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A servant working in the house of C. M. Holbrook heard a man walking on the roof of the veranda. The man apparently jumped off of the roof and disappeared.
“Some time ago” the house had been burgled, and some small items had been stolen.
On April 11, 1896, William Tobin pursued William Poiter, who had been involved in an altercation at Heublein’s Saloon, and apprehended him on the roof of a building at the rear of the Society for Savings Bank.
“The man was heard to jump off the roof, a distance of about twenty feet, and nothing further was seen of him.”
William Tobin was a Hartford police officer.
Unattributed. “Attempted burglary,” Hartford Courant, August 8, 1893, page 2.
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