Connecticut western news., 1901-11-14
STATE NEWS,

Ihe trial or Murderer Hayes cost the state over $7 900.
 At Winsted last Saturday the winsted football club defeated the Plainviile Athletic club by a score of 33 to O.
 The Laudano murder trial at New Haven was resumed Tuesday before Judge Roraback and jury.
 The annual meeting of the State Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in New Haven. November 2l and 22. in Calvary Baptist church.
 10 B. Baker of New Haven, general sur erintendent of the Southern New England Telephone company, has ten dered his resignation to take effect on May next.
 Henry Bradley. the weather prophet of Newtown, says that the remainder of the fall will be characterized by warm weather. There will be no severe weather, be says, nntil we'll into De- cember.
 The summer cottages at Fenwick owned by ex Governor Bulkeley. the. Rev. Francis Goodwin, Mrs James Campbell, Dr O. E. Taft, Leverett Brainard, George Roberts and l.. E. Fisk have been broken into and French Canadian suspect is under sr- rest,
 Knute Adanson. aged 45 years. living in Naugatuck. was struck by train near New Milford last Sunday morning and was so badly injured that he died few hours later. It is supposed he was asleep on the track at the time of the accident.
 Jacob Wilson, aged about 40 years, was found dead Wednesday morning near the railroad track at Irondale, N Y. It is supposed that Wilson boarded the wrsng train Tuesday night at Millerton and upon discovering his mistake jumped from the moving train and was killed. Wilson lived at Sharon Valley, Conn.
 Levi Case of Collinsville, who will be So years old next January, and who is one of the oldest residents of the town, while voting at the recent election for delegate to the convention, made the remark that nee he had been made a voter in l843, he had voted at every town and state election since. His first vote was cast for Henry Clay.
 The most disastrous fire that has visited Winsted in over ten years broke ont in the Opera House building about 8.30 o'clock Tuesday morning and burned for several hou 8 before the fire department could subdue it. The Opera House is ruined above the second story. The stock of five large nkn rfr roll llv xvh by water; the post office was forced to move out; three families are homeless, and several offices were damaged. The loss on the building is from S20. .000 to $25 Goo and the merchants and other smoke and water. All were we'll in- sured. The origin of the fire is un- known.
 The Hayes murder trial was oouclud- ed in the Superior court at Litch- field last week. At 10 o'clock on Thursday morning States Attorney Warner resumed his argument and spoke for fifty minutes. At II o'clock Judge Elmer commenced reading his charge to the Jury, and at noon (l2 02) o'clock the case was given to the jury and they filed into their room to deliberate. They remained in consultation over 12 hours, and at 12 40 o'clock Friday morning they returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. Judge Elmer thereupon at once sen- teuced Hayes to state prison for life. Hayes was led out of the court room and back to jail, and later in the day was taken to the state prison at Wethers- field. It is reported that nine jurymen voted for murder in the first degree, and three voted for murder in the second degree but the nine compro. missed the case in order to prevent q second trial. The Winsted Citizen is authority for the statement that @ jury had 8 very stormy and heated ses- sion, and that the three men who stood out, Messrs. Garfield, Baldwin and Smith, were charged with being bribed by their fellow iurymen and such questions as "What was your price?" etc were directed to them.