The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-14
LAW AND ORDER ATPUTNAM
THE LEAGUE'S AGENTS HAVE 4 LIVELY TIME MAKING 4 RAID.

One of Them Arrested at Willimantic-
 Secretary Thrasher Makes Statement
 Giving His Account of the Circumstances
 in the Case-He Will Go to Putnam This
 Morning.
 Putnam, Sept. 1S.-Agents of the State Eaw and Order league visited this place to-day in search of violators of the Sunday liquor law. They made a tour of the hotels in the afternoon and succeeded in securing some evi- dence in one or two places. When they visited the Elm street house they were four in number. One of them registered as J. E. Hennesey. He was given drinks and departed. The word soon got about that 'spotters' were at work in the city, and a crowd of people followed Hennesey and his compan- ions among whom was MT. Hanse of the Hanse Detective agency of New York As the party was nearing the railroad station Hennesey became con- vinced that Proprietor Piper or some one of the employees of the Elm Street house was among the crowd following him, and mentioning a name he had heard at the hotel, drew a revolver and ordered the mob to stand back or he would fire into their midst. The threat had the desired effect and Hennesey was able to board the train in safety, bound for New Haven.
 Complaint was entered against the young man, however, and he was ar rested at Willimantic, while aboard the train, by Chief Hillhouse of the Willi- mantle police force, at the request of the Putnam authorities, for carrying and brandishing revolver.
 Detective Hanse telegraphed from Willfmantic to Secretary Thrasher at New Haven that Hennesey had been arrested
 The proprietor of the Pickering house, on learning that his place had been re- ported as doing an illegal business, hastened to deny such a report, He said that man, supposedly one of the agents of the league had registered at his place as James Hanse, Brooklyn"
 that he had had breakfast and dinner there, and had hired a horse and car riage to go to Dayville, paying for all in advance.
 Secretary Thrasher was seen in re- gard to the above, and stated that he sent four men, at the request of the Putnam Law and Order league, to in vestigate and to make raid upon the Elm Street house, Putnam, the papers | having been sent to his office some days | ago. Mir Thrasher, proceeding, said: 1T heard nothing until about $ o'clock | tonight when I received dispatch | that one of the men in Willimantic had | been arrested, and that the sender of | the dispatch would be here at New Ha- 1 ven at ' o'clock. The man, upon arri-
 val here said that they made a raid on | the Elm Street house, securing much l evidence and quite a stock of liquors. l As they were about to take the train l they were beset by a crowd of roughs, who threatened their lives, and Hen
 nesey was assaulted. Hennesey drew l revolver and the crowd scattered and | he got aboard the train. On reaching | Willimantic, Chief of Police Hillhouse l of that city came aboard and arrested 1 him. saying that he had orders from | tue authorities at Putnam to hold him | until a warrant came. Our agent knew
 nothing about the cause of his arrest, l or what he was arrested for, and I at
 once telephoned to Chief Hillhouse, and he said that after arresting the man he | had telephoned to Putnam to get par l ticulars, and found that no warrant
 had been issued, and that they were unable to get one; and that conse-
 quently he had released his prisoner,
 who was now comfortably quartered at
 a hotel.''
 MT. Thrasher said further: 1T am l going to Putnam in the morning to
 swear out complaints against parties
 engaged in the riotous demonstration
 The raid was in charge of Agent Me-
 Clair, and his associates were Agent I Curtis, MT. Hanse and MT. Hennesey.
 MT. Hanse is the head of a detective
 agency in New York. and he came here
 bringing Hennesey, one of his men,
 with him.