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chamber with cartridges. They grot off I at the square and walked in the direction of Central ville, where they were | lost sight of.Officer Healey was visited yesterday morning by his mother and brother, James, the well known letter carrier. To the letter he t-old the story of the fight. The officer is 25 years old and has been on the f. rce since June 15 last. He passed the civil service examination last May. Recently he was promoted from the sur ernumtrary to the reserve force. A member of the Y. M. C. L. I. of Centralville, the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, the Foresters and the Police Relief ass.elation Officer Healey has made n.any acquaintances and friends.The revolver stolen by the burglars was a gift of the friends of the officer, presented upon the occasion of his appointment to the force. Its failure to work can be accounted for only in the supposition that rim fire cartridges were used in the centre fire action, or vice versa.Dr. Sawyer who lives in Lincoln street in the immediate vicinity of the tragedy reported to the police yesterday morning t. at a man answering the description of -one §f the three men seen by Lamplighter Thomas A. Greene, attempted to burglarize his house at 12 o’clock Saturday night by forcing a window on the ground floor. He had succeeded in prying the window open, and was just In the act of entering, having already thrown one leg over the window sill, when his son was awakened and screamed for help, frightening the man away.Only a few days ago the house of John Smith, 127 Ha e street, in this same vicinity, was entered by burg ars and a considerable amount of plundersecured.The police are of the opinion that the men who did the Job at Dickinson’s factory are the same ones who operatedIOLEY’S OFFICE, re the burglars entered.upon Alderman W.Ider’s safe a few dus ago, but who weie frightened before completing the job. the methous of operation being strikingly similar.The fact that Healey’s revolver fai’cd to work piompted Supt. Davis to go be- f fore the various shifts at roll call and order an inspection of each officer’s weapon. rThe result was that two revolvers were fourd t be use ess. 'One of the ofilcers w-hose weapon was not in working order was to d that he m'gh-t lay off for the night, but he borrowed a revolver that was O. K. and } was a lowed to go on duty.Hereafter th re wi 1 be regular Inspections at frequent intervals ard any officer who is found to have a weapon that is rot in first class order wdli be ( suspended. 'It wi 1 a'so be made compulsory hereafter to carry weapons where they may I be qu'ckly brought to use.J At 9 o’clock last night Inspector Donaldson arrested one man on suspicion and shortly -ft r m’dnigh two more suspects were broght in. They will nil be questioned sharply this morni g and unless they can till give positive proof concerning th i** whereabouts Saturday night they will be held and taken before Mr. Healey for 1 lentinCa-tion if he is in condition to see them. ——-i Catarrh in the head is a d sease of the blood, and as such only a reliable blood j purifier like Hood’s Sarsaparilla. the ; best medicine n.cney can buy. can effect ] a perfect and permanent cure. ...
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Lowell Daily Courier
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Mar 06, 1899
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