Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-16
BETURN OF VOTES CAST.
WALLINGFORDss RXoITEMENT7..

N The Universal Topic in the Towp-
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 WALLINGFoRD, Sept. 15.-The universal topic of conversation here. for several days past has been the Perkins fEAjlss shooting case Perkins is slowly imp proving and the proba- bilities are thatfhe will recover There are many rumors ahoat in regard to the matter, most of which are doubtless without founda- ton. The latest rumor is that Roland Tal- colt, the young man who was with Perkins when he was Shot, has left town, and so far as can be learned this ru1nor is probably true and if so would indicate, as many have already su rmised, that Talcott did the shoot ing~, The general supposition is that both were in state of intexieation and got into drunken quarrel.which almost ended in a tragedy. There is ru1nor! that the town authorities were looking up the matter and would probably cause an - arrest to be made, but the parties most interested seem tosa., be using their influence to keep the matter quiet, andzif Taleott has left town as reported the whole matter will probably be allowed tordrop: <
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 Miss Hattie f3afe, daughter Of Oscar Lane and the youngN lady who accompanied Perkins to Meriden Friday night, said yesterday to a reporter that they left Wallingford for Meri- den between s and o'clock Friday evening and drove to the City Hotel, Meriden. where the young mer ordered drinks. She did not take anything? and could not tell whether the young men did, although the drinks were brought to them in the dining room. She said they were not up stairs in the parlor; but contradieted herself a few min utes later by stating that after the men had into the teams The dining room is on the first floor and the par1or is up stairs. They then went to McLean's restaurant, and Per kins and Talcott ordered supper, but she and Miss Smith, the other young lady, would not get out of the teams. They waited out side for Perkins and Talcott nearly half an hour, and during that time talked to some Meriden young men whom they knew. After Perkins and Talcott got in they drove to- wards Wallingford, and Talcett stopped at J. K. Hawkins saloon~in South Meridep. None of the others would get out, and Miss Smith, Talcott's companion; said that if Taleott did not come out quickly, she would get into Perkins team and go home. Per kins finally went into. Hawkins and got Tal- colt started for home. After they had all arrived at Miss Lane's house she got out and heard TaIcott say-to Perkins that he would see him later She went into the house and the other teams drove off. She did not hear an angry word spoken between them during the evening.
 Miss Fannie Smith; the other lady, was also seen, butssher mother would not allow her to talk onsthe subject at all, unless she was under oath at the trial. But Miss Smith managed to say that everything was friendly when she left them. The reason that Mrs Smith did not want her daughter to talk about the affair was that she understood the Perkins folks were willing to have the mat ter hushed ups
 Coroner Bolman was in town nearly ali day to-day taking evidence in the Johnson murder case. Quite, number of colored people were taken before him for examina- tion, and they say he questioned them pretty sharply. pr. McGaughey finished his examina- tion yesterday, and the body of the murder ed woman was to be buried. to-day. The trial of Johnson, the murderer, commences to- morrow (TuesdaO morning at g. o'clock.
 THE MURDERER OF TIBBA1s.
 Johnson is supposed to be the same man who killed Tibba1s of Middletown some time ags, and who was not caught at the time of the killing. In fact the identity of the mur-