The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-21
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

| Bedding. May 20.-After the last se-
 ries of raids upon his chicken houses
 in the spring w. c. Sanford wired them
 with an electric apparatus and kept his guns loaded. About 3 o'clock last | Saturday morning the bell in the house sounded an alarm. Mir Sanford | grabbed a repeating rifle and hurried
 outdoors. He took the rifle instead of the shot gun because it was nearest | to hand and therein made a mistake which he deeply regrets. He found
 the door of the chicken house at the i barn open. It had not been locked
 and it's opening had set off the alarm. The next instant he saw the figure of
 a man coming from the wire enclosed yard of the other chicken house. MT. 1 Sanford crOuched down in the shadow of the trees and awaited the intruder.
 When the latter was almost upon him | MT. Sanford arose and pointing the | and heAcould only make out that the
 man wS.s colored. his features not be- ! ing revealed sufficiently for identifica-
 tion. gnstead of waiting to be further | inspected the fellow, at the command | to stop, let ou blood curdling yell 1 and da shed for the road. Here was
 where BIT. Sanford regretted that he did not have the shot gun as with that he coald have easily peppered the | thief. Willing to wound and not wish l ing to kill he aimed low with the rifle l and fired. He tried to fire again but . ndQ ne2lGCCcQ to l1II a cartridge into 1 the barrel and there was no discharge. | Then his son Harold took the weapon and tore down the road in pursuit of
 the fugitive at whom. he fired two
 fugitive was about 200 yards in the
 lead when he jumped over a fence in
 to the fields and disappeared. Jusa before doing so he divested himself of
 The sazne day MT. Sanford took the
 coat to a colored man whom he sus-
 pected and asked if 1t were his. The
 man promptly said it was. Thereupon MT. Sanford told under what circum- stances it came into his possession whereupon the other vehemently repu- diated the garments ownership. This pretty well convinced MT. Sanford of the suspects innocence as regards the thievinE business. Who the culprit really was has not yet been learned. George E. Hazen reported to the se- lectmen early in the present month shoats while they were in his orchard,
 Killing one and injuring the other. He was advised to keep a watch for the return of the dogs and shoot them if the chance offered. He followed these instructions and a day two later killed two of the dogs while they were featsipG on the dead pig By the li- cense tngs on the slain dogs the own ership of one was traced to Lemuel Barrett and of the other to A. E. Pinkney. Subsequently, MT. Hagen
 shot ehird marauding dog which be- longed to John KoltZ and meanwhile the second shoat had died of its bites . In accordance with a provision of the dog law committee was appointed to fix the compensation MT. Hagen should receive for his property loss. MT. Barrett promptly paid his share of the award and it is expected that the other two dog owners will also settle.
 A nuraber of interested parties would very much like to know the identity of the man who a few days ago by fraud
 and deceit obtained and carted away
 load of hay from the barR of Albert Williams in hometown The hay be- longed to George O. Sanford and Milo Osborn. who bought a mow of it from
 A. H. Dimond when he sold his prop erty here last fall. and have since been
 week a stranger appeared at MT. Will Hams premises and explained that Messrs. Sanford and Osborn had sent
 him for a load of their hay. MT. Will
 without inquiring the strangers name
 told him to go ahead. Later it was
 learned that the man had partly made
 up his load from a mow belonging to
 MT. Williams and also that he had
 worked confidence game through
 cut. When the owners of the
 stolen hay set about making in
 Deming, a voluble colored lady of all
 round transformation, that Tax Col
 lector E. M. Sanford was the man. Mr.
 Sanford owns a pair of stout work
 horses nearly white in color and it
 was a team of this description which
 carted off the day. It happened that
 on Saturday MT. Sanford and MT. Os-
 borne met. Where were you last
 Tuesday," abruptly inquired MT. Os-
 borne. The question and the manner
 of it somewhat surprised Mr. Sanford
 and he asked its object whereupon MT.
 Osbourn explained. Luckily MT. San
 ford was able to establish the perfect
 defence afforded by alibi as the
 day in question he and his horses had
 bee working the towns road machine.
 The same was the case with ex-SeIect- man Sullivan who might possibly have become also a suspect from the fact of his owning d pair of big, white horses.
 Commodore Luttgen offers to con- struct a macadam roadway the entire length of Sunset Hill provided the town will furnish s1,OO0 towards the expense. This is very liberal propo- | sition as the cost of building such a l road would be several thousands. En- | tirely at his own expense MT. Luttgen | has already macadamized about half | mile at the upper part of the hill. | improving as the hill, during the frost | break up in the spring, becomes so | deep with mire that teams can hardly | get across. The probabilities are that the amount of the last State ap- propriation now to the towns credit will complete the Ridge road north
 word to the Five Points and leave a | balance of at least s1,00O. This would | be available for use in meeting MT. Luttgen's proposition provided High way Commissioner Macdonald and the | Selectmen gave their sanction. If this | could not be obtained many would fa- vor direct appropriation by the town to accomplish the object in view. The selectmen have as yet taken no action on the subject but will probably ask that a formal; definite proposition be submitted as the present offer comes inc and n