The Press., 1896-09-24


 from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
 H1GH SCHOOL. MT. Briggs commenced his school at the Hollow Sept. 4th. We Over fifty commenced this term. It looks now as if the efforts of the gentlemen who inaugurated the move would succeed in establishing a school permanently.
 AGRIoULTURAL.-E. H. Hyde, of this town, is represented at the New England Fair, held at Brattleboro, Vt., by thirteen Devons and six Short Horns from his famous herds. The fair is we'll represent ed by various exhibitors from all sections, and it tests the accommodations of the citizens of BrattlebO1O to the utmost, so great is the crowd.
 CLOSE OF SOHOOLs.-The East District, Springs village, closes it's summer and fall terms next Friday, the 14th, after 8 term of seven weeks. This is in accord ance with a previous vote of the district. We have no school till the winter term commences. The wisdom of this plan will prove in the end detrimental to the school. A teacher has only time to get fairly organized when the end comes.
 EXTENSIVE BURGLARY. Thursday night or Friday morning the stores of Small < Heald and Medbrey & Taft, in this village, were entered, and the former robbed of clothing, cutlery, &c., of the value of $500 or more and the latter of $1OO worth of shawls. Entrance was effected to the first named place by boring around the lock with large sized augur, and the goods were removed to the freight depot, where they appear to have been sorted over, and those of lesser value left behind At Medbrey & Taft's a window was brok. en to admit the hand, and the fastenings then loosened, the goods taken being piled near the window. A man was seer about half-past five o'clock, Friday morn ing, some two miles from the village, with large pack on his back, tied up in 6 shawl corresponding with the ones stolen and is supposed to have been the burglar Search was made in that locality for the thief and goods, with what result is not yet known.
 September Is, 1866.
 TIE BURGLARY CAsE.-A man calling himself James Leroy has been arrested by Small < Heald for breaking into theil store and conveying away goods. The circumstances are very nearly as follows While MT. Heald, with others, vas pa trolling Saturday night, he picked up { vest in the road, near Capt. J. Albry's with his mark plainly attached. MT Chapman, formerly deputy sheriff and on' of the best of detectives, was on hand anC soon found trail which led to Williman tic. A carriage was traced to the livery the man who hired it traced to his board ing house, and found to have been absen during the entire night the burglary wal committed. Monday the man took hi bag and started for the cars, whereupol Deputy Sheriff Pomeroy arrested him He was indignant and protested his inno ! CbL1u Gl1IG GW OuG SOLuO Wu1Cl Heald said was not his. Soon two pair of pants came out of the carpet bag whicl were identified at once. This made tn man irritable. Suspenders, ties, and knife were found. A number of small ar ticles were picked up in his room and un der the window, proving beyond a doub that he was the thief. A seven-shooter also bunch of skeleton keys, and badg of conductor on the Shore Line roa( were taken from him. It is said that h. has been an inmate of Wethersfield. Tn goods have not been recovered at the tim of writing this. James Leroy will have
 hearing before Esquire Lord on Monday at 10 o'clock. Leroy, at the time of com initial, plead not guilty, and has Esquir Clark, lawyer from Willimantic, fo counsel. The circumstances are all S strongly connected that it looks as if tn man was found. He had endeavored t.