The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-15
Bissonnette Held Without Bail for
 Murder of Demery

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 perintendent said this morning that he represented himself as a peddler of jewelry and that he showed SeV- eral pieces of his work to him. The superintendent also said that he show ed roll of bills amounting to $80. It is said that Bissonnette and another man did make jewelry at one time, but Albert V. Demery, of 32 Prospect street, brother of the murdered man, said he never knew him to make jew elry of any kind. He was of the opinion that Bissonnette had said this to have some excuse for getting a gun. The gun used did not appear to be in much service. It was practically new.
 Although the detectives looked care fully on Bissonnette's neck for marks of Demerys fingers on his throat, as suming that Bissonnette's story is true, they were unable to find any evil uence of the choking. Albert Demery also said that Bissonnefte had threat ened the life of his brother several times. Prosecuting Attorney said this morning that he had received several letters from Mrs. Rissonnette in which she said she was afraid her husband would 60 something violent, but the prosecutor said he paid little attention to them at the time Bissonnette seems very indifferent to all that Is going on about him.
 His family consists of children, AL bertha, 21, employed at the Singer Manufacturing company; Camille, now in the West, a machinist; Wilfred, 19, employed at the Bridgeport Brass Go. s factory; Ulrick, IT, who worked for his uncle, Rome, the murdered man, in his store; and five smaller children, Stella, Alva, Flora, Hector and Irene, besides the baby in the hospital with it's mother.
 Said one who knew the murdered man well: He was one of the most popular men in the East Side, and his aged mother, whose heart is almost broken, has the sympathy of thous- ands Demery's action in going to, the relief of his sister at her home last night was characteristic of him. He brought on his death by his unselfish- ness No son could have been more devoted to his mother than was he to his, and no brother ever lived up to the name any more than did he in his relations with his sister, Mrs. Bisson- nette. He allowed the children to work for him to get money for their mother and helped her in many ways. All this was done at great sacrifice to himself. Had he been less loyal he could have married and let the others shift for themselves, but he didn't.'' For two years he worked for the Me Neil Coal Co.,. and was thought very highly Nof by them. Archibald McNeil Jr. said this morning, q could not
 
 was a! conscientious worker and a man whom we thought we ought to help
 For five years he was foreman in the factory of the Bridgeport Brass Co.'S plant. By economy and thrift he purchased a small store on Pembroke street. He later bought a larger busi- ness which he had charge of at the time of his death. at 1926 Pembroke street. He had an agency for the Me Neil Coal company and had recently undertaken a new line of work for that company and was prospering satisfac- torily when the unexpected befel him last night and brought a successful career to an abrupt termination. His brother, Albert w., who is a machinist in the factory of the Locomobile Co.,, will be appointed administrator of the estate. Another brother, Alonzo M., of Elizabethport, N. J., is living, and was expected today.
 MT. Demery was 43 years of age. He was affiliated with the Brotherhood Of America and the Lafayette Wheelmen He was a Republican and an active worker for the interests of the party.