Connecticut western news., 1874-12-04

Bions Gunpowder Plot.-The scamp Bion who attt mpttd to elevate the par sonage Ill East Canaan with gunpowder in February last, was sentenced by the Su- perior Court week or two since, to state prison for ten years. The people of Ca naan who are conversant with the facts connected with the case, regard the above disposition of this malicious scamp by the court, as most righteous judgement. States Attorney Huntington is entitled to great credit for the able manner in which he has handled this case. devoting much attention to it, as he saw it was an aggra vated Case of malice, and the safety of the people demanded that it should be severely dealt with. He pursued the matter closely and indefatigably till the cause of the trouble is now securely penned within the walls of the prison at Weathersfeld. Be- low we give the particulars of the "gun- powder plot;" the arrest of Bion, and the facts proved against him in court as we find them in the Enquirer of last week:
 On the 2lst of February last, at about 10 o'clock in the evening. an attempt was made to blow up the parsonage in East Canaan with gunpowder. No great dam age was done, but the hatch-way door was slightly burnt. enough it was claimed to constitute the crime of arson. Circumstan- tial evidence was relied on to convict Bion of having committed the offence. He had but recently been discharged from our State Prison where he had served three years term for burglary. MT. Lyman Dun ming had been the means of convicting Bion of this offence and he was known to have vowed revenge against him. The parsonage was near MT. Dunning's house and it was at once suspected that it was Bion who had made the attempt and that he had mistaken the parsonage for Mr.
 Dunning's residence. With characteristic energy Mir. Dunning began the investiga tion of the case, discovered facts strongly eliminating Bon; and finally succeeded in arresting him in M>y last.
 The facts proved were chiefly these
 The prisoner was shown by several wit
 nesses to have been at Great Burlington al
 noon of the day of the explosion and was
 identified by several p rsons. A MT. Brew
 CT teslifies that he sold him ten pounds oi
 gunpowder nd that it was given him in (
 twenty five pound bag. The ticket agent
 recollected selling him ticket for sta
 tion a short distance below; and he wal
 seen to get off at Ashley Falls with pa
 per bag of the size, and about half filled
 as described by Mr. Brewer. From Ash
 ley Falls he Was seen going east and wa
 last seen before the explosion about two
 miles from East Canaan, at about D. m
 He turned up the next day in Millertol where he entered false name i'll the hote register, and from his wet and muddy ap
 pearance seemed to have walked distanc
 in the rain, and probably in the night, H WAS proved to have threatened Dunnint while in Burlington, and confessed hi , crime to prisoner after being committe' , to jail. One of the strongest points o , circumstantial evidence agains: him wa the finding bag near the scene of tn , explosiong marked Abbey & Co.," NIT
 Brewer, who sold the powder to Bion, thinks he gave it to him in that bag. Hi partner had short time bcfere got som sugar at Abbey & Co.'S. in such bag, an had folded and laid it away. From Il
 size, differing from those they used, he confident it was the one he Jet Byon have ; Tue case was ably managed by Messrt l Hardenburg and Huntington for the Stat. F and Johnson and Andrews for the prisor CT.