The Press., 1905-01-18
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THE grange installed their officers

THE grange Installed their officers
on Thursday evening. ss
Mrs, Williams Hamilton from
Springfield is visiting at @. S. Full
Ter g.. Iii 49, u,
Roy Wardweu has gone to OrmuHd,
Fla, and is to be employed I'M the
Ormund hotel in that place.
DR.. and Mrs. Gardner from North
ampton, Mass, were guests of Miss
E. Louise Patten over Sunday.
Mr.. Kellogg is moving his goods
from the eighth district farm he has
recently sold to the Taft tenement in
Somers street.
Mrs. Fannie Davis, with daughter
and SON. in law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Corbin, all from Holyoke, were the
guests of Mrs. Davis sister, Mrs. M.
J. Gary, over Sunday. =
Miss Larua Root fills the position
of organist at the Congregational
church, made vacant by the death Of
Prof. Kibbe, position she held for
about ten years some years ago.
A song recital by Theodore Van
York, tenor singer of national repu-
tation, assisted by Miss Bernice Atkins
Mallory, pianist, will be given in
the Congregational church Wednesday
evening. .-.., ...... .-.-c.~,.
The remains of William Campbell,
son of Phillips Campbell, former resi-
dents of this town, was brought into
town for burial Monday from the
hospital at Springfield, where he died
on Saturday last.
The .Somers public library assoeia-
| tion at the annual meeting this week
reelected Silas H. Perry chairman,
Miss Augusta I. Lombard librarian,
Andrew Billings janitor. Ernest S.
Fuller was chosen secretary and treas
urer for the unexpired term of Arthur
W. eKibbe,; deceased; directors, Will
liam Burdick, Frederick Fields,
Willard P. Fuller,-S. Dwight Percival
of Somers and Rev. Charles H. Davis,
William McMullen, Jr., and William
Brainard of Somersville.
Frank Sherrie, who is charged with
murder of Mrs. Stephen Kulas, had
hearing before Justice of the Peace
Griswold last week Thursday. The
prisoner was brought here from Rock
Vile. handcuffed to Legrand King,
accompanied by Sheriff Dickinson,
States Attorney Phelps and State Po-
liceman Louks. At the hearing the
object of States Attorney Phelps was
to bring out just sufficient evidence
to hold the accused and not expose
his case to the counsel for the defense.
The first witness was Stephen Kulas,
husband of the woman for whose muir
der Sherrie is held. Kulas testified
in answer to questions by the state E
attorney, that his wife was in
good health when he last saw her
alive at about 1 O'Clock on the after
noon of Thursday, January 8. He
said that he reached home at 20
O'Clock that afternoon and found her
lying dead near the sink in her kitch-
en-. Pitka Minta, a. woman WHO
boarded at the house, was then called.
She said that she went to the house
from the mill shortly after IL O'Clock
in the morning of the day of the muir
der, and, going to her room, put a
sum of money in. trunk. She. got
home shortly after the murder; was
discovered, and about z O'CLOCK rfPt
evening found that her trunk had
been pried open, and her money and
other valuables taken. States At
torney Phelps then showed the WON
an a watch which she identified as
hers, and said that it had been taken
from the trunk along with $50 il
money. She also identified as hers a
piece of ribbon which was shown her,
and which, was also in the trunk.
The justice held Sherrie without bail
for trial before the superior court.
Sherrie and the officers returned to
Rockville in team. He was placed
in the cage over night and taken to
Tolland Jail in the morning. Jailer
Babcock has placed Sherrie in the
hospital ward, where there will be
more accommodations for his keepers,
Legrand King and John Usher, The
former is on duty nights and the lat
ter days. Every cell in the jail is
filled, the prisoners there being 80 in
number. .. The hospital ward consists
of two we'll guarded. rooms, there be-
ing gratings over the windows, and
the door, which opens out into the
corridor leading, to the cells, is kept
locked, so that there is no chance for
the prisoner to escape. sherrie ap-
pears to be in good spirits, eats. three
meals day and converses with his
keepers. The case will be got ready
for the April session of the superior