Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-28

cases were continued to the September l term of court.
 Richard Blydenburg pleaded guilty
 to breaking and entering, and larceny from the cottage of Malcolm Ander- son, near Watch Hill He was sen 1 fenced to eighteen months in the state l expirat ton of the sentence he is now l serving in the Cranston jail for carry 1 ing concealed weapons
 1 The liquor nuisance case against F. surety. was called, defaulted and a capias issued.
 1 A physicians certificate of sickness
 was presented when the liquor case against John Doherty was called. Do- | herty is on parole. The case was con- l tinued to Friday and Doherty's ap- 1, pearance was ordered for sentence The licuor case against Angelo Com
 parto with Frank Bincerello as sure ty, was called and forfeited. Capias was issued
 There was no appearance in the li- quorS and vessels case against John Doferty. -an appeal from the Third district, court. The liquors were ad- judged forfeited and ordered discharg ed
 In the case against Charles Dutton, Deaf and Dumb Dutton,'' charged with being a sturdy beggar, there was
 discontinuance on payment of costs
 of $13.S0.
 Determined action has finally been
 taken in the matter of prosecuting
 parties alleged to have been responsi-
 ble for some of the sudden deaths that
 have occurred during the past three
 weeks in Westerly, Charlestown, and
 Pawcatucl< from drinking wood al
 cohol mixed with whiskey. As a re-
 suit of the inquiry in the death of
 Daniel T. Sullivan. held last Thurs
 day, Coroner Everett A. Kingsley
 swore out complaint against Catherine
 her n r1Gr nd Tn1 (N1 of Pierce street charging them with the murder of Daniel T. Sullivan. MT. and Mrs. Cisco were arrested Wednesday afternoon by Sergt. Thomas F. Brown and arraigned in the Third district court before Clerk Edward G. Cundall. They pleaded not guilty to the charge and were committed to jail, pending a hearing before the grand jury at court.
 The complaint charges that the ac- cused on April 10 1910, sold Daniel T. Sullivan mixture which he sup posed to be whiskey, but which was composed largely of wood alcohol: that Sullivan drank freely of the mixture and three days afterward died from the effects The Ciscos did, according to the complaint, ''feloniously kill and slay" Daniel Sullivan.
 Plainly interpreted, the complaint charges with murder, the penalty for which. is Imprisonment for life, there DeIHS no cdplIdi punlS H1nenL III Rhode Island. and no specified degree of mur- der. Should the Ciscos be indicted and the jury return a modified verdict of manSlaughter, the penalty would be not less than twenty years in state prison.
 The post-morten examination gave evidence of death by poisoning and the analysis of the alleged whiskey showed 1t to be composed largely of wood all cof1ol. and traces of the poison were found in the stomach.
 At the coroner's inquest, Patrick Brady, an important and unwilling witness, was detained by order of Coroner Kingsley and is now in the Kingston jail. This action indicated that an arrest would soon follow It was generally known that Mir and selling the poisoned whiskey.
 Coroner Cross has not completed his inquest in the death of Michael Riley, who died in the town of Charleston, just over the Westerly line, and can not until after a report is secured of the analysis. of the alleged poisoned and the stomach of MT. Ri ley. In the opinion of the medical ex- aminer and the other physicians at the autopsy, that is the clearest case of wood alcohol poisoning that has come to their observation. In this 1 case Mrs. Riley says the poisonous l stuff was purchased of John DiFDnti 1 by one of the children and nephew l Di Fonti does not deny that he sold liquor to the children last Sunday | morning, according to the statement 1 of Medical Examiner Rouse of Charles l town.
 Of the cases on the Connecticut | side Of the river, Larrow and Hood. 1