Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-16
BOYS GO TO JAIL.
Surrendered Last Evening By
 Their Bondsmen.
MANY RUMoRS AS TO THE CAUSE

Town After Receiving Witness Fees
 If Some Action Is Not Taken They
 May Have to Remain in Custody Un-
 til October.i
 Four of the boys who were impIi- cated in the now famous Faber switch assault case were surrendered by their bondsmen last evening" The boys are Thomas and James Quinn, James Whitty and Charles Thorpe, Their surrender has no significance whatever in connection with the cases pending against them in the superior court. The bondsmen were George I. Driggs for Whitty, an uncle named Eggleston living in Watertown, for Thorpe and: Attorney Charles E. Meigs, who repre- sented the trolley company in court during the strike, for the Quinns. '
 The surrender took place at late hour last evening and the boys were immediately handed over to the GUS tody of Sheriff Doherty who locked them up in the cells in the court house. Immediately the widest ru- mors began to circulate about the streets and it was said that new devel- .opments had taken place in the cases Some connected tue surrender with the failure Of the strikers and Manager .Sewell to hold a conference last even ing for the purpose of ending the strike.
 There are various reasons assigned for the surrender One of the bonds men said to-day that one reason was that the bondsmen were under no ob- ligation to the boys or their friends for being any longer responsible for their liberty and another reason was be- cause of certain statements said to have. been made by the boys that as soon as they were paid their witness fees for appearing in the cases against the strikers they would quit town. It is said that they have frequently made this statement. Whether or not they made such statements, there would ap- pear to be some ground that they have. Since the close of the criminal term of the superior court, they have bothered Cl&k Marsh almost every day with demands for their fees. Whether or not they had any intention of flying the town their constant demand upon MT Marsh would give rise to a sus- picion that they had some such inten- ton. They were always told that until the court approved of the bill of ex- pense of the trial they could not be paid their fees, and that it may be next fall before the court would be heard from in this respect, but they still called again and again. This morning they were taken on the $40 train to the New Haven county jail. The bond in each case was $2,00O.
 Counsel for the accused in the recent cases against the strikers have said there was very little prospect of the cases against the boys ever being tried; that there is no case against them now, Wolcott's evidence having been ruled out of court. The state ments made by the boys to Judge Bur pee and other representative of the trolley company were also ruled out by the superior court and even their tes- timony in the city court was not ad- mitted. Consequently there is no ev1- dence against them according to the statements made by counsel for the strikers. There could be no reason, therefore. why the boys should be de sirous of leaving town for good, ana the only explanation for their surren- der by their bondsmen is that the lat ter wished to be released from further responsibility for their liberty.
 Unless they secure other bail they will have to remain in jail until next October. when the superior court, crlm- inal side, opens here.
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