Putnam patriot., 1908-07-24
The Lid oa Tight 0ace Nere.

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 The Lid oa Tight 0ace Nere-
 As we noted some weeks ago the lii on sunday observance had gotten a It, tie awfy. Last Sunday 1t WAS straight ened up, put on tight. and the city po- lice force were sent to sit on il and hold Il down.
 Prosecuting Attorney Gard had sta- ted that. fl Judge Rorahaes- decided that the State iawthad been violated by those who Lad been keping open their shops on sunday under the license issued by the Mayor, and that IL WAS his, the Attorney's, duty to inforce the statute regardless of the city ordinance, he would act immediately and enforce the statute to the letter.
 The city fathers, who passed the or dinance also expressed their opinions, that if the ordinance was not satisfae- tory, and an attempt was made to close up under the statute, everything should be closed tight, and no work, except ef necessity or mercy, should be allowed to be done, aud no shops should he al lowed to be kept open for the sale et anything.
 After receiving Judge Rofaback k de cision, which appears in another col umn, Prosecuting Attorney Card called those persons together. who had been keeping open under city licenses, and told them they would have to keep their places closed on Sunday and re- frain from doing any work, except of necessity ot mercy. As a result all their places of business were kept closed on sunday.
 When the police started ont Sunday morning to. learn how the lid was, they found there was already. in their epin- ion, Il bit of work for them to do 10 stnaighten it--as two restaurants were found with wide open doors and their hungry boafders wefe enjoying their 1 sunday morning breakfast of beans and sinkers. Robert C. Hammond was taken from Rita's cafe, and Napoleon Bodo was found in charge of Mayhew x
 lunch room. It was rather carly i'll the morning, and but few people we're stir ring, and it was some Hitle ume before these men succeeded in finding bonds. men, and were released
 When the neaseeaers were aeqaaln- ted with the fact that they could not ssil newspapers they notified the pub. fishers. When the Captain of police came up the street shortly after seven o'clock sunday morning, he was sur prised to see man on the station piat- form, at the east end of Union street, who had truck load of newspapers. He was iii his shirt sleeves busiiy en- gagged in adjusting the different parts of his papers. This man was surely working and must be arrested. And he was. He found bondsman, was put under S75 bonds. He then went back to his truck load of papers, and resumed operations. He was soon suf- | rounded by hundred citizens, who stood about watching operations, and 1t was soon learned that he was the agent of q Boston daily, sent out to see what could be done about distributing their papers. He wes not selling his wares, but now and then some person would walk up, take paper, and walk l away. In about fifteen minutes the ! | ,ft.ts u ytttf placed him under arrest, and he again gave bonds Back he came and re- suned his work, and fifteen minutes ialef the Captain appeared. The Gap. tain stood for a few moments watching the folding process, and then stepped up and said; " Well, 1 guess it's time to take you down again. The agent ak ed if he couldn't wait until he folded the rest of the papers, but the Captain replied that he must make good rec cord, and that required an arrest once 1 in fifteen minutes--and the same pro | ceeding was gone through with for the third time. This was no new expe- l rience to the agent, as he stated that he had been arrested as many as 2s times in one day. When he came back the next time he loaded his papers into . wagon in waiting and started down Ponsre: street, followed for ways by the crowd. There WAS also procession Of carriages and automobiles, which 1 followed along clear to the Gary school house and across the line into Ponfret, where the agent began to dispose of his papers.
 He returned to the city on bis way 10 Thompson, and was again arrested as 1 he was passing through the city and again furnished bonds. This was his last appearance for the day. After this the city was as tight as tight could be. i The sequel will be found under the i City Court news
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