Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-30

 abouts. he came back from London and posed as heavy swell. He went to the White mountains and became acquainted with young lady, the daughter of wealthy parents. This young woman became in- fatuated with the burglar and they were | husband's true character and her parents subsequently, obtained divorce for her. Yesterday Lyons was apprehended in Bos ton and the chief of police wired Chief Packard to come on at once with requisition papers. The chief hsstened to see Attorney Eggleston and Governor Bulkeley and started | for Boston late this afternoon.
 HARTFORD, April 29.-A prize fight is booked to take place near this city tonight between Hannah of Waterbury and Sexton l of this city.
 ATToREY TAYLoR's CASE.
 BRIDGEPORT, April 29.-The hearing in the case of Attorney Taylor of Danbury, who must show cause why he should not be dis- barred, will come up in the superior court l to morrow.
 l DROPPED DEAD.
 ! CANAAN VALLEY, April 29.-Albert Haughtling, we'll known farmer Of this place, while watering stock last night drop ped dead. He weighed about 230 pounds and death was due to heart disease. He was 65 years old and had never known sick day in his life.
 THE DIpHTHER1A CASES IN ANsoNIA.
 ANsoN1A, April 29.-There are a great many diphtheria cases here and 1t is feared it will become epidemic. James Oonnors has lost three children from this disease dur | ing the past ten days There are nearly score of these cases in one part of the town and it is believed that all were caused by de- fective sewerage.
 1 SELF DEFENSE.
 BRANPoRD, Aprile 29.-Justice Edmund Zaoher this evening heard the arguments in the mayhem case brought by Matt Carlson against Charles Peterson. On Good Friday night Carlson was struck in the eye by Peter son and subsequently lost the eye from the injury. Justice Zaoher held that Peterson had only defended his property from an at tack on the part of Carlson and discharged the man.
 | MISSING LITTLE CHAP.
 NORWICH, April 29.-Little ten-year-old | Alfred Rogers is missing and it is believed that he has been kidnapped by a party of gypsies which has been hanging around this vicinity lately. Tho boy has not been heard from since he left school yesterday afternoon. His father and party of friends searched the woods hereabouts last night and this | | of the missing boy.
 sHpBU1LDING IN MADISON.
 MADISON, April 29.-There Is going to be big demand for ship caulkers here soon, which, 1t is thought, will be hard to supply. There are more large schooners now being built in Connecticut than ever known before. There are two at New Haven, four here and two up the Connecticut river. All are large vessels and in a short time all will want 1Iys srvk t,oI, employment for two hundred men of that l trade.
 $2, 900 BoNDs-FoR KEEPING AN ILLICIT STILL.
 LONG HILL, April 29.-David O.. Beach, who was arrested this morning for keeping an illicit still, will be given hearing to- morrow morning. This morning the reve- nue officers made another search of the premises and discovered sixty-6ve gallons of whisky hidden under 0 manure heap. Beach was this morning released under bonds of $2,000 furnished by Mcssrs. Beardsley and Trumbull. Two years ago Beach was detect ed by Collector Troup. who seized his prop erty, and Beach had to pay large amount openly boasted that he had more than made his loss good, and 1t was the knowledge of these boasts that caused the officers to search his premises yesterday.
 BOY BURGLARS TRIED AND GO TO JAIL. | v,
 John Mattox and M. Daniels, three boys. who
 belong to an organized gang of burglars, | were tried here this afternoon. Recently
 there have been several bold burglaries.
 which ere attributed to this gang. A barrel | of whiskey was stolen from Q freight car
 which was standing on the tracks of the New
 England road and several stores have been
 entered. The boys are said to have a reg | ular organization and to have their head quarters in hut in the woods. All candi-
 dates for admiesion to the gang are obliged
 to make blood eurdling osths of secrecy , before being admitted. Justice Huber Clark found probable cause for binding over
 Maddox, Geary and Daniels to the next term of the superior court. The binding over was
 on the charge of stealing the barrel of whis- key, which was consigned to party in Paw tucket. Maddox pleaded guilty and made ; confession in which he implicated the other . two. The three went to jail, being unable
 to furnish the $250 demanded in each case.
 The evidence was not deemed sufficient to convict on the charge of burglary at Hennes- sey's store, although the boys had @ number
 of cigars in their possession which were iden-
 tided as having been stolen from the store. ARRESTED FOR ENBEzzLEMKNT-ExorTEN IN ANsoNIA.
 ANsoNIA, April 29.-There was @ great sensation here to-day when 1t became known that William Moore. the paymastsr } of the Farrell Foundry and Machine company had been arrested for embedding large sums of money from the company. Moore had
 been employed by the company for many
 years and was supposed to be quite wealthy. f A few years ago he purshased 6 large farm , near this place and went into the business 7 of raising blooded horses on large scale. I He built one of the finest houses in the , place, lived in excellent style and cut quite a figure financially. It WAS commonly re- ported that he had grown wealthy fast from his stock farm and consequently none of his expenditures were deemed extravagant. Not lopg ago the officer of the Farrell ; company became suspicious that their large proportions and began ap investigation. They discovered that Moore was drawing pay
 for four men who never worked for the com ? papy and that each of these men was put 3 down for $20 week. It was also learned 3 that Moore was charging the company S. 75 per day for a number of men who, as matt ter of fact, were only getting $2.50 day. 2 The total amount of the embezzlements has . not been stated. When Moore was arrested r he was overcome and promised to settle
 Strenuous efforts were made to keep the ? story out of print. Moore's father gave , bonds to the extent of $8.000 for his sons appearance. It is thought likely that the matter will be settled.
 3 THE WATERBURY MYSTERY DEEPENING. WATERBURY, April 29.-The feeling here is gro wing very intense because the examins- tion into the case of Annie Theresa Hux- ford, or Turner, whose decomposed body
 was found in Welton pond Sunday, is not
 being pushed. Tonight an interview with 2 Miss E. J. Whiton is published, in which i. Mics Whiton says the girl was a member of 8 her class in the First church Sunday school : and she has rarely met more lovable char , acter. The girl applied for membership in q the church Q few months ago, but , as the night for her to come before 5 the committee was stormy she did not appear 8 and as Miss Whiton went away on vacation l the matter was allowed to drop. She dined
 with Mics Whiton the day before she disap-
 peared, January T. She wrote to Miss Whi.
 ton the next day, saying she had failed to
 secure work, bu. giving no evidence of ds-
 spondenoy. Her most intimate friends
 among the factory girls scout the idea that