The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-25

u bottles which were in her room.
| Hastings, she said, obtained six bottles
Of her, to treat his friends with.
Hastings continued this story, saying
| that the four men found in the house
| by the police were friends Of his who
had come by pre-arrangementt to walk
with him to the north dixie. Before
| they started he treated them to a
| drink.
Hastings case got a severe blow by
the evidence of Officer Burke, Officer
| Greene and officer Johnston, who testi-
| fled to seeing many strange men visit
ing the Hastings house during the
months of April and May, many of
then. between II and midnight
Mr.. Walsh brought out the fact that
! there were two tenemefts in the house,
and argued that all the evidence that
was being used against Hastings might
be used with equal propriety against
the tenant upstairs, inasmuch as the
tenements had common doorway. The
state adduced the circumstance that
the upstairs tenant was a respectable
widow woman. Mrs. Hastings said
that men sometimes came on a suppo-
sition that there was an entrance from
that side into a store which joins the
| Hastings apartments. Some sympathy
vas created for Hastings by the fact
that there are 10 persons in his family
| TIC be supported. He has worked for
the past 12 years in the dye room of the
| Bigelow Carpet Company, and is still
working there according to the evil
dence
These cases have attracted unusual
interest here, because they are the first
contested liquor cases that have beer
tried in the district court for a lone
time, and because both of the accused
/ are unusually well known
| Recently the volunteer relief com
mittee has been assaulted by anony.
nous writers who pretend to be dis
turbed because the committee has moi
made its final report regarding the ex-
penditure of the funds entrusted to its
care. These epistles ignore the cir.
cumstance that the committee has re-
ported once upon the expenditure of q
large part of the money, and that very
recently Secretary Walsh addressed q
communication to The Spy and other
newspapers, stating why the final re-
port had not been made, and saying
when it would be made
| AS a matter of fact the committee
wishes to get it's funeral claims adj
justed before closing it's work
l. Thomas L. Walsh, secretary of the
committee, said tonight: Il do not at
tach any Importance to these commune
cations, because 1 think | know the
writer. He is a person, unless 1 an
mistaken, notorious from one end OF
this town to the other, as a man who
never willingly said a good thing Of
any other, nor thought one, If he could
help it. He is, unless I am mistaken, a
fellow who will not have the courage
to go over the books of this committee
with me, or any of its members, to gain
the information he seeks. The com.
mittee will close it's work when its
work is done. It secs no reason why
| it should change it's methods for the
not very brave gentleman who has
penned this second assault upon it. He
is evidently the author OF a prior SINH
| lar assault.
1.-THE books CT this committee are
open at all reasonable times to any citi.
zen who desires to know the condition
Of the fund. The business Of the com.
mittee, with its final report, will be
closed in due and proper season.
James j. Morrison, who is entered ir
seven of the ten events for the com,
petition in the Wachusett interscholas.
tic sports at Fitchburg, Saturday
sprained his ankle this afternoon while
practicing with the Clinton high schoo
team. He will be unable to compete
Saturday. The local high school tear
is very much discouraged, as Morrison
was one of its mainstays.