The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-27
FAIRFIELD

While some police officers were en- gagged in running down clues. on Thanksgiving day. in the effort to dis cover who took the goods from the of vagrants, or tramps. was un- eartheo in an old barn l-n the>northern side of GrasEere. It has been known for long time that tramps had a camp m the woods. on land belonging to the railroad. but with the fan of the foliage and the coming of cold weather, they took refuge in the barn. ani ourrowed in the hay to keep warm. Six men were pl-ced unds arrest on charge of vagrancy. MT. Justice Wakeman held court as cary as o'clock yesterday morning With the following result: Daniel Kane ad- mitted that he had been arrested be- Iore.s In Trumbull. on suspicion, of Knowing something about an atrocious murder of an old lady which took place in that town last summer He was lined s5 and sent to jail for 90 days James Hanlon. an old dufrer received the same sentence. William h. Clark said he was from Greenwich Conn. and that he had been a team ster. working in Vermont He pro- fesSed to have walked on Thursday from New Haven. and went to the barn es he had been told 1t was good place to stop He received a fi ne or Fl and 10 days In jail John Pier son claimed that he had been working
 
 ford. that he had slept in the police station in Bridgeport for two days, ana was told if he did not get out of town he would be sent up He was nned 70 and O days. John Mulvy professed to be from Hamden. Mass, and had also slept in a Bridgeport police station He was fined 6 and 10 days in jail James Fay was ol his way from New Britain to New York n, said he was a locksmith and bell hanger Fined S1 and sent to fail for 10 days. Policeman Frank Virelli had much to do with capturing the tramps
 High winds prevailed in town all day. and an old elm. standing in front of the house Of Prof. Brewer was blown across the trolley track yester- day morning 'nterrupting travel for quite a while.
 Yesterday MT. Stephen Tomlinson ana Ned Bulkley went duck hunting in the vicinity of Pine Creek, and came home with bag of ten black head ducks.
 MT. Biting Deyo returns to Rutgers college on Monday
 A lot of new and interesting books were placed on the shelves of the Memorial library within the last few Gays. including Wandering in Paris. ID. V. Lucas; Mexico. the Wonderland or the South. Wm- F. Carson; My Day: "Reminiscences of a Long Life by Mrs Roger A Pryor; Social De- velopment and Education, M. V. O'Shea: The New New York. Van Dyke and Penneli; The Autobiography or Henry A- Stanley: Norman Con quest of England. by Edward A. Free man; Old Boston Days and Ways Mary Caroline Crawford: England and the English From An American Point of View. Price Collier; Tie Conquest of the Isthmus. Hugh c. Weir; Nerves and common Sense. Annie Payson Call: The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem, Ralph ID. Pierce: Branch Cathedrals Elizabeth R. Pennell; Handel. R. A. Stratf1eld: The Conquest of the Air. Alphonse Berget: Laurus NobilIs Yer non Lee; Manors of Virginia in Col onial Times. Edith Tunis Sale: The Northwest Passage. in 2 vols -Amund- sen: Early History of Mankind Tay- lors The United Kingdom. Goldwin Smith: Pre-H storic Times, Lord Ave bury. and a series of seven pocket books. bound in Russian leather. with flexible covers. on Mechanics TeIe- phone and Telegraph. Plumbers and Filters. Electrical Engineres, Building Trades. Mariners Handbook and Busf- ness Mans Pocketbook-
 James Sexton was in town yester- day placing a Quincy granite sar- cophagus monument for H brace A Nichols In Oak Lawn cemetery. Work was also done for Orvil Gray.
 Mir. Doyle, clerk at the station epent Thanksgiving with his family at Darien-
 Mir Jacoby. of the Beacon Falls Rubber Company. came home for
 John Goldie was the winner We'd