-day. With reminiscences of the past, including some notes of important cases
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Weaver, Thomas S. (Thomas Snell) Hartford Police Mutual Aid Association
Subjects: Police -- Connecticut Hartford
Publisher: Hartford, The Hartford Police Mutual Aid Association
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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nd not far from the store. This set the officers at work.and the trio were arrested. Shapira stabbed himself in the abdo-men while awaiting for the preliminary hearing and died twodays later in the hospital. Nudic and Alenikoff were sent toprison for four vears. Sergeant Walter Smith had the work-ing ii)) of the case. In the early part of October, 1898. the house of Mrs. JulietteSumner. No. 11 Myrtle Street, was entered by a burglar and aquantity of silverware and other articles stolen. No immediateclue was found to aid in the arrest of the burglar, but on Octo-ber 9 a man calling himself William E. Travis was arrested inXew York by detectives of the force of that city. It appearsthat he had been given away by a pal who had come to grief,and an investigation showed that he lived in a respectable local-ity on Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn, and had always passedfor a commercial traveler. His wife and her mother were un-aware of the character of his business, but it soon developed that
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PATROLMEN. History of Police Department, Hart font, Connecticut. 125 he had been one of the most successful second-story burglarsand operators in the country. Among some of the silverwaretaken from him were articles bearing the name of Sumner,and Detective Farrell was sent to New York to identify themif possible. This was easily done, and after a contest madeby Travis he was finally remanded to this city for the first chanceat him, although he was wanted in other places for burglaries.He was brought to Hartford ( Jctober 18 and held for the Su-perior Court for trial, and at the following term was sentencedto State Prison for nine years. I lis name was found to be Ru-dolph Busch, although he was married under the name of Wil-liam E. Dalton. He was a gentleman in his tastes and appear-ance, a reader and student of the best literature, and a man whowould have made a fine place for himself in society but for thext crook that was in him. He is regarded as at the head of hisprofession, whic

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