Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-02-16
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quite child While she held Office under
Wardens Sutton, Stacom, johnson, Quinn
and Finn, she had under her charge many
noted female criminals, among them Mrs
Cunningham, the supposed murderess
of DIR. Harvey BurdeH Nine. ResteI1 who
committed suicide In her mansion on Fifth
avenue; Maggie Jordan, who rescued the
murderer Sharkey from the tombs; Sophie
Levy, Ellen Lee and Mary Ann Taylor. the
pickpockets. In her treatment of these per-
sons her policy was always one of frmness
tempered with mercy. 1t was she who dis
covered the attempt of William Foster to
poison himself by taking laudanum on the
morning of his execution, March 81, 1873,
and who preserved. Foster for the hand of
Sheriff Brennan by dosing him with black
coffee. With the officials and benevolent
contact she was respected and esteemed for
her honest and upright ways. She died
possessed of an ample competence.
Singular Bill.
From the Hartford Courantl
The long fight between the people of
Plantsville and the New Haven and North
ampton company, or the Canal railroad, viii
be remembered by the citizens of Connect
cut. The Legislature ordered the company
to stop its trains at PIantsviIle provided the
people of that place furnished a suitable
depot and grounds. This the citizens fur
nished at an expenditure of many thousand
dollars. But the railroad company would
not obey the legislative order, the case was
carried to the courts and though the Su-
preme Court of this State to the court of last
resort, the Supreme Court of the United
States, and the decisions were all in favor of
the people. Still the railroad company has
eRdeayored to avoid full compliance with
the requirements of the law of the State and
the order of the courts. The contest of the
road with the people lasted for about
seven years before the final decision
of the United States Supreme Court was
reached. The company has been asked by
the people of Plantsville simply to obey the
Law. Now comes trick, to speak mildly of
the transaction, to deceive the people who
have struggled so long for what they regard
their just rights and what the Legislature
and the courts have decided Is just There
has Just been introduced in the Legislature an
innocent appearing bill, entitled IAN act to
repeal section 50, part 3, chapter 2. title II
of the general statutes That the authors
of the bill intended it should pass without
those most Immediately affected by it becom-
ing aware of its full purport and effect is pref
ty clear, and will SO appear when its full his
tory becomes known. In effect it repeats the
resolution passed by the Legislature IN
1919 tue IlAGisNI1c case,
and revives the whole PIaassSille
matter which has been justly settled
by the Legislature and the courts. Il
would compel the people to enter upon an
other seven years contest with railroad
company to secure their rights The bill in
PRODUCED SO amends section 50 of the general
statutes concerning railroads as to hit the
Plantsyille case without really saying so, and
an innocent little section, tAn acts and reso-
lutions inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed," is intended to repeal all legislative
action on the subject Apparently the bin
was framed with the intention of obtaining
advantage by trick rather than by an hon
est, straightforward contest on the merits Of
the case. The history of the long struggle
with the old managers of the Canal road
might lead the Plantsville people perhaps to
watch for such things They win hardly ex-
pect the new management to give eneouf1.--s-
ment 10 any effort to revive the old struggle;
and that the new management do not desire
to have T revived will be shown when they
denounce such attempts to revive it as are
shown in this bill