Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-16
AFTER MANY DAYS.
One of the Perpetrators of n South Lyme Murder is Captured.

One of the Perpetrators or south
 Lyme Murdes is Captured.
 On the night of the 20th of May. 1892, an Italian named Pietro was murdered and robbed at South Lyme. He was thrifty and had about $700 on his person. The three Italians who did the deed escaped that night and went to New York, and were supposed to have left the country on 6 steamer and returned to their native land.
 A friend of the murdered man wrote to Pietro's mother in Italy, where she was waiting for the years to roll by that would send him home rich enough to spend his days in ease and comfort, telling of the case and naming the <murderers. The mother, actusted by tue strongest of mo- tives, love and revenge, took up the pur- suit of the criminals and notified the Itali an authorities. In course of time two of them were found to be back in their native land, one of them was arrested, and the other, though he took warning and eecap- ed, will sooner or later be run to earth as will the third guilty man.
 Correspondence was opened with the United States authorities by the Italian government, and finally State Attorney Lucss was asked for papers in the case on which to base a claim for the extradition of the man under arrest. Before any great lapse of time he will be arrsigned for trial before the superior court of New London county and the first link in the chain will be forged.
 The Masonic Foundation Benefit. Among the Masonic fraternity but little 1 is talked of outeide of the coming charity entertainment at the Hyperion, June 24. The box office is besieged for tickets, not | withstanding the announcement has been made that the advance gale will be con duoted entirely by the different lodges. People are advised to procure tickets of the Masonic committee, and then be or hand promptly at o'clock on the 17th inst, when these tickets may be exchanged for reserved seats in any part of the house ! without additional charge.
 Anything new from the pen of MT. Hoy
 is always looked forward to with interest
 by the theater going public, for of all playl
 that are being produced in this country to
 day, MT. Hoyt's are the most purely Amer
 ican. "A Temperance Town" like "A
 Texas Stesr," and the rest of Mr. Hoyt'
 plays, is a satire. It has more comedy
 than anything else, with here and there
 touch of pathos. It tells story that i
 rational and presents side of the prohibi
 tion movement that has never before, 8
 far as known, been put upon the stage. The temperance town is situated in Yer
 mont and the local option law is in force
 There is 8 minister in town who has lost
 son in the war and who is wagipg war
 fare on illegal liquor selling, because tha
 boy WAS drunkard before he enlisted
 He Is assisted by doctor and drug stor
 keeper, both of whom have personal end
 in view. His daughter is in love with young man, visiting city chap, wh
 spends great deal of his time in the bar ) room, and his niece who hes lately com
 to his home to live, gets to be in love vii, , tho son of the town drunkard, who by he 1 good influence makes e man of himself The town dIunkard Mink Jones" is d. lightful character and psrmeates ths whol
 play with his unique personality. Th temperance men secure evidence agains the saloon keeper by means of subterfu2 and raid his place.
 The saloonkeeper is arrested, tried ap = convicted under the outrageous law ths r 1 prevails, and is sentenced to sixty yeal
 imprisonment, or elee fine of SC. 00t 2 l The plot is based upon an actual fact frol { 1 the jurisprudence of Vermont. Christms r day, 1880, George F. Kibling was se,
 fenced by Judge l.. H. Thompson to |, l imprisoned for 21 .9224 days or proxima |, fifty years in the Vermont state prison f. i. selling liquor. The play contains a rebul directed against the law which prevails
 certain parts of the Nsw England state t Ths piece will be produced hsre with tl + original cast headed by George Richard and Eugene Garfield. the production beir
 the same as that in Boston, where 1t had B ! celebrated run of six months.