Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-21
Personal.

Rev. Rufus C. Putney, Methodist, who be-
 gan his ministry at the age of 23 years in
 Greenwich Conn.,, in 1S44, died at his home
 in New York Sunday. He was a native of
 New Rochelle. He leaves 0 widow, 8 son
 who is a minister, and two daughters
 The father of ex-Judge Henry R. Davies,
 who died in New York on Saturday, was q
 native of Litchfeld county and his mother
 belonged to the Foote family of this state
 Theliev. Mir. Elliot, of New Haven, occu-
 pied the pulpit of the Congregational church,
 Stamford, on Sunday last.
 It is estimated that the estate of the late
 Captain John Brooks will amount to at least
 $175. GOO.
 Mrs Helen G. Stiles, the estimable wife of
 Mir Henry B. Stiles, of the Bridgeport
 Farmer, is critically Ill. She was taken sick
 only few days ago.
 One-twentieth part of the population of a city is large number for any one man to
 gather around him; yet it was an audience of this proportionate size that MT. John L. Stoddard delivered the first lecture of his new course to last week in Portland. Me
 Nearly two thousand were present
 Hartford Police I=vestfgation. The investigation of the charges against
 Police Captain Bill, of Hartford, were begun
 before full board of the police commission CTS Monday evening The session was pro- longed till after midnight. About four years ago Captain Bill s'spotted" some suspicious baggage at the depot, consisting of a trunk and a chest, and he had it conveyed to the station house for examination. The contents assured him that it was stolen property. It looked as though a country store had been robbed. There were twelve or fifteen pairs of mems fur gauntlet gloves, quantity of children's stockings, four dozen pocket knives, fifty cheap woolen shawls, one piece of cotton velvet, an accordeon and number of boxes of violin strings. It is charged that as no owner appeared for the property it was removed to @ room occupied by Cowles and Flynn and soon the contents of the chest and trunk by Captain Bills orders were dis tributed, and that some of the things were sold with the understanding that the pro- ceeds were to be equally divided between Captain Bill, ''Sid." Cowles, Frank Flynn and the t'Old Man" Also that many of the articles were given away to the friends of the officers named. The things which were sold, it is claimed, amounted to $6s, and each of the ring" took $17 for his share. Captain Bills friends claim there is nothing in it. The 1Tnaes says: "In regard to the sale of the photographs of Blanche Douglass, in which Captain Bill took an interest, the cap tain says that a mancame to Hartford, and he | introduced him, in business way, to a local photographer who agreed to make the pic lures. Captain Bill held that it was purely a business affair, not connected in any way | with the police department, and further stated that he was not paid anything. But 1 the agreement was that he (the captain) should have certain percentage of the pro- f1ceeds from the sales of these photographs. The sale of these pictures had been enjoined
 in New Haven, and the man who came to Hartford and got Captain Bill to introduce him came under an assumed name, and it is claimed that Captain Bill knew it and intro
 duced him under false colors."