The Newtown bee., 1905-05-19

Investigating Committee APP
pointed by the Town
Makes Report.
WORK NEGLECTED. AND A DIS
TRESSINd STATE OF AF-
FAIRS FOUND.
At the. adjourned town meeting,
Saturday afternoon, the report of the
investigating committee on the con-
dition of the Probate records, under
M. j. Bradley'S administration, was
made. The report was read by AttOr-
ney Morris, a member of the commit
tee. 1t was voted to have the report
recorded on the town records and on
the probate records. William J. Brew
was chairman of the meeting. The
report follows:
To the Inhabitants of the Town of
NewtOwn: Your committee appoint
ed to investigate the records of the
Probate District of Newtown respect
fully reports as follows:
The committee met and organized
or March 4, 1905, and thereafter met
and examined the matters on which
some action has been, or should have
been taken since Judge Bradley's term
of Office commenced. To have gone
farther back would have meant either
an examination which was thorough,
but limitleSS in it's extent, or else
would have meant the setting of an
arbitrary limit without reason. While
it is only reasonable to suppose that
Judge Bradley's predecessors may have
made errors as all men do, we deter
mined after some discussion that the
spirit of our Instructions was that we
should investigate the exceptional con-
ditions in the office for the past IA
years rather than the normal condi-
lions of it's whole existence.
We therefore report that there has
been no chronological sequence in the
recording of documents during the
greater portion of this time, and a
person searching for the record of any
given document must depend on the
index and may trace every document
indexed to the estate before he finds
that one he is seeking. So with estates
as whole, one settled recently may
years ago. For instance the bond in
the estate Of Charles II. Peck, de-
ceased, was signed March 8, 1908, and
is recorded in Vol. II on Page 22O,
while the bond in the estate of Charles
Skidmore, incompetent, signed jan
uary 16, 1894, is recorded on Page 298
of the same volume. One hundred
and fifty-Six bonds of various dates are
recorded in between.
We have examined the documents
and records in the following named
matters, largely estates OF deceased
persons:
Rebecca Anthony.
Samuel w. Banks, *Emma L. Banks;
Ellen Barnum, Laura A. Barnum,
James P. Barnum, ~Micnael Bailey;
Charles G. Bartram, *Chloe Bassett;
*Israel Beardsley; Lucy A. Beardsley,
Marietta Beardsley, Julian Beardsley,
*Charles Beardsley, Henrietta Boards
ley; Flossie E. Beckwith ct al, *Chris.
tine Benedict; Polly Ann Beers, Mar.
garette Beers, Charles H. Beers, Isaac
Beers, William II. Beers, Sarah, O.
Beers; Sophronia Beers, George Beers
Thomas Blake, Michael T. Blake, Su.
san J. Blakeslee, Sally B. Blackman
Harriet Blackman, Louisa Blackman,
Annie Blackman, Lefty Blackman
Sybil Blackman, Lucas Borer, Char.
lotte A. Botsford, Henry Botsford,
William Botsford, George H. Botsford
*George W. Botsford; *Clara B. w
Botsford; E. Morris Botsford; Harriet
Botsford, Curtis L. Bostwick, Carlo
B. Booth, Levi B. Booth, Josiah Booth
Elon Booth, *Annis Booth; *Richart
M. Booth; *Michael Bradley; Mary A
Bradley, William A. Bradley, Mrs Johl
r. Bradley, Betsey G; Bradley, Charlie
Briscoe, *Mary G. Briscoe; Louis s
Briscoe, *Alfred J. BriscOe; David w
Bronson, Stephen A. Brennan, Saral
E. Bray, Eunice Butcher.
*Michael Carroll; Lemuel F. Camp
Mary E. Casey, John Cavanaugh
Nellie Carley, jeremiah Carey, Susal
Chapman, John M. Clark, ct al, *Flor
ence S. Clark; *John Clark; *Nanc
Clark; Sylvia M. Clark, Philo CLARK
*Sidney Cornell; Stanton M. Connor
ct al, Annie Condor, Morris Colgan
Andrew Collins, Jr., Hannah Corbett
John P. Corbett, Margaret Corbett
Mary E. Corbett, Christopher Corbett
Julia F. W. Coger, Harry B. Cogel
#Eli Coger; *Ellen c. Costello; Thoma
Costello, John H. Costello, Martin Coz
tello, Timothy Costello, Michael r
Tor b. Cox, *Dennis Grove; Cornell
Crofut, William Cribben, *Samue
Curtis; Cornelia Curtis.
Charles W. Dayton, Jr.; open, Charlie
ius Delury, *William J. Dick; Jessi
G. Drew, John Dolohery, Thomas Dor
ovan, *Jane A. B. Dresser; Henry f
Dykeman, Lydia A. Dykeman.
Andrew Egan, Sarah Everetts.
Henry H. Fairchild, Legrand Fail
child, Henry Fairchild, Mary J. Fai
child, Emily Fairchild, Rose Fare
Incomp.), John farrell, Thomas Fa
rell, Lawrence Farrell ct al, *John f
Ferry; Emma L. Ferry ct al, Emily F
Ferry, *George B. Ferris; Elsie
Ferris ct al, w. D. B. Ferris, Willial
Fischer, Michael Foley, Wheels
French, David r. French.
Elizabeth c. Gibson, *George Gi
bert; open, John Gilbert; Miranda
Glover, *Marcia Glover; Walter 7
Glover, Benjamin N. Glover, *Lemu
P. Glover; Henry B. Glover, Eliza \
Glover, Patrick German, James '
Gordon. Esther B. Godfrey, Edwal
l.. Goodsell, *Daniel Gregory; Micha
Griffin, John Griffin, George Grifn
Timothy Griffin.
Margaret Hartnett, Winifred Ha
rington ct al; *Daniel Harrigan; Ma
Harrigan, Amos Hard; smart
Haugh; G. A. Haugh, Bridget ar
: Michael Haugh, Isaac N. Hawley, Re-
ert N. Hawley, Asa H. Hawley ct ;
Edward B. Hawley, Harriet B. Ha
ley, Samuel G. Hawley ct al, Marc
G. Hawley, Julia M. Hawley ct ;
Julia Hawley Incomp.); D. Per
Higgins, minor; *Darius Hoyt; NJ
man B. Hoyt, George w. Hoyt, Char]
W. Homer, Mary Hourigan, Annie
Houlihan, Chauncey Hobby, Sarah
Hubbell; *Hopestill Hull; *Ann HI
ley; *Patrick Hurley.